青海省泽库县瓦勒根金矿矿床地质特征及成因分析

瓦勒根金矿床地处西秦岭,是在西秦岭成矿带青海省境内发现的唯一一处大型金矿床。通过分析瓦勒根矿区地质背景、矿床(体)特征、岩(矿)石化学成分及含量,认为金矿体主要产于早、中三叠世隆务河组的由碎屑岩、碳酸盐岩构成的沉积岩和中酸性侵入岩容矿岩石中,矿石由含金矿物呈浸染状分布在容矿岩石中构成,就位于断裂空间,严格限制在断裂破碎带中。金矿床的形成是构造运动、岩浆活动和沉积作用的综合产物,金矿床的形成受成矿物质来源、成矿环境和成矿作用3个要素共同制约。区域上与甘肃境内合作、夏河金矿化带相连,其成矿背景与枣子沟金矿、寨上金矿、大桥金矿、阳山金矿及南部玛曲-南坪金成矿亚带的大水、忠曲金矿一致,矿床成因特征非常相似,同属微细粒浸染型金矿床。     

粤西河台金矿床富硫化物含金石英脉锆石U-Pb 测年及成矿意义

河台金矿是一个强烈受韧性剪切带控制的金矿床,金的成矿主要发生在热液蚀变成矿期的金石英脉阶段和金硫化物阶段,形成的矿石有蚀变糜棱岩型和富硫化物石英脉型.富硫化物含金石英脉中单颗粒锆石U-Pb同位素测年显示早加里东期是河台金矿床主成矿期,成矿年龄为492±16Ma;矿区燕山期伍村花岗岩的单颗粒锆石年龄为153.6±2.1Ma;结合已有的同位素资料,认为河台金矿床是华南加里东期构造-变质-岩浆作用及成矿作用的一个组成部分,是一个早加里东期造山作用同期的造山带型金矿床,并可能有燕山期的热液叠加成矿作用.     

新疆哈图-包古图金铜矿集区锆石年龄及成矿特点

晚古生代,新疆西准噶尔地区发生了强烈的构造-岩浆活动和广泛的金、铜成矿作用,形成了哈图-包古图大型金铜矿集区。锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄测量表明,含矿闪长岩体形成于312.3±2.2Ma～332.0±2.8Ma,矿集区岩浆活动及其成矿作用发生在石炭纪。哈图-包古图矿集区成矿作用有4个显著特点:(1)地幔流体活动强烈;(2)构造应力转化快速;(3)拉斑系列和钙碱性系列岩浆成矿;(4)多种矿化类型集中发育等。哈图-包古图矿集区发育石英脉型-蚀变岩型金矿床、斑岩型铜矿床和同期的石英脉型-蚀变岩型金矿床以及热液脉型铜金矿床的成矿系列。     

甘肃北山钨矿床时空分布、矿床类型及成矿动力学背景

甘肃北山造山带经历漫长而复杂的增生造山作用并于二叠纪发生碰撞造山,引发广泛的花岗质岩浆活动及相应的钨成矿作用。前人已对这些矿床的地质地球化学特征进行大量的研究,但在成矿动力学背景、成矿时代等方面仍存在着争议。基于此,本文在前人对甘肃北山钨矿床研究的基础上,通过详细的野外调研和室内综合研究,对该区钨矿床时空分布及地质、地球化学特征进行总结,并提出成矿动力学模型。甘肃北山钨矿床集中分布于星星峡—明水古微陆块周缘及双鹰山—花牛山岛弧,可以进一步厘定为两期成矿作用,即早期早志留世—中石炭世（439～362 Ma,322～314 Ma）岛弧碰撞拼贴引发古陆壳重熔,形成携带大量钨锡成矿元素的花岗质岩浆流体,最终上升至构造有利位置成矿,是北山钨锡多金属成矿的主成矿期,矿化类型多为石英脉型黑钨矿;晚期为早二叠世—中三叠世（286～226 Ma）后碰撞伸展诱发中酸性岩浆的大规模上侵及相关的钨钼矿化,矿化类型为矽卡岩型白钨矿及斑岩型钼（钨）矿,其中钨作为钼的伴生矿种出现。     

