冀东柞栏杖子BIF地球化学特征、形成时代及其地质意义

冀东地区柞栏杖子BIF出露于绿片岩相—低角闪岩相朱杖子岩群变质岩中。铁矿石主要由石英和磁铁矿组成,还含有少量透闪石和黑云母。主量元素主要为Si O2、Fe2O3和Fe O,其次为少量的Ca O和Mg O。较低的Al2O3含量、极低的Ti O2含量和高场强元素(HFSE)暗示,铁矿石中陆源碎屑物质含量很低。铁矿石的稀土元素含量较低,稀土元素配分模式特征为轻稀土元素相对亏损、重稀土元素相对富集。较明显的Eu正异常、轻微的Y正异常及较高的Y/Ho值的稀土元素特征,类似于高温热液和海水的混合热液,暗示成矿物质主要来自于海水和高温热液。对柞栏杖子BIF矿体夹层黑云斜长变粒岩进行SHRIMP锆石U-Pb定年,207Pb/206Pb年龄加权平均值为2572±8Ma(MSWD=5.8),可代表柞栏杖子BIF的形成年龄。综合前人研究,认为冀东地区变质级别不同的BIF物质来源相同、形成年代相近,BIF的变质可能和2500Ma左右华北克拉通东部陆块发生的地幔岩浆底侵事件有关。     

New ICP‐MS Results for Trace Elements in Five Iron‐Formation Reference Materials

Iron formations (IFs) typically contain low mass fractions of most trace elements, including the rare earth elements (REE), and few publications describe analytical methods dedicated to this matrix. In this study, we used bomb and table‐top acid dissolution procedures and ICP‐MS to determine the mass fractions of trace elements in IF reference materials FER‐1, FER‐2, FER‐3, FER‐4 and IF‐G. The full digestion of the IF samples with the bomb procedure required the addition of a small amount of water together with the acids. The results obtained by this method mostly agreed statistically with published values. The most remarkable exception was the higher values obtained for the heavy REE in FER‐3. The recoveries of the REE obtained with the table‐top procedure were slightly higher than those of the bomb digestion, except for the values of the heavy REE in FER‐3 and FER‐4, which were up to 30% lower than published values. Sintering of the samples with sodium peroxide was performed to determine the REE, but the results tended to be lower than those derived following acid digestion. On the whole, the recoveries showed dependence on the conditions of digestion, but subtle differences in trace mineral composition between samples also exerted influence on the analytical results for trace elements.     

澜沧江铁矿带惠民式-疆峰式铁矿床特征与含铁建造

通过对惠民式和疆峰式铁矿的研究,认为它们都是受变质中基性火山岩建造控制的海相火山-沉积型铁矿床,前者兼有条带状含铁建造(BIF)和粒状含铁建造(GIF)的特征,而后者则为条带状含铁建造.它们均具备元古代条带状铁硅建造铁矿的特征,满足形成前寒武纪大型条带状含铁建造的“大型海洋热液供应系统、作为沉积仓储的大陆架体貌及有能力...     

鲁西苍峄铁矿带西延隐伏区BIF型铁矿成矿预测

山东省BIF型铁矿分布较为广泛,其中鲁南地区苍峄铁矿带是全省重要的BIF型铁矿带之一,该含矿建造赋存于新太古代泰山岩群山草峪组中。本文在对苍峄铁矿带中典型矿床进行剖析的基础上,对铁矿带西延隐伏区进行了分析研究,认为该隐伏区BIF型铁矿成矿地质条件优越,且该区高磁异常较为明显。通过对该类型铁矿矿床成因及找矿预测模型研究,并综合该区地质特征、物探异常特征和铁矿成矿规律等要素共圈定6个铁矿找矿靶区,即B类找矿靶区为涝坡南找矿靶区、马头西找矿靶区、山湾东找矿靶区、东凫山北找矿靶区、胡埠找矿靶区;C类找矿靶区为张庄找矿靶区;本次研究工作为该区今后铁矿勘查工作提供了依据。     

Genesis modelling for the Hamersley BIF-hosted iron ores of Western Australia: a critical review

