Gejiu Sn-polymetallic deposit, Gejiu Co., Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China

The cassiterite skarn beds around Gejiu are the site of the country’s largest tin reserves.
Located in southeastern Yunnan Province, near the border to Vietnam.

Refs.:
- Wang Zifen (1983): Several problems of ore-forming of Gejiu ore deposit. Acta Geologica Sinica 57(2), 154-163.

- Wu Qinsheng, Xu Junzhen, and Yang Zhi (1986): A study of Sr isotopic characteristics and ore-search indicators of Gejiu Sn-bearing granites. Geochemistry 5(2), 158-170.

- Zhao Yiming and Li Daxin (1987): Metasomatic phenomena in the granite contact zones of the Gejiu tin deposit, Yunnan Province, China. Dizhi Chubanshe 16, 237-252.

- Yu, C., Tang, Y., Shi, P., and Deng, B. (1988): The Dynamic System of Endogenic Ore Formation in Gejiu Tin polymetallic Ore Region, Yunnan, China. China University of Geosciences Press (Wuhan, China), 348 pp.

- Yiming Zhao and Daxin Li (1999): Water-bearing Cuspidine in the Gejiu Tin Deposit, Yunnan Province: Its Discovery and Mineralogical Characteristics. Acta Petrologica et Mineralogica [Yanshikuang Wuxue Zazhi] 18(1), 65-73.

- Li Yingshu, Qin Dexian, Dang Yutao, Xue Chuandong, Tan Shucheng, and Hong Tuo (2006): Mineralizations in Basalts of the Gejiu Tin Deposit in Yunnan Province. Journal of Jilin University (Earth Science Edition) 36(3), 326-335.

- Qin Dexian, Tan Shucheng, Fan Zhuguo, Li Yingshu, Chen Aibing, Li Lianju, Liu Guangliang, Dang Yutao, Tong Xiang, Wu Junde, and Li Yuxin (2004): Geotectonic evolution and tin-polymetallic metallogenesis in Gejiu-Dachang area. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 24(2), 117-123.

- Qin Dexian, Li Yingshu, Tan Shucheng, Chen Aibing, Xue Chuandong, Fan Zhuguo, Dang Yutao, Tong Xiang, Wu Junde, Li Yuxin, and Wang Haiyun (2006): Metallogenic ages of Gejiu tin ore deposit in Yunnan Province. Chinese Journal of Geology 41(1), 122-132 (in Chinese with English abstract).

- Huan Zhang, Taiyi Luo, Henmin Gao, Deyun Ma, and Yan Tao (2007): Helium, lead and sulfur isotope geochemistry of the Gejiu Sn-polymetallic ore deposit and the sources of ore-forming materials. Chinese Journal of Geochemistry 26(4), 439-445.

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