Geology and Mineral Chemistry of Gold Mineralization in Mirge‐Naqshineh Occurrence (Saqez,NW Iran): Implications for Transportation and Precipitation of Gold

The Mirge-Naqshineh gold district is situated at northwest of Iran with a NW-trending brittleductile shear zone. It is hosted by Precambrian meta-sedimentary and meta-volcanic units traversed by mineralized quartz veins. In terms of cross-cutting relationships and sulfide content three types of quartz veins are identified in the region. Among those, parallel to bedding quartz vein(type Ⅰ) is the main host for gold mineralization. Gold is found in three different forms: 1) submicrometer-size inclusions of gold in arsenian pyrite, 2) as electrum and 3) in the crystal lattice of sulfides(pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite). Six types of pyrite(Py1-Py6) were identified in this ore reserve. Py3 coexists with arsenopyrite and contains the greatest As-Au concentrations. There is a negative correlation between the As and S contents in Py2 and Py3, implying the substitution of sulfur by arsenic. Pyrites and mineralized quartz veins were formed via metamorphic-hydrothermal fluid and reflect the gold-transportation as Au(HS)_2~- under reducing and acidic conditions. The gold precipitation mainly controlled by crystallization of arsenian pyrite during fluid/rock interactions and variation of fO_2. The volcanic host rock has played an important role in gold concentration, as Py3 in this rock contains inclusion of gold particles, but gold is within the lattice of pyrite in phyllite or other units.     

八卦庙金矿床石英脉与金矿化关系再研究

八卦庙特大型金矿床是近年发现的产于秦岭地区泥盆系浅变质细碎屑岩中规模最大的微细浸染型金矿,金矿化与石英脉关系非常密切,经过大量分析数据统计表明,金矿石品位与其石英脉带的发育规模、脉体内外硫化物的含量成正比,与脉体的规整程度成反比;与脉体的厚度具有一定的关系。一般说,产于节理中的石英细脉的含金量比顺层产出的石英大脉的含金量高;石英脉的含金量高于脉旁围岩的含金量数倍甚至几十倍,含金石英脉与脉旁蚀变岩石共同构成工业矿体。石英脉带是宏观上直观的找矿评价标志。     

西藏甲玛铜多金属矿床金矿地质特征及成矿作用

甲玛铜多金属矿床按照赋矿岩石不同,共包含产于矽卡岩中的与铜共生的金矿(化)体、产于板岩-角岩中的脉状金矿(化)体、产于大理岩中的脉状金矿(化)体以及产于玢(斑)岩脉中的独立金矿(化)体4种金矿化类型。矽卡岩中的金矿化较强,全矿区金品位×厚度基本都大于1 m.g/t,存在多个富金块段;板岩中金矿化主要分布在矿区外围破碎细粒黄铁矿化硅化板岩中,角岩中金矿(化)体以富含雄黄、雌黄为特征;大理岩中金矿化较弱,矿(化)体通常呈透镜状产出;玢(斑)岩中金矿化主要产于岩脉中的石英脉内。矿石中金的赋存状态主要以独立矿物和类质同像形式存在。独立矿物形式的金以自然金、银金矿存在于铜矿物、石英、黄铁矿等载金矿物内;类质同像形式的金主要存在于以斑铜矿、黄铜矿为代表的铜矿物中。金矿物赋存状态以粒间金、包裹金为主,其次为连生金和裂隙金。笔者以甲玛铜多金属矿床金的地质特征、分布规律及赋存状态为研究基础,推测甲玛金成矿作用与幔源C-H-O流体有关,并初步建立了甲玛铜多金属矿床金成矿模型。此外,提出了运用模型开展区域及矿区下一步找矿工作的建议。     

Structural and mechanical controls on intrusion-related deposits of the Tombstone Gold Belt,Yukon, Canada,with comparisons to other vein-hosted ore-deposit types