甘肃寨上超大型钨、金(锑)多金属矿床成因研究

甘肃寨上超大型钨、金(锑)多金属矿床位于西秦岭岷-礼成矿带西段,属于复合矿床,具有显著的多期次、多物源和多成因特点。年代学结果表明,矿区至少存在早期钨矿化(220 Ma)和晚期金矿化(140~120 Ma)两期成矿作用。钨矿为破碎蚀变岩型,矿质主要来源于岩浆热液,在时空和成因上与同时代富钨的闪长玢岩脉(220~210 Ma)关系密切,属于岩浆成矿系统的铜-钨-钼中高温成矿系列;金成矿作用的物质来源主要是泥盆纪地层,矿化与闪长玢岩脉没有时空关联,成矿时代为燕山期(140~120 Ma),与西秦岭地区燕山期构造岩浆活动具有一致性。金矿类型介于卡林型金矿床和造山型金矿床的过渡类型,属锑-汞-铅-锌中低温成矿系列。笔者认为,寨上超大型多金属矿床成因是中生代陆内造山体制下与构造-岩浆活动有关的成矿系统之2个成矿系列叠加的结果,尚有巨大的找矿潜力。     

小秦岭北缘马家洼石英脉型金钼矿床的辉钼矿Re-Os年龄及其意义

马家洼金钼矿床位于小秦岭北缘,矿体发育在由近东西向脆韧性断裂构造带控制的石英脉中。对该矿床辉钼矿样品进行的Re-Os同位素年代学研究表明:模式年龄范围是232.5～268.4 Ma,等时线年龄为(232±11)Ma,即钼成矿作用时代为早、中三叠世。辉钼矿样品的Re含量范围是(0.474～0.791)×10~(-6),初始~(187)Os/~(188)Os比值为2.4±6.4,Re-Os同位素组成特征指示了成矿物质主要来源于地壳。马家洼石英脉型金钼矿床是区域伸展体制下构造-流体成矿事件的产物。在华北板块南缘太古宙基底岩系中的脆韧性断裂构造带中寻找印支期和燕山期石英脉型金钼矿床和钼矿床是一个新的找矿方向。     

秦岭造山带柞水-山阳矿集区夏家店金矿床成矿时代及其地质意义

柞水-山阳矿集区位于秦岭造山带中部,区内矿产资源丰富,金矿找矿近年来不断取得突破,发现了多个大-中型金矿床,然而区内金矿成矿时代、成矿地质背景一直存在争议,直接制约矿集区金矿床找矿工作。夏家店金矿床是该区大型金矿床,矿体受断裂构造控制,金矿石类型有角砾岩型、碎裂岩型、糜棱岩型3种。围岩蚀变强烈,主要由硅化、方解石化、绢云母化、高岭土化、萤石化、重晶石化等,与金成矿关系最密切的是硅化、方解石化、萤石化。热液成矿期可划分为石英阶段、石英-方解石-萤石-硫化物阶段、方解石阶段。文章选取夏家店金矿床主成矿期的方解石、萤石等矿物进行了Sm-Nd同位素测试工作,获得等时线年龄为(139.64±0.98)Ma,表明成矿时代为晚侏罗世。结合区域构造-岩浆成矿作用特征,认为夏家店金矿床成矿作用与晚侏罗世—早白垩世构造-岩浆事件有关。据此将柞水山阳矿集区金矿床成矿年龄厘定在140Ma左右,为秦岭造山带伸展的地球动力背景下构造-岩浆热液演化的产物。通过与区内晚侏罗世—早白垩世构造-岩浆成矿事件对比,文章首次提出柞水-山阳矿集区存在140 Ma左右的金矿床成矿事件,为下一步在柞水-山阳矿集区开展金矿床勘查工作提供了重要依据。     

