四川会理南部前寒武纪富铁矿中假象赤铁矿的成因

本文通过矿相显微镜的观察,发现区内许多前寒武纪富铁矿,并非真正的(原生)赤铁矿石,而是假象赤铁矿石。在显微镜中可以清楚看到,赤铁矿中有不少磁铁矿的残晶。赤铁矿均显磁铁矿外形,且常具格状(或隐格状)结构。显然,它是交代磁铁矿形成的。研究表明,本区假象赤铁矿有两种成因,其主体是属于表生氧化成因。     

粤东一些铁矿床中磁铁矿的标型特征及其成因意义

磁铁矿是许多类型铁矿床中的一种主要工业矿物。因为形成的物理化学条件各异,它们的物理性质和化学性质,以及它们的矿物共生组合必然会有所差别。本文以粤东一些主要铁矿床中磁铁矿研究为例,论述它们的标型特征和其成因意义。 一、磁铁矿的产状 粤东铁矿成因类型比较齐全,主要有霞岚晚期岩浆分异矿床,大顶、尖山等接触交     

磁铁矿-磷灰石型铁矿的成因研究取得新进展

正磁铁矿-磷灰石型铁矿是全球非常重要的铁矿床类型之一,其主要特征为:(1)含大量的块状磁铁矿、不定量的磷灰石,贫石英;(2)具有高U和稀土含量;(3)与钙碱性蚀变岩密切相关。长期以来,关于这类矿床是岩浆成因还是热液成因,一直存在较大的争议。传统观点认为,这类矿床的磁铁矿保存了原始的类玄武岩状结构,是磁铁矿从富铁熔体中结晶所导致的;然而,也有一些研究者根据铁矿体内广泛分     

河北武安玉石洼铁矿中磁铁矿特征及其对铁矿床成因指示意义

夕卡岩铁矿床的成因一直以来备受争议,主要有接触交代和矿浆成因等模型。河北武安玉石洼铁矿是邯邢地区主要的夕卡岩铁矿之一,对矿区尖山剖面中的三类磁铁矿成分进行详细研究有助于解决此问题。产于剖面下部玉石洼铁矿主矿体中的磁铁矿以高Ti为特征,而在上部结晶灰岩中矿脉状中磁铁矿以高Si(w(SiO2)>1%)为特点,赋存于中部二长岩矿脉中的磁铁矿具有过渡的成分特征。通过对此三类磁铁矿中主量元素、微量元素研究发现,从下部玉石洼主矿体向上部结晶灰岩中的磁铁矿脉,磁铁矿具有Ti含量逐渐减少而Si、Mg含量逐渐增加的特征。高硅磁铁矿呈自形晶,与方解石平衡共生,其形成与流体有关,很可能是流体晶矿物。磁铁矿FeV/Ti判别图解显示下部玉石洼主矿体中部分磁铁矿具有岩浆成因,二长岩和结晶灰岩中的脉状矿石中磁铁矿具有热液成因,磁铁矿由下部到上部具有岩浆成因过渡为热液成因的连续过程。根据玉石洼矿区磁铁矿的这些特征,我们认为铁矿浆中含有大量流体,应该为“含铁熔体流体”,由于流体超压使“含铁熔体流体流”在岩浆通道中快速上升,至地壳浅部空间就位,在空间上由下部形成高温高Ti磁铁矿过渡为上部形成具有流体晶特征的高Si磁铁矿的岩浆通道成矿系统模型。     

