My research is devoted to understanding the genesis of hydrothermal mineral deposits (W, Mo, Au, Bi, Sb, Ti, Be, Ge etc.) through a combination of field-based, experimental and theoretical methods. Studies on petrology, mineralogy, and fluid inclusion of these deposits mainly through microthermometry facilities, and Laser Raman, LA-ICP-MS, and SIMS, etc. trace-element and isotope composition measure system. Experimental studies emphasise determinations of metal solubility and speciation in hydrothermal systems, and simulations of hydrothermal alteration. These studies are conducted in a laboratory equipped with conventional high temperature autoclaves and ovens, hydrothermal flow-through autoclaves, and a Laser Raman spectrophotometer modified for high temperature spectroscopy. Theoretical research is divided between estimating conditions of ore/alteration mineral stabilities, and corresponding solubility and computer simulations of mineralization processes.

Projects in progress include: investigations of the genesis of Late Cretaceous Mo-Cu-W deposits related to granites in Shangri-La and Changdu Area, SW China (supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences); experimental studies of the solubility of metals like W, Bi, Au, etc. in aqueous solutions or vapours (supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China).

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

September 2009 - July 2014, Doctor of Natural Science, Mineralogy, Petrology, Mineral Deposit Geology

China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China

September 2005 - June 2009, Bachelor of Science, Geochemistry

December 2024 - Present, Professor, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China

December 2020 - December 2024, Associate Professor, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China

December 2018 - November 2019, Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

December 2016 - November 2018, Post-doc, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

July 2014 - December 2020, Assitant Professor, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, China

1. Wang, X.-S., Williams-Jones, A.E., Hu, R.-Z., Liu, Q., Liu, F.-X., Mei, Y., Jiang, Z.-Q., Shang, L.-B., Zhu, J.-J., Bi, X.-W., 2024. The transport of bismuth in HCl-bearing aqueous vapour and low-density aqueous supercritical fluids: Implications for natural systems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 378, 203-216.

2. Jiang, Z.-Q., Shang, L.-B.*, Williams-Jones, A.E., Wang, X.-S.*, Zhang, L., Ni, H.-W., Hu, R.-Z., Bi, X.-W., 2024. The role of CO2 in the genesis of Dabie-type porphyry molybdenum deposits. Nature Communications 15, 4849.

3. Jiang, Z.-Q., Lan, T.-G., Guo, H.-H., Shang, L.-B., Wang, X.-S., Tang, Y.-W., 2024. Synthesis of multi-element fluid inclusion standards suitable for the LA-ICP-MS analysis and establishment of the femtosecond laser analytical method. Bulletin of Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry 43, 409-417.

4. Chen, C., Shang, L., Zhou, Y., Jiang, Z., Wang, X., Chou, I.M., Li, J., Wang, Z., 2024. Raman spectral quantification of Li₂SO₄, Na₂SO₄, K₂SO₄ and Cs₂SO₄ at 25 to 250 °C and its potential implications for the determination of sulfate contents in natural fluid inclusions. Ore Geol. Rev. 168.

5. Wang, X.-S., Williams-Jones, A.E., Hu, R.-Z., Jiang, Z.-Q., Shang, L.-B., Bi, X.-W., 2023. Apatite and fluorite control the transport of tungsten in calcium-bearing hydrothermal fluids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 346, 1-14.

6. Liu, Q., Pan, L.-C., Wang, X.-S., Yan, J., Xing, L.-Z., 2023. Apatite geochemistry as a proxy for porphyry-skarn Cu genesis: a case study from the Sanjiang region of SW China. Frontiers in Earth Science 11.

7. Wang, X.-S., Williams-Jones, A.E., Bi, X.-W., Jiang, Z.-Q., Shang, L.-B., 2022. The solubility and speciation of gold in ammonia-bearing aqueous solutions at elevated temperature: An experimental study. Ore Geol. Rev. 149, 105091.

