Based on synthetic analysis of the geological data concerning the Lanping Basin, its evolution procedure was divided into four phases, i.e., the basin acted as a rifting, depressional, foreland or strike-slipping one at its different development stages, respectively. This paper studied the basin evolution of Lanping and its corresponding metal deposits. The results show that metallogeny to a certain degree occurred at almost all evolution stages, and large-scale mineralization took place in the Himalaya per...