Funan Au deposit, Zhaoyuan Co., Yantai Prefecture, Jiaodong Peninsula (Jiaodong Gold Province), Shandong Province, China

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Quartz vein type gold deposit.

Located about 145 km north of Qingdao city, is situated in the middle of the Zhaoyuan-Laizhou gold district.

References

- Xiangping Gu, Makoto Watanabe, Kenichi Hoshino, and Yasuhiro Shibata (2003): New find of silver tellurosulphides from the Funan gold deposit, East Shandong, China. European Journal of Mineralogy 15(1), 147-155.
- Gu Xiangping, Makoto Watanabe, Xie Xiande, Peng Shenglin, Yoshihiro Nakamuta, Makio Ohkawa, Kenichi Hoshino, Kazumasa Ohsumi, and Yasuhiro Shibata (2008): Chenguodaite (Ag9FeTe2S4): a new tellurosulfide mineral from the gold district of East Shandong Peninsula, China. Chinese Science Bulletin 53 (22), 3567-3573.

External Links

http://eurjmin.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/full/15/1/147

Mineral List

Acanthite Calcite Cerussite Cervelleite ? Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chenguodaite (TL)

Covellite Digenite Galena Goethite Gold var: Electrum Hessite Jalpaite

Mckinstryite Monazite-(Ce) Muscovite var: Sericite Pyrite Quartz Siderite

Silver Stromeyerite UM2003-13-S:AgAuCu UM2003-14-S:AgBiFeTe UM2003-17-S:AgTe Wittichenite

27 entries listed. 22 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).