磁铁矿元素地球化学大数据构建及其在矿床成因分类中的应用

磁铁矿广泛分布在岩浆、热液及沉积等各类矿床中,其地球化学元素组成往往受温度、氧逸度等物理化学条件的影响,能反映矿床形成环境并指示矿床成因类型,是一种重要的勘查指示矿物。自20世纪60年代以来,磁铁矿的主微量元素数据被用来构建不同的判别图,试图来区分矿床的成因类型。然而,由于矿床成因类型的多样性以及同一类型矿床的磁铁矿的主微量元素地球化学组成的复杂性,以往基于少数磁铁矿的主微量元素地球化学成分构建的矿床成因类型判别图存在一定的局限性。基于此,本文收集了前人发表在国内外期刊上的主要矿床类型的磁铁矿的元素地球化学数据(7 388条),初步构建了基于电子探针(EPMA)和激光剥蚀-电感耦合等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS)磁铁矿元素地球化学大数据集,建立了基于随机森林算法的矿床成因分类模型,并对磁铁矿主微量元素在矿床成因分类中的重要性做出排序。研究结果表明,基于磁铁矿大数据和机器学习算法构建的判别模型,能有效区分主要矿床类型,整体分类准确度高达95%。由于LA-ICP-MS磁铁矿数据集的测试元素多,分析精度高,使得基于LA-ICP-MS磁铁矿数据集的矿床成因分类模型精度高于基于EPMA数据集,表明磁铁矿中元素种类多少和数据测试精度影响矿床成因分类精度。同时,研究发现V元素在矿床成因分类过程中起到了较为重要的作用。此外,基于大数据和机器学习建立的判别模型对新的磁铁矿数据进行测试,可给出该数据属于每种矿床类型的概率,能有效判别矿床成因类型。     

闽西南马坑铁矿稀土元素地球化学及其对矿床成因的指示

马坑铁矿是国内著名的大型磁铁矿床之一,为闽西南地区最重要的铁多金属矿床,其矿体主要呈层状、似层状、透镜状赋存于晚古生代-中三叠世的碎屑岩-碳酸盐岩沉积建造中.本次研究对马坑铁矿的辉绿岩、大理岩、林地组砂岩和磁铁矿矿石进行了全岩稀土元素测试,并利用激光剥蚀-电感耦合等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS)原位微区分析法对各类磁铁矿矿石中的磁铁矿单矿物进行稀土元素测试,以探讨马坑铁矿的成因类型和成矿作用机制.结果显示,磁铁矿矿石的稀土元素地球化学特征具有一定的差异,但Y/Ho值大多变化于24～37之间,指示为岩浆热液成因;各类蚀变围岩的稀土元素地球化学特征显示其与磁铁矿矿石具有成因联系;磁铁矿单矿物具有十分相似的稀土元素地球化学特征,表明其成因一致;岩石、矿石以及磁铁矿单矿物的稀土元素地球化学特征表明,马坑铁矿的成矿作用有较多的壳源物质参与,成矿流体与矿区内具有明显分异特征的大洋和莒舟花岗岩体密切相关.综合矿床地质特征、前人研究成果以及本次测试结果,认为马坑铁矿属层间破碎带控制的钙矽卡岩型矿床.     

其林山内生假象赤铁矿的成因探讨

在宁芜断陷盆地北段江苏境内,发现有内生成因的假象赤铁矿矿床.最先发现于凤凰山,不久在梅山、其林山等地又发现有同样的矿床.本文仅对有代表性的其林山(以东庄矿体为主)假象赤铁矿的成因,作一简单介绍,以供进一步研究. 假象赤铁矿是赤铁矿交代磁铁矿,按磁铁矿晶形形成假象的现象.大多数人认为,假象赤铁矿发生在热带干旱气候条件下,磁铁矿矿床的氧化带中.磁铁矿被热液普遍氧化为假象赤铁矿并大量产出的现象,在我国比较少见.最近,徐国风对河南某斑岩型多金属硫铁矿作了片断介绍,如果那种假象赤铁矿同样是大量发育,那么假象赤铁矿的内生成因就有可能具有普遍意义(地质与勘探,1982年,10期).     

