TITLE
Geology and genetic types of the primary rhenium deposits in Mainland China
AUTHOR(S)
Jian Zhao Yin
ABSTRACT
The unique physical and chemical properties of the rare element rhenium make it have increasingly extensive and indispensable uses in many modern high-tech fields such as national defense, aerospace, petrochemical industry, electronic materials, quantum computing and ultra-high temperature emitters, and medicine. For this reason, many countries, especially Western developed countries, have listed rhenium as one of the critical metals or strategic minerals for protection and restriction. Due to the heterogeneity of the distribution of chemical elements throughout the earth, compared with similar minerals in other continents, the rhenium deposits in mainland China have both similarities and unique features. For example, mainland China has the only independent rhenium deposit in the world so far. At the same time, mainland China also has associated and/or symbiotic rhenium ore types that most countries in the world have. China’s large-scale rhenium exploration, research and application started late. But it has developed rapidly in the past 10-20 years. This article summarizes the geological characteristics of the rhenium deposits discovered in mainland China in recent times and divides their genetic and industrial types.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.62252/NSS.2024.1021
PAGES: 303-323
How to cite this article:
JZ Yin. 2024. Geology and genetic types of the primary rhenium deposits in Mainland China. Naturalis Scientias, 1 (4): 303-323. DOI: https://doi.org/10.62252/NSS.2024.1021. www.naturalisscientias.com.