Kelu-Chongmuda Cu-Au belt, Nêdong Co. (Naidong Co.; Zedang Co.), Shannan Prefecture (Lhokha Prefecture; Lhoka Prefecture), Tibet Autonomous Region, China

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克鲁-冲木达铜金矿带, 乃东县 (སྣེ་གདོང་རྫོང་), 山南地区 (ལྷོ་ཁ་ས་ཁུལ་), 西藏自治区, 中国

An east-west trending belt, about 120 km long and 10-15 km wide, along the Yarlong-Zangbo suture zone across Zhanang, Nêdong and Sangri counties of Shannan Prefecture. It contains more than 20 skarn and porphyry copper-gold deposits, some of them with associated silver, lead-zinc, molybdenum or tungsten ores, which are related to I-type granites that intruded into volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. The combined copper resources are estimated at 200 million tons.

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Actinolite Albite Andradite Azurite 'Biotite' Bornite Calcite Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Covellite

Diopside Epidote Fluorite Grossular Hedenbergite 'Hornblende' Illite Kaolinite 'K Feldspar' 'Limonite'

Magnetite Malachite Molybdenite Montmorillonite Muscovite var: Sericite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Scheelite

Sphalerite Tetrahedrite var: Argentian Tetrahedrite Tremolite Tungstite Vesuvianite Wittichenite Wollastonite

38 entries listed. 31 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

China Tibet Autonomous Region Shannan Prefecture (Lhokha Prefecture; Lhoka Prefecture) Nêdong Co. (Naidong Co.; Zedang Co.) Kelu-Chongmuda Cu-Au belt Biji Cu deposit Chemen Cu deposit Decun Cu deposit Liebu Cu deposit Niangguchu Cu deposit Nuri Cu-Mo-W deposit Panan W deposit Shuangbujiere Cu deposit Wenqu Cu deposit

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