河南某多金属硫铁矿床磁铁矿的标型特征

河南某斑岩型多金属硫铁矿床中的磁铁矿矿体,多赋存于钾长花岗斑岩与白云岩接触带部位的白云岩及镁矽卡岩中,就其产出特点,一般认为属矽卡岩型磁铁矿。今据磁铁矿的化学成分及标型特征的研究,发现该磁铁矿与简单的典型矽卡岩铁矿床中磁铁矿的成因特征有较大的差异,而与斑岩型矿床中磁铁矿的成因特征相近。     

滇中武定迤纳厂铁铜矿床磁铁矿元素地球化学特征及其成矿意义

武定迤纳厂矿床位于我国云南省中部,在大地位置上处于扬子板块西缘,康滇地轴云南段,是滇中具有代表性的元古代铁-铜-金-稀土矿床.其矿化作用分为岩浆气液期、交代成矿期、热液成矿期和成矿后热液期4个期次,其中前3个期次是铁成矿的主要期次,分别以角砾状磁铁矿、浸染状磁铁矿和粗粒脉状磁铁矿为代表.各类磁铁矿含有一定量的SiO2、Cr2O3、Al2O3、MgO等,角砾状磁铁矿石的主元素成分与铁成分比值最高,其次为浸染状磁铁矿,最低为脉状磁铁矿.不同类型的磁铁矿微量元素变化很大,浸染状磁铁矿稀土配分具四重效应,角砾状磁铁矿和粗粒脉状磁铁矿稀土配分为右倾型.成矿早期磁铁矿的形成受岩浆作用影响强烈,含铁的岩浆导致围岩碎裂,形成了早期角砾状矿石;交代成矿期的铁质主要源于岩浆演化晚期分异形成的富铁流体,富铁流体与围岩发生强烈的物质交换,导致大量铁质沉淀;随着矿化作用的进行,热液作用逐渐增强,加之外界流体的逐渐加入,对之前形成的磁铁矿进行改造,使其具有热液成因的表象特征.从矿物成分体现出的矿床成因上看,该矿床属于岩浆隐爆-交代型成因,与世界知名的IOCG型矿床有相似之处.     

青海省都兰县双庆铁矿床磁铁矿地球化学特征及成因意义

青海省祁漫塔格-都兰成矿带是以铁铜多金属为主的成矿带,其矿产丰富但研究程度较低。双庆铁矿床是该成矿带上十分典型的矿床,目前尚未系统开展矿物地球化学研究。笔者采用电子探针、电感耦合等离子质谱仪(ICP-MS)等测试手段,对磁铁矿进行主(常)量元素、微量元素地球化学特征进行研究,辅以磁铁矿氧同位素数据,以期为矿床成因提供地球化学证据。磁铁矿主量元素的Ti O2-Al2O3-(Mg O+Mn O)三角成因图解揭示,形成双庆铁矿床的磁铁矿为接触交代作用的夕卡岩型磁铁矿。微量元素特征表明其成矿物质来源较深,Ni/Co比值揭示磁铁矿为火山热液交代的岩浆成因的来源特征,而Pb、Zn质量分数相对较高,表明有后期的热液叠加作用。稀土元素呈不对称的"V"字形配分模式,轻重稀土发生一定程度的分异作用,无明显δEu和δCe异常,稀土总量低;磁铁矿的氧同位素特征表明其成矿物质来源属于幔源,流体来源为花岗质岩浆水。     

Ulkan-Dzhugdzhur ore-bearing anorthosite-rapakivi granite-peralkaline granite association,Siberian Craton: Age,tectonic setting,sources, and metallogeny

