Composition and genesis of endogenous borates from the Pitkáranta ore field,Karelia

The borate mineralization of the Pitkáranta skarn field of Karelia is localized in metasomatically altered Proterozoic dolomites. In the contact aureole of rapakivi granites, the zoning of magnesian skarns includes spinel-diopside or fassaite skarns with syngenetic magnetite and spinel-forsterite calciphyres surrounded by periclase marbles, which confirms their hypabyssal genesis. Stringer-stockwork bodies developing in the brecciation zone at the roof show a primitive zoning consisting of an inner diopside and an outer forsterite calciphyre zone grading into a dolomitic marble. All these zones inherited the Ca/Mg ratio of the primary carbonate rocks. Rhythmically banded textures observed in the skarns and calciphyres of the deposits studied suggest their formation under thermodynamically disequilibrium conditions typical of hypabyssal metasomatites. Magnesium and magnesium-iron borates in marbles and calciphyres and beryllium borates in greisens were formed during the postmagmatic stage. Data are reported on the chemical composition and genesis of suanite, kotoite, ludwigite, hulsite, pertsevite, fluoborite, szaibelyite, and humites from the Hopunvaara, Klara, Lupikko, and Herberz deposits. The deficit of boron in magnesian borates is related to their endogenous hydration. Data on hambergites and berborite are given according to E.I. Nefedov.     

Metal deposits in the Da Hinggan Mountains,NE China: styles,characteristics, and exploration potential

The Da Hinggan Mountains mineral province (DHMP), northeastern China, is divided into three tectonic units and corresponding metallogenic belts. The tectonic units of the Da Hinggan Mountains are the Erguna fold zone on the northwest, the Hercynian fold zone on the north, and the Hercynian fold zone on the south. The corresponding metallogenic belts are the Erguna Cu-Pb-Zn-Ag-Mo-Au belt of the NW DHMP, the Cu-Pb-Zn-Mo-Fe-Au belt of the northern DHMP, and the Pb-Zn-Ag-Cu-Sn-Fe-Mo belt of the southern DHMP. Distinct ore bodies, mostly associated with Mesozoic granites and volcanics, comprise (1) hydrothermal vein deposits including Pb-Zn-Ag-(Cu) and W‐Sn-Cu, (2) exhalative (Pb-Zn-Ag, Cu) deposits, (3) porphyry (Cu, Au, Mo), (4) skarn (Fe, Zn, Cu), and (5) epithermal Au-Ag deposits. The hydrothermal veins are hosted by a range of different rock types, whereas the exhalative ores are confined to Permian strata. The porphyry deposits occur within granite porphyries. The epithermal deposits are related to Mesozoic volcanic-subvolcanic rocks and occur within superjacent igneous structures. The first type, represented by the Bairendaba deposit, shows many characteristics of hydrothermal deposits. The second type occurs in a Permian clastic-chemical sedimentary sequence. Most Fe-Zn-Cu deposits related to granites and granodiorites are skarns. Granodiorite and granite-related deposits are typical porphyry ores, formed during Hercynian and Mesozoic time. Promising metallogenic conditions and the recent discovery of many large metal deposits indicate that this mineral province has a great exploration potential.     

滇西南云岭锡矿床地质特征与花岗岩锆石U-Pb年代学

滇西南是中国重要的锡矿带之一,前人研究主要集中在白垩纪和新生代花岗岩中的锡矿床,而对印支期花岗岩中的锡矿关注较少.云岭锡矿位于保山地块的东缘,矿体主要以脉状产在黑云母二长花岗岩中,发育云英岩化和电气石化蚀变.矿石矿物为锡石,脉石矿物为石英、白云母、电气石、萤石、方解石,以及黄铁矿、毒砂、黄铜矿、闪锌矿等硫化物.根据矿物...     

