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Arsenopyrite from
Budunhua Cu Mine, Horqin Right Middle Banner (Ke'erqin Youyi Zhongqi), Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Arsenopyrite
Formula:FeAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Arsenopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Budunhua Cu Mine, Horqin Right Middle Banner (Ke'erqin Youyi Zhongqi), Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:730574
Long-form Identifier:1:3:730574:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Arsenopyrite
39.5km (24.6 miles) ⓘMongon Tolgoi Mine (Meng'entaoleigai Mine; Meng'entaolegai Mine), Horqin Right Middle Banner (Ke'erqin Youyi Zhongqi), Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China
84.0km (52.2 miles) ⓘLianhuashan Cu-Ag Mine, Tuquan County, Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China
93.4km (58.0 miles) ⓘChentaitun Cu deposit, Tuquan County, Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China
99.4km (61.8 miles) ⓘNaoniushan Cu-(Au) deposit, Tuquan County, Hinggan League, Inner Mongolia, China
References
Bingjian Xiao (2000): Contributions to Geology and Mineral Resources Research 23(1), 27-31
Fengjun Nie, Sihong Jiang, Yi Zhang, Yan Liu, and Peng Hu (2004): Mineral Deposits 23(6), 176-189
Mei Zhang, Yusheng Zhai, Cunli Shen, Yonghui Liu, Shuaishi Yang, Degao Zhai, Meijuan Yao, Jianping Wang, Shouguang Wang, Zhengxi Gao, and Ling Zhang (2011): Geoscience 25(5), 819-831
Xinli Wu, Jingwen Mao, and Zhenhua Zhou (2014): Mineral Deposits 33(1), 210-222
Shi, Kaituo, Wang, Keyong, Ma, Xueli, Li, Shunda, Li, Jian, Wang, Rui (2020) Fluid inclusions, C–H–O–S–Pb isotope systematics, geochronology and geochemistry of the Budunhua Cu deposit, northeast China: Implications for ore genesis. Geoscience Frontiers, 11 (4) 1145-1161 doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2019.09.010
 
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