The Xuebaoding W–Sn–Be mining area, located in the Songpan–Garze orogenic belt in western China, is known for producing large, colorful, euhedral crystals of scheelite, cassiterite, and tabular beryl. Zircon LA-ICP-MS U–Pb dat...
The Fundão–Serra da Estrela–Capinha (FSEC) region is characterized by peraluminous to metaluminous Variscan granites intrusive in a complex and thick metasedimentary sequence. This work seeks to characterize the Capinha granite (CG...
Metal migration and precipitation in hydrothermal fluids are important topics in economic geology. The Hongling polymetallic deposit comprises one of the most important parts of the Huanggangliang–Ganzhuermiao polymetallic metallogenic belt, wh...
The large-scale Maoping W–Sn deposit in the Gannan metallogenic belt of the eastern Nanling Range, South China, spatially associated with the Maoping granite pluton, hosts total ore reserves of 103,000 t WO3 and 50,000 t Sn. Two different types of mi...
The Segura mining field, the easternmost segment of the Góis–Panasqueira–Segura tin–tungsten metallogenic belt (north–central Portugal), includes Sn-W quartz veins and Li-Sn aplite-pegmatites, which are believed to be genetically related to Variscan...
Panasqueira is a world-class W-Sn-Cu lode-type deposit located in Portugal. It consists of a dense swarm of subhorizontal quartz lodes criss-crossed by several ENE–WSW and N–S fault zones, bordering Late Variscan granite and hosted in Late Ediacaran—...
The Xuebaoding W-Sn-Be deposit located in the Songpan-Ganze Orogenic Belt (Sichuan Province, China) is a hydrothermal deposit with less developed pegmatite stage. The deposit is famous for the coarse-grained crystals of beryl, scheelite, cassiterite,...
SHRIMP (Sensitive high resolution ion microprobe) zircon U-Pb dating of the two main igneous rocks types in the Karkonosze Pluton, porphyritic and equigranular monzogranite, yield 206Pb/238U ages between 312.0 ± 2.9 and 306.9 ± 3.0 Ma....
Most of the granite-related Sn–W deposits in Myanmar are located in the Western Granitoid Province (WGP) of Southeast Asia. The Tagu deposit in the southern part of the WGP is a granite related Sn–W deposit. The biotite granite is compose...
As strategic critical metals, tungsten (W) and tin (Sn) require efficient exploration methods for effective resource development. This study implemented an advanced spread-spectrum induced polarization (SSIP) method in the Xitian mining district of s...
The Sn-W ore deposits in the Krupka surroundings are associated with greisens, which occur in the upper parts of Late Variscan granitoid intrusions. Fluid inclusions were studied in samples of quartz, cassiterite, apatite, fluorite, and topaz in grei...
As the need to discovers new mineral deposits and occurrences has intensified in recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that we need to map potentials via integrated information on the basis of metallogeny. Occurrences of mineralization su...
The recently explored Xitian tungsten-tin (W-Sn) polymetallic ore field, located in Hunan province, South China, is one of the largest ore fields in the Nanling Range (NLR). Two major metallogenic types appeared in this ore field, skarn- and quartz v...
The Jiulongnao W–Sn ore field in the eastern Nanling Range is characterized by large-scale early Yanshanian magmatic activity and W–Sn mineralization. In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the close relationship between Indosinian m...
Widespread, large-scale polymetallic W–Sn mineralization occurs throughout the Nanling Range (South China) dated 160–150 Ma, and related to widely developed coeval granitic magmatism. Although intense research has been carried out on these deposits,...
The Nanling region is located at the intersection of the Yangtze Block and Cathaysia Block and is characterized by complex geological and tectonic processes, as well as distinct W-Sn-REE mineralization. Despite extensive research on the mineralizatio...
The South China Block (SCB) is a globally important metallogenic district containing numerous W-Sn deposits. Extensive studies of W-polymetallic deposits in this region have greatly improved our understanding of the petrogenesis, geochronology and me...