环太平洋地区的矽卡岩矿床

环太平洋地区是世界上最重要的巨型矽卡岩矿床成矿带。在地跨亚、美、澳三大洲二十多个沿岸国家中,共分布有一千多个不同类型的矽卡岩矿床。按含矿矽卡岩主要金属元素的不同,可把本区矽卡岩矿床划分为铁、铜、铅-锌、钨、锡、钼、金七类。文中对各类矽卡岩矿床的分布和主要地质特征作了概括介绍。按含矿矽卡岩矿物组合的不同,又可分为镁矽卡岩型、钙矽卡岩型、锰质矽卡岩型和碱质矽卡岩型四类。太平洋东西两岸的矽卡岩矿床有许多共同点,但在矿化强度、分布规律和成矿时代等方面又有一定差异。文中还论述了本区矽卡岩矿床的成矿系列和岩浆岩成矿金属性问题。     

Genesis and composition of endogenous borates in the skarns of the Eastern and Central Pyrenees

This paper addresses the genesis and composition of endogenous borates and other minerals from the magnesian-skarn aureoles at the contacts between dolomites and Hercynian granitoid intrusions of the Eastern and Central Pyrenees (Querigut and Costabonne peak massifs in France, and the Monchi deposit in Spain). It was shown that these occurrences and other magnesian skarns in the Sierra Morena Range, Spain, genetically belong to the periclase depth facies: zoned metasomatic aureoles of dolomites of primitive structure complicated by the development of periclase marble zones. The near-contact zones of the intrusions are represented by the granitoids of increasing basicity and alkalinity, which indicates the assimilation of host rocks by overheated granitic magmas. The postmagmatic stage was marked by the formation of magnesium and magnesium-iron borates of diverse composition in calciphyres and marbles, replacement of forsterite by humites in the calciphyres, and the development of silicates of decreasing Mg mole fraction after pyroxene skarns; the latter is accompanied by magnesium migration into the outer zones of the aureole. It was determined that the studied deposits of France contain boron minerals (kotoite, suanite, and pertsevite) previously unknown for this region in association with fluoborite and late szaibelyite. In skarns of Spain, the high-Fe borates are represented by monomineral aggregates of fine-prismatic parallel oriented crystals of vonsenite or its coarse-grained masses. It is conceivable that sulfide-bearing magnesian skarns and calciphyres of the studied deposits contain magnesium hydroxysulfides: tochilinite (after pyrrhotite) and valleriite (after chalcopyrite).     

Evolution of Ore-Forming Metasomatic Processes at Large Skarn Iron Deposits Related to the Traps of the Siberian Platform

The paper presents systematized and synthesized data on the parameters and evolutionary sequence of metasomatic processes that accompanied interaction between Permian–Triassic trap complex and rocks of the sedimentary cover of the Siberian Platform at the large skarn iron deposits. Relations of the textural–compositional, morphological, and genetic diversity of the skarns and ores with the phases and stages of the origin of ore-bearing volcano-tectonic edifices are demonstrated with reference to the Korshunovskoe and Rudnogorskoe deposits. The genetic reconstructions are based on survey materials and data on the mineralogy of the rocks and ores (obtained by optical and scanning electron microscopy, microprobe analysis, EPR, Raman and IR spectroscopy, and by studying inclusions in minerals). A principally important feature of the volcano-tectonic edifices of the large mineral deposits is their multistage evolution and combinations of fluid-conducting zones, which are related to (1) volcanic apparatuses, (2) shallow-depth magmatic chambers (laccoliths) hosted in carbonate–salt rocks, and (3) multistage fracture structures produced by the collapse of the leached space. The major ore-bearing structures were formed simultaneously with the development of an intermediate magmatic chamber hosted in Cambrian carbonate–salt rocks beneath a seal of terrigenous sedimentary rocks. Magmatic-stage magnesian skarns with disseminated ores in them and in the calciphyres were produced during the prograde stage in the apical parts of the laccoliths, at contacts between the dolerites and dolomites. During the early prograde stage, skarn–ore bodies developed around injection bodies of globulated dolerites, laccoliths, and sills; stockworks and steep bodies of fragmentary magnesian and calcic skarns and ores were formed within the diatremes; and conformable bodies and veins were produced in the splay fracture zones. The later reactivation of faults and fractures and the involvement of connate brines and solutions from the evaporite complex triggered the redeposition of the ore masses, crystallization of the mineral assemblages of hydrated skarns, development of large domains of serpentine–chlorite–epidote–amphibole rocks, calcic skarns, and ores. Data on multiphase fluid inclusions in the forsterite, apatite, and halite indicate that the mineral-forming fluid initially was a highly concentrated solution–melt (total salinity of 60%) with high-density reduced gases. The magnesian skarns were formed during the following stages: (1) forsterite + fassaite + spinel + first-population magnetite (820–740°C); (2) phlogopite + titanite + pargasite + second-population magnetite (600–500°C), and (3) clinochlore + serpentine + tremolite + pyrrhotite + chalcopyrite (≥450°C).     

