Taishang-Shuiwangzhuang gold deposit, Linglong Gold camp, Zhaoyuan City, Yantai, Shandong, Chinai

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Taishang-Shuiwangzhuang gold deposit	Deposit
Linglong Gold camp	Mining Area
Zhaoyuan City	City
Yantai	Prefecture
Shandong	Province
China	Country

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Over 500 gold orebodies have been delineated within the Taishang-Shuiwangzhuang gold deposit. A systematical analysis of their occurrence locations and geological characteristics reveals that the main orebodies in various ore blocks all occur within the beresitized cataclasite zones or beresitized, granitic cataclasite zones in the footwall of major fault planes. These orebodies can be connected both in the planar view and profile, generally pitching and dipping toward NEE. The orebodies within the deposit occur as regular large veins, exhibiting branching and combination, expansion and contraction, and pinch-out and reoccurrence. They show the maximum drilling-controlled length along their strikes of 5860 m (elevation: −1050 m), the maximum length along their dip directions of 3200 m (exploration line: No. 43), and single-drilling-controlled thickness generally ranging from 3.00 m to 20.00 m, up to a maximum of 72.35 m, and an average thickness of 11.73 m. Their gold grades commonly fall within a range of 2.00–10.00 g/t, with a maximum of 100.70 g/t and an average of 3.14 g/t. There are mainly three types of ores in the Taishang-Shuiwangzhuang gold deposit: Fine-grained disseminated -veinlet beresitized cataclasite, disseminated-veinlet-stockwork beresitized granitic cataclasites, and veinlet-stockwork beresitized granite, with the former two types predominating. The ores of the first, second, and third types are primarily distributed in the beresitized cataclasite zones in the footwall of major fracture planes, beresitized granitic cataclasite zones, and beresitized granite zones, respectively.
The Taishang-Shuiwangzhuang gold deposit is found to have experienced four metallogenic stages according to its mineral assemblages, textures, and structures, as well as the crosscutting relationships of hydrothermal veins. Stage I is the pyrite-quartz-sericite stage. This stage features white hydrothermal veins consisting primarily of quartz and small quantities of pyrites and sericites. Stage II is the gold-quartz-pyrite stage. This stage is characterized by grayish-yellow, gold-bearing hydrothermal mineralized veins, which are distributed as veinlets in fractured zones. The mineralized veins of this stage consist primarily of pyrites and small quantities of quartz, sericites, native gold, and electrum. Stage III is the goldquartz-polymetallic sulfide stage. The mineralized veins of gold-bearing hydrothermal solutions of this stage are grayish-yellow, distributed as veinlets and micro-veins in fractured zones. These veins predominantly comprise quartz, pyrites, chalcopyrite, galena, and sphalerite, with small amounts of electrum and kustelite discovered. Stage IV is the quartz-carbonate stage. The hydrothermal veins of this stage, distributed as veins and veinlets in fractured zones, consist primarily of calcites and a small amount of quartz. From early to late metallogenic stages, mineralization intensifies and then weakens, and the mineral assemblages became complex and then simple. They transitioned from the predominance of pyrites to the coexistence of galena, sphalerite, and pyrites, culminating in the occurrence of carbonate veins. Gold was primarily precipitated in metallogenic stages II and III.

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16 valid minerals.

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