“…There are more than 50 gold deposits of varying scales were discovered over the past decades (Figure 1c; Chen et al, 2004; Zeng et al, 2012). Typical deposits are Yangshan (>300 t, Liang et al, 2014; Yang et al, 2016), Zhaishang (127 t, Liu, Dai, et al, 2015), Baguamiao (106 t, Wang et al, 2020), Dashui (>100 t, Peng et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2019; Zeng et al, 2013), Liba (79 t, Zeng et al, 2012), Daqiao (>105 t, Wu et al, 2018, 2019), Zaozigou (142 t, Sui et al, 2020) and Shuangwang (>70 t, Wang et al, 2015; Liu et al, 2021). Most of these gold deposits are hosted within early Palaeozoic to Triassic, unmetamorphosed to weakly metamorphosed clastic and carbonate rocks (Hu et al, 2022; Liu, Liu, et al, 2015).…”