Discovery of bauxite-type helium source rock in Jinzhong basin, central North China and its resource potential evaluation

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Qiao Zhang, Jun-lin Zhou, Yu-hong Li and Ya-zhuo Niu conceived of the presented idea and prepared the manuscript. Qiao Zhang, Wang Guo, Shang-wei Ma, Yun-peng Zhang, Shao-Hua Hu, Yu Ding conducted the field work and collected the samples. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Acknowledgement

The research is supported by China Geological Survey Project (DD20221665, DD20230026, DD20230268, DD20230314) and National Key Research and Development Program (2021YFA0719003). The authors are grateful to Haihong Xu and Ming-wei Zhu for supports in the fieldwork and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.

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