青海加吾金矿床花岗斑岩脉锆石U-Pb年龄、Hf同位素特征及其地质意义

加吾金矿床大地构造上位于中央造山系"共和缺口"西缘,位于中央造山带多个块体交接转换的重要部位,其形成与区内印支期中酸性岩浆活动密切相关。对区内与金成矿关系密切的花岗斑岩脉中的锆石进行LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年以及Lu-Hf同位素测试。测试结果显示,锆石206Pb/238 U加权平均年龄为233.4Ma±4.3Ma(MSWD=2.7),形成时代为中三叠世,与青海西秦岭地区其他印支中晚期中酸性岩浆岩形成时代相近;锆石εHf(t)值介于-12.35~-1.12之间,二阶段Hf模式年龄(tDM2)介于1.3Ga~2.0Ga之间,加吾金矿区内花岗斑岩的源区主要为早-中元古代地壳。相对较高的εHf(t)值的出现说明形成花岗斑岩脉的岩浆有一定幔源组分的加入。与加吾金矿成矿关系密切的花岗斑岩脉形成于陆-陆碰撞过程中挤压向伸展转换的地球动力学环境。由于俯冲陆壳板片断离,幔源岩浆上涌/底侵至下地壳底部,诱发增厚古老下地壳部分熔融产生壳-幔混合岩浆,在印支中期侵入到中下三叠统隆务河组地层中,为金矿的形成提供了热源和深部成矿流体。加吾金矿床成矿时代与花岗斑岩脉的成岩时间一致,即233.4 Ma±4.3 Ma。     

老挝琅勃拉邦—泰国黎府成矿带古特提斯构造-岩浆演化与金铜成矿作用

老挝琅勃拉邦—泰国黎府成矿带位于印支板块西北缘,是中南半岛重要的金铜成矿带之一。该带经历了晚古生代—中生代古特提斯构造-岩浆演化作用,成矿活动复杂,形成了斑岩-矽卡岩型金铜矿床、浅成低温热液型金银矿床以及热液脉型金矿床。然而,热液脉型金矿的成因类型仍存在争议,3类金铜矿床与区域构造演化的关系仍缺乏总结。本文通过对前人典型矿床研究资料的整理,并结合成矿流体来源、演化新证据,将带内热液脉型金矿床的成因类型归为造山型金矿。综合区域构造-岩浆-成矿作用研究资料,总结了成矿带内3类金铜矿床的时空分布规律和成矿特征,建立了与古特提斯洋俯冲-闭合及陆陆碰撞过程相关的区域金铜成矿模式,提出了晚二叠世—早三叠世俯冲期浅成低温热液型金银矿床、早中三叠世闭合期斑岩-矽卡岩型铜金矿床、晚三叠世陆陆碰撞期造山型金矿床的成矿规律。     

胶东和小秦岭:两类不同构造环境中的造山型金矿省

胶东和小秦岭是我国排名前两位的金矿产地,根据对这两个地区的实地野外考察、室内研究及对已有大量研究成果的总结,我们认为胶东与小秦岭地区的金矿床均可归入造山型金矿的范畴,它们分别形成于增生型造山体制和碰撞型造山体制.胶东金矿床形成于早白垩世(130～120Ma左右)与洋壳俯冲(增生)造山相关的活动大陆边缘环境,矿床主要产于中生代花岗岩岩体中,严格受断裂带(NNE向或NE向为主)控制,成矿流体具有低盐度高CO_2含量的特征,He-Ar同位素研究显示成矿过程有幔源物质的加入.综合金矿床及中生代岩浆岩(特别是与成矿近同时的早白垩世郭家岭花岗岩及基性岩脉)的地质地球化学特征与成岩成矿动力学,我们提出在俯冲的太平洋板块后退的背景下,胶东地区增厚地壳中的榴辉岩相下地壳及下伏岩石圈地幔发生两阶段拆沉,强烈的壳幔相互作用最终导致了早白垩世普遍的岩浆活动及金的爆发成矿的模式.小秦岭地区金矿床主要以大型含金石英脉的形式产出于太华群变质基底的脆性-韧性剪切带(EW向为主)中,而与区域内燕山期大型花岗岩岩基没有直接联系,矿床地质特征(如低盐度高CO_2,以变质流体为主的成矿热液)与造山型金矿吻合,He-Ar同位素特征表明金矿床形成时有幔源物质的加入.小秦岭地区脉状Au-Mo矿床印支期成矿年龄(215～256Ma,辉钼矿Re-Os)表明印支期是小秦岭地区金成矿的主要时期,小秦岭金矿属于陆陆(华北与扬子)碰撞造山过程中形成的造山型金矿.     