The paper systematizes and integrates the results of geological, isotopic geochronological, and geochemical studies of the igneous rocks that make up the Ulkan-Dzhugdzhur anorthosite-rapakivi granite-peralkaline granite association and related mineralization. This association is a typical example of anorogenic igneous rocks that formed in the within-plate geodynamic setting most likely under effect of the mantle superplume, which was active in the territory of the Siberian Craton 1.75–1.70 Ga ago. The igneous rock association formed in a discrete regime that reflected the pulsatory evolution of a sublithospheric mantle source. The prerift (1736–1727 Ma) and rift proper (1722–1705 Ma) stages and a number of substages are distinguished. All igneous rocks pertaining to this association have mixed mantle-crustal origin. Basic rocks crystallized from the OIB-type basaltic magma, which underwent crustal contamination at various depths. Felsic rocks are products of mantle and crustal magma mixing. The contribution of mantle component progressively increased in a time-dependent sequence: moderately alkaline subsolvus granite → moderately alkaline and alkaline hypersolvus granites → peralkaline hypersolvus granite. All endogenic deposits in the studied district are related to a single source represented by the mantle plume and its derivatives. The Fe-Ti-apatite deposits hosted in anorthosite formed as a result of intense lower crustal contamination of basaltic magma near the Moho discontinuity and two stages of fractional crystallization at lower and upper crustal depth levels. The rare-metal deposits are genetically related to peralkaline granite. Formation of uranium deposits was most likely caused by Middle Riphean rejuvenation of the region, which also involved rocks of the Ulkan-Dzhugdzhur association.     

新疆哈尔里克山后碰撞期构造-岩浆活动特征及年代学证据

新疆地区后碰撞期构造-岩浆活动非常活跃,其同位素年龄集中在290～270Ma。天山东段的后碰撞期构造-岩浆活动研究相对薄弱,高质量的定年数据较少。在野外地质调查的基础上,笔者选择东天山哈尔里克地区的小堡花岗岩体进行了锆石的LA-ICP-MSU-Pb定年,获得两组谐和年龄,分别为297±2Ma和295±2Ma,代表哈尔里克地区后碰撞早期岩浆作用的形成时代。小堡岩体矿物组合以斜长石、石英、钾长石、角闪石和黑云母为主,副矿物有锆石、磷灰石和磁铁矿,与I型高钾钙碱性花岗岩矿物组合基本一致。与小堡花岗岩体同时发育、空间并存的还有基性岩墙群和碱性花岗岩,构成后碰撞初始阶段三组合地质标志。结合区域地质资料,认为小堡早二叠世花岗岩体是后碰撞初期碰撞造山、地壳增厚引发下地壳物质部分熔融的产物,其构造属性为板内岩浆活动。     

花岗岩浆形成定位机制的思考与研究进展

花岗岩(广义)是陆壳的标志,也是地球岩石圈区别于其它行星岩石圈的标志。文章介绍了行星探测和大洋调查等方面的成果对花岗岩形成的地质约束:行星从岩浆表壳向岩石表壳转换过程以及现代地幔过程,均没有产生有规模意义的花岗岩;花岗岩及其所标志的陆壳,应是星球出现水圈和沉积岩之后的产物;花岗岩在地球岩石圈二维空间上的平均生长速率,大约为485×10~3km~2/Myr;岩浆主要来自地壳岩石的部分熔融(深熔)。在此基础上,文章介绍了深熔作用方面的研究进展,讨论了部分熔融岩石的流变行为与其内熔体比的关系,并比较了岩浆侵入模型与岩浆对流模型在解释花岗岩形成定位机制方面的异同。侵入模型的困难之一来自岩体与源区分离。由于源区位于岩体下方且远离岩体,因而是不可观察的,除非岩体及其与源区之间的岩石因风化或构造被剥蚀殆尽。文章最后介绍了"深熔-对流"模型的研究进展。该模型认为"源区"与"定位区间"是统一的,当"源区"岩石的熔体比例超过流变学的临界熔体比,岩石转变为"脏"岩浆;"脏"岩浆层内的重力分异诱发热对流,后者引起"顶蚀作用",导致重熔界面(MI)或固-液转换界面(SLT)不断向上移动和岩浆层的逐渐增厚。基本认识是:熔区内的热对流是深熔作用能够形成大规模花岗岩浆的必要条件;没有对流,陆壳岩石的部分熔融只能产生混合岩,不能产生岩基规模的花岗岩。     

A granite–gabbro complex from Madagascar: constraints on melting of the lower crust

