Ebook: Geology of Tin Deposits in Asia and the Pacific: Selected Papers from the International Symposium on the Geology of Tin Deposits held in Nanning, China, October 26–30, 1984, jointly sponsored by ESCAP/RMRDC and the Ministry of Geology, People’s Republic o

This volume represents an edited selection of papers presented at the International symposium on the geology of tin deposits held in Nanning City in October 1984. It documents a great advance in our knowledge of tin deposits, particularly of the People's Republic of China. Details are presented in English for the first time on the major tin-polymetallic sulphide deposits of Dachang and Gejiu, which bear similarities to the deposits of Tasmania, but are little known to the geological community outside of China. The publication of this volume was sponsored by the United Nations ESCAP Regional Mineral Resources Development Centre (RMRDC), now a Regional Mineral Resources Development Project (RMRDP) within ESCAP. The Centre had previously published a report on the Symposium in Nanning City and the following field trip to the Dachang tin-polymetallic sulphide deposit of Guangxi, entitled "Report on the International Symposium on the Geology of Tin Deposits: Nanning and Dachang, China, 27 October - 8 November 1984". It is my privilege to acknowledge the help provided by Dr. J. F. McDivitt and Dr. H. W. Gebert, co-ordinator of ESCAP-RMRDC.

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The mineralogy, structure and geological setting of the world's largest stratabound tin-polymetallic sulphide deposits of Dachang and Gejin (South China) are now presented to the international readership for the first time. In addition, reviews of the world's major types of tin deposits and models of grades and tonnages allow worldwide comparisons. The world's foremost tin metallogenic province of Southeast Asia is described in papers on Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Several papers describe tin deposits outside the Asian region, notably Tasmania, Western Canada, the Iberian Peninsula, and South America.