新疆西南天山金矿床主要类型、特征及成矿作用

文章在总结前人研究成果的基础上,综合论述了西南天山金矿的成矿地质背景、金矿床的时空分布和基本特征。根据矿床地质特征和控矿因素,将西南天山的金矿划分为与剪切带有关的金矿床、与侵入岩有关的金矿床(包括斑岩型)、石英-重晶石脉型金矿床、与火山岩有关的金矿床和矽卡岩型金矿床5类,其中与剪切带有关的金矿床是最重要的矿床类型。探讨了西南天山金矿的成矿时代、成矿物质和成矿流体来源,以及成矿地球动力学机制。提出与剪切带有关的金矿床成矿物质主要来源于岩浆和海相碳酸盐岩,成矿流体主要来源于岩浆水或主要来自大气降水,混合少量岩浆水。石英-重晶石脉型金矿床成矿物质来自容矿地层,成矿流体主要来源于沉积建造水。与剪切带有关的金矿、与侵入岩有关的金矿、石英重晶石脉型金矿和矽卡岩型金矿成矿时代主要集中在二叠纪—三叠纪,形成于后碰撞构造演化阶段。斑岩型和浅成低温热液型金矿床形成于岛弧挤压环境。     

From intrusion-related to orogenic mineralization: The Wasamac deposit,Abitibi Greenstone Belt,Canada

The Wasamac deposit is an example of Archean greenstone-hosted gold deposit located in the Abitibi Belt, 15 km southwest of Rouyn-Noranda. The deposit is hosted by a second-order ductile shear zone of the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone (CLLFZ), known as the Francoeur-Wasa Shear Zone (FWSZ). It regionally sits at the boundary between the orogenic gold district of Noranda and the Kirkland Lake gold district dominated by intrusion-related gold systems. This specific location in-between two different gold mineralization environments sets the Wasamac deposit apart as a prime candidate for investigating hydrothermal processes along the CLLFZ. Within the Wasamac deposit, gold distribution is constrained to the altered mylonitized portion of the FWSZ; lode systems are absent. Hydrothermal alteration and associated disseminated mineralization occurs as a replacement of the Blake River Group metavolcanic units. The hydrothermal signature displays two distinct alkaline alteration assemblages: potassic and albitic, each associated with specific gold characteristics. (1) Potassic alteration is characterized by the crystallization of microcline, carbonates and quartz. Within this assemblage gold is associated with porous pyrite enriched in Te-Ag-Au-Mo-Pb-Bi-W, deposited under oxidizing conditions. Such characteristics are widely described in the Kirkland Lake area, and are found in examples of syenite-related mineralization, such as the Beattie and Malartic gold deposits. (2) The albitic alteration assemblage, composed of albite, sericite and carbonates, reflects more reduced hydrothermal conditions with mineralization characterized by free native gold. This hydrothermal event is coeval with the brecciation of early gold-rich pyrite reflecting a structural overprint that controlled late-stage gold characteristics. These alteration and structural features are common in orogenic gold deposits both worldwide and regionally, particularly at the neighbouring Kerr-Addison and Francoeur deposits, and in lode-gold systems such as in the Sigma-Lamaque deposit.The gold mineralization at Wasamac has similar characteristics to both intrusion-related gold systems and structurally controlled orogenic gold deposits. Hydrothermal and structural crosscutting relationships at Wasamac indicate that a structurally controlled hydrothermal event overprinted earlier potassic magmatic-hydrothermal alteration. This observation supports a multistage process of gold concentration during which new gold characteristics, metal anomalies, fluid conditions and alteration assemblages replaced earlier stages of gold enrichment, in places completely obliterating previous signatures. We propose that the Wasamac deposit was originally related to an alkaline intrusion buried at depth beneath the Francoeur-Wasa Shear Zone.     