Thermoluminescence of carbonates from carbonatites

The Gejiu tin field in southern China consists of six major deposits and many minor ones containing more than 120 million tons (pre-mining resource) at 1% Sn and significant amounts of Cu, Ag, Zn, and Pb. It is one of the largest tin fields of primary deposits in the world. Mineralization is the result of the intrusion of granitic plutons into Permian and Triassic sedimentary rocks, which are dominantly limestone, dolomitic limestone, and dolomite. Five (mostly peraluminous) granitic intrusives (64-115 Ma) are present in the area. The largest orebodies are spatially and temporally related to the Laoka (principally), Beipaotai, and Marsong granites. Tin mineralization is mainly within greisens developed at the outermost zone of a skarn zonal sequence and are mineralogically dominated by fluorite, quartz, and micas.

The deposits are the result of volatile-rich ore solutions that evolved late in the plutonic crystallization history. The solutions produced metamorphic skarns as well as ore skarns, both of which later became “greisenized” skarns. Gejiu is the largest example of what has been, up to now, a style of mineralization reported only in minor amounts.     

Geochemical features of rare-metal granites of the Zashikhinsky Massif,East Sayan

The paper presents detailed geochemical data on the rocks of the Zashikhinsky Massif and mineralogical–geochemical characteristics of the ores of the eponymous deposit. The rare-metal granites are divided into three facies varieties on the basis of the degree of differentiation and ore potential: early facies represented by microcline–albite granites with arfvedsonite, middle facies represented by leucocratic albite–microcline granites, and late (most ore-bearing) facies represented by quartz–albite granites grading into albitites. Microprobe data were obtained on major minerals accumulating trace elements in the rocks and ores. All facies of the rare-metal granites, including the rocks of the fluorite–rare-metal vein, define single compositional trends in the plots of paired correlations of rock-forming and trace elements. In addition, they also show similar REE patterns and spidergrams. The latter, however, differ in the depth of anomalies of some elements. Obtained geological, petrographic, and geochemical data suggest a magmatic genesis of the rocks of different composition and their derivation from a single magma during its differentiation. On the basis of all characteristics, the Zashikhinskoe deposit is estimated as one of the largest tantalum rare-metal deposits of alkaline-granite type in Russia.     

Distribution of fluorite deposits in Japanese Islands

The occurrence of fluorite deposits in Japan is limited in the provinces characterized by tin and tungsten mineralization within Southwest Japan. The deposits were formed near acidic igneous rocks of Cretaceous to Tertiary age. The ores in limestone are generally associated with skarn and metallic ore minerals such as cassiterite, scheelite and chalcopyrite. Granitic rocks in the provinces are the ilmenite-series (Ishihara, 1977) having enhanced fluorine contents and high initial strontium ratios. A reducing condition of the ilmenite-series granitic magma may have been more favorable for the concentration of fluorine in the residual magma because of the crystallization of relatively Fe-rich mafic minerals. Presence of thick crust bearing carbonaceous matter at the site of magmatism could have involved in the enrichment of fluorine as well as the reducing condition.     

湘南地区钨锡多金属矿床矿石矿物组合、矿化蚀变特征及成矿流体组成

采用岩矿鉴定、扫描电镜和电子探针等手段,对湘南地区多个钨锡多金属矿床的矿化蚀变进行了研究和总结.结果 表明,湘南地区钨锡多金属矿化蚀变矿物组成复杂,但各矿区普遍存在锡石、黄铜矿、黑钨矿(或白钨矿)、闪锌矿、方铅矿等金属矿物,萤石和黄玉常见,云母化、钾长石化、绿泥石化、尖晶石化等热液蚀变普遍,表明成矿流体具有类似或相同的来源及组分;各矿田(或矿床)的成矿流体均富含B和F等挥发分及Fe和Mn,钨、锡和铜矿化密切共生,钨锡多金属矿石中可见Nb和Be矿化,表明Li、Be、Nb、Ta、W、Sn、Bi、Cu、Pb、Zn等矿化为类似成矿流体的产物;初步研究认为湘南地区的钨锡多金属矿化是同一岩浆房分异演化的成矿流体的产物,提出了成矿的概念模型.     