The Baoshan Cu-Pb-Zn deposit is situated at the intersection of the Qin-Hang Cu polymetallic and Nanling W-Sn polymetallic metallogenic belts. The age, lithology, petrogenesis, and tectonic setting of granodiorite porphyry within the deposit remain s...
The Shangfang deposit is a recently discovered large-scale tungsten deposit (66,500 t at 0.23% WO3), which is located near the western boundary of the Southeastern Coastal Metallogenic Belt (i.e., Zhenghe–Dafu fault), and adjacent to the northe...
As China’s third-largest lead–zinc ore field, the Xicheng Ore Field has significant potential for discovering concealed deposits. In this study, a tectono-geochemical survey was conducted, and 1329 composite samples (comprising 5614 subsa...
The Southern Great Xing’an Range (SGXR), an important W–Sn polymetallic metallogenic belt in northern China, hosts multiphase magmatism and has witnessed recent discoveries of multiple tungsten–tin polymetallic deposits. The W&ndash...
To explore the potential of plant trace elements as indicators in the search for concealed deposits within the W–Sn polymetallic mining area of Shizhuyuan, Hunan Province, this study focused on the geochemical characterization of 21 trace eleme...
Located at the intersection of the Tethys and Pacific Rim metallogenic belts, the Laojunshan polymetallic metallogenic province in SE Yunnan Province hosts many large-scale W–Sn and Sn–Zn polymetallic deposits. The newly discovered Caiyua...
Major benefits and constraints related to mineral extraction within the EU have been identified on the examples of selected critical raw materials’ deposits. Analyzed case studies include the following ore deposits: Myszków Mo-W-Cu (Poland), Juomasuo...
This paper reports the results of a study of magmatic rocks with Sn–W–Au–Ag mineralization from the Kuranakh, Elikchan, and Istekh ore fields in the Northern batholith belt of the north-eastern Verkhoyansk–Kolyma orogenic belt in Eastern Russia. Usin...
It is common among many vein–type tungsten deposits in southern China that the thickness of ore veins increases from <1 cm to >1 m with increasing depth. A five–floor zonation model for the vertical trend of vein morphology was proposed in the...
The Southwestern Fujian Region is one of the important Fe polymetallic metallogenic belts in China. The Makeng-Yangshan Fe skarn sub-belt within it contains several deposits that share a similar geological setting, mineralization age, and genetic typ...
The Shuangjianzishan silver polymetallic deposit is located in the copper–tin–lead–zinc–silver polymetallic metallogenic belt in the Southern Great Xing’an Range, with silver resources of more than 18,000 t, which is the...
Constraining the duration of magmatism is of vital importance to the understanding of the magmatic-hydrothermal mineral system. The Bozhushan batholith, located in the middle section of the southeastern Yunnan ore district, mainly consists of biotite...
The Xianghualing skarn Sn deposit in the southwestern part of the southern Hunan Metallogenic Belt is a large Sn deposit in the Nanling area. In this paper, the garnet has been analyzed by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (...
Although numerous W–Sn–Pb–Zn polymetallic deposits are located in southern Hunan, and In-bearing deposits are related to W–Sn–Pb–Zn polymetallic deposits, Indium mineralization in southern Hunan is poorly studied. In order to investigate the In miner...
The Jiangnan orogenic belt is located between the Yangtze and Cathaysia blocks in South China and is one of the largest W–Sn–Nb–Ta ore belts worldwide. Mineralization occurred from the Proterozoic to Mesozoic, but Caledonian Sn mine...
Molybdenite is a common sulfide hosting many trace elements. Trace elements in molybdenite from individual deposits have been widely used to constrain the source and conditions of ore-forming fluids. However, the relationship between the trace elemen...
