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Biotite from
Huogeqi Mine (Hegeqi Mine), Urad Rear Banner (Wulate Houqi), Bayannur City (Bayannao'er Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Huogeqi Mine (Hegeqi Mine), Urad Rear Banner (Wulate Houqi), Bayannur City (Bayannao'er Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:457313
Long-form Identifier:1:3:457313:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
36.6km (22.8 miles) ⓘDongshengmiao Mine, Urad Rear Banner (Wulate Houqi), Bayannur City (Bayannao'er Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China
85.6km (53.2 miles) ⓘDiebusige Complex, Alxa Left Banner (Alashan Zuoqi), Alxa League (Alashan Prefecture), Inner Mongolia, China
References
Xinming Jiang (1983): Mineral Deposits 2(4), 1-10
Xinming Jiang (1984): Geology of the Huogeqi copper-lead-zinc ore field. Geology and Prospecting 20(10), 8-13.
Hongcai Fei, Pu Dong, Guoying An, and Rongge Xiao (2004): Geoscience 18(1), 32-40
Pi, Q., Zhong, R., & Hu, R. (2015). Tracing the ore-formation history of the shear-zone-controlled Huogeqi Cu–Pb–Zn deposit in Inner Mongolia, northern China, using H, O, S, and Fe isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 71, 263-272.
Cui, Hao; Zhong, Richen; Li, Wenbo; Yu, Chang; Danyushevsky, Leonid V.; Belousov, Ivan; Liu, Chuanjiang; Li, Zimeng (2023) Revealing the orogenic genesis of Huogeqi Cu-Pb-Zn deposit: Evidence from the machine learning-based data interpretation of pyrite geochemistry. Ore Geology Reviews, 154. doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2023.105350
 
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