8. Wang, X.-S., Williams-Jones, A.E., Hu, R.-Z., Shang, L.-B., Bi, X.-W., 2021. The role of fluorine in granite-related hydrothermal tungsten ore genesis: Results of experiments and modeling. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 292, 170-187.

9. Jiang, Z., Shang, L., Guo, H., Wang, X.-S., Chen, C., Zhou, Y., 2021. An experimental investigation into the partition of Mo between aqueous fluids and felsic melts: Implications for the genesis of porphyry Mo ore deposits. Ore Geol. Rev. 134, 104144.

10. Pan, L.-C., Hu, R.-Z., Wang, X.-S., Bi, X.-W., Zhu, J.-J., Fu, S.-l., Yan, J., Wang, Y., 2021. Cu-Mo infertile granite: Insights from the late cretaceous plutons in the Northern Yidun Terrane, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Ore Geol. Rev. 139, 104494.

11. Wang, Y.-J., Wang, X.-S.*, Bi, X.-W., Tao, Y., Lan, T.-G., 2020. Intraplate adakite-like rocks formed by differentiation of mantle-derived mafic magmas: A case study of Eocene intermediate-felsic porphyries in the Machangqing porphyry Cu-Au mining district, SE Tibetan plateau. J. Asian Earth Sci. 196, 104364.

12. Wang, X.-S., Bi, X.-W., Chen, Y.-W., Pan, L.-C., Xu, L.-L., 2019. Crystal fractionation of contaminated melts and re-melting of newly underplated basaltic crust generated Late Triassic andesitic and dioritic intrusions in the southern Yidun Terrane, SW China. Lithos 342-343, 135-151.

13. Wang, X.-S., Timofeev, A., Williams-Jones, A.E., Shang, L.-B., Bi, X.-W., 2019. An experimental study of the solubility and speciation of tungsten in NaCl-bearing aqueous solutions at 250, 300, and 350 °C. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 265, 313-329.

14. Wang, X.-S., Williams-Jones, A.E., Bi, X.-W., Hu, R.-Z., Xiao, J.-F., Huang, M.-L., 2019. Late Cretaceous transtension in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau: Evidence from postcollisional A‐type granite and syenite in the Changdu area, China. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 124, 6409-6427.

15. Huang, M.-L., Bi, X.-W., Gao, J.-F., Xu, L.-L., Xiao, J.-F., Liu, S.-T., Wang, X.-S., Zhou, T., 2019. Sulfur and lead isotopic variations in the giant Yulong porphyry Cu (MoAu) deposit from the eastern Tibetan Plateau: Implications for origins of S and Pb, and metal precipitation. J. Geochem. Explor. 197, 70-83.

16. Xu, L.-L., Bi, X.-W., Hu, R.-Z., Tang, Y.-Y., Wang, X.-S., Huang, M.-L., Wang, Y.-J., Ma, R., Liu, G., 2019. Contrasting whole-rock and mineral compositions of ore-bearing (Tongchang) and ore-barren (Shilicun) granitic plutons in SW China: Implications for petrogenesis and ore genesis. Lithos 336, 54-66.

17. Chen, X.-C., Zhao, C.-H., Zhu, J.-J., Wang, X.-S., Cui, T., 2018. He, Ar, and S isotopic constraints on the relationship between A-type granites and tin mineralization: A case study of tin deposits in the Tengchong–Lianghe tin belt, southwest China. Ore Geol. Rev. 92, 416-429.

18. Wang, D., Bi, X., Lu, H., Hu, R., Wang, X., Xu, L., 2018. Fluid and melt inclusion study on mineralized and barren porphyries, Jinshajiang-Red River alkali-rich intrusive belt, and significance to metallogenesis. J. Geochem. Explor. 184, 28-39.

19. Liu, H., Bi, X., Lu, H., Hu, R., Lan, T., Wang, X., Huang, M., 2018. Nature and evolution of fluid inclusions in the Cenozoic Beiya gold deposit, SW China. J. Asian Earth Sci. 161, 35-56.

