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Cinnabar from
Woxi Mines (Wuxi Mines; Xiangxi Mines; Xianxi Mines), Yuanling Co., Huaihua, Hunan, China


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cinnabar
Formula:HgS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cinnabar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Woxi Mines (Wuxi Mines; Xiangxi Mines; Xianxi Mines), Yuanling Co., Huaihua, Hunan, China
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:440990
Long-form Identifier:1:3:440990:8
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Cinnabar
41.8km (26.0 miles) ⓘYuanjiangite locality, Yuan river placers (Yuanjiang placers), Yuanling Co., Huaihua, Hunan, China
86.3km (53.6 miles) ⓘXichong Au-Sb Mine, Taojiang Co., Yiyang, Hunan, China
References
Yongfu Kang (1984): Geology and Prospecting 20(6), 1-10
Boyi Liang and Zhenru Zhang (1988): Geology and Prospecting 24(8), 25-30
Yang, Sixue, Blum, N., Rahders, E., Zhenru, Zhang (1998) The nature of invisible gold in sulfides from Xiangxi Au-Sb-W ore deposit in northwestern Hunan, People's Republic China. The Canadian Mineralogist, 36 (5). 1361-1372
Peng, Bo, Frei, Robert (2004) Nd-Sr-Pb isotopic constraints on metal and fluid sources in W-Sb-Au mineralization at Woxi and Liaojiaping (Western Hunan, China) Mineralium Deposita, 39 (3) 313-327 doi:10.1007/s00126-004-0409-0
 
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