Garnet-mica schist from the Shizui Subgroup of Wutai Group is chiefly composed of garnet, biotite, muscovite, plagioclase, quartz and ilmenite, with a few samples containing epidote, staurolite, kyanite and ortho-amphibole. Based on a series of diagrams such as geochemical classification, heavy mineral accumulation, source rock and tectonic setting discrimination, the authors found that the protolith of the rocks was shales without obvious heavy mineral accumulation. Combined with the results of metamorphic equilibria modeling using THERMOCALC method and metamorphic zircon dating using SHRIMP method, the authors have found that the garnet-mica schist experienced a kyanite-type metamorphism with a clockwise p-t path at ~1.95 Ga.