Oxide minerals (Nb–Ta-rich rutile, columbite-group minerals and W-bearing ixiolite) represent the most common host for Nb, Ta and Ti in high-F, high-P2O5 Li-mica granites and related rocks from the Geyersberg granite stock in the Krušné Hory/Erzgebir...
Highly fractionated granites and related magmatic-hydrothermal ore-forming processes can be traced by elemental ratios such as Nb/Ta, K/Rb, Y/Ho, Sr/Eu, Eu/Eu*, Zr/Hf, and Rb/Sr. The lanthanide “tetrad effect” parameter (TE1,3) can also b...
Central Portugal is well known for the existence of Sn-W and Au-Ag mineral occurrences primarily associated with hydrothermal processes. Despite the economic and strategic importance of such occurrences, the detailed geology of this particular region...
The San Finx W–Sn ore deposit is located in the Spanish province of A Coruña (Galicia, NW Spain). Geologically, it occurs in the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes zone which is one of the innermost zones of the Iberian Variscan collisional belt. This ore deposi...
In order to reveal the metallogenic potential of the Indosinian Ziyunshan granite in central Hunan, the temporal, spatial and genetic relationship between the mineralization and the granite is discussed, and the concentrations of ore-forming elements...
Delineating the process of hydrothermal alteration is crucial for effectively enhancing exploration strategies and better understanding the gold mineralization process. Rutile, with its capacity to accommodate a wide range of trace elements including...
We investigated the influence of microwave and conventional heating pretreatments on the grinding of cassiterite associated with pollimetallic ore. The minerals that exhibited a stronger microwave absorption ability crushed first, which is the main d...
The Dulong Sn-Zn-In polymetallic deposit in the Yunnan province, SW China, hosts a reserve of 5.0 Mt Zn, 0.4 Mt Sn, and 7 Kt In. It is one of the most important polymetallic tin ore districts in China. Granites at Dulong mining area include mainly th...
There are different mineralization types for skarn deposits with various origins and ore-forming conditions. Magnetite is one of the main ore minerals in skarn deposits, but whether chemical compositions of magnetite can be used to discriminate diffe...
The Dulong Sn-polymetallic deposit in Yunnan Province of southwestern China serves as a unique case study for unraveling the evolution of skarn systems and tin mineralization. Four distinct garnet types (Grt I to Grt IV) were classified based on petr...
The Hongqiling is a vein-type Sn-W polymetallic deposit in southern Hunan (South China). It is geologically located on the northern margin of the Nanling metallogenic belt. Based on the mineral assemblage and vein crosscutting relationship, three min...
We report on the effects of magmatic hydrothermal fluids on the mineralogical and geochemical compositions of 12U and 12L Coals from the Meitian Mine in the Meitian Coalfield, southern China. The minerals in 12U Coal are predominantly chlorite, quart...
As a major constituent in magmatic–hydrothermal ore deposits, cassiterites, with moderate amounts of U and low Pb, can be dated with U–Pb geochronology. The tetragonal lattice structure makes cassiterites capable of incorporating dozens o...
Whole-rock geochemical analysis is a standard method to measure the chemical composition of ores. Analysis of refractory ore metals such as Ta and W typically requires fused bead and acid digestion followed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emissi...
The Southern Hunan area is located in the superposition of the Qin-Hang Cu-Pb-Zn polymetallic ore belt and the Nanling W-Sn-Mo polymetallic ore belt, which is an important window to study the mineralization of W-Sn-Mo and Cu-Pb-Zn polymetallic deposi...
Monazite and rutile occurring in hydrothermally altered W mineralizations, in the Echassières district of the French Massif Central (FMC), were dated by U-Pb isotopic systematics using in-situ Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma–quadrupole mass...
The recently discovered Daping tungsten deposit is located about 25 km north of Tongcheng County, Hubei Province, in the northern margin of the Sijiapu granite deposit of the Mufushan composite batholith. The ore body is produced in the northeast-ori...
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