Enrichment iron ore of the Hamersley Province, currently estimated at a resource of over 40 billion tonnes (Gt), mainly consists of BIF (banded iron-formation)-hosted bedded iron deposits (BID) and channel iron deposits (CID), with only minor detrital iron deposits (DID). The Hamersley BID comprises two major ore types: the dominant supergene martite–goethite (M-G) ores (Mesozoic–Paleocene) and the premium martite–microplaty hematite ores (M-mplH; ca 2.0 Ga) with their various subtypes. The supergene M-G ores are not common outside Australia, whereas the M-mplH ores are the principal worldwide resource. There are two current dominant genetic models for the Hamersley BID. In the earlier 1980–1985 model, supergene M-G ores formed in the Paleoproterozoic well below normal atmospheric access, driven by seasonal oxidising electrochemical reactions in the vadose zone of the parent BIF (cathode) linked through conducting magnetite horizons to the deep reacting zone (anode). Proterozoic regional metamorphism/diagenesis at ～80–100°C of these M-G ores formed mplH from the matrix goethite in the local hydrothermal environment of its own exhaled water to produce M-mplH ores with residual goethite. Following general exposure by erosion in the Cretaceous–Paleocene when a major second phase of M-G ores formed, ground water leaching of residual goethite from the metamorphosed Proterozoic ores resulted in the mainly goethite-free M-mplH ores of Mt Whaleback and Mt Tom Price. Residual goethite is common in the Paraburdoo M-mplH-goethite ores where erratic remnants of Paleoproterozoic cover indicate more recent exposure.

Deep unweathered BIF alteration residuals in two small areas of the Mt Tom Price M-mplH deposits have been used since 1999 for new hypogene–supergene modelling of the M-mplH ores. These models involve a major Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal stage in which alkaline solutions from the underlying Wittenoom Formation dolomite traversed the Southern Batter Fault to leach matrix silica from the BIF, adding siderite and apatite to produce a magnetite–siderite–apatite ‘protore.’ A later heated meteoric solution stage oxidised siderite to mplH + ankerite and magnetite to martite. Weathering finally removed residual carbonates and apatite leaving the high-grade porous M-mplH ore. Further concepts for the Mt Tom Price North and the Southern Ridge Deposits involving acid solutions followed, but these have been modified to return essentially to the earlier hypogene–supergene model. Textural data from erratic ‘metasomatic BIF’ zones associated with the above deposits are unlike those of the typical martite–microplaty hematite ore bodies. The destiny of the massive volumes of dissolved silica gangue and the absence of massive silica aureoles has not been explained. Petrographic and other evidence indicate the Mt Tom Price metasomatism is a localised post-ore phenomenon. Exothermic oxidation reactions in the associated pyrite-rich black shales during post-ore removal by groundwater of remnant goethite in the ores may have resulted in this very localised and erratic hydrothermal alteration of BIF and its immediately associated pre-existing ore.     

Banded iron formation to high-grade iron ore: a critical review of supergene enrichment models

All the major worldwide direct-shipping iron ore deposits associated with banded iron formations (BIF) are characteristically deeply weathered. They extend to considerable depths below the water table and show well-preserved primary structures and textures, but characteristically most deposits contain no evidence of chert bands being present prior to weathering. Recent studies have found evidence of hydrothermal and/ or metamorphic influences in the development of certain ore deposits and new genesis models such as the supergene-modified hypogene model have been postulated for major high-grade iron ore deposits. Nevertheless, there are many high-grade deposits that show no evidence of hypogene alteration and for which a hypogene or metamorphic genesis is unreasonable that are automatically ascribed to supergene enrichment, commonly erroneously attributed to lateritic weathering in tropical environments. Laterite (sensu lato) is a soil formation in which primary textures are destroyed and is underlain by a pallid zone showing the preservation of chert and the depletion, not enrichment, of iron oxides and thus is totally incompatible with the formation of the high-grade ore deposits. Various theories and models that purported to explain the conditions under which such a uniquely BIF-related dissolution of quartz and residual accumulation of hematite could occur by supergene processes typically conflict with current understanding of groundwater hydrology, chemistry, weathering processes and soil formation.Supergene enrichment of ore is universal in the leaching of gangue minerals such as iron silicates, carbonates and apatite and supergene enrichment of BIF to low-grade ore is common in near surface environments above the water table such as ferrugenised BIF outcrops, detrital ore deposits, and some shallow ore deposits that have been subjected to prolonged exposure to fresh meteoric water. In all cases of supergene enrichment traces of the chert bands are visible and the dissolution or replacement processes for the removal of quartz are clear, in direct contrast to the most important deep saprolite ore deposits that show no trace of chert bands.The widespread acceptance of an inappropriate and untenable supergene enrichment model inhibits search for the true origin of the ore and our ability to predict and find concealed high-grade ore deposits.     

华北克拉通鲁西地区早前寒武纪表壳岩系重新划分和BIF形成时代

鲁西花岗-绿岩带是华北克拉通早前寒武纪变质基底典型代表.表壳岩系包括泰山岩群、孟家屯岩组和济宁岩群.其中,泰山岩群是鲁西地区规模最大的表壳岩系,曾认为形成于新太古代早期,而济宁岩群曾认为形成于古元古代.根据野外地质和表壳岩系及相关岩石的锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年,本文对表壳岩系形成时代进行了重新划分.1)新太古代早期(2.70～2.75Ga)表壳岩系,包括原泰山岩群的雁翎关岩组和柳行岩组下段的大部分及孟家屯岩组.2)新太古代晚期(2.525～2.56Ga)表壳岩系,包括原泰山岩群的山草峪岩组、柳行岩组上段和下段的一部分及济宁岩群.它们在岩石组合、变质变形等方面存在明显区别,BIF形成于新太古代晚期.这是华北克拉通迄今唯一分辨出新太古代早期和晚期表壳岩系的地区.     