20. Pan, L.-C., Hu, R.-Z., Bi, X.-W., Li, C., Wang, X.-S., Zhu, J.-J., 2018. Titanite major and trace element compositions as petrogenetic and metallogenic indicators of Mo ore deposits: Examples from four granite plutons in the southern Yidun arc, SW China. American Mineralogist: Journal of Earth and Planetary Materials 103, 1417-1434.

21. Pan, L.-C., Hu, R.-Z., Wang, X.-S., Bi, X.-W., Zhu, J.-J., Li, C., 2016. Apatite trace element and halogen compositions as petrogenetic-metallogenic indicators: Examples from four granite plutons in the Sanjiang region, SW China. Lithos 254–255, 118-130.

22. Qiang, Q.Y., Ruizhong, H., Hai, Z., Guangming, R., Liyan, W., Jingjing, Z., Xinsong, W., Changzhong, M., Xianglin, J., 2016. Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Geochemical Characteristics of the Mafic Intrusions in Northwestern Guizhou Province, and Their Significances to the Lead-Zinc Mineralization. Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition 90, 933-949.

23. Xu, L., Bi, X., Hu, R., Qi, Y., Tang, Y., Wang, X., Zhu, J., 2016. Redox states and genesis of magmas associated with intra-continental porphyry Cu–Au mineralization within the Jinshajiang–Red River alkaline igneous belt, SW China. Ore Geol. Rev. 73, 330-345.

24. Wang, S., Li, H., Shang, L., Bi, X., Wang, X., Fan, W., 2016. Copper partitioning between granitic silicate melt and coexisting aqueous fluid at 850 °C and 100 MPa. Acta Geochimica 35, 381-390.

25. Wang, X.S., Bi, X.W., Hu, R.Z., Leng, C.B., Yu, H.J., Yin, G.H., 2015. S-Pb isotopic geochemistry of Xiuwacu magmatic hydrothermal Mo-W deposit in Zhongdian area, NW Yunnan: Constrains on the sources of metal. Acta Petrologica Sinica 31, 3171-3188.

26. Xu, L., Bi, X., Hu, R., Tang, Y., Wang, X., Xu, Y., 2015. LA-ICP-MS mineral chemistry of titanite and the geological implications for exploration of porphyry Cu deposits in the Jinshajiang–Red River alkaline igneous belt, SW China. Mineral. Petrol. 109, 181-200.

27. Xiaohui, X., Jiafei, X., Ruizhong, H., Jian, W., Yi, W., Xinsong, W., Qi, D., 2015. Formation and Evolution of a Paleosol across the Lower Silurian‐Lower Permian Boundary in Zunyi District, Northern Guizhou, China and Its Paleoenvironment and Paleoclimate Implications. Acta Geologica Sinica‐English Edition 89, 2012-2029.

28. Wang, X.S., Bi, X.W., Leng, C.B., Zhong, H., Tang, H.F., Chen, Y.W., Yin, G.H., Huang, D.Z., Zhou, M.F., 2014. Geochronology and geochemistry of Late Cretaceous igneous intrusions and Mo-Cu-(W) mineralization in the southern Yidun Arc, SW China: Implications for metallogenesis and geodynamic setting. Ore Geol. Rev. 61, 73-95.

29. Wang, X.S., Hu, R.Z., Bi, X.W., Leng, C.B., Pan, L.C., Zhu, J.J., Chen, Y.W., 2014. Petrogenesis of Late Cretaceous I-type granites in the southern Yidun Terrane: New constraints on the Late Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Lithos 208–209, 202-219.

30. Tang, Y.-Y., Bi, X.-W., Fayek, M., Hu, R.-Z., Wu, L.-Y., Zou, Z.-C., Feng, C.-X., Wang, X.-S., 2014. Microscale sulfur isotopic compositions of sulfide minerals from the Jinding Zn–Pb deposit, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Gondwana Research 26, 594-607.

