SphaleriteShizhuyuan Mine, Dongpo ore field, Yizhang Co., Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China
Photo: Rob Lavinsky Latitude: 25°43'N
Longitude: 113°10'E
柿竹园钨钼铋锡(铍)矿
W-Mo-Bi-Sn-Be-F skarn deposit, hosted by Devonian limestone in the thermal aureole of the Qianlishan granite complex. The latter comprises five separate intrusions, including fine-grained porphyritic biotite granite (granite 1), medium-grained biotite-K feldspar granite (granite 2), fine-grained biotite and K feldspar granite (granite 3), granitic porphyry (granite 4), and diabase. Its upper part is characterized by extensive greisen alteration. Skarn zones distributed around the intrusions are mainly calcic. Mineralization consists of Sn-Be veinlet ore in marble and porphyry, massive W-Bi-Mo-Sn skarn ore, stockwork W-Sn-Bi-Mo-F ore, and W-Sn-Mo-Bi greisen ore, mainly associated with granite 2. Emplacement of granite 2 was accompanied by late, intense fracturing characterized by stockwork mineralization, which was superimposed on massive skarn and greisen zones. The stockwork ore consists mainly of greisen and skarn veins and veinlets with scheelite, wolframite, molybdenite, cassiterite, bismuthinite, and fluorite.
In addition, the mine area contains separate Pb-Zn-Ag ore bodies (occasionally referred to as Shizhuyuan Pb-Zn deposits in Chinese references), which have been mined extensively and also produced a fair amount of gold from Ag-Au alloys.
Shizhuyuan is the largest polymetallic tungsten deposit in China. Ore reserves amount to 750,000 tonnes of WO3 ore, 490,000 tonnes of Sn ore, 300,000 tonnes of Bi ore, 130,000 tonnes of Mo ore and 200,000 tonnes of Be ore, with combined grades ranging from 1% to 5%. In addition, there are fluorite reserves of 7,000 tonnes, making it also one of the largest associated fluorite deposits in China.
Located about 15 km SE of Chenzhou City.
Note:
- Although ferberite has been reported by several authors, Sun and Ren (1986) note that the Fe:Mn ratios of most wolframites are close to 50:50. Thus, "wolframite" specimens should not be considered as ferberites without a supporting analysis.
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References
Shimou Chen, Hongchang Li, Ciguo Xie, and Shangjing Ai (1981): Geology and ore-controlling factors of the Shizhuyuan W-Sn-Mo-Bi deposit. Geology and Prospecting 17(10), 15-21.
Yingjun Liu, Jingrong Zhang, and Jun Chen (1983): Mineralogical study of Shizhuyuan deposit and modes of occurrence of W, Mo, Bi and Sn(Be) in it. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 3(4), 255-264.
Yingjun Liu, Jingrong Zhang, and Jun Chen (1983): Some problems related to mineralization of the Shizhuyuan W-Mo-Bi-Sn-(Be) deposit. Geology and Prospecting 19(5), 8-14.
Zhongming Zhang and Shihui Luo (1984): The mineralogical characteristics of bavenite and the mineralogy of the tin and beryllium bearing marble-type ore belt in Shizhuyuan, Chen County, Hunan. Hunan Geology 1984(3) (in Chinese with English abstract).
Yihong Sun and Xiangmei Ren (1986): Ore minerals in Shizhuyuan deposit. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 6(2), 179-187.
Yuzhou Li (1990): Be-bearing perthitic rock: its alteration attribution and significance in ore exploration. Geology and Prospecting 26(6), 29-35.
Yi Li and Youbin Liang (1991): Mode of Occurrence of Gold and Silver Ores Associated with the Shizhuyuan Pb-Zn Deposit, Hunan. Geology and Prospecting 27(8), 21-25.
Chen, J., Halls, C., and Stanley, C.J. (1992): Rare earth element contents and patterns in major skarn minerals from Shizhuyuan W, Sn, Bi and Mo deposit, South China. Geochemical Journal 26, 147-158.
Jingwu Yin, Sang Jung Kim, Hyun Koo Lee, and Chan Hee Lee (1992): W-Sn-Bi-Mo Mineralization of Shizhuyuan deposit, Hunan Province, China. Economic and Environmental Geology 35(3), 179-189.
Jingwen Mao, Hongyan Li, Pingan Wang, Guy, B., Perrin, M., and Raimbault, L. (1994): Manganoan skarn in the Shizhuyuan polymetallic tungsten deposit, Hunan Province. Mineral Deposits 13(1).
Jingwen Mao, Hongyan Li, Hidehiko Shimazaki, Raimbault, L., and Guy, B. (1996): Geology and Metallogeny of the Shizhuyuan Skarn-Greisen Deposit, Hunan Province, China. International Geology Review 38(11), 1020-1039.
Liu Yimao, Lu Huanzhang, Wang Changlie, Xu Youzhi, Kang Weiqing, and Zeng Ti (1998): On the ore-forming conditions and ore-forming model of the superlarge multimetal deposit in Shizhuyuan. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 41(5), 502-512.
Xingyu Liao (2001): Greisenization and characteristics of greisen type deposits in southern Hunan. Geology and Prospecting 37(4), 18-22.
Zhao Zhenhua, Bao Zhiwei, Zhang Boyou, and Xiong Xiaolin (2001): Crust-mantle interaction and its contribution to the Shizhuyuan superlarge tungsten polymetallic mineralization. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 44(3), 266-276.
Jingwu Yin, Sang Jung Kim, Hyun Koo Lee, and Tetsumaru Itaya (2002): K-Ar ages of plutonism and mineralization at the Shizhuyuan W-Sn-Bi-Mo deposit, Hunan Province, China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 20, 151-155.
Huanzhang Lu, Yimao Liu, Changlie Wang, Youzhi Xu, and Huaqin Li (2003): Mineralization and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Shizhuyuan W-Sn-Bi-Mo-F Skarn Deposit, Hunan Province, China. Economic Geology 98(5), 955-974.
Shunso Ishihara, Ping'An Wang, Yoshimichi Kajiwara, and Yasushi Watanabe (2003): Origin of sulfur in some magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits of South China. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Japan 54(3/4), 161-169.
Xianhua Li, Dunyi Liu, Min Sun, Wuxian Li, Xirong Liang, and Ying Liu (2004): Precise Sm–Nd and U–Pb isotopic dating of the supergiant Shizhuyuan polymetallic deposit and its host granite, SE China. Geological Magazine 141(2), 225-231.
Xinhua Cai, Yijun Zhang, Huichang Xu, and Ruofa Tan (2006): Analysis on Pb-Zn prospecting potentiality in the deep and outside at Shizhuyuan W-Sn-Mo-Bi polymetallic ore deposit. Geology and Prospecting 42(2), 29-32.
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