Professor Shan Fashou's research team

1. RESEARCH GROUP

Evaporite Metallogenic System (EMS)

2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION

The EMS research group in the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISL, CAS) is mainly engaged in: 1) elucidating the “source-sink” process of brine and evaporites, and the enrichment rules of strategic resource elements, such as potassium, lithium, boron, antimony, etc.; 2) reconstructing deep time paleoclimate conditions for evaporite formation; and 3) achieving green high-value comprehensive utilization of inorganic salt deposits. The research team currently has three professors, three associate professors, four assistant professors, two doctoral students, four master students, and twelve graduate students.

In recent years, the research team has undertaken more than 20 scientific research projects (basic research and applied research), including the National Key Basic Research and Development Program (973) sub-project, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Youth Fund Project, the Applied Basic Research and Youth Fund projects of Qinghai Province, as well as the Chinese Academy of Sciences Youth Innovation Promotion Association and the Western Scholars projects. The research results have published more than forty papers in domestic and international academic journals such as Chemical Geology, Geoscience Frontier, Sedimentary Geology, Minerals, Progress in Physical Geography, Acta Geologica Sinica, Acta Geoscientic Sinica, Journal of Salt Lake Research, and authorized four invention patents.

The research team adheres to the concept of “Modesty, Diligence, Honesty and Precision” to carry out relevant scientific works, and strives to make innovative achievements and ultimately serve social and economic development on the basis of previous research.

3. RESEARCH PROJECTS IN THE PAST THREE YEARS

[1] Jiansen Li, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Study on the Mechanism of Deep Water Salt Formation and Geochemical Law of the Typical Salt Lake Deposits in the Central and Western Part of the Qaidam Basin”, 2020.01-2023.12.

[2] Qishun Fan, Enterprise Commissioned Project, “Salt Lake Strategic Resources Cooperation Consulting Project”, 2019.01-2021.12.

[3] Yongsheng Du, Western Light Project of the CAS, “Study on the Genesis and in-situ Leaching of the Polyhalite in Kunteyi Salt Lake”, 2019.01-2021.12.

[4] Haicheng Wei, Youth Innovation Promotion Association Fund of the CAS, “The Holocene Human Activities and Environmental Changes in the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau”, 2019.01-2022.12.

[5] Qishun Fan, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, “The origin of CaCl₂ brine in the northern margin of Qarhan Salt Lake and its Source with similar brines of Western Central Basin”, 2018.01-2021.12.

[6] Haicheng Wei, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, “The Study on Spores of Modern Fecal Fungi in Qinghai Lake Region and its Paleoenvironmental Significance”, 2018.01-2021.12.

[7] Yongsheng Du, Enterprise Commissioned Project, “The Research on Water Quality Monitoring of Dongming Open Mine”, 2018.04-2019.12.

[8] Fahsou Shan, Key Research and Development Project of the International Cooperation Bureau of the CAS, “Construction of the Green Development Science and Technology Cooperation System of Salt Resources in the “Belt and Road” Southern Line”, 2017.01-2019.12.

[9] Fashou Shan, Enterprise Commissioned Project, “Experimental Study on Evaporation and Processing Technology of Salt Lake in Hadahexiu”, 2017.06-2021.06.

[10] Fashou Shan, Enterprise Commissioned Project, “The Feasibility Study Report on 500kt/a Potassium Sulfate in Hadahexiu Salt Mine of Ejinaqi, Inner Mongolia”, 2017.06-2018.06.

[11] Fashou Shan, Institute self-selected Project, “Construction of the Methodology for Concealed Potash Mine Prediction and Exploration in Tarim Basin”, 2017.11-2020.12.

[12] Chengbao Li, Enterprise Commissioned Project, “The Feasibility Study of 300×10⁴t/a Potassium Chloride Project in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand”, 2017.12-2020.12.

[13] Haicheng Wei, Qinghai Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, “Characteristics of Topsoil Pollen Spectrum and its Quantitative Identification of Human Activities in the Farming-Pastoral Ecotone of Qinghai Province”, 2017.01-2019.12.