Intrusion-related gold deposits at the Clear Creek, Scheelite Dome and Dublin Gulch properties of the Tombstone Gold Belt (TGB), Yukon Territory have dominantly E-striking, steeply dipping, auriferous quartz extension veins within intrusions. In adjacent metasedimentary rocks gold is hosted in subvertical NW- to NNW-striking sinistral faults as veins and breccias, in E-striking extension veins and locally in E- to ENE-striking fault veins. These structural relationships indicate low magnitude, broadly E–W-directed shortening and N–S extension during stock emplacement and gold mineralisation at ∼92 Ma.The lack of any deviation or deflection of the extension vein orientations in the country rocks, with respect to their orientation within the stocks, indicates consistent stress trajectories in both rock types. These TGB deposits formed at 5–8 km depth, where mean and differential stresses may be greater in magnitude than in shallower porphyry environments. Many porphyry systems feature magmatic-related stresses that dominated the local stress field, with more variable vein orientations the result. Conversely, orogenic gold systems usually exhibit strong dimensionality in vein orientations. Fault-hosted mineralisation in metasedimentary rocks of the TGB deposits in this study is comparable in geometry, but generally smaller in size than in many orogenic gold systems. Intrusion-related systems of the TGB exhibit intermediate structural styles of mineralisation that provide a useful bridge in understanding the diversity of mechanically controlled structural styles in otherwise mostly unrelated gold deposit types.     

Nature of the Ore-Forming Fluid at the Quaternary Noya Gold Deposit in Kyushu,Japan

We discuss the nature of the ore-forming hydrothermal fluid in the Noya gold-bearing calcite-quartz-adularia veins of central Kyushu, Japan on the basis of oxygen, carbon, and strontium isotope ratios, and aqueous speciation calculations for the present-day geothermal fluid. The isotopic values of the Noya ore-forming fluid were estimated to be −6.5‰ for δ¹³C and −7.5‰ for δ¹⁸O. The oxygen isotopic equilibrium temperatures for vein calcite are more than 180°C at the bottom of the Noya mineralization zone, and decrease with increasing elevation. As the temperature decreased, the dominant carbon species in the fluid changed from H₂CO₃ to HCO₃^- at about 120°C. The equilibrium temperatures for vein quartz are consistent with the calcite calculations. The carbon and oxygen isotope trends of the Noya vein calcite and the isotope ratios of strontium suggest that the fluids that precipitated the Noya veins were controlled by an andesite-dominated geology. Chondrite-normalized REE patterns for the white-colored veins from wells 51-WT-1 and 51-WT-2 displayed a light REE-rich pattern with positive Eu anomalies, suggesting the existence of a reducing environment for the fluid. The pyrite-rich gray-colored veins and a silicified rock from well 51-WT-2 showed higher REE concentrations than did the white veins. Altered host andesitic rocks have similar REE patterns to that of the silicified rock, and have higher REE contents than the others in the drill cores. Aqueous speciation calculations showed that the fluid in the hydrothermal reservoir is currently in muscovite stability. The fluid at the ore-mineralization stage may have contained more potassium or have had a higher pH, so that adularia precipitated with calcite and quartz, as well as gold. Fluid boiling at depth in the system produced the gold-bearing calcite-quartz-adularia veins.     

The Granny Smith gold deposit: the role of heterogeneous stress distribution at an irregular granitoid contact in a greenschist facies terrane

The Granny Smith gold deposits formed late in the structural history of the Yilgarn Block at a high crustal level in a largely brittle structural régime. Gold mineralisation is located along a N-S striking fault which wraps around the contact of a small granitoid intrusion. In different sections of the fault, mineralisation may be developed in the granitoid, in the adjacent sedimentary sequence and/or along the contact between them. In the granitoid, gold mineralisation is in conjugate networks of thin carbonate-quartz veins and their alteration halos. Small displacements along veins are common. In contrast, veins and faults in the sedimentary rocks are subparallel to bedding. Spatial variations in the conjugate vein orientations indicate that the local stress field was heterogeneous and controlled by the shape of the granitoid contact. The greatest variations in vein and implied stress orientations occur in zones where the contact is most irregular. These are also the areas of richest mineralisation. Fluid flow was thus focused in a regional-scale low mean-stress region created by the geometry of the granitoid intrusion. Its irregular contact caused deposit scale variations in fluid flow and resulted in heterogeneous gold grades along the contact zone.     