Source and possible tectonic driver for Jurassic–Cretaceous gold deposits in the West Qinling Orogen,China

The West Qinling Orogen (WQO) in Central China Orogenic Belt contains numerous metasedimentary rock-hosted gold deposits (>2000 t Au), which mainly formed during two pulses: one previously recognized in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic (T3–J1) and one only recently identified in the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous (J3–K1). Few studies have focused on the origin and geotectonic setting of the J3–K1 gold deposits.Textural relationships, LA-ICP-MS trace element and sulfur isotope compositions of pyrites in hydrothermally altered T3 dykes within the J3–K1 Daqiao deposit were used to constrain relative timing relationships between mineralization and pyrite growth in the dykes, and to characterize the source of ore fluid. These results are integrated with an overview of the regional geodynamic setting, to advance understanding of the tectonic driver for J3–K1 hydrothermal gold systems. Pyrite in breccia- and dyke-hosted gold ores at Daqiao have similar chemical and isotopic compositions and are considered to be representative of J3–K1 gold deposits in WQO. Co/Ni and sulfur isotope ratios suggest that ore fluids were derived from underlying Paleozoic Ni- and Se-rich carbonaceous sedimentary rocks. The geochemical data do not support the involvement of magmatic fluids. However, in the EQO (East Qinling Orogen), J3–K1 deposits are genetically related to magmatism. Gold mineralization in WQO is contemporaneous with magmatic deposits in the EQO and both are mainly controlled by NE- and EW-trending structures produced by changes in plate motion of the Paleo-Pacific plate as it was subducted beneath the Eurasian continent. We therefore infer that the J3–K1 structural regime facilitated the ascent of magma in the EQO and metamorphic fluids in the WQO with consequent differences in the character of contemporaneous ore deposits. If this is correct, then the far-field effects of subduction along the eastern margin of NE Asia extended 1000's of km into the continental interior.     

熊耳山—外方山矿集区中生代Au-Mo成矿系统

熊耳山—外方山矿集区位于秦岭造山带之华北板块南缘,经历了复杂的碰撞造山过程,成矿时间跨度大,成矿强度高,成矿作用多样。复合造山过程和相应的成矿作用已被深入研究,但成矿系统的划分和叠加成矿作用尚需研究。本文将熊耳山—外方山矿集区发育的Au-Mo矿床划分为造山型Mo矿床、斑岩型Mo矿床、岩浆热液脉型Mo矿床、造山型Au矿床和岩浆热液型Au矿床5个类型,对应5种成矿系统：(1)造山型Mo矿床形成于250~227 Ma的同碰撞环境和227~194 Ma的后碰撞环境,为变质热液萃取壳源Mo成矿;(2)斑岩型Mo矿床形成于163~135 Ma的洋陆俯冲环境和135~116 Ma的岩石圈减薄环境,为岩浆热液携带幔源或壳源Mo成矿;(3)岩浆热液脉型Mo矿床形成于227~194 Ma的后碰撞环境,为岩浆热液携带幔源Mo成矿;(4)造山型Au矿床在三叠纪发生了预富集作用,主要形成于163~135 Ma的洋陆俯冲环境和135~103 Ma的岩石圈减薄环境,为变质热液萃取壳源Au成矿;(5)岩浆热液型Au矿床仅形成于135~103 Ma的岩石圈减薄环境,为岩浆热液携带壳源Au成矿。矿集区主要存在两种叠加成矿作用,即不同构造背景下多种成矿系统的叠加和同一构造背景下不同成矿系统的叠加。     

