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Tuwu, Yandong, Linglong, Chichu, Fuxing
Xinjiang, China
Main commodities: Cu Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2020.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Tuwu

Yandong

    Selected References
Gao, J., Qin, K., Zhou, M.-F. and Zaw, K.,  2018 - Large-scale porphyry-type mineralization in the Central Asian Metallogenic Domain: Geodynamic background, magmatism, fluid activity and metallogenesis: in    J. of Asian Earth Sciences   Online, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.08.023.
Gong, L., Kohn, B.P., Zhang, Z., Xiao, B., Wu, L. and Chen, H.,  2021 - Exhumation and Preservation of Paleozoic Porphyry Cu Deposits: Insights from the Yandong Deposit, Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt: in    Econ. Geol.   v.116, pp. 607-628. doi:10.5382/econgeo.4812.
Han, C., Rui, Z., Mao, J., Yang, J., Wang, Z. and Yuan, W.,  2003 - Geological characteristics of the Tuwu copper deposit, Hami, Xionjiang: in Mao, Goldfarb, Seltmann, Wang, Xiao and Hart (Eds.), 2003 Tectonic Evolution and Metallogenesis of the Chinese Altay and Tianshan, Proceedings Volume of the International Symposium of the IGCI-473 Project in Urumqi and Guidebook of the Field Excursion in Xinjiang, China: August 9-21, 2003 IAGOD Guidebook Series 10: CERCAMS/NHM London,    pp 249-260
Han, C., Xiao, W., Zhao, G., Mao, J., Li, S., Yan, Z. and Mao, Q.,  2006 - Major types, characteristics and geodynamic mechanism of Upper Paleozoic copper deposits in northern Xinjiang, northwestern China: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.28, pp. 308-328.
Han, C., Xiao, W., Zhao, G., Mao, J., Yang, J., Wang, Z. Yan, Z. and Mao, Q.,  2006 - Geological characteristics and genesis of the Tuwu porphyry copper deposit, Hami, Xinjiang, Central Asia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v29 pp 77-94
Han, C., Xiao, W., Zhao, G., Mao, J., Yang, J., Wang, Z., Yan, Z. and Mao, Q.,  2005 - Geological characteristics and genesis of the Tuwu porphyry copper deposit, Hami, Xinjiang, Central Asia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v29 pp 77-94
Han, C., Xiao, W., Zhao, G., Su, B., Sakyi, P.A., Ao, S., Zhang, J. and Zhang, Z.,  2014 - Late Paleozoic Metallogenesis and Evolution of the East Tianshan Orogenic Belt (NW China, Central Asia Orogenic Belt): in    Geol. of Ore Deposits (Pleiades Publishing)   v.56, pp. 493-512.
Mao J, Goldfarb R J, Wang Y, Hart C J, Wang Z, and Yang J,  2005 - Late Paleozoic base and precious metal deposits, East Tianshan, Xinjiang, China: Characteristics and geodynamic setting: in    Episodes   v.28 pp. 23-36
Pirajno, F., Seltmann, R. and Yang, Y.,  2011 - A review of mineral systems and associated tectonic settings of northern Xinjiang, NW China: in    Geoscience Frontiers   v.2, pp. 157-185.
Seltmann R and Porter T M,  2005 - The Porphyry Cu-Au/Mo Deposits of Central Eurasia: 1. Tectonic, Geologic & Metallogenic Setting and Significant Deposits: in Porter, T.M. (Ed), 2005 Super Porphyry Copper & Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide,   v.2 pp. 467-512
Seltmann, R., Dolgopolova, A. and CERCAMS team,  2012 - Porphyry Cu-Au/Mo Deposits of Central Eurasia: Geodynamics and Metallogeny: in   Existing Resources, New Horizons, KazGeo 2012, Almaty, Kazakhstan, 29-31 October 2012,   Conference Proceedings, 4p.
Seltmann, R., Porter, T.M. and Pirajno, F.,  2014 - Geodynamics and metallogeny of the central Eurasian porphyry and related epithermal mineral systems: A review: in    J. of Asian Earth Sciences,   v.79, pp. 810-841.
Shen, P., Pan, H. and Dong, L.,  2014 - Yandong porphyry Cu deposit, Xinjiang, China - Geology, geochemistry and SIMS U-Pb zircon geochronology of host porphyries and associated alteration and mineralization: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.80, pp. 404-425.
Shen, P., Pan, H., Hattori, K., Cooke, D.R. and Seitmuratova, E.,  2018 - Large Paleozoic and Mesozoic porphyry deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt: Geodynamic settings, magmatic sources, and genetic models: in    Gondwana Research   v.58, pp. 161-194.
