Geological, rare earth elemental and isotopic constraints on the origin of the Banbanqiao Zn–Pb deposit, southwest China

The newly discovered Banbanqiao Zn–Pb deposit in the southeastern part of the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou (SYG) Pb–Zn metallogenic province is located on the western Yangtze Block, southwest China. Ore bodies of the Banbanqiao deposit are stratiform type, host in dolomitic limestone and dolostone of the Lower Carboniferous Dapu Formation and occur within the NNE-trending Banbanqiao anticline. More than 1.5 million tones (Mt) Zn–Pb ores at grades of...