Zircon U-Pb age of the mafic microgranular enclaves in the ore-forming porphyry of the Tongchanggou Mo (Cu) deposit, northwestern Yunnan, China

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Shou-kui Li, Xue-long Liu and Shi-tao Zhang conceived of the presented idea. Jie-hu Zhou, Bo-de Lu and Yun He carried out the experiment. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Acknowledgements

This research was jointly supported by the Selection Project of High-level Scientific and Technological Talents and Innovative Teams Project in Yunnan Province (202305AT350004-4), the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 42362010 and 42464005), the Field Scientific Observation and Research Station of Mountain Agroecosystem in the Lower Reaches of Nujiang River, Yunnan Province (202305AM340031), the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education Science Research Fund Project (2025J0983), the Wen Bang-chun Academician Workstation in Yunnan Province (202205AF150032), and the Undergraduate Innovative Training Program (2310603235).

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