The Ranomandry Complex is a Neoproterozoic, nested intrusion from central Madagascar composed of a gabbroic core within a coeval peraluminous granite ring intruding pelitic metasediments. Although xenocryst entrainment and magma mixing have both contributed to marginal phases of the granite, the primary melt is characterised by steep LREE/HREE ratios and negligible, or slightly positive, Eu anomalies. Both isotopic and trace element systematics preclude an origin from either partial melting of the metapelitic country rock or from fractional crystallisation of the gabbroic magma. However, trace-element modelling suggests an origin from the dehydration melting of a plagioclase-poor, garnet-bearing metagreywacke at temperatures of 850–900 °C and at lower crustal pressures (>10 kbar). Melting of an enriched subcontinental mantle generated gabbroic magmas that caused advective heating and anatexis at the base of thickened continental crust during their ascent. Transport of the resulting granite magma was facilitated by the pre-existing plumbing system that overcame thermal and mechanical problems associated with both diapirism and self-propagating dykes as mechanisms for long-distance transport of granite magmas. The nested geometry of the intrusions is an indication of a structurally homogeneous lower crust that contains no pre-existing shear zones or fault systems.     

河南卢氏八宝山花岗斑岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素组成特征

河南省卢氏县八宝山岩体位于华北克拉通南缘东秦岭西段,岩体呈筒状,可能为古火山机构岩颈相的超浅成侵入体,成矿组合上为独特的以铁为主的多金属矿化。八宝山岩体边缘相为钾长花岗斑岩、中心相为黑云母二长花岗斑岩。二者的LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄非常一致,分别为146.6±1.6Ma和145.9±1.9Ma,说明他们可能是同期岩浆侵入作用分异的产物。钾长花岗斑岩和黑云母二长花岗斑岩锆石Hf同位素组成特征也非常相似,εHf(t)值分别为-27.55～-20.71和-27.30～-21.90,tDM2值分别为1.80～2.93Ga和2.03～2.92Ga,表明该岩体的源区物质以壳源物质为主。综合分析表明,八宝山岩体可能是扬子俯冲陆壳部分熔融的作物,并可能混入少量的太华群和熊耳群的物质,其形成的地球动力学背景可能为俯冲碰撞后的伸展环境。     

Cryogenian magmatism and crustal reworking in the Southern Granulite Terrane,India

Understanding Neoproterozoic crustal evolution is fundamental to reconstructing the Gondwana supercontinent, which was assembled at this time. Here we report evidence of Cryogenian crustal reworking in the Madurai Block of the Southern Granulite Terrane of India. The study focuses on a garnet-bearing granite–charnockite suite, where the granite shows in situ dehydration into patches and veins of incipient charnockite along the contact with charnockite. The granite also carries dismembered layers of Mg–Al-rich granulite. Micro-textural evidence for dehydration of granite in the presence of CO₂-rich fluids includes the formation of orthopyroxene by the breakdown of biotite, neoblastic zircon growth in the dehydration zone, at around 870°C and 8 kbar. The zircon U–Pb ages suggest formation of the granite, charnockite, and incipient charnockite at 836 ± 73, 831 ± 31, and 772 ± 49 Ma, respectively. Negative zircon εHf (t) (?5 to ?20) values suggest that these rocks were derived from a reworked Palaeoproterozoic crustal source. Zircon grains in the Mg–Al-rich granulite record a spectrum of ages from ca. 2300 to ca. 500 Ma, suggesting multiple provenances ranging from Palaeoproterozoic to mid-Neoproterozoic, with neoblastic zircon growth during high-temperature metamorphism in the Cambrian. We propose that the garnet-bearing granite and charnockite reflect the crustal reworking of aluminous crustal material indicated by the presence of biotite + quartz + aluminosilicate inclusions in the garnet within the granite. This crustal source can be the Mg–Al-rich layers carried by the granite itself, which later experienced high-temperature regional metamorphism at ca. 550 Ma. Our model also envisages that the CO₂ which dehydrated the garnet-bearing granite generating incipient charnockite was sourced from the proximal massive charnockite through advection. These Cryogenian crustal reworking events are related to prolonged tectonic activities prior to the final assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent.     

