Stratabound sulphide and skarn orebodies, worked for copper and gold. The massive sulphide ores occur between late devonian sandstones and middle carboniferous carbonates; the skarns were produced by intrusion of quartz diorite into late palaeozoic carbonates. Ore reserves of 95.45 million tonnes, with estimated metal reserves of one million tonnes of copper.
Located near Tongling.
Ref.:
- Yuanming Pan and Ping Dong (1999): The Lower Changjiang (Yangzi/Yangtze) River metallogenic belt, east central China: intrusion- and wall rock-hosted Cu-Fe-Au, Mo, Zn, Pb, Ag deposits. Ore Geology Reviews 15, 177-242.
- Jianjun Lu, Renmin Hua, and Shaoyong Jiang (2003): Copper isotope study of copper and gold deposit of Dongguashan, China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement 67(18), 260.
- Zhaowen Xu, Xiancai Lu, Shunsheng Huang, Ni Pei, Ming Hua, and Jianjun Lu (2003): Characteristics and evolution of ore-forming fluid in Dongguashan Copper Deposit, Anhui Province, China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta Supplement 67(18), 542.
- Zeng, P., Pei, R., Hou, Z., Meng, Y., Yang, Z., Tian, S., Xu, W., and Wang, X. (2005): The Dongguashan Deposit in the Tongling Mineralization Cluster Area, Anhui: A Large-sized Superimposition-type Copper Deposit. Acta Geologica Sinica 79(1), 113-122.
- Xu Zhaowen, Hua Ming, Lu Xiancai, Yang Xiaonan, Rao Bing, Wang Yunjian, Jiang Shaoyong, Lu Jianjun, Nie Guiping, and Huang Shunsheng (2007): Simulating experiment on the hydrothermal superimposing metallogenesis of the Dongguashan strata-bound copper deposit. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry 26(1), 72-79.
- Lianxing Gu, Khin Zaw, Wenxuan Hu, Kaijun Zhang, Pei Ni, Jinxiang He, Yaotong Xu, Jianjun Lu, and Chunming Lin (2007): Distinctive features of Late Palaeozoic massive sulphide deposits in South China. Ore Geology Reviews 31, 107-138.
