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Shizhuyuan mine

Shizhuyuan mine, China. Producing, underground, mining tungsten, bismuth, tin, fluorspar.

Why Shizhuyuan is famous

Chinese polymetallic mine producing tungsten, bismuth, tin and fluorspar. History not yet sourced.1,2

What kind of deposit

Tungsten skarn

Shizhuyuan today

Where tungsten is mined todayWhere bismuth is mined todayWhere tin is mined todayWhere fluorspar is mined todayMining in China

Where next

Deposit types

An example ofTungsten skarnShizhuyuan belongs to the tungsten skarn family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. data/minerals/operations.csv Prospector Trails (internal)
  2. Shizhuyuan Mine (Q12172652) Wikidata
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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