Geology and Metallogeny of the Shizhuyuan Skarn-Greisen Deposit,Hunan Province,China

The Shizhuyuan deposit is the largest among the economically important polymetallic tungsten deposits in China. The deposit occurs within the thermal aureole of Yanshanian felsic intrusions that were emplaced into Devonian carbonates and marls. The mineralization can be divided into three phases that are genetically associated with three episodes of granitic emplacement-pseudoporphyritic biotite granite, equigranular biotite granite, and granite porphyry. During the emplacement of pseudoporphyritic biotite granite, thermal metamorphism and subsequent skarnization developed around the stock. The pure limestone was transformed to marble, whereas marls and argillite interlayers were changed to a series of metamorphic rocks such as grossular-diopside hornfels, wollastonite hornfels, diopside hornfels, wollastonite-vesuvianite hornfels, muscovite-K-feldspar-anorthite hornfels, and prehnitevermiculite hornfels. Because of the subsequent strong skarn development, most hornfelses later were transformed into skarns. The skarns distributed around the granite stock are mainly calcic. They are massive in structure, and are composed mainly of garnet, pyroxene, vesuvianite, and wollastonite, with interstitial fluorite, scheelite, and bismuthinite. Although there is no cassiterite in the early skarns, their tin contents average 0.1%. The distribution and compositional and mineralogical relationships of skarn minerals suggest that they formed as a result of progressive reactions of a hydrothermal solution with a limestone of generally constant composition, and that the dominant process was progressive removal of Ca and addition of other constituents to the rocks.

Following the primary skarn formation, some of the assemblages were retrograded to new assemblages such as fluorite-magnetite-salite rock, magnetite-fluorite-amphibole rock, and magnetite-fluorite-chlorite rock. The retrograde alteration of the skarns is characterized by a progressive addition of fluorine, alkali components, silica, tin, tungsten, and bismuth. A zonation from garnet-pyroxene skarn or garnet skarn, through fluorite-magnetite-salite rock, to magnetite-fluorite-chlorite rock frequently can be recognized in the deposit. All retrograde-altered rocks contain scheelite, cassiterite, molybdenite, and bismuthinite.

During the emplacement of equigranular biotite granite, skarn veins several tens of centimeters wide were developed; they contain large crystals of garnet and vesuvianite, and interstitial scheelite, wolframite, cassiterite, and molybdenite. This second stage of mineralization occurs predominantly as coarse and fine stockwork greisens, which were superimposed on the massive skarns and surrounding marble. Such W-Sn-Mo-Bi-bearing greisens can be divided into topaz greisen, protolithionite greisen, muscovite greisen, and margarite greisen. Besides calcic skarn veins and greisens, manganese skarn veinlets also were developed; they consist of rhodonite, spessartine-almandine solid solution, spessartine, and helvite. The distribution of greisens is responsible for a metal zonation—i.e., W-Sn-Mo-Bi and Sn-Be-Cu-F zones from the contact boundary between the granite stock and skarns outward in the deposit. A third stage of mineralization is represented by lead-zinc veins, which also are accompanied by manganese skarns consisting of spessartine, rhodonite, manganese-rich pyroxene, helvite, tephroite, fluorite, tourmaline, and manganese-rich phlogopite.     

Characteristic Features of Tin–iron–copper Mineralization in the Anle-Huanggangliang Mining Area, Inner Mongolia, China

