Gacun Ag-Zn-Pb-Cu deposit, Baiyu Co., Garzê (Ganzi) Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

Late Triassic volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposit, hosted in felsic volcanic rocks associated with an underlying mafic unit.

Ref.:
- Xu, M.J., Fu, D.M., Yin, X.M. et al. (1993): Gacun Ag-rich polymetallic deposit in Sichuan Province, China. Publishing House of Chengdu University of Science and Technology (Chengdu), pp. 164 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Fu, D.M. and Xu, M.J. (1996): The geological characteristics of Gacun silver polymetalic deposit in Sichuan Province, China and the analogy between it and Kuroko deposits in Japan. Acta Geologica Sichuan 16, 67-71 (in Chinese).

- Hou Zengqian, Khin Zaw, Qu Xiaoming, Ye Qingtong, Yu Jinjie, Xu Mingji, Fu Deming and Yin Xianke (2001): Origin of the Gacun Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit in Sichuan, China: Fluid Inclusion and Oxygen Isotope Evidence. Economic Geology 96(7), 1491-1512.

- Youguo Li and Zengqian Hou (2001): The Gacun VHMS Deposit in Sichuan Province: From Chemical Analysis of Ores to Geochemical Model. Mineral Deposits [Kuangchuang Dizhi] 20(2), 119-128 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Hou Zengqian, Qu Xiaoming, Xu Mingji, Fu Deming, Hua Lichen, and Yu Jinjie (2001): The Gacun VHMS Deposit in Sichuan Province:from Field Observation to Genetic Model. Mineral Deposits [Kuangchuang Dizhi] 20(1), 44-56 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Zengqian Hou, Shuxian Wang, Andao Du, Xiaoming Qu, and Weidong Sun (2003): Re-Os Dating of Sulfides from the Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposit at Gacun, Southwestern China. Resource Geology 53(4), 305-310.

- Li Chaoyang, Liu Tiegeng, Ye Lin, Zhu Weiguang, Deng Hailin (2003): Large and superlarge silver deposits associated with volcanic rocks in China. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 46(Suppl. 1), 84-98.

- Khin Zaw, Peters, S.G., Cromie, P., Burrett, C., and Zengqian Hou (2007): Nature, diversity of deposit types and metallogenic relations of South China. Ore Geology Reviews 31(1-4), 3-47.

- Zengqian Hou, Khin Zaw, Guitang Pan, Xuanxue Mo, Qiang Xu, Yunzhong Hu, and Xingzhen Li (2007): Sanjiang tethyan metallogenesis in SW China: tectonic setting, metallogenic epochs and deposit types. Ore Geology Reviews 31, 48-87.

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