Panzhihua Fe-V-Ti-(PGE) deposit, Dong District, Panzhihua Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China

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Superlarge Fe-V-Ti and minor Cu-Ni-(PGE) deposit, hosted in a gabbroic layered mafic intrusion.
Located in the most southerly part of Pan-Xi rift zone.

References

- Wenchen Li (1992): Geology and genesis of the Panzhihua vanadiferous magnetite deposit. Geology and Prospecting 28(10), 18-21.
- Shijun Ni, Chengjiang Zhang, Yanguo Teng, Yuxiao Ma, Meifu Zhou, Sun Min, Malpas, J., Yuchang Li, and Zhenguo Wang (2001): Environmental Impacts of Mining the Giant Panzhihua V-Ti Magnetite Deposit, SW China. Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2001, no. 3530.
- Meifu Zhou, Robinson, P.T., Lesher, C.M., Keays, R.R., Chengjiang Zhang, and Malpas, J. (2005): Geochemistry, Petrogenesis and Metallogenesis of the Panzhihua Gabbroic Layered Intrusion and Associated Fe–Ti–V Oxide Deposits, Sichuan Province, SW China. Journal of Petrology 46(11), 2253-2280.
- Hong Zhong and Weiguang Zhu (2006): Geochronology of layered mafic intrusions from the Pan–Xi area in the Emeishan large igneous province, SW China. Mineralium Deposita 41(6), 599-606.
- Junhong Zhao and Meifu Zhou (2006): Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic mafic intrusions in the Panzhihua district (Sichuan Province, SW China): Implications for subduction-related metasomatism in the upper mantle. Precambrian Research 152(1/2), 27-47.
- Kwannang Pang, Chusi Li, Meifu Zhou, and Ripley, E.M. (2008): Abundant Fe–Ti oxide inclusions in olivine from the Panzhihua and Hongge layered intrusions, SW China: evidence for early saturation of Fe–Ti oxides in ferrobasaltic magma. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 156, 307-321.

Mineral List

'Albite-Anorthite Series' Arsenopyrite Augite Chalcopyrite Erlichmanite

Fluorapatite 'Hornblende' Ilmenite Iridium var: Osmiridium Magnetite var: Titaniferous Magnetite

Magnetite var: Vanado-Magnetite Merenskyite Moncheite 'Olivine' Pentlandite

Platinum Pyrite Pyrrhotite Sperrylite Spinel

20 entries listed. 14 valid minerals.