Abstract: Exemplified by the Sanjiang Tethyan metallogenic domain, the present paper has briefly described characteristics of the mantle plume tectonics, and advanced the new viewpoint of "metallogenic system controlled by mantle tectonics ".
The Tethyan metallogenicdomain consists mainly of north Sanjiang metallogenic belt located in southeast Qinghai-Tibet plateau, with middle Cenozoic being the major metallogenic period.