31. Leng, C.-B., Huang, Q.-Y., Zhang, X.-C., Wang, S.-X., Zhong, H., Hu, R.-Z., Bi, X.-W., Zhu, J.-J., Wang, X.-S., 2014. Petrogenesis of the Late Triassic volcanic rocks in the Southern Yidun arc, SW China: constraints from the geochronology, geochemistry, and Sr–Nd–Pb–Hf isotopes. Lithos 190, 363-382.

32. Wang, D., Bi, X., Zhou, T., Zhang, W., Wang, X., Xu, L., 2013. Volatile abundances in apatite from alkaline magma in the Jinshajiang-Honghe in continental tectonic setting. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 33, 231-238.

33. Zhou, T., Bi, X., Wang, D., Xu, L., Wang, X., 2013. Lithium isotopic characteristics of ore-bearing and barren intrusions in the Jinshajiang-Honghe alkali-rich intrusive belt. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 33, 221-230.

34. Wang, X.S., Bi, X.W., Leng, C.B., Tang, Y.Y., Lan, J.B., Qi, Y.Q., Shen, N.P., 2011. LA-ICP-MS Zircon U-Pb Dating of Granite Porphyry in the Hongshan Cu-Polymetallic Deposit, Zhongdian, Northwest Yunnan, China and Its Geological Implication. Acta Mineralogica Sinica 31, 315-321.

Invited Presentations

2024              Annual Meeting of Chinese Geoscience Union (CGU)

2024              Chinese National Mineral Deposit Conference

2024              Chinese National Symposium on Mineral Inclusions and Geological Fluids

2024              Chinese Youth Scientist Forum of Ore deposits

2023              Goldschmidt Conference

2023              Chinese Youth Scientist Forum of Earth Science

2023              Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry

2023              Chinese National Mineral Deposit Conference

2022              1st China-South Korea Youth Joint Forum on Geochemistry

2021              Chinese Youth Scientist Forum of Earth Science

2020              Chinese Annual Conference of Experimental Technology and Application of the Key Laboratory Association of Solid Earth Science

2024-present  member of the Editorial Board, Acta Mineralogica Sinca

2024-present  member of the Youth Editorial Board, Journal of Earth Sciences and Environment

2024              Chinese National Mineral Deposit Conference, Session Convener

2024              Chinese National Symposium on Mineral Inclusions and Geological Fluids, Session Convener

2023              Goldschmidt conference, Session Chair

2023              Chinese Youth Scientist Forum of Earth Science, Session Convener

2023              Chinese National Symposium on Metallogenic Theory and Prospecting Methods, Session Convener

​2022-present  co-PI and Security Officer of the Laboratory of Experimental Geochemistry, IGCAS

2021              Youth Scientist Forum of Earth Science, Session Convener, Forum Organizer

2017-present  National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant Proposal Reviews

2015-present  Reviewer for journals of Mineralium Deposita, European Journal of Mineralogy, Lithos, Ore Geology Reviews, Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Minerals, etc.

2024-06         High-level innovative talent in Guizhou province (Thousand-talent)

2021-10         High-level Talent of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project in Guizhou Province

2021-01         Elected as a member of Youth Innovation Promotion Association, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2020-09         Elected as a member of Youth Innovation Promotion Program, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

2014-06         Merit PhD Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

2009-06         Excellent Graduate of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)

   

HARSHA PRABATH PERERA USWATTA LIYANAGE, Environmental Science, International student from Sri Lanka, UCAS, 2024 Ting Shen, Geochemistry, UCAS, 2024 

Jian-Lin Zhang, Mineralogy, Petrology, Mineral Deposit Geology, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, co-supervisor, 2023 

Wen-Xin Shi, Resources and Environment, UCAS, 2022 

Fu-Xin Fan, Resources and Environment, UCAS, 2022 

Xu Jiang, Geochemistry, Yunnan University, co-supervisor, 2022 

Ya-Xuan Zhang, Resources and Environment, China University of Geosciences, Beijing, co-supervisor, 2022 

Hao-Ming Deng, Mineralogy, Petrology, Mineral Deposit Geology, UCAS, 2021

Yue Gao, Yunnan University, 2024 

Ting Shen, Yunnan University, 2023