Xikuangshan Sb deposit, Lengshuijiang Co., Loudi Prefecture, Hunan Province, China

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锡矿山锑矿田, 冷水江市, 新化县, 湖南省, 中国

World's largest antimony deposit, located in the northern part of the Xiangzhong Basin near Lengshuijiang City. It occurs along the axis of a short anticline that strikes at 30° and plunges both north and south. Host rocks are dark grey cherts in the black shales series of the Upper Devonian Shetianqiao formation, which occur in the core of the anticline, surrounded by the Lower Carboniferous Yanguan and Datang formations.

The deposit covers an area of about 16 km2 and comprises four orebodies, which are named Feishuiyan, Tongjiayuan, Laokuangshan and Wuhua. The former two are eplored by the South Mine and North Mine, respectively. The latter have not being worked yet.

References

- Yanxian Yang (1986): Anomaly characteristics of the Xikuangshan Sb ore field. Geology and Prospecting 22(9), 54-57.
- Zhou Tongxi (1988): Geochemical characteristics and ore-forming mechanism of the antimony ore field of Xikuangshan in Hunan, China. Journal of Guilin College of Geology 8, 187-195 (in Chinese).
- Guozhang Wen, Qiang Wu, Hanyuan Liu, Guozhu Xie, and Xiuliu Lei (1993): Preliminary study on ore-controlling regularities and metallogenic mechanism of super large-sized Sb-deposits in Xikuangshan. Geology and Prospecting 29(7), 20-27.
- Yongnian Jiang (1993): Native sulfur in the oxidized zone of the Xikuangshan antimony ore deposit, Hunan. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 13(3), 263-267.
- Peng Jiantang, Hu Ruizhong, Lin Yuanxian, and Zhao Junhong (2002): Sm-Nd isotope dating of hydrothermal calcites from the Xikuangshan antimony deposit, Central Hunan. Chinese Science Bulletin 47(13), 1134-1137.
- Delian Fan, Tao Zhang, and Jie Yie (2004): The Xikuangshan Sb deposit hosted by the Upper Devonian black shale series, Hunan, China. Ore Geology Reviews 24(1/2), 121-133.
- Jiantang Peng, Ruizhong Hu, Liang Qi, Junhong Zhao, and Yazhou Fu (2004): REE distribution pattern for the hydrothermal calcites from the Xikuangshan antimony deposit and its constraining factors. Geological Review 50(1), 25-32.
- Yang Dongsheng, Shimizu Masaaki, Shimazaki Hidehiko, Li Xianhua, and Xie Qinglin (2006): Sulfur Isotope Geochemistry of the Supergiant Xikuangshan Sb Deposit, Central Hunan, China: Constraints on Sources of Ore Constituents. Resource Geology 56(4), 385-396.
- Yang Ruiyan, Ma Dongsheng, Bao Zhengyu, Pan Jiayong, Cao Shuanglin, and Xia Fei (2006): Geothermal and fluid flowing simulation of ore-forming antimony deposits in Xikuangshan. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 49(8), 862-871.
- Ottens, B. (2006): Chinesisches Tagebuch (III): Von Nandan uber Guichi nach Xikuangshan: Baryt, Rhodochrosit, Azurit, Antimonit und Wulfenit. Lapis 31(10), 33-38 (in German).
- Ottens, B. (2006): Antimonit aus China. Lapis 31(2), 23-34.
- Ottens, B. (2007): Chinese stibnite: Xikuangshan, Lushi, Wuning and other localities. Mineralogical Record 38(1), 3-17.

Mineral List

Baryte Calcite Cervantite Fluorite Gypsum

Kermesite Magnetite Opal Orpiment Pyrite

Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Chalcedony var: Chert Roméite Group var: Stibiconite

Sénarmontite Sphalerite Stibnite Sulphur Valentinite

20 entries listed. 17 valid minerals.