4. MAJOR RESEARCH RESULTS: REPRESENTATIVE PAPER (NO MORE THAN 10 PAPERS), PATENT (NO MORE THAN 10 ITEMS), AND TREATISE.

Representative Papers:

[1] Xiangru Zhang, Qingkuan Li, Zhanjie Qin, Qishun Fan, Yongsheng Du, Haicheng Wei, Donglin Gao, Fashou Shan. Boron isotope geochemistry of a brine-carbonate system in the Qaidam Basin, western China [J]. Sedimentary Geology. 2019. 383: 293-302.

[2] Yong Sheng Du, Qi Shun Fan, Dong Lin Gao, Hai Cheng Wei, Fa Shou Shan, Bin Kai Li, Xiang Ru Zhang, Qin Yuan, Zhan Jie Qin, Qian Hui Ren, Xue Ming Teng. Evaluation of boron isotopes in halite as an indicator of the salinity of Qarhan paleolake water in the eastern Qaidam Basin, western China [J]. Geoscience Frontiers. 2019. 10: 253-262.

[3] Fangming Zeng, Huan Yang. Temperature changes reconstructed from branched GDGTs on the central Loess Plateau during the past 130-5 ka [J]. Quaternary International. 2019.503: 3-9.

[4] QiShun Fan, Tim K. Lowenstein, HaiCheng Wei, Qin Yuan, ZhanJie Qin, FaShou Shan, HaiZhou Ma. Sr isotope and major ion compositional evidence for formation of Qarhan Salt Lake, western China [J]. Chemical Geology, 2018, 497: 128~145.

[5] Haicheng Wei, Qin Yuan, Qinghai Xu, Zhanjie Qin, Lingqing Wang, Qishun Fan, Fashou Shan. Assessing the impact of human activities on surface pollen assemblages in Qinghai Lake Basin, China [J]. Journal of Quaternary Science. 2018. 1-11.

[6] Zhanjie Qin, Xiangru Zhang, Zhangkuang Peng, Qingkuan Li, Yunqi Ma, Qishun Fan, Yongsheng Du, Jianping Wang, Fashou Shan. Extraction and Separation of Boron in Anhydrite and Gypsum Minerals and its isotopic measurement by Thermal ionization Mass Spectrometry [J]. Chinese journal of analytical chemistry. 2018. 46(1): 48-54.

[7] Fashou Shan, Zhanjie Qin, Qishun Fan, Yongsheng Du, Chengbin Shan, Mingxiang Wang, Haicheng Wei, Jiansen Li, Qingkuan Li. The “Concave, Mouth and Convex” Metallogenic Model and Prospecting Method of Potassium Salt [J]. Journal of Salt Lake Research. 2018. 26(1): 1-6.

[8] Qin Yuan, Vivi Vajda, QingKuan Li, QiShun Fan, HaiCheng Wei, ZhanJie Qin, XiangRu Zhang, FaShou Shan. A late Eocene palynological record from the Nangqian Basin, Tibetan Plateau: Implication for stratigraphy and paleoclimate [J]. Paleoworld, 2017.26:369-379.

[9] QiShun Fan, YunQi Ma, HuaiDe Cheng, HaiChengWei, Qin Yuan, ZhanJie Qin, FaShou Shan. Boron occurrence in halite and boron isotope geochemistry of halite in the Qarhan Salt Lake, western China [J]. Sedimentary Geology. 2015. 322:34-42

[10] Junjie Shan, Mingxiang Wang, Jiansen Li, Fashou Shan, Qishun Fan, Haicheng Wei, Zhanjie Qin, Qin Yuan, Xiangru Zhang, Qingkuan Li. Hydrochemical characteristics of potassium-rich saline spring and its implication for sylvine deposits in the Kuqa Basin, Xinjiang [J]. Acta Geologica Sinica. 2019. 93(5): 1180-1188.

Patents:

[1] Fashou Shan, Qishun Fan, Haicheng Wei, Zhanjie Qin, Jiansen Li, Yongsheng Du, Qin Yuan, Xiangru Zhang, Chengbin Shan, Jiaxi Yi, Yuwen Li. The prospecting and exploring method of the potassium salt [P]. ZL 201710334503.6

[2] Yongsheng Du, Yuan Zhou, Xiang Li, Qingguo Sun, Jilong Han, Mingzhen Li. The method for separating magnesium-lithium from salt lake halogen [P]. ZL 201410554977.8

[3] Yongsheng Du, Qingguo Sun, Peihua Ma, Minxiong Chu, Yan Huo, Mingzhen Li, Shidong Wang, Jilong Han. The preparation method of anhydrous magnesium chloride [P]. ZL 201410178880.1

[4] Yongsheng Du, Jilong Han, Fashou Shan, Donglin Gao, Qingguo Sun, Binkai Li, Zhanjie Qin. The fluidized dehydration device [P]. ZL 201721166106.4.

