Laterization and its control to gold occurrence in Laowanchang gold deposit,Guizhou Province,Southwest of China

Laowanchang gold deposit, located in Qinglong County, Guizhou Province, Southwest China, is the first-discovered laterite type gold deposit in Guizhou Province. Although most scholars are inclined to agree that ore-forming substance was closely correlated with “Dachangceng layer”, it still remained controversial. Former researchers did not find existences of visible Au grains in limonite, clay minerals or pyrite under SEM observation; therefore, they considered Au occurrence mainly as micro-disseminated form.