西昆仑卡拉塔什矿区含铜砂页岩中发现钴矿

A cobalt deposit discovered in copper-bearing sandstone-shale in the Karatax ore district, Western Kunlun Mountains

西昆仑塔木-卡兰古铅锌铜成矿带上卡拉塔什矿区含铜砂页岩中发现较高含量的钴,并伴有铜、镍、铅、银等多种有益组分,原生钴矿物可能与镍一起以独立矿物形式存在。本区钴矿的容矿岩石为含铜砂页岩,成因类型可能属喷流-沉积型钴铜铅多金属矿。

Copper-bearing sandstone-shale in the Karatax ore district in the Tamu-Kalangu lead-zinc-copper belt, West Kunlun, has higher cobalt contents, associated with many useful components such as copper, nickel, lead and silver. Primary cobalt minerals may occur as separate minerals associated with nickel. In the study area the host rock of the cobalt deposits copper-bearing sandstone-shale and according to its genesis it may belong to an exhalative-sedimentary type cobalt-copper-lead polymetallic deposit.