Geology and Alteration-Mineralization Characteristics of the Cibaliung Epithermal Gold Deposit, Banten, Indonesia

Abstract. The Cibaliung gold project is located at the central portion of the Neogene Sunda‐Banda magmatic arc. Gold‐silver mineralization in the area is hosted in a thick sequence of sub‐aqueous basaltic andesite volcanics with intercalated sediments intruded by sub‐volcanic andesite to diorite plugs and dykes, and subsequently cut by a cluster of diatreme breccias. These host rocks are unconformably overlain by dacitic tuffs, younger sediments and basalt flows. The gold prospects in Cibaliung occur within a NW‐trending structural corridor that is 3.5 km wide by at least 6 km long. It is fault‐bounded and is considered to be a graben. Two aligned NNW‐trending sub‐vertical shoots, Cikoneng and Cibitung, host the currently defined resource within the steeply dipping vein system with a minimum strike length of 1,300 m. As of July 2001, exploration has defined an inferred + indicated mineral resource of approximately 1.3 million tonnes at 10.42 g/t gold and 60.7 g/t silver at a 3 g/t Au cut‐off. This equates to approximately 435,000 ounces of gold and 2.54 million ounces of silver. Gold‐silver mineralization occurs as quartz veins characteristic of the low‐sulphidation epithermal adularia‐sericite type. Progressive dilation with a general increase in gold grade has produced multi‐stage veining and brecciation that grades from early to late stages as: pre‐mineral fluidized breccia, quartz vein stockwork, massive vein, crustiform vein, colloform‐crustiform vein with progressive increase in chloritic clay bands, clay‐quartz milled matrix breccias with a progressive increase in clay content, and synto post‐mineral fault gouge with vein clasts. Wall rock alteration is characterized by pro‐grade chlorite+adularia flooding that is locally overprinted by a low temperature argillic alteration (smectite, illite and mixed layered clays). Generally, the argillic alteration becomes weak with depth. The major mineral constituents of the veins are quartz, adularia and clay. In the early gold‐poor hydrothermal stages, quartz and adularia dominate with minor calcite and clay (smectite, poorly crystalline chlorite, interlayered chlorite‐smectite and illite‐smectite). In the later gold‐rich hydrothermal stages, clay with variable amounts of carbonate increases whereas the abundance of quartz and adularia decreases. Gold occurs mainly as electrum while silver occurs as argentite‐aguilarite‐naumannite and electrum, and rarely as native silver, sulphosalts and tellurides. Sulphides generally comprise <1 vol % of the vein, with pyrite as the most common species. Together with pyrite, traces of very fine‐grained base metal sulphides dominated by chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena are in most cases intimately associated with electrum and silver minerals. Partial supergene oxidation generally extends down to about 200 m below the surface at Cikoneng and further down to more than 300 m at Cibitung. The hydrothermal system responsible for the gold‐silver mineralization in the area may be related to rhyolitic magmatism focused on a volcanic intrusive center during back arc rifting that formed a graben or pull‐apart basin. The dominant mechanism for the higher grade gold deposition is fluid mixing of up welling metal‐bearing hydrothermal solutions with relatively near surface cool, oxygenated condensate and/or steam‐heated meteoric fluids, as opposed to retrograde boiling. The strongly focused dilational structural environment is thought to have been the mechanism for focusing fluid flows, both up welling and descending, forming pipe‐like mineralized bodies in the rhomboidal dilation zones. It is interpreted that mineralization took place under low temperature conditions (<150–220d?C) at a minimum depth of around 200–250 m below the palaeo‐water table.     

The subsolidus segregation of layer-parallel quartz-feldspar veins in greenschist to upper amphibolite facies metasediments

Abstract Layer-parallel (i.e. parallel to foliation or bedding) vein formation in the graywackes and pelites of the Quetico Metasedimentary Belt occurred during synchronous prograde metamorphism and regional (D₂) compression. In a traverse across metasediments which change in metamorphic grade from greenschist to upper amphibolite (migmatite) facies, layer-parallel veins show the following trends: (1) an increase in thickness and internal complexity, the latter due to successive boudinage; (2) low-grade veins are parallel to planes of anisotropy due to the original sedimentary fabric of the host rocks, but at higher grades other sites are also used and (3) a systematic increase in plagioclase/quartz ratio in the veins towards higher grade, adjacent mafic selvedges first exhibit quartz depletion then, in the amphibolite facies, plagioclase depletion. Mineralogical zoning is often preserved in a single vein, older parts are more quartz-rich than younger. Mass balance calculations and whole-rock geochemistry based on veins, mafic selvedges and country rock are consistent with a closedsystem subsolidus segregation origin. The layerparallel veins are syntectonic, and migration of the mobile components required to form their mineralogy is a stress-induced mass transfer. The source of these components appears to be dominantly pressure solution of the same minerals in the host rocks, although metamorphic reactions may also have contributed. Veins nucleated first at those sites where initial sedimentary heterogeneites, such as fine-scale graded bedding, provided gradients of normal stress across grain boundaries, and hence of chemical potential, necessary to drive the subsolidus segregation process. The earliest veins are thus parallel to bedding. Later, nucleation of the veins could also occur along more randomly distributed sites within the metasediments, and these veins grew parallel to the schistosity rather than bedding, if the two were distinct. Once formed, the veins themselves, which are more competent than the surrounding rock, provide the stress heterogeneity required for their further growth. The increasing plagioclase/quartz ratio in the veins may be due to a temperature dependent increase in plagioclase component mobility relative to quartz. Alternatively, the increasing transfer distances for silica, resulting from prior quartz depletion in the inner parts of the mafic selvedge, may increase the relative mobility of plagioclase component.     