青海同仁县江里沟斑岩-矽卡岩型铜钨钼矿床辉钼矿Re-Os同位素年龄及其成矿意义

西秦岭同德—泽库多金属成矿带是青海省重要的矿产集中区之一,位于西秦岭北缘斑岩-矽卡岩型铜、钼、金成矿带的最西端。江里沟矿床是该区的重要组成部分,为一个典型的斑岩型-矽卡岩型铜钨钼矿床。本文利用Re-Os同位素定年方法对江里沟铜钨钼矿床进行了成矿时代测定,获得了5件样品辉钼矿的Re-Os同位素模式年龄范围为219.5±3.1~222.2±4.0Ma,等时线年龄为224.3±7.3Ma。矿区二长花岗岩SHRIMP锆石UPb年龄测定结果表明岩石存在两个期次结晶年龄232±4Ma和214±4Ma,矿区花岗岩可能是两个期次岩浆活动的产物。根据斑岩型矿床矿化晚于成矿母岩的特征,认为江里沟矿床成矿时代属晚三叠世,与矿区232Ma期次的岩浆侵入活动关系密切,成矿晚于成岩约8Ma,成矿与成岩时代基本一致,是西秦岭印支期构造-岩浆活动的产物。本次研究可以大致确定岗察复式岩体周边矿床成矿时限为243.8~214Ma,与区域西秦岭—东昆仑三叠纪构造岩浆作用和成矿时代一致,构成西秦岭北缘斑岩-矽卡岩型铜-钼-金成矿系统的一部分。     

Structural Control to the Genesis of Sediment-hosted Disseminated Jinlongshan Gold Orebelt, China

Abstract. Jinlongshan gold orebelt is a newly discovered sediment-hosted gold orebelt in Southeastern Qinling Mountains hosted by Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous sedimentary rocks. The location of the belt is regionally controlled by E-W striking Zhenan-Banyan and Ningshan Faults, which were formed during the Indo-Sinian Orogeny. Circular patterns on TM images indicate that intrusive rocks occur at shallow depths in the Jinlongshan orebelt. Two basic types of disseminated and vein-type mineralization have been recognized. Calcareous siltstone is the most favorable host for disseminated mineralization. Vein-type mineralization is mostly hosted by limestone. Locally vein-type mineralization has envelop of disseminated mineralization.
Gold deposits are distributed north and south of the Zhenan-Banyan Fault zone, and the zone is considered to be the feeder zone and pathway for mineralizing fluids. During the Indo-Sinian Orogeny, magmatic and orogenic fluids may have extracted gold and other elements from underlying Proterozoic rocks and Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. The ore solutions evolved continuously with sedimentary rocks until gold was precipitated in appropriate structural sites. Exploration needs to be expanded along the Jinlongshan gold orebelt, focusing on inferred concealed intrusions and calcareous host rocks close to the Zhenan-Banyan Fault.     

美国福特-诺克斯金矿床产出环境、地质特征和形成作用

美国阿拉斯加州中东部福特—诺克斯(Fort Knox)金矿床是北极圈周缘规模最大的超大型金矿床之一。对该矿床的形成背景、矿体特征、形成模式的研究表明,该矿床主要产于前寒武纪—早古生代绿片岩与白垩纪—古近纪花岗质侵入岩接触带上,受构造-岩浆活动控制明显,地表出露面积为1100×600m2,并向深部逐渐变小。与其他与侵入岩有关的金矿床不同的是,该矿床热液蚀变作用强烈,与金矿化具密切空间分布关系的热液蚀变主要为钾长石化、钠长石化、绢云母化和青磐岩化。同位素年代学证据表明,其成矿时代为晚白垩世—古近纪(92.5±0.2Ma),是多期次岩浆作用的产物。依据同位素特征、成矿流体、围岩蚀变等特征可以判定,成矿物质主要来源于花岗质熔浆,成矿作用与氧化型中酸性侵入体侵入作用及其相关流体活动有关,属于典型的与侵入岩有关的金矿床。     

