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Xiazhuang Uranium ore field, Wengyuan Co., Shaoguan Prefecture, Guangdong Province, China

Uranium ore field in northern Guangdong Province, related to the Guidong granitic pluton, a multi-period and multi-phase composite pluton consisting mainly of Indosinian and Yanshanian granites.

Ref.:
- Li Tiangang and Huang Zhizhang (1986): Vein uranium deposits in granites of Xiazhuang ore field. In: Fuchs, H. (Ed.): Vein Type Uranium Deposits. Int. At. Energ. Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-361, pp. 359-376.

- Jingyi Zhang, Anwa Wan, and Wenshu Gong (1992): New data on yingjiangite. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica 11(2), 178-184 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Dazhong Xu, Linqing Liu, and Baoqun Hu (1999): Study of pneumato-hydrothermal high temperature uranium metallogenic characteristics and uranium metallogenic ages in Xiazhuang uranium ore field. Uranium Geology 15(5).

- Zhanshi Zhang, Renmin Hua, Ping Deng, Ba Zhu, Lieqin Wu, Yanchun Zhang, Zhengzhong Tan, and Zhengping Yin (2005): Geological and Geochemical Characteristics of water-rock Interaction in the Processes of Uranium Mineralization in Zhuguang-Xiazhuang Uranium ore-concentrated District. Geochimica 34(5), 483-494 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Sun Zhanxue (2005): Gas geochemistry of ore-forming solution in the Xiazhuang U-ore-field, North Guangdong, China. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts, A850.

- Zhang Min, Chen Peirong, and Chen Weifeng (2006): Uranium metallogenic characteristics and discussion on metallogenic setting of uranium plutons in northern Guangdong Province. Geology of Chemical Minerals 28(1), 9-14.

- Long Lu, Fanrong Chen, R.C. Ewing, and Rucheng Wang (2007): Trace element immobilization by uranyl minerals in granite-hosted uranium ores: Evidences from the Xiazhuang ore field of Guangdong province, China. Radiochimica Acta 95(1), 25-32.





Map Reference: 24°34'47"N , 114°14'44"E

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Mineral List:
  • Actinolite
  • Anorthite
    var: Labradorite
  • 'Apatite'
  • Autunite
  • Biotite
  • Calcite
  • 'Chalcedony'
  • 'Chlorite Group'
  • Clinochlore
    var: Ripidolite
  • Coffinite
  • Epidote
  • Fluorite
  • 'Garnet Group'
  • Hematite
  • Illite
  • 'K Feldspar'
  • Lepidocrocite
  • Muscovite
  • Phosphuranylite
  • Pyrite
  • Quartz
  • Rutile
  • Scheelite
  • 'Sericite'
  • Thorite
    var: Uranothorite
  • Titanite
  • 'Tourmaline'
  • Uraninite
       var: Pitchblende
  • Uranophane
  • Yingjiangite
  • Zircon


    32 entries listed. 20 valid minerals.

    Localities in this Region:
    China
     
    • Guangdong Province
      • Shaoguan Prefecture
        • Wengyuan Co.
          • Xiazhuang Uranium ore field
    China
     
    • Guangdong Province
      • Shaoguan Prefecture
        • Wengyuan Co.
          • Xiazhuang Uranium ore field

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