How to resolve the controls on mesothermal vein systems in a goldfield characterized by sparse kinematic information and fault reactivation—a structural and graphical approach

Current mine exposures of auriferous veins in the Charters Towers Goldfield (CTGF) are characterized by a scarcity of kinematic indicators. Furthermore, the dip direction of exposed and historically mined orebodies largely coincides with the orientation of pre-existing discontinuities. Consequently, the reactivation of earlier structures during gold deposition is strongly indicated. Both factors complicate the structural analysis of the auriferous vein systems, as slip on earlier faults likely occurred before new rock failure and evolution of fault networks reflecting the stress field present at the time of gold deposition. Despite access to drillcore, open pits and underground workings, extracted data were limited to ten occurrences of wear groove striations and three reverse separations of dykes and a pegmatite cut by sulphide-bearing quartz veins. Because of the scarcity of kinematic information, the structural analysis focused on the geometry of veins and ore-shoots, also applying basic graphical and kinematic methods.     

八卦庙金矿床石英脉与金矿化关系再研究

八卦庙特大型金矿床是近年发现的产于秦岭地区泥盆系浅变质细碎屑岩中规模最大的微细浸染型金矿,金矿化与石英脉关系非常密切,经过大量分析数据统计表明,金矿石品位与其石英脉带的发育规律,脉体内外硫化物的含量成正比,与脉体的规整程度成反比,与脉体的厚度具有一定的关系。一般说,产于节理中的石英细脉的含金量比顺层产出的石英大脉的含金量高;石英脉的含金量高于脉旁围岩的含金量数倍甚至几十倍,含金石英脉与脉旁蚀变岩石     

Genetic aspects of gold mineralization in the Southern Granulite Terrain,India

Gold mineralization in Southern Granulite Terrain (SGT) of India has close spatial relationship with the shear zones (Moyar–Bhavani) present in Cauvery Suture Zone. Gold is found to be associated with primary quartz veins, placers and laterites. The gold prospects in SGT can be broadly grouped into three provinces i) Wynad-Nilgiri, ii) Malappuram and iii) Attappadi. The auriferous quartz veins are within the deformed biotite/hornblende bearing gneisses and amphibolite. Wall rock alteration is conspicuous around the mineralized veins and gives an assemblage of muscovite–calcite–ankerite–chlorite–biotite–pyrite related to fluid–rock interaction at the time of vein formation. Fluid inclusion studies of vein quartz gives an idea of the nature of the ore forming fluids, the fluid involved in gold mineralization is of low saline and aqueous-carbonic in composition and quite similar to the orogenic lode gold deposits reported world-wide. Micro-thermometric data indicates fluid immiscibility (phase separation) during trapping of fluid inclusions and this must have played an important role in gold deposition. Geochronological studies of mineral separates from Wynad-Nilgiri province using Rb–Sr and Sm–Nd isochron methods of the auriferous quartz veins gave an age of approximately 450 Ma for the vein formation. The present studies on SGT gold mineralization indicate 1. During the Pan-African orogeny, extensive fluid influx from mantle and metamorphism extracted gold from a mafic source and were focused along major structural discontinuities of Moyar–Bhavani Shear Zone, 2. The aqueous–carbonic ore fluid interacted with rocks of the upper crust and triggered a set of metasomatic changes responsible for the dissolved components such as Ca, Si and Fe and finally precipitating in the veins and 3. The mineralizing fluid with dissolved gold in sulphide complex got destabilized due to fluid immiscibility and wall rock alteration leading to the deposition of gold with associated sulphide minerals in the vein system.     

