Major Breakthrough Achieved in Deep Ore Prospecting of the Xiabao Silver-Lead-Zinc(Ag-Pb-Zn)Deposit in the Lengshuikeng Orefield,North Wuyi Metallogenic Belt
Ouyang Yongpeng
Chen Guohua
Zeng Xianghui
Rao Jianfeng
Wei Jin
Zhang Rubin
Tang Wei
Tian Xiaotao
Deng Youguo
Zhou Tianyu
Zeng Runling
Chen Qi
Abstract：Porphyry-skarn and low-temperature epithermal deposits are shallowly buried and large in scale, with great economic value, and are important sources of metals such as copper, molybdenum, gold, silver, lead, and zinc globally (Sillitoe, 2010; Richards, 2011). The Lengshuikeng ore field is located at the southern edge of the junction between the Yangtze and Huaixia tectonic blocks, and the northern segment of the Wuyi Mountains silver polymetallic metallogenic belt (Fig. 1a). It is one of China's representative porphyry-skarn and low-temperature epithermal silver-lead-zinc polymetallic ore fields, with proven silver, lead, and zinc resources reaching super-large scales, and also containing associated elements such as copper, gold, iron, manganese, and cadmium. The ore field includes seven deposits: Xiabao, Baojia, Yinluling (now the Baojia Yinluling deposit), Yinglin, Yinzhusan (now the Yinzhusan South deposit), Yinkeng (now the Yinzhusan North deposit), and Madi (Fig. 1b). The main mineralization types in the ore field are disseminated vein-type and sulfide-rich strata-type mineralization. Disseminated vein-type mineralization mainly occurs in the Yinluling, Baojia, Yinzhusan, and Madi deposits, while sulfide-rich strata-type mineralization mainly occurs in the Yinglin, Xiabao, and Yinkeng deposits (Lu Ran et al., 2012; Qiu Junting et al., 2013; Qi et al., 2022; Hu et al., 2025; Yang et al., 2025). Previous studies have conducted extensive geological, geochemical, petrological and mineralization age studies, as well as multiple rounds of prospecting and exploration work, and have achieved many important insights and results.
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Publication Date：2025-12-30
Online Publishing Date：2026-01-26(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 5020-5025 )