The Liqingdi silverleadzinc ore district of Inner Mongolia is situated in the eastern section of the

Daqingshan goldsilver polymetallic oreforming belt on the northern fringe of the North China Platform. Its

basement is outcropped mainly as Achaean moderatelyhighly metamorphic sequence of the Jining Rock Group, with the

superimposition of Mesozoic intense volcanismmagmatism, thus forming a multiply superimposed composite

metallogeic area. Ore bodies are mainly distributed in the outer contact zone between the Yanshanian granites and

the Jining Rock Group of marbles. Magma was emplaced along faults and thermal solution was diffused along fissures

and replaced wall rocks, resulting in the enrichment of lead, zinc and silver in shatter zones to form industrially

significant ore deposits. Grade-A geochemical anomalies delineated in Liqingdi area are caused by silverdominated

polymetallic ores with anomalous elements such as Ag, Pb, W, As, Au, Bi, Hg, Sb and Zn. Element associations are

complex, showing distinctive concentration zoning and enrichment centers. This pattern of multielement anomalies

indicates that there exists potential for the prospecting of gold and silver polymetallic mineral resources in this

area and that the geochemical indicators are relaiable.