Abstract: The Anle Sn‐Cu and Huanggangliang Fe‐Sn deposits have been exploited in the Linxi district, which is located 165 km northwest of Chifeng City in northern China. In this study the formation mechanisms of the tin deposits in the Anle and Huanggangliang mining area were investigated to understand the mechanisms of tin mineralization in northern China. The veins of the Anle deposit are divided into cassiterite–quartz–chlorite veins, chalcopyrite‐bearing quartz veins, cassi–terite–chalcopyrite–bearing quartz veins and sphalerite‐quartz veins. The sequence of mineralization is tin mineralization (stage I), copper mineralization (stage II), and lead‐zinc mineralization (stage III). The Huanggangliang tin deposit consists of magnetite skarn orebodies and many cassiterite‐bearing feldspar–fluorite veins and veinlets cutting the magnetite orebodies. The fluid inclusions in quartz and fluorite in ores from the Anle and Huanggangliang tin deposits are divided into two‐phase fluid inclusions, vapor‐rich fluid inclusions and poly‐phase fluid inclusions. The final homogenization temperatures of fluid inclusions of quartz in the ores of the Anle deposit and fluorite of tin‐bearing feldspar veins in the Huanggangliang tin deposit range from 195 to 425C and from 215 to 450C, respectively. The fluids responsible for the Anle and Huanggangliang tin deposits were of very high temperature and NaCl‐rich ones containing K, Ca, Al, Si, Ti, Fe and Cl in addition to ore metals such as Sn and Cu. The temperature and chemical composition of fluid in fluid inclusions of igneous rocks in the mining area are very similar to those of fluid in fluid inclusions in the ores of these deposits. The fluid for these ore deposits had a close relation with the fluid coexisting with melt of Late Jurassic granitic rocks in this mining area. Salinities of fluid inclusions from these ore deposits and granitic rocks in the mining area were estimated to range from 35 to 50 wt % NaCl equivalent. Based on arsenopy‐rite geothermometry and fluid inclusion studies, a fluid containing 40 wt% NaCl (eq.) could be formed by phase separation of fluid having 6 wt% NaCl (eq.) at a temperature of 420 to 500C and a pressure of 0.3 to 0.4 kb. The temperatures and pressures presented above indicate an NaCl‐rich magmatic fluid derived from granitic melt that had intruded into a shallow level of crust caused the Sn–Fe–Cu mineralization of the mining area. The geological relationship between these ore deposits and granitic bodies around the ore deposits, and the similarity of fluids forming these ore deposits and coexisting with granitic melt, suggest that these ore deposits were formed by the activity of fluid derived from granitic melt in Late Jurassic age.     

Isotopic characteristics of the ermakovskoe fluorite–bertrandite–phenakite deposit (Western Transbaikalia)

Isotope-geochemical study of the Ermakovskoe fluorine–beryllium deposit was carried out to estimate the ore sources and role of host carbonate rocks in its formation. We analyzed oxygen and carbon isotope compositions in marbles, skarn carbonates, ore and post-ore parageneses; oxygen isotope compositions in oxides, silicates, apatite; and sulfur isotope composition in sulfides and sulfates. Sources of fluids participating in the rock and ore formation were determined using hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions in hydroxyl-bearing minerals: phlogopite from marbles, vesuvian from skarns, eudidymite and bertrandite from ore parageneses, and bavenite of the post-ore stage. Isotopic studies suggest crustal source of sulfur, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, while oxygen and hydrogen isotope compositions in the hydroxyl-bearing minerals points to the contribution of meteoric waters in the formation of the fluorine-beryllium ores.     

河南省栾川三道庄和黄背岭矿区合矿矽卡岩的对比研究

三道庄和黄背岭矿区矽卡岩、用岩的对比研究显示出，矽卡岩和角岩各元素丰度和配分型式主要取决于原岩的岩性，其次与交代热液性质和交代程度有关。不同矿区的砂卡岩具有不同的元素组合，这些元素组合对矿床形成和矿化规模有一定影响。     

Skarns and Genesis of the Huanggang Fe-Sn Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China

