Abstract: Based on drilling cores and analysis data, the industrial qualities, types of organic materials and distribution characteristics of the oil shale in the Tanshanling area are discussed. The metallogenic model of the oil shale has been set up based on analyzing controlling factors of the oil shale. Research indicates that the high quality oil shale of the fourth mumber developed in a transgression period and belong to sapropelichumic type of oil shale of lacustrinebog facies. The oil shale of the third mumber developed in highstand system tract, and its genetic type is of humosapropelic of shallow lacustrine facies. The development of the oil shale in the Tanshanling area was apparently controlled by the tectonic evolution, sedimentary environment and paleotopograph of the area then.

Key words: oil shale, control factors of mineralization, oilgenerating ratio, Minhe basin, Tanshanling area