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Based on recent field investigations of a number of the important gold deposits along the northern margin of the North China craton, it is argued that broad zones of disseminated and stockwork-style mineralization in some of the deposits have far greater importance than previously recognized. On a regional scale, the intersection of the major NNE/NE- and E-W-trending structures, products of Mesozoic Pacific margin oblique subduction and Paleozoic-early Mesozoic craton collision, respectively, is a key to localization of the ores.
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Zhou, T., Dong, G. (2005). An under-recognized mineralization style along the northern margin of the North China craton: Potential for discovery of large-tonnage disseminated and stockwork-style gold deposits. In: Mineral Deposit Research: Meeting the Global Challenge. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27946-6_399
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