Magnetic susceptibility mapping of felsic magmatic lithounits in the central part of Bundelkhand Massif,central India

Late Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic felsic magmatic lithounits exposed in the central part of the Bundelkhand massif have been mapped and their redox series (magnetite vs ilmenite series) evaluated based on magnetic susceptibility (MS) data. The central part of Bundelkhand massif comprises of multiple felsic magmatic pulses (∼2600–2200 Ma), commonly represented by coarse grained granite (CGG-grey granite, CPG-pink granite), medium grained pink granite (MPG), fine grained pink granite (FPG), grey and pink rhyolites and granite porphyry (GP). However, the pink colour of these felsic rocks is the result of hydrothermal fluid-flushing leading to potassic alteration of grey granites. MS values of CGG vary from 0.058 to 14.75×10⁻³ SI with an average of 6.35×10⁻³ SI, which mostly represent oxidized type, magnetite series (73%) granites involving infracrustal (igneous) source materials. CPG (av. MS=3.95×10⁻³ SI) is indeed a pink variety of CGG, the original oxidizing nature of which must have been similar to the bulk of CGG, but has been moderately to strongly reduced because of distinctly more porphyritic nature together with partial assimilation of metapelitic (supracrustal) materials, surmicaceous enclaves, carbonaceous material included in the source materials, and to some extent, induced by hydrothermal and later deformational processes. MPG (av. MS= 1.15×10⁻³ SI) as lensoidal stock-like bodies intrudes the CPG and represent both magnetite series (18%) and ilmenite series (82%) granites, which are probably formed by heterogeneous (mixed) source rocks. GP (av. MS=6.26×10⁻³ SI) occur as dykes (mostly trending NE-SW) intrudes the MPG, CPG and migmatites and bears the nature similar to oxidized type, magnetite series granite. FPG (av. MS= 0.666×10⁻³ SI) trending NE-SW occur as lensoid bodies including a large outcrop, is intrusive into both CPG and MPG, and is moderately to very strongly reduced type, ilmenite series granites, which may be derived by the melting of metapelitic crustal sources. FPG hosting microgranular (mafic magmatic) enclaves commonly exhibit high MS values (7.31–10.22×10⁻³ SI), which appear induced by the mixing and mingling of interacting felsic and mafic magmas prevailed in an open system. Grey (av. MS=10.30×10⁻³ SI) and pink (av. MS=6.72×10⁻³ SI) rhyolites represent oxidized type, magnetite series granites, which may have been derived from infracrustal (magmatic) protoliths. Granite series evaluation of felsic magmatic rocks of central part of Bundelkhand massif strongly suggests their varied redox conditions (differential oxygen fugacity) mostly intrinsic to magma source regions and partially modified by hydrothermal and tectonic processes acting upon them.     

Geochemistry,mineralogy, and zircon U–Pb–Hf isotopes in peraluminous A-type granite xenoliths in Pliocene–Pleistocene basalts of northern Pannonian Basin (Slovakia)

