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Wulashan Au deposit, Wulashan Mining District, Binhe New District, Baotou League (Baotou Prefecture), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China

Latitude: 40°42'0"N
Longitude: 109°24'15"E
Large-scale potassium metasomatite (Kuranakh type), hosted in Archean and Proterozoic metamorphic rocks and Paleozoic and Mesozoic granite, east of the Dahuabei intrusion. There are three types of veins occuring along the bedding and schistosity of metamorphic rocks: quartz-K feldspar veins, quartz veins and gold-bearing carbonate-chalcedony veins. The main alterations in the vicinity of the veins include K feldspar alteration, silica alteration, pyrite alteration, carbonate alteration, sericite alteration, kaolinite alteration and chlorite alteration. The deposit is interpreted as related to magmatic hydrothermal fluids derived from the Dahuabei intrusion and related dykes. Gold was probably leached out of the Archean metamorphic rock; its deposition time is probably Paleozoic and Mesozoic.

References

- Econ. Geol. (1994) 89:1289-1305.
- Hart, C.J.R., Goldfarb, R.J., Yumin Qiu, Snee, L., Miller, L.D., and Miller, M.L. (2002): Gold deposits of the northern margin of the North China Craton: multiple late Paleozoic-Mesozoic mineralizing events. Mineralium Deposita 37, 326-351.
- Fengjun Nie, Sihong Jiang, Xinxu Su, and Xinliang Wang (2002): Geological features and origin of gold deposits occurring in the Baotou–Bayan Obo district, south-central Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China. Ore Geology Reviews 20, 139-169.
- Nie, F.-J., Jiang, S.-H., and Liu Y. (2004): Intrusion-Related Gold Deposits of North China Craton, People's Republic of China. Resource Geology 54(3), 299-324.

Mineral List

Altaite
Ankerite
'Apatite'
Arsenopyrite
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Calaverite
Calcite
Cerussite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Covellite
Dyscrasite
Epidote
Galena
Goethite
Gold
var: Electrum
Hematite
var: Specularite
'Hornblende'
Jarosite
Lepidocrocite
Leucoxene
Limonite
Magnetite
var: Titaniferous Magnetite
Malachite
Melonite
Microcline
Molybdenite
Muscovite
var: Sericite

Orthoclase
'Perthite'
Petzite
'Psilomelane'
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Sanidine
Siderite
Sphalerite
Sylvanite
Titanite
Xenotime-(Y)


45 entries listed. 33 valid minerals.

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