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.
Ref.:
- Ni Shijun, Zhang Chengjiang, Teng Yanguo, Ma Yuxiao, Meifu Zhou, Min Sun, Malpas, J., Li Yuchang, and Wang Zhenguo (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.
- Kwan-Nang Pang, Chusi Li, Mei-Fu 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.
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19 entries listed. 13 valid minerals.