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Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi, Chinai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Caiwa Mine | Mine |
| Danfeng County | County |
| Shangluo | Prefecture |
| Shaanxi | Province |
| China | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
33° 52' North , 110° 20' East
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Name(s) in local language(s):
蔡洼锑矿, 丹凤县, 商洛市, 陕西省, 中国
Low temperature hydrothermal vein-type antimony deposit, controlled by fault and breccia zones and related to the Mangling granite intrusive.
Located in northern Danfeng County.
Mineralization and geological characteristics of this deposit are essentially the same as those of the Gaolinggou Mine (Wang, 1984).
Note:
This locality was given by several dealers for the large kermesites that appeared on the mineral market in 2002. Others attributed the specimens to Datong (Jianshui Co., Yunnan) or even to the Wenshan Mine (Wenshan Co., Yunnan), a zinc mine where antimony is totally absent. Liu suggested that Caiwa (Danfeng Co., Shaanxi) was the likely location. However, no further information was available about this locality at that time. In 2006, the origin of the material originally found in 2002 was further researched, and it turned out to be from an unnamed mine in the Damingshan range near Dafeng, Shanglin Co., Guangxi Province (Ottens, 2007).
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Arsenopyrite Formula: FeAsS |
| ⓘ Baryte Formula: BaSO4 |
| ⓘ Bornite Formula: Cu5FeS4 |
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 |
| ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
| ⓘ Formula: Sb2S2O Description: This mine was given as the source of the spectacular kermesite specimens that appeared on the market around 2002. It later turned out that the specimens are really from an unnamed mine in Guangxi Province. |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
| ⓘ Pyrrhotite Formula: Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
| ⓘ Realgar Formula: As4S4 |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS |
| ⓘ Stibnite Formula: Sb2S3 |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Bornite | 2.BA.15 | Cu5FeS4 |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Stibnite | 2.DB.05 | Sb2S3 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
| ⓘ | Realgar | 2.FA.15a | As4S4 |
| ⓘ | Kermesite ? | 2.FD.05 | Sb2S2O |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Baryte | 7.AD.35 | BaSO4 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| C | Carbon | |
|---|---|---|
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| S | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| S | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
| S | ⓘ Realgar | As4S4 |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| S | ⓘ Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| Fe | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| As | Arsenic | |
| As | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| As | ⓘ Realgar | As4S4 |
| Sb | Antimony | |
| Sb | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| Sb | ⓘ Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| Ba | Barium | |
| Ba | ⓘ Baryte | BaSO4 |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
AsiaContinent
China
- North China OrogenOrogen
- Qinling Li Mineral BeltMineral Belt
- Qinling Metallogenic BeltMineral Belt
Eurasian PlateTectonic Plate
- North China Craton
- Yanshan Fold BeltOrogenic Belt
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Caiwa Mine, Danfeng County, Shangluo, Shaanxi, China