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Geology and Metallogeny of Mongolia

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Mineral Resources of Mongolia

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Mongolia is a key component of the giant Central Asian Orogenic Belt and is formed by accretion of Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian-Carboniferous arcs, back-arcs, and accretionary wedges and Mesozoic-Cenozoic covers. Another view suggests that the CAOB comprises a collage of microcontinents and oceanic arcs that collided with one another and eventually accreted to the Siberian, Tarim, and Northern China cratons. All these assemblages host important, many world-class, Late Proterozoic to Late Mesozoic gold, copper-molybdenum, copper-gold, lead-zinc, tungsten-tin, rare earth, uranium, fluorspar, phosphate, and coal deposits formed in orogenic subduction and the post-orogenic environment associated with calc-alkaline, alkaline volcanic, and plutonic complexes.

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Gerel, O. (2021). Geology and Metallogeny of Mongolia. In: Gerel, O., Pirajno, F., Batkhishig, B., Dostal, J. (eds) Mineral Resources of Mongolia. Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences, vol 19. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5943-3_1

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