Sedimentation in epithermal veins of the Bohemia mining district,Oregon, USA: Interpretations and significance

Open spaces in epithermal veins of the Bohemia mining district, Oregon, USA, filled with sediments during hydrothermal activity. These sediments consist mainly of chalcedony, rock fragments, and vein quartz fragments. In addition, hematite is deposited during stage three of the vein development. Observed sedimentary features include draping laminae, erosion surfaces, slumping, and graded bedding. Such sediments can be used for reconstruction of the original orientation of vein systems, because the sediment laminae are initially deposited horizontally. Vein sediments record variations in fluid flow due to self-sealing, fracturing, and cessation of hydrothermal activity. Investigation of vein sediments therefore provides an additional tool to unravel the geologic history of epithermal systems. The chalcedonic vein sediments record large temperature drops and highly silica supersaturated waters, probably due to fracturing and pressure release. Hematitic vein sediments indicate sulfide deficient hydrothermal fluids.     

八卦庙金矿床石英脉的控矿作用初探

八卦庙金矿床的矿石品位与其石英脉发育程度和破碎程度、共生硫化物的含量成正比,与脉体的厚度、共生硫化物的粒度成反比;节理脉的含金量比顺层脉的含金量高;石英细脉的含金量高于脉旁围岩的含金量数倍至十多倍,但含金石英脉不能单独构成工业矿体.据此,作者首次提出金矿化类型属于细脉浸染型金矿,揉皱石英细(网)脉破碎带是此类金矿的一种重要而直观的找矿标志.     

山东龙口大磨曲家金矿床302 脉深部成矿预测

大磨曲家金矿床位于玲珑金矿田北端。区内共产出大小金矿脉23 条,其中302 脉为主要的开采矿脉,含3 个工业矿体。矿体主要产于主断裂面下盘,由黄铁绢英岩化碎裂岩组成,呈似层状或透镜体状。通过对302 脉矿体厚度、金品位及矿脉米克吨值等分析,矿脉在深部自南向北有较好的金矿化显示,是深部隐伏矿体的找矿标志。矿体厚度在垂向变化上显示由74 线到98 线逐渐降低。根据这些找矿标志,在302 脉深部预测5 处找矿靶区。     

Young orogenic gold mineralisation in active collisional mountains, Taiwan

Gold-bearing vein systems in the high mountains of Taiwan are part of the youngest tectonic-hydrothermal system on Earth. Tectonic collision initiated in the Pliocene has stacked Eocene–Miocene marine sedimentary rocks to form steep mountains nearly 4 km high. Thinner portions of the sedimentary pile (∼5 km) are currently producing hydrocarbons in a fold and thrust belt, and orogenic gold occurs in quartz veins in thicker parts of the pile (∼10 km) in the Slate Belt that underlies the mountains. Metamorphic fluids (2–5 wt.% NaCl equivalent) are rising from the active greenschist facies metamorphic zone and transporting gold released during rock recrystallisation. Metamorphic fluid flow at the Pingfengshan historic gold mine was focussed in well-defined (4 km³) fracture zones with networks of quartz veins, whereas large surrounding volumes of rock are largely unveined. Gold and arsenopyrite occur in several superimposed vein generations, with ankeritic alteration of host rocks superimposed on chlorite–calcite alteration zones as fluids cooled and became out of equilibrium with the host rocks. Mineralising fluids had δ¹⁸O near +10‰, δ¹³C was between −1‰ and −6‰ and these fluids were in isotopic equilibrium with host rocks at ∼350°C. Ankeritic veins were emplaced in extensional sites in kink fold axial surfaces, formed as the rock mass was transported laterally from compressional to extensional regimes in the orogen. Rapid exhumation (>2 mm/year) of the Slate Belt is causing a widespread shallow conductive thermal anomaly without igneous intrusions. Meteoric water is penetrating into the conductive thermal anomaly to contribute to crustal fluid flow and generate shallow boiling fluids (∼250°C) with fluid temperature greater than rock temperature. The meteoric-hydrothermal system impinges on, but causes only minor dilution of, the gold mineralisation system at depth.     

