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Jinyinzhai Mine (Chenxian Mine; Sanerlin Mine; U deposit No. 320), Suxian District, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China

Lower Tertiary hydrothermal-reworked uranium deposit of so-called C-Si-pelite type, hosted in black siliceous and carbonaceous shales of the Upper Permian Dangchong formation that are interstratified with quartz sandstone and thin coal beds. The irregular breccia-vein ore bodies are separately hosted in the cores of three secondary anticlines. They consist of uraniferous quartz veins and fragments of black silicified shale and sandstone that are cemented by quartz and minor calcite.

Located in the Xiang river (Xiang Jiang) valley near Chenzhou. Jinyinzhai was the first Chinese uranium mine. It was started in 1962.


Note:
In Chinese, "Sanerlin" means "320".

Mineral List

Arsenopyrite
Baryte
Biotite
Calcite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
'Coal'
Faustite
Fluorite
Galena
Gibbsite
Greenockite
Gypsum
Hawleyite
Hematite
'Hydrogoethite'
Illite
Ilsemannite
Kaolinite
Limonite
Malachite
Marcasite
Molybdenite
Muscovite
var: Sericite
Pyrite
Quartz
var: Chalcedony
Sabugalite
Sphalerite
Torbernite
Uraninite
var: Pitchblende

Uranophane
Uranopilite
Vaesite
Variscite
Wavellite
Xiangjiangite (TL)
Zeunerite


39 entries listed. 30 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

Damao Wu and Yansong Tan (1981): New data on hawleyite. Geology and Prospecting 17(9), 34-36.

Jianwei Li, Meifou Zhou, Xianfu Li, Zijin Li, and Zhaoren Fu (2002): Origin of a large breccia-vein system in the Sanerlin uranium deposit, southern China: a reinterpretation. Mineralium Deposita 37, 213-225.

Jianwei Li, Meifu Zhou, Xianfu Li, Zhaoren Fu, and Zijin Li (2002): Structural control on uranium mineralization in South China: Implications for fluid flow in continental strike-slip faults. Science in China, Series D (Earth Sciences), 45(9), 851-864.

Dahlkamp, F.J., Ed. (2009): Uranium Deposits of the World. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg), pp. 31-156.

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