Xikuangshan Mine

<p>Xikuangshan mine (<a href="/facts/Simplified_Chinese_characters/UcAD6xXs">simplified Chinese</a>: 锡矿山; <a href="/facts/Traditional_Chinese_characters/bBFLkuz7">traditional Chinese</a>: 錫礦山; <a href="/facts/Pinyin/pUwjfMXg">pinyin</a>: <i>Xīkuàngshān</i>) in <a href="/facts/Lengshuijiang/UTw7DJEn">Lengshuijiang</a>, <a href="/facts/Hunan/1lbDstf7">Hunan</a>, <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a>, contains the world's largest known deposit of <a href="/facts/Antimony/YsA7lVgT">antimony</a>. It is unique in that there is a large deposit of <a href="/facts/Stibnite/f1wo26vQ">stibnite</a> (Sb2S3) in a layer of <a href="/facts/Devonian/nWgakqzk">Devonian</a> <a href="/facts/Limestone/8ntvtFnR">limestone</a>. There are three mineral beds which are between 2.5 and 8 m thick which are folded in an <a href="/facts/Anticline/FQDWhobn">anticline</a> that plunges to the south-west. The total mineralised area of the mine has a surface extent of 14 km2. There are two different units at the mine, the northern one produces mixed oxide and sulfide such as <a href="/facts/Stibiconite/83dTz7tS">stibiconite</a> (Sb3O6(OH)) and the southern one produces stibnite. <a href="/facts/Ore/kgc9DssX">Ore</a> is concentrated and refined on site in a refinery with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of antimony per year.
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Xikuangshan Mine