Geologic Characteristics, Sulfur and Lead Isotope Study of the Shalitashi Lead-Zinc Deposit, Southern Tianshan
The Shalitashi lead-zinc deposit located in Xinjiang, Northwest China is an important lead-zinc deposit in the southern Tianshan polymetallic metallogenic belt. The deposit occurs in the Paleozoic Maidan-Kuokeshale Basin as lens, nested and tubular orebodies within the structure fracture zone in the dolomite of the middle Devonian Tuogemaiti Formation. The alteration is weakly developed in the wall rocks. The dominant sulfide minerals in the ore are sphalerite and galena. On the basis of the geology and geochemistry characteristics, the Shalitashi lead-zinc deposit can be classified into