Intrusion-related gold deposits associated with tungsten-tin provinces

An under-recognized and economically important class of intrusion-related gold deposits, which occur within magmatic provinces best known for tungsten and/or tin mineralization, is described with reference to seven major deposits (Fort Knox, Mokrsko, Salave, Vasilkovskoe, Timbarra, Kidston and Kori Kollo). These gold deposits contain a metal suite that includes some combination of bismuth, tungsten, arsenic, tin, molybdenum, tellurium and antimony, and contrasts with that found in the more widely-developed gold-rich porphyry copper and related deposits. The gold deposits associated with tungsten and/or tin provinces are located in cratonic margins, in a landward or back-arc position relative to continental margin arcs (where recognized), or within continental collisional settings. The deposits are related genetically to felsic domes, stocks or plutons of intermediate oxidation state, both magnetite- and ilmenite-series magmas are represented. The intrusion-hosted gold deposits are most commonly of sheeted vein/veinlet type, although greisen-like, disseminated and breccia deposits are also described. Gold may also be concentrated more distally (1–3 km) with respect to the intrusions, where deposits may be of skarn, disseminated replacement or vein types. K-feldspar, albite and/or sericitic alteration assemblages, commonly including carbonate, accompany the gold mineralization. In sheeted vein deposits, alteration is normally restricted to narrow envelopes around veins, whereas more pervasive alteration occurs in greisen-like, disseminated and shallow (<3 km) deposits. The gold mineralization is commonly present with low total sulphide contents (<3%), mainly pyrite and lesser arsenopyrite. In several deposits, bismuth minerals are closely associated with gold, and bismuth-gold and tellurium-gold correlations exist. Most deposits contain tungsten, tin, molybdenum and antimony, although generally these do not correlate with gold; tungsten and molybdenum concentrations may increase with depth or may occur in separate zones. Base metals generally are present in minor amounts (e.g. <100 ppm Cu). The distinct spatial association with felsic intrusions, combined with the consistent metal signature, suggests a magmatic-hydrothermal origin. Fluid inclusions studies indicate the presence of high-salinity fluids in some deposits, and low-salinity and carbonic fluids in most deposits, similar to the composition of fluids in intrusion-related tungsten deposits. Variations in mineralization style largely reflect depth of formation and location relative to the intrusive centre. Several deposits in this class contain >100 tonnes (3 million oz) of gold, thereby highlighting the gold potential of intrusion-related deposits beyond the more traditionally explored gold and copper provinces in arc terranes. Received: 13 March 1998 / Accepted 14 January 1999     

The Dewulu reduced Au-Cu skarn deposit in the Xiahe-Hezuo district,West Qinling orogen,China: Implications for an intrusion-related gold system