Treatise:

[1] Xiyu Zheng, Bingxiao Li, Zhanghong Gao, Chang Xu, Minggang Zhang, Biqin Cai, Baozhen Zhang, Fashou Shan. “Xinjiang Salt Lake” [M]. Beijing: Science Press. 1995.

5. AWARDS / RECOGNITION

[1] Fashou Shan, 2018, The First Prize of Green Mine Science and Technology Award;

[2] Fashou Shan, 2017, Advanced Worker of the ISL, CAS;

[3] Fashou Shan, 2016, Advanced Worker of the ISL, CAS;

[4] Fashou Shan, 2013, Top Ten Employees of the ISL, CAS;

[5] Fashou Shan, 1997, Fang Shuquan Young Scientist Award of the CAS;

[6] Qishun Fan, 2018, The Leader of Qinghai Province Natural Science and Engineering Technology;

[7] Qishun Fan, 2018, The Specialist in the field of salt lake chemical industry in Haixi State;

[8] Qishun Fan, 2018, Advanced Worker of the ISL, CAS;

[9] Qishun Fan, 2014, Top Ten Employees of the ISL, CAS;

[10] Qishun Fan, 2013, Excellent Staff of the ISL, CAS;

[11] Qishun Fan, 2012, Wang Kuancheng Talent Award of the CAS;

[12] Qishun Fan, 2011, The Third Prize of the Outstanding Academic Paper Award of Natural Science of Qinghai Province;

[13] Qishun Fan, 2010, The Second Prize of the Outstanding Academic Paper Award of Natural Science of Qinghai Province;

[14] Haicheng Wei, 2015, The Second Prize of Academic Report of the First Youth Science and Technology Forum of the ISL, CAS；

[15] Fangming Zeng, 2015, The Second Prize of Academic Report of the First Youth Science and Technology Forum of the ISL, CAS；

[16] Jiansen Li, 2014, Top Ten Employees of the ISL, CAS;

[17] Jiansen Li, 2015, The Third Prize of Academic Report of the First Youth Science and Technology Forum of the ISL, CAS；

[18] Qin Yuan, 2013, Top Ten Employees of the ISL, CAS;

[19] Qin Yuan, 2015, The Third Prize of Academic Report of the First Youth Science and Technology Forum of the ISL, CAS；[21] Zhanjie Qin, 2015, Top Ten Employees of the ISL, CAS.

6. PERSONAL DATA

Name: Fashou Shan, Professor, Doctoral supervisor

Majors for Research: Geology and Geochemistry

Tel: 86-971-6330530; 18609712278

E-mail: shanfsh@isl.ac.cn

Fashou Shan; Male; Professor; Master Tutor.

He is mainly engaged in the study of spores and pollens in salt lakes in China, and research on the salt lake geology and potash deposits. He has presided over more than ten scientific projects, including National Science and Technology Project, the Western Light Project of the CAS, and Enterprise Projects. He has published more than twenty papers, including four SCI papers, four EI papers and three academic works. He has won the Fang Shuquan Young Scientist Award from the CAS. He has participated in the scientific research and study of salt lakes in Qinghai Lake, Xinjiang, and the Hoh Xil area of Qinghai. He has done a lot of work on the paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental research of salt lakes in China, and has achieved good results.

In recent years, he has been committed to promoting the demonstration and promotion of the technical achievements of green development of salt mines, fulfilling the comprehensive utilization of regional salt resources, improving the level of scientific and technological cooperation in the “Belt and Road” countries and the green sustainable development of regional economies. At the same time, based on the comparative study of global potash deposits, he proposed a “Concave-Fusiform-Convex” potash prospecting model, which enlightened the prospecting of blind potash deposits.

7. RESEARCH GROUP MEMBERS

Qishun Fan, Haicheng Wei, Yongsheng Du, Fangming Zeng, Qin Yuan, Mingxiang Wang, Jiansen LI, Zhanjie Qin