山东栖霞金矿的空间分布及其矿化特征

破碎蚀变岩型金矿与裂隙充填石英脉型金矿是栖霞地区主要金矿化类型,破碎蚀变岩型金矿分布于郭家岭超单元西石硼单元或玲珑超单元郭家店单元二长花岗岩体内外接触带附近;而裂隙充填石英脉型金矿主要分布于栖霞-桃村一带的古老基底构造轴部附近,且集中分布于该地区南北宽不超过20km的范围内。而大部分含金矿脉其附近往往发育有成群成带的中基性岩脉,中基性岩脉特别是煌斑岩为该区找金的一个间接标志。     

Tectonic and structural setting for active mesothermal gold vein systems,Southern Alps,New Zealand

The Southern Alps of New Zealand is an active oblique collisional mountain belt with extensive regional tectonically driven fluid flow. There is no evidence for igneous activity, and fluids consist of varying proportions of meteoric water and mid-crustal fluid derived from dehydration reactions. Fluid flow is controlled by fracture porosity, particularly in damage zones along faults and fault intersections. Gold and arsenic bearing veins exposed at the surface indicate two principal zones of gold mineralisation at depth. One of these is in the highest mountains, near to, but not in the region of maximum uplift. Deformation is dominated by reverse faulting, but some normal and strike-slip faults occur as well. The other zone of gold mineralisation is at and near the intersection of regional oblique dextral reverse faults and regional strike-slip faults. Both zones are characterised by small discontinuous vein systems, locally accompanied by ankeritic alteration of host rock. Veins occur in extensional and shear veins, and in dilational jogs with implosion breccias. Gold mineralisation occurred at many structural levels between the brittle–ductile transition and the near-surface region. The Southern Alps hydrothermal system represents an active roof zone to a mesothermal gold deposition system at depth. As such, this is a modern analogue for mesothermal gold terranes elsewhere in New Zealand and around the world. Observations on the regional distribution of fluid flow in active orogens can give insights into fluid flow at depth where gold mineralisation is occurring now. Comparison of these observations with ancient gold-bearing belts allows construction of three-dimensional concepts of orogenic fluid flow and gold mineralisation.     

上明峪金矿地质特征及其与大河南岩体的关系

太行山北部的大河南岩体内部分布有一些金矿床及大量金矿化点,其中最具代表性的是上明峪金矿。大河南岩体侵位之后,遭受了强烈的构造运动,形成了近ＳＮ向和近ＥＷ向的两组断裂构造,断裂构造的活动使岩石强烈破碎形成破碎蚀变岩,岩浆热液萃取了花岗岩中的成矿元素并将其搬运至断裂带内,这种富含成矿元素的岩浆热液在断裂带中与天水混合,导致热液中的成矿元素沉淀形成矿化。上明峪金矿的形成是岩浆热液与天水共同作用的结果。     

Quartz vein fabrics coupled to elevated fluid pressures in the Stawell gold deposit,south-eastern Australia

Shear and extensional veins formed during the reactivation of the Magdala shear system at Stawell in western Victoria, Australia, contribute to the formation of the auriferous Central and Basalt Contact lodes. Within this shear system is a range of fault rocks accompanied by steep-dipping (>65°) quartz-rich laminated shear veins and relatively flat-lying extensional veins. Both vein sets appear to have been a primary source for the host rock permeability during fluid flow in a regime of significant deviatoric stresses. The macro- and microstructures suggest that the dilatancy, that produced mineralized veins, formed under conditions of overpressure generated by fluid infiltration late in a tectonic regime. A new microfabric analysis technique is used to investigate the quartz-rich veins, which allows rapid integration of the microstructure with the crystallographic preferred orientations (CPOs). Both the shear and extensional quartz veins have a random CPO with ∼120° dihedral angles between the quartz–quartz grains, which is typical of a metamorphic equilibrium microfabric. The microstructures indicate that the quartz has undergone extensive grain adjustment in the solid-state, with grain shape and size affected by interfacial solution (pressure solution) effects. These features are consistent with inferences from experimental rock deformation studies, where grain boundary migration is enhanced in a water-rich environment. The onset of solution-transfer processes (pressure solution) developed as the quartz microfabric stabilized and continued to modify the CPO and microstructure significantly. It is concluded that grain growth and pressure solution are coupled diffusive mass transfer processes, related to fluctuations in pore fluid pressures in a region undergoing deformation at near lithostatic pressures.     

休宁-歙县东南部金矿成矿地质条件及找矿方向

休宁-歙县东南部是皖南重要的金多金属成矿带,区内金矿以石英脉型和构造蚀变岩型为主。矿床主要产于新元古代片麻状花岗岩与井潭组流纹质变火山岩中,其分布受北东向断裂控制,燕山期的左行平移作用形成的断裂带是区内重要的控岩控矿断裂,沿带侵入的燕山期花岗岩是区内金矿的成矿物质来源和热液来源。寻找和评价受岩浆热液影响的含硅化、云英岩化破碎带的含金蚀变岩型金矿是今后该区金矿找矿的主要方向。