Major progress in iron ore finding in the western segment of the Gangdise belt, southern Tibet, China

During the 1:250000 regional geological survey, four iron copper-bearing iron occurrences and two silver-copper polymetallic occurrences which merit further work were found in southern Ge'gyai County, in the western segment of the Gangdise belt, Tibet. In the paper the authors focus on a preliminary evaluation of magnetite and cupreous magnetite at Sangqiongle and specularite at Liema. This ore prospect evaluation shows that there are 401.59 Mt of magnetite ore resources at Sangqiongle and 18.50 Mt of specularite ore resources at Liema.