鞍山-本溪地区条带状铁矿的Fe同位素特征及其对成矿机理和地球早期海洋环境的制约

本文报道了鞍山-本溪地区晚太古代条带状铁建造的主量元素、微量元素、稀土元素和Fe同位素的分析结果.结果显示:铁矿主要由Fe2O3T和SiO2组成,具有较低的Al2O3和TiO2含量;微量元素含量和稀土总量均较低;经页岩标准化的稀土元素配分模式呈现轻稀土亏损、重稀土富集;具有明显的La、Eu、Y的正异常;较高的Y/Ho比值.这些特征均表明鞍山-本溪地区条带状铁矿是由极少碎屑物质加入的化学沉积岩,成矿物质主要来源于海底热液的贡献.相对于标准物质IRMM-014,条带状铁矿石的Fe同位素组成最突出的特征是均为正值,这是由于二价铁溶液经部分氧化和沉淀形成富集重铁同位素的三价铁氧化物或氢氧化物的结果,且沉淀程度的不同是控制Fe同位素组成变化的重要因素.条带状铁矿无明显的Ce负异常和Fe同位素组成为正值的特征暗示了铁矿沉淀时的海水为低氧逸度环境.     

坦桑尼亚西嘎山地区金矿床地质特征及找矿方向

西嘎山(Siga Hills)地区位于维多利亚湖南部绿岩带上,该地区金矿床大多属绿岩带条带状铁建造(BIF)型金矿,金矿床赋存于条带状铁建造(BIF)中,矿体受"岩性+构造"双重控制。磁法测量显示马黑加矿区M1、M2、M3三条磁异常带,异常由条带状含铁建造和金矿体共同引起;土壤地球化学测量显示Au与As、Sb具有显著相关性。综合对比区域金矿信息,提出马黑加金矿化带南北延长线及其东部与花岗岩接触带、西嘎山南北走向带、西嘎山与马黑加之间等3个区域为今后西嘎山地区的找矿方向。     

Textural and fluid inclusion constraints on the origin of the banded-iron-formation-hosted gold deposits at Maevatanana,central Madagascar

The Maevatanana deposits consist of gold-bearing quartz–sulphide veins crosscutting banded iron formation (BIF) within a metamorphosed 2.5 Ga greenstone belt. The host rocks are dominated by a sequence of migmatites, gneisses, amphibolites, magnetite-rich quartzites and soapstones, intruded by large granitoid batholiths (e.g. the 0.8 Ga Beanana granodiorite). In the mineralised rocks, pyrite is the dominant sulphide, in addition to accessory chalcopyrite and galena. Outside the immediate ore zone, the BIF is dominated by quartz + magnetite ± hematite, accompanied by cummingtonite, albite and biotite. Gold occurs as globular grains (usually <500 μm) within quartz crystals close to the sulphides and as invisible inclusions within pyrite and chalcopyrite (up to 2,500 ppm Au content). Fluid inclusion textural and microthermometric studies indicate heterogeneous trapping of a low-salinity (∼3.6 wt.% eq. NaCl) aqueous fluid coexisting with a carbonic fluid. Evidence for fluid-phase immiscibility during ore formation includes variable L/V ratios in the inclusions and the fact that inclusions containing different phase proportions occur in the same area, growth zone, or plane. Laser Raman spectroscopy confirms that the vapour phase in these inclusions is dominated by CO₂ but shows that it may contain small amounts of CH₄ (<1 mol%), H₂S (<0.05 mol%) and traces of N₂. Fluid inclusion trapping conditions ranged from 220 to 380°C and averaged 250°C. Pressure was on the order of 1–2 kbar. The abundant CO₂ and low salinity of the inclusions suggest a metamorphic origin for the fluid. Likewise, the presence of H₂S in the fluid and pyritisation of the wall-rock indicate that gold was likely transported by sulphide complexing. Fluid immiscibility was probably triggered by the pressure released by fracturing of the quartzites during fault movements due to competence differences with the softer greenstones. Fracturing greatly enhanced fluid circulation through the BIF, allowing reaction of the sulphide-bearing fluids with the iron oxides. This caused pyrite deposition and concomitant Au precipitation, enhanced by fluid phase separation as H₂S partitioned preferentially into the carbonic phase.