Cover Story
Kuokejilega Super-large gold deposit of Xin-jiang. In recent years, supported by projects financed by the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the Kashi Geological Team of the Xinjiang Bureau of Geology have conducted gold geological surveys in the western segment of the West Kunlun Mountains. This work led to the first discovery of gold miner-alization within a ductile-brittle structural zone, extending hundreds of kilo-meters in length and several kilometers in width. Representing a major breakthrough in gold exploration, the Kuokejilega su-per-large gold deposit was also identified. The gold resource potential in the Akto area of the West Kunlun metallogenic belt is esti-mated to have tremendous prospecting poten-tial. Its discovery provides an important mod-el for exploring similar types of gold deposits in the region and holds significance for estab-lishing a gold belt in the West Kunlun of Xinjiang. For details, see pp. 1033-11038 of this issue. (Picture by HE Fubao)