Abstract: The skarns and genesis were studied of the Huanggang Fe‐Sn deposit and the nearby Sumugou Zn‐Pb deposit in Inner Mongolia, China. In the Huanggang mine, Nos. 1 to 4 Fe ore bodies are arranged along a calcareous horizon from proximal to distal in this order to a granite intrusion named Luotuochangliang, while Sn ore body is situated near another granite intrusion named 204. According to the distance from the granitic intrusions, mineral assemblages in skarns are systematically changed. Garnet is the most predominant skarn mineral throughout the deposit. Hastingsitic amphiboles, however, predominate in the proximal skarns. Fluorite is common in the proximal skarns, while instead calcite is common in the distal skarns. Chlorite is characteristically present only in No. 3 ore body, and chlorite geothermometry gives near 300C for the mineralization of later stage. When garnet crystal shows zonal structure, isotropic andraditic garnet occupies the core, and is surrounded with anisotropic less‐andraditic garnet. The presence of white skarn along the boundary between main skarns and host sedimentary rocks confirms relatively reducing environment prevailing as a whole in the studied area. However, the compositional relation between coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene demonstrates that relatively oxidizing condition was achieved for garnet skarn and magnetite ore in the distal, Nos. 2 to 4 Fe ore bodies and Sumugou deposit, compared to that for garnet skarn in the proximal, No. 1 and Sn ore bodies. Preliminary study on the tin content of garnets in the studied area revealed a certain degree of contribution brought from granitic intrusives since the early stage of skarn formation, irrespective of proximal or distal. Oxygen isotope study on garnet, magnetite, quartz and skarn calcite, as well as hydrogen isotope study on hastingsitic amphibole, demonstrates mainly meteoric water origin for the skarn– and ore‐forming solutions. The occurrence of Sn, W, Mo and F minerals indicates that those elements were mainly supplied to the deposit later than the formation of skarns and iron ores, overlapping to them. These constraints allow to delineate the formation model of the deposit as follows (Fig. 10): At the time of late Jurassic to early Cretaceous, felsic activity occurred in this region as a part of Yanshanian magmatism, and formed granitic intrusions as well as thick volcanic piles on the surface. The circulation of meteoric water was provoked by the heat brought by the intrusions. By this circulation, much amount of iron was extracted from andesites of the Dashizhai Formation, and precipitated as skarns and magnetite ores along calcareous horizons near the bottom of the Huanggangliang Formation. Subsequently, volatile‐rich fluids with Sn, W and Mo were expelled from the solidifying granitic magmas, and precipitated these metals in the pre‐existing skarns and ores.     

江西朱溪超大型钨矿床成矿年代学、矿物学及成矿过程研究

位于江南造山带东部的江西朱溪钨矿,是近年发现的一个超大型钨矿床,其矿体主要由矽卡岩型白钨矿组成,产于 燕山期侵入岩与碳酸盐岩接触带的矽卡岩或矽卡岩化大理岩中。为了更好地认识朱溪钨矿的特征和成因,文章采集了花岗 岩和矽卡岩的钻孔样品,进行了岩石学、矿物学、岩石地球化学和同位素年代学的分析。研究表明,朱溪矿区的黑云母花 岗岩具有高硅、富碱、高分异的特征,属于钙碱性、过铝质花岗岩,微量元素中Rb,U,Ta等元素富集,Ba,Nb,Sr和Ti 等元素亏损。稀土元素总量偏低,轻稀土相对富集。矽卡岩矿物的电子探针成分结果表明,其中石榴子石主要为钙铝榴 石-钙铁榴石端元组分;单斜辉石以透辉石-钙铁辉石系列为主。与白钨矿密切共生的矽卡岩矿物中,萤石、符山石、磷灰 石和榍石等富氟的矿物大量出现,表明朱溪钨矿成矿流体为富氟体系,这有利于钨的运移和沉淀。白钨矿REE配分曲线及 Mo含量变化所反映的流体性质表明,朱溪钨矿在矽卡岩阶段,总的矿化环境则由氧化向还原环境变化。利用朱溪含矿矽卡 岩中榍石进行了原位LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年,206Pb/238U加权平均年龄为153±2 Ma,结果显示朱溪钨矿的成矿时代为晚侏罗 世,属燕山期岩浆活动后的产物。     

Genesis and composition of borates in the metasomatically altered dolomitic, rhodochrosite, and calcareous marbles of Japan

The paper addresses the composition and genesis of endogenous borates from hypabyssal skarn deposits of Japan (Honshu Island) that were formed after dolomitic, rhodochrosite, and calcareous marbles in the contact aureoles of magmatic intrusions of diverse felsicity (from granites to diorite-monzonites). Metasomatic bodies formed at the prograde stage of the mineral formation are characterized by clearly expressed zoning of primitive type. Borates occur in the calciphyres at the Neichi, Kaso, and Rito mines, and are developed in calcitic marbles at the Fuka mine. Depending on initial composition of carbonate rocks, borates are represented by suanite, kotoite, jimboite, and takedaite in the outer zones of spinel-forsterite and galaxite-jacobsite-tephroite calciphyres or calcitic marbles, respectively. It was shown that early borates are subjected to hydration that is expressed in variable deficit of boron. At the next stages of hydrothermal mineral formation, they are replaced by pertsevite, wiserite, sibirskite, and other borates.     