The Triassic West Qinling orogen, which formed by the continental collision between the South China block and North China craton following the subduction and closure of the paleo-Tethyan ocean, hosts numerous gold deposits that have commonly considered as products of metamorphic dehydration during the oceanic subduction and subsequent continental collision. However, whether or not there are gold deposits that are genetically related to regional magmatism remains poorly understood. Here we present mineralogical, compositional, and geochronological data of the Dewulu Au-Cu skarn deposit in the Xiahe-Hezuo district to understand the ore genesis and its genetic link to many coeval sediment-hosted disseminated and magmatic-hosted vein gold deposits in the same district, which collectively reveal a possible intrusion-related gold system. The Dewulu Au-Cu skarn deposit in the eastern zone of the Xiahe-Hezuo district is associated with the early Triassic I-type, ilmenite-series Dewulu quartz diorite pluton that intrudes Permian marine clastic and carbonate rocks. Ore-related hydrothermal biotite separates yield a well-defined ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar plateau age of 239.9 ± 1.4 Ma (2σ), which agrees with a previous zircon U-Pb age (238.6 ± 1.5 Ma at 2σ) of the Dewulu quartz diorite and thus demonstrates a temporal and likely genetic link between the two. Both prograde and retrograde skarn assemblages are well developed in the Dewulu Au-Cu deposit. Prograde garnet and pyroxene are compositionally dominated by grossularite and hedenbergite, respectively, indicating a reduced skarn system. Au-Cu mineralization is largely represented by the arsenopyrite-loellingite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite-bornite assemblage and is associated with retrograde skarns. Gold is mostly hosted in arsenopyrite, loellingite and chalcopyrite, and has close textural relations with native bismuth or bismuthides. Mineral stability relationships and fluid inclusion microthermometric data confirm that the prograde skarns formed at a low oxygen fugacity, high temperature (> 630 °C), and a depth range of 2.9 to 6.5 km. Arsenopyrite and chlorite geothermometers indicate that the retrograde skarns and late quartz-sulfide-calcite assemblages formed at 550 to 345 °C and < 350 °C, respectively. The oxygen and sulfur fugacities of ore fluids were below the pyrite-pyrrhotite buffer during the retrograde stage, confirming a reduced fluid system. The reduced nature of ore-forming fluids is inherited from the reduced Dewulu quartz diorite, which was likely caused by significant assimilation of Permian to early Paleozoic carbonaceous and pyritic sedimentary sequences into the parental magmas that originally had a high oxidation state. The Xiahe-Hezuo district also hosts several major sediment-hosted disseminated and magmatic-hosted vein gold deposits, which are broadly coeval with the Dewulu Au-Cu skarn deposit. All those disseminated and vein gold deposits have also been recognized to be genetically related to reduced granitoid intrusions in the Xiahe-Hezuo district. These deposits combined constitute the first intrusion-related gold system in the West Qinling orogen.     

澳大利亚造山型金矿和侵入岩有关金矿系统流体包裹体资料和矿化过程的比较

We have examined the fluid inclusion data and fluid chemistry of Australian orogenic and intrusion-related gold deposits to determine if similar mineralization processes apply to both styles of deposits.The fluid inclusion data from the Yilgarn craton,the western subprovince of the Lachlan orogen,the Tanami,Tennant Creek and Pine Creek regions,and the Telfer gold mine show that mineralization involved fluids with broadly similar major chemical components(i.e.H_2O NaCl CO_2±CH_4±N_2).These deposits formed over a wide range of temperature-pressure conditions(<200 to>500℃,<100～400MPa).Low salinity, CO_2-bearing inclusions and low salinity aqueous inclusions occur in both systems but the main difference between these two types of deposits is that most intrusion-related gold deposits also contain at least one population of high-salinity aqueous brine.Oxygen and hydrogen isotope data for both styles of deposit usually cannot distinguish between a magmatic or metamorphic source for the ore-bearing fluids.However,sulfur and lead isotope data for the intrusion-related gold deposits generally indicate either a magmatic source or mixing between magmatic and sedimentary sources of fluid.The metamorphic geothermal gradients associated with intrusion-related gold deposits are characterized by low pressure,high temperature metamorphism and high crustal geothermal gradients of>30/km.Where amphibole breakdown occurs in a granite source region,the spatially related deposits are more commonly associated with Cu-Au deposits rather than Au-only deposits that are associated with lower temperature granites.The dominant processes thought to cause gold precipitation in both types of deposits are fluid-rock interaction(e.g.desulfidation)or phase separation.Consideration of the physical and chemical properties of the H_2O-NaCl-CO_2 system on the nature of gold precipitation mechanisms at different crustal levels infers different roles of chemical(fluid-rock interaction)versus rheological(phase separation and/or fluid mixing)host-rock controls on gold deposition.This also implies that at the site of deposition,similar precipitation mechanisms operate at similar crustal levels for both orogenic and intrusion-related gold deposits.