| Abstract: | Five sedimentary-rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits have been discovered since 1980 in southwestern Guizhou Province (PRC). Submicron-sized gold is disseminated in silty carbonate and carbonaceous shale host rocks of Permian and Triassic age. Arsenic, antimony, mercury, and thallium accompany the gold. Associated hydrothermal alteration resulted in decarbonatization of limestone, silicification, and argillization, and depletion of base metals, barium, and many other elements. Organic material occurs in most host rocks and ores. It was apparently devolatilized during a regional heating event that preceded hydrothermal activity, and thus was not mobilized during mineralization, and did not affect gold deposition. The geologic setting of the Guizhou deposits includes many features that are similar to those of sedimentary-rock-hosted deposits of the Great Basin, western United States. The heavy-element suite that accompanies gold is the same, but base metals are even scarcer in the Guizhou deposits than they are in U.S. deposits. The Guizhou deposits discovered to date are smaller than most U.S. deposits and have no known spatially associated igneous rocks. ?? 1991. |
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| Citation Author: | Ashley, R. P.; Cunningham, C. G.; Bostick, N. H.; Dean, W. E.; Chou, I. -M. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Geology and geochemistry of three sedimentary-rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits in Guizhou Province, People‘s Republic of China; 1991; Article; Journal; Ore Geology Reviews; Ashley, R. P.; Cunningham, C. G.; Bostick, N. H.; Dean, W. E.; Chou, I. -M. |
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| Citation Year: | 1991 |
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| Text: | Geology and geochemistry of three sedimentary-rock-hosted disseminated gold deposits in Guizhou Province, People‘s Republic of China; 1991; Article; Journal; Ore Geology Reviews; Ashley, R. P.; Cunningham, C. G.; Bostick, N. H.; Dean, W. E.; Chou, I. -M. |
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