A Preliminary Study on Exhalative Mineralization in Permian Basins, the Southern Segment of the Da Hinggan Mountains, China – Case Studies of the Huanggang and Dajing Deposits–

Abstract: The southern segment of the Da Hinggan Mountains is a well‐known tin–polymetallic metallogenic belt of North China with Jurassic‐Cretaceous volcanic–plutonic rocks widespread. Principally because of this, most of the deposits are regarded as epigenetic hydrothermal deposits in genetic connection with the Mesozoic magmatism. But nearly 90 % of the deposits occur in Permian strata, and show concordant stratiform mineralization with a spatial distribution constrained by sedimentary facies of the Permian strata. A close association between mineralization and Permian strata is recognizable. The Huanggang Fe‐Sn deposit was regarded as a standard skarn‐type deposit formed by magmatic hydrothermal solutions in connection with Mesozoic granites. But there are abundant fabrics indicating submarine hydrothermal exhalation both in magnetite ores and in skarns, including bedding/lamination, soft–deformation, synsedimentary brecciation, and collo‐form fabrics. The magnetite orebodies and skarn‐bodies are predominantly concordant stratiform, and extend nearly 20 km along certain stratigraphic horizon, that is, the upper section of the Lower‐Permian submarine volcanic rocks. The Mesozoic granitic rocks crosscut the magnetite and skarn zone. Instead of skarnization, they show strong greisenization associated with cassiterite‐quartz veins, distinct from the magnetite skarn‐ore with disseminated tin in the Permian rocks. The Dajing Sn‐polymetallic deposit is generally regarded as subvolcanic‐hydrothermal origin, principally because of the close spatial association between ores and some of the Mesozoic subvolcanic dikes (called rhyolitic porphyry). Detailed geological, fabric, petrographical and mineralogical study demonstrates that this very kind of subvolcanic rocks is actually a new type of exhalites (called ‘siderite‐sericite chert’ according to its mineral assemblage), formed by hydrothermal sedimentation during the evolution of the Later‐Permian lacustrine basin. There are, however, indeed some rhyolitic porphyry dikes that crosscut orebod–ies. The orebodies and their associated exhalite predate, and thus have no genetic relation, to the Mesozoic magmatic process. We thus conclude that subaqueous exhalative mineralization did occur during the basin evolution at the Permian time in the southern segment of the Da Hinggan Mountains, which is ignored and poorly understood, but might be as important as the hydrothermal mineralization connected with the Mesozoic magmatism.     

萤石矿自然重砂矿物组合规律及其找矿意义

为探究不同类型的萤石矿所反映的自然重砂矿物组合所携带的对各类型萤石矿的指示特征,统计了浙江、湖南、湖北、青海、广西、福建、安徽、新疆、甘肃、河北共计10个地区23个典型萤石矿床的自然重砂矿物报出情况,计算各重砂矿物报出率,分析得出热液型矿、后期热液型及热液充填型3种类型萤石矿床各自对应的自然重砂矿物组合和标型矿物组合。结果显示,各类型矿床自然重砂矿物组合既有相同之处也有显示各自的特点。因此,按照矿床类型建立的自然重砂矿物组合及其含量变化,对于新一轮的矿产资源勘查具有重要的意义。     

Ignimbritic cauldrons,alkali granites,and mineral deposits in fault-block mountains

The term fault-block mountains refers to an orogen, formed in an ensialic back arc by extension. The voluminous magmatism due to underplating of hot oceanic lithosphere, extrem thinning of the continental lithosphere and partial melting as well as mantle diapirs will be examplified by three ore provinces:

1. Southwestern North America (Middle Tertiary peralkaline ignimbrites and resurgent cauldrons)
2. Central Iran (Infracambrian ignimbrites and riebeckitegranite)
3. Arabian Shield (Infracambrian alkaligranites and rhyolites, 625-570 m.y.).

An overview of mineral deposits related to resurgent cauldrons will be given, encompassing disseminated deposits (Cu, Mo, Sn), skarns, massive magnetite ores, beryl pegmatites, sedimentary deposits (Pb-Zn; Hg, U, Li; Mn, borates, zeolites), mineralized vents (Au, U, apatite), vein type deposits (Au, Ag, Te, fluorite, U) and hydrothermal replacements (alunite). The value of several deposits exceeds 10 billion German Marks at current prices. The exploration concept based on resurgent cauldrons may also be applied successfully in other provinces.