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Article: Data from China University provide new insights into economic geology.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- June 9, 2009
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"The Kalatongke Cu-Ni Sulfide deposit in northern Xinjiang, northwest China, is located on the Southern side of the regional Irtysh fault zone, which is the boundary between the early, Paleozoic Altai orogenic belt to the north and the late Paleozoic Junggar terrane to the south. In the Kalatongke region there are 11 mafic intrusions which were emplaced in Lower Carboniferous strata," scientists writing in the journal Economic Geology report.
"Economic Ni-Cu sulfide ores are found within three of these intrusions, which are well differentiated, and compositionally zoned. Four rock types are recognized which, from top to base of the three mineralized intrusions, ...