Ore shoot

An ore shoot is a hypogenic mass that is deposited in veins within a planar channel or lode, found in a shear or fault zone, fissure or lithologic boundary.

A structure may consist of multiple ore shoots with some veins or lodes being as thick as 1.5–6.1 m (5–20 ft), and extending to thousands of feet horizontally and vertically.

The geometry and internal structure of the basalt flows is important for predicting the likelihood and extent of the ore shoots.

[1] Found in the Guangxi region in South China, the Jianzhupo Sb-Pb-Zn-Ag deposit has been explored and studied over decades, by using different parameters to understand the formation.

The Jianzhupo deposit is located within the Danchi Sn-polymetalic belt, and experienced major faulting and subsidence during the Devonian-Carboniferous Periods following folding during the Middle Triassic, and then finally underwent extension during the Cretaceous.