“…In general, sedimentary-exhalative (SEDEX) processes are considered to be related to formation of a variety of ore deposits, including sediment-hosted Pb-Zn-Ag (e.g., Hamilton et al, 1982;Strens et al, 1987;Goodfellow et al, 1993;Sewell and Wheatley, 1994;Whitehead et al, 1996;Fernandez and Velasco, 1997;Large et al, 1998;Sangster and Hillary, 1998;Paradis et al, 1998;Cooke et al, 2000;Canet et al, 2003;Large et al, 2005;Tornos and Heinrich, 2008;Kawasaki et al, 2010), Cu (Gu and Xu, 1986;Wang and Qin, 1989), barite (e.g., Clark and Orris, 1991;MacIntyre, 1992;Clark et al, 2004), NiMo (Lott et al, 1999), Sn-polymetallic (Han and Hutchinson, 1989;Jiang et al, 1999) and, probably, some precious metal deposits (e.g., Zheng et al, 1993;Gu, 1996;Emsbo et al, 1999;Gu et al, 1996Gu et al, , 2000Gu et al, , 2002cCanet et al, 2004). The Woxi W-Sb-Au deposit discussed in this study may represent another example of this ore formation model.…”