Anorogenic granite xenoliths occur in alkali basalts coeval with the Pliocene–Pleistocene continental rifting of the Pannonian Basin. Observed granite varieties include peraluminous, calcic to peralkalic, magnesian to ferroan types. Quartz and feldspars are dominant rock-forming minerals, accompanied by minor early ilmenite and late magnetite–ulvöspinel. Zircon and Nb–U–REE minerals (oxycalciopyrochlore, fergusonite, columbite) are locally abundant accessory phases in calc-alkalic types. Absence of OH-bearing Fe, Mg-silicates and presence of single homogeneous feldspars (plagioclase in calcic types, anorthoclase in calc-alkalic types, ferrian Na-sanidine to anorthoclase in alkalic types) indicate water-deficient, hypersolvus crystallization conditions. Variable volumes of interstitial glass, absence of exsolutions, and lacking deuteric hydrothermal alteration and/or metamorphic/metasomatic overprint are diagnostic of rapid quenching from hypersolidus temperatures. U–Pb zircon ages determined in calcic and calc-alkalic granite xenoliths correspond to a time interval between 5.7 and 5.2 Ma. Positive εHf values (14.2 ± 3.9) in zircons from a 5.2-Ma-old calc-alkalic granite xenolith indicate mantle-derived magmas largely unaffected by the assimilation of crustal material. This is in accordance with abundances of diagnostic trace elements (Rb, Y, Nb, Ta), indicating A₁-type, OIB-like source magmas. Increased accumulations of Nb–U–REE minerals in these granites indicate higher degree of the magmatic differentiation reflected in Rb-enrichment, contrasting with Ba-enrichment in barren xenoliths. Incipient charnockitization, i.e. orthopyroxene and ilmenite crystallization from interstitial silicate melt, was observed in many granite xenoliths. Thermodynamic modeling using pseudosections showed that the orthopyroxene growth may have been triggered by water exsolution from the melt during ascent of xenoliths in basaltic magma. Euhedral-to-skeletal orthopyroxene growth probably reflects contrasting ascent rates of basaltic magma with xenoliths, intermitted by the stagnation in various crustal levels at a <3 kbar pressure. The Tertiary suite of intra-plate, mantle-derived A₁-type granites and syenites is geochemically distinct from pre-Tertiary, post-orogenic A₂-type granites of the Carpatho–Pannonian region, which exhibit geochemical features diagnostic of crustal melting along continental margins.     

Rb/Sr geochronology of granites and gneisses from the Mount Everest region,Nepal Himalaya

Nineteen samples of granites, orthogneisses and paragneisses from the High Himalaya basement nappe(s) of the Mount Everest region have been dated by the Rb/Sr method. The post-metamorphic tourmaline leucogranites of the upper Imja Drangka (Nuptse, Lhotse Glacier) have high initial Sr⁸⁷/Sr⁸⁶ characteristic of an anatectic origin from crustal material. A whole-rock isochron age of 52 m. y. (Early Eocene) has been obtained for the samples from the granite body of Lhotse Glacier; apparently Sr isotopic homogenization was not reached throughout the much larger Nuptse granite. The granite precursor of the migmatitic orthogneisses from the upper Dudh Kosi valley has an age of 550 ± 16 m. y. (whole rock isochron) and a high initial Sr⁸⁷/Sr⁸⁶ ratio indicating its origin from an older basement complex. The Rb/Sr data on paragneisses from the south face of Lhotse do not define an isochron, possibly reflecting isotopic hetero-geneity in the sedimentary protoliths and incomplete homogenization during a late Precambrian metamorphism. All the mineral ages fall in the time span from 15 to 17 m. y. They represent cooling ages reflecting a regional phase of major uplift in the Middle Miocene and post-dating the peak of the Himalayan metamorphism which the data from the Mt. Everest region place in pre-Eocene times.     

Geochemistry,U–Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Studies of the Daheishan Porphyry Mo Deposit in Heilongjiang Province,NE China

The Daheishan porphyry Mo deposit was recently discovered in the northern segment of the Great Xing'an Range, NE China. Three main types of granitoids are identified in this deposit: granodiorite, fine‐grained granite, and porphyritic granite. The orebodies are dominantly hosted within the granodiorite and in the contact zone between the granodiorite and tuff or hornfels, while no mineralization has been found in the fine‐grained granite or the porphyritic granite. We present in situ LA‐ICP‐MS zircon U‐Pb dates for the granodiorite, fine‐grained granite, and porphyritic granite, which yielded 146.9 ± 1.1 Ma (2σ), 146.6 ± 1.7 Ma (2σ), and 149.7 ± 4.2 Ma (2σ), respectively. Their ε_Hf(t) values range from 3.9 to 12.2, associated with young crustal model ages (T_DM2) ranging from 524 Ma to 849 Ma, indicating that their parental magmas may have been generated by partial melting of the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian crustal components. The formation of the Daheishan deposit was genetically related to the subduction of the Paleo‐Pacific Plate.