中文摘要：

铟是一种稀有金属，它在高科技产业中的应用价值越来越受到人们的普遍关注。由于供求矛盾突出，其消费价格水平不断上涨。目前，世界矿业界在铟业投入的技术和资金支持不断增加，以寻求满足日益增长的经济发展的需求。但相对来说，与铟有关的地质工作程度较低，新探明的储量远远跟不上其消费的增长水平，因此，有必要加大地质投入，探求新的资源量，保障世界经济可持续发展的要求。文章在总结前人研究成果的基础上，综述了世界上铟矿床的分布及其地质构造背景，以及铟矿物学、矿床成因和成矿机制等方面的最新研究成果。文章指出，为了寻找潜在的铟资源，必须加强铟的基础地质研究工作，在对铟的成因矿物学、成矿机制及其成矿环境进行深入系统研究的基础上，建立铟矿床的成矿模型和找矿勘杏模型。

英文摘要：

Indium is a relatively rare metal with increasing economic importance in a variety of high-tech application fields such as semiconductors, solar cells and display devices like LCDS. The mining companies have provided much technical and financial support for indium exploration in the past several years. In spite of this, there has been up till now only very insufficient geological information on the indium deposit in such aspects as its tectonic setting, mode of occurrence, metallogenic process and exploration model. This paper has made a review of mineralogy, geology, types, distribution and tectonic settings of indium deposits studied before, and also put forward some opinions on further researches, such as the exploratiori implications.