Sun, M., Wang, Y.-H., Zhang, F.-F., Lin, S.-Y., Xue, S.-Y., Liu, J.-J., Zhu, D.-C., Wang, K. and Zhang, W.,  2020 - Petrogenesis of Late Carboniferous intrusions in the Linglong area of Eastern Tianshan, NW China, and tectonic implications: Geochronological, geochemical, and zircon Hf-O isotopic constraints: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.120, 22p. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103462.
Wan, B., Xiao, W., Windley, B.F., Gao, J., Zhang, L. and Cai, K.,  2017 - Contrasting ore styles and their role in understanding the evolution of the Altaids: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.80,  pp. 910-922.
Wang, Y., Chen, H., Baker, M.J., Han, J., Xiao, B., Yang, J. and Jourdan, F.,  2019 - Multiple mineralization events of the Paleozoic Tuwu porphyry copper deposit, Eastern Tianshan: evidence from geology, fluid inclusions, sulfur isotopes, and geochronology: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 1953-1076.
Wang, Y.-H., Xue, C.-J., Liu, J.-J. and Zhang, F.-F.,  2018 - Origin of the subduction-related Carboniferous intrusions associated with the Yandong porphyry Cu deposit in eastern Tianshan, NW China: constraints from geology, geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf-O isotopes: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.53, pp. 629-647.
Wang, Y.-H., Xue, C.-J., Liu, J.-L., Wang, J.-P., Yang, J.-T., Zhang, F.-F., Zhao, Z.-N., Zhao, U.-J. and Liu, B.,  2015 - Early Carboniferous adakitic rocks in the area of the Tuwu deposit, eastern Tianshan, NW China: Slab melting and implications for porphyry copper mineralization: in    J. of Asian Earth Sciences   v.103, pp. 332-349.
Wang, Y.-H., Zhang, F.-F., Xue, C.-J., Liu, J.-J., Zhang, Z.-C. and Sun, M.,  2021 - Geology and Genesis of the Tuwu Porphyry Cu Deposit, Xinjiang, Northwest China: in    Econ. Geol.   v.116, pp. 471-500.
Wang, Y.H., Zhang, F.-F. and Li, B.-C.,  2017 - Genesis of the Yandong porphyry Cu deposit in eastern Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from geology, fluid inclusions and isotope systematics: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.86, pp. 280-296.
Xiao, B., Chen, H., Wang, Y., Han, J., Xu, C. and Yang, J.,  2018 - Chlorite and epidote chemistry of the Yandong Cu deposit, NW China: Metallogenic and exploration implications for Paleozoic porphyry Cu systems in the Eastern Tianshan: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.100, pp. 168-182
Yang, K., Lian, C., Huntington, J.F., Peng, Q. and Wang, Q.,  2005 - Infrared spectral reflectance characterization of the hydrothermal alteration at the Tuwu Cu-Au deposit, Xinjiang, China: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.40, pp. 324-336.
Yuan, H. Shen, P. and Pan, H.,  2018 - Nature and evolution of hydrothermal fluids in the formation of the Tuwu porphyry copper deposit in the Eastern Tianshan Mountains, NW China: in    J. of Asian Earth Sciences   Online https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2018.07.018
Yuan, H., Shen, P., Pan, H. and Liu, Y.,  2020 - Mineralogy and mineral geochemistry of the Tuwu porphyry Cu deposit, Eastern Tianshan, NW China: implication for the ore-forming condition and Cu mineralization: in    Arabian Journal of Geosciences,   v.13, 20p. doi.org/10.1007/s12517-019-4982-z
Zhang, F.-F., Wang, Y.-K., Xue, C.-J., Lui, J.-J. and Zhang, W.,  2019 - Fluid inclusion and isotope evidence for magmatic-hydrothermal fluid evolution in the Tuwu porphyry copper deposit, Xinjiang, NW China: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.113, DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103078, 23p.
Zhang, L., Xiao, W., Qin, K. and Zhang, Q.,  2006 - The adakite connection of the Tuwu-Yandong copper porphyry belt, eastern Tianshan, NW China: trace element and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope geochemistry: in    Mineralium Deposita   v41 pp 188-200


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