Gravity and magnetic 3D inversion of Morro do Engenho complex, Central Brazil

In the Goiás Alkaline Province, in central Brazil, some mafic–ultramafic alkaline bodies crop out, such as Morro do Engenho Complex (ME), whereas other intrusive bodies are completely covered by Quaternary sediments, such as A2 body, and can only be defined by their magnetic and gravity responses. The bodies give rise to strong gravity and magnetic anomalies. We inverted the gravity and magnetic data to estimate 3D density and magnetic intensity contrasts. The gravity inversion reveals that ME and A2 intrusions, totally emplaced in the upper crust, have maximum depths of about 10 and 6 km, respectively. The estimated density contrast distribution indicates a NE–SW preferential direction for ME intrusive body. Since the remnant magnetization is very important in the area, we inverted the magnetic data, testing two hypotheses: only induced field and induced plus remnant magnetizations. The results of the inversion using only induced field could not explain the observed magnetic field, which was about 1000 nT larger than the calculated one. Induced plus remnant field inferred from wandering polar path fitted the observations. 3D magnetic inversions when remnant magnetization was included recover deeper and thinner bodies compared with gravity inversion. The inverted bodies have spherical shapes which are more consistent with the model of magmatic chambers instead of plug intrusions.     

The Gaojiacun Mafic-Ultramafic Complex （Sichuan, SW China）：Neoproterozoic Magmatic Activity at the Western Margin of the Yangtze Craton

1 Introduction The Gaojiacun intrusive complex is one of the numerous ultramafic-mafic intrusions in Sichuan Province of China. It was mapped during the 1970s and studied mainly by Chinese scientists (e.g. Geological Team 106, 1975; Shen et al., 1986, 1989; CGGJC, 1986; Yang et al., 1993; Li et al., 1995; Shen et al., 2003; Zhu et al., 2004a). Since the year 2000, China has become one of the largest PGE consumers. While the country can produce only less than 1 ton PGE/year, the Chin…     

Deformation structures associated with the Trachyte Mesa intrusion,Henry Mountains,Utah: Implications for sill and laccolith emplacement mechanisms

Deformation structures in the wall rocks of igneous intrusions emplaced at shallow crustal depths preserve an important record of how space was created for magma in the host rocks. Trachyte Mesa, a small Oligocene age intrusion in the Henry Mountains, Utah, is composed of a series of stacked tabular, sheet-like intrusions emplaced at 3–3.5 km depth into sandstone-dominated sedimentary sequences of late Palaeozoic–Mesozoic age. New structural analysis of the spatial distribution, geometry, kinematics and relative timings of deformation structures in the host rocks of the intrusion has enabled the recognition of distinct pre-, syn-, and late-stage-emplacement deformation phases. Our observations suggest a two-stage growth mechanism for individual sheets where radial growth of a thin sheet was followed by vertical inflation. Dip-slip faults formed during vertical inflation; they are restricted to the tips of individual sheets due to strain localisation, with magma preferentially exploiting these faults, initiating sill (sheet) climbing. The order in which sheets are stacked impacts on the intrusion geometry and associated deformation of wall rocks. Our results offer new insights into the incremental intrusion geometries of shallow-level magmatic bodies and the potential impact of their emplacement on surrounding host rocks.     

西藏尼玛县南部中晚侏罗世松木果强过铝花岗岩带的发现及其意义

班公湖-怒江结合带南80-100km处,分布着一条东西长度超过100km的强过铝(SP)花岗岩带,由松木果岩体、央雄勒岩体等数个岩体构成。岩体侵位于昂孜错-色热巴断裂南北两侧,包含5次侵入事件,均属高钾钙碱性强过铝花岗岩类,是后碰撞型SP花岗岩,时代为中-晚侏罗世。研究认为,岩带的形成与班公湖-怒江结合带尼玛段中侏罗世之前向南俯冲闭合作用有关,SP花岗岩带的有限长度和相对区域上早的侵位时代还表明,中特提斯洋是多块体、分时段闭合的。     

Dynamic Magma Conduit System Related to the Jinchuan Ni-Cu Sulfide Deposit, NW China

The Jinchuan Ni-Cu sulfide deposits, NW China, are hosted in small ultramafic intrusions that were emplaced into Paleoproterozoic metamorphic rocks. The ultramafic intrusions were previously thought to be the segments of a single elongate intrusion that was dismembered by late faults into eastern and western portions, each of which have distinct stratigraphic sequences.     

Pliocene Intrusions in the Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining District,Irian Jaya,Indonesia: Petrography and Mineral Chemistry

At least 16 Pliocene hypabyssal intrusions crop out within the Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining District in Irian Jaya (western New Guinea), Indonesia. Several Cu-Au ore deposits are associated spatially and genetically with these young hypabyssal intrusions. Approximately 188 mt of Cu-Au skarn ore has been delineated or produced from the district. Most of these skarns are associated with a quartz monzonite to quartz monzodiorite stock (the Ertsberg Intrusion). The Grasberg Complex, a series of nested intrusions, hosts a supergiant porphyry copper deposit containing ～9.8 mt of Cu-Au ore.

Textural and mineralogical differences among the intrusions are largely the result of crystallization at different crustal levels. The intrusions were emplaced at ≤ 2 km depth into deformed sedimentary rocks that originally were deposited on the northern margin of the Australian continent. Emplacement of at least one intrusion was controlled by cross-cutting NW- and NE-trending fault sets. Intrusions within the Gunung Bijih District can be divided into a “high-K” group of latites, trachydacites, and trachytes, and a “low-K” group of medium- to high-K andesites and dacites.

The high-K group of intrusions is volumetrically more important (at current levels of exposure), containing the two largest igneous bodies in the district: the Ertsberg Intrusion and the Grasberg Complex. The Ertsberg Intrusion is a single intrusion with an estimated volume of 10 to 20 km³. The Grasberg Complex, which has an outcrop area comparable to that of the Ertsberg, consists of a series of small (≤4 km³) intrusions. All other intrusions in the study area appear to be ≤1 km³ in volume.

The Ertsberg Intrusion is equigranular, with only a few phenocrysts and a generally coarser grain size than the other intrusions. In contrast to most district intrusions, the Ertsberg contains only trace amounts of amphibole. Despite its large (for the district) volume, the Ertsberg is relatively homogeneous in terms of mineral content and mineral compositions. These observations, along with the occurrence of near end-member magnetite in the Ertsberg, suggest that this intrusion was emplaced in the shallow (≤2 km) crust as a single pulse of crystal-poor magma, which then cooled slowly. At this depth, the dissolved H₂O content of the magma remained too low to stabilize amphibole throughout crystallization. Coexisting titanite, diop-side, magnetite, and quartz, with no ilmenite, suggests oxygen fugacity in the Ertsberg was at least one log unit above the nickel-nickel oxide (NNO) buffer.

Other intrusions in the district, including those in the Grasberg Complex, are porphyritic, containing 40% to 60% phenocrysts in fine-grained (usually ≤10 μm) groundmass. These intrusions commonly contain 5% to 20% amphibole or pseudomorphs of alteration minerals after amphibole. These intrusions crystallized phenocrysts at depth (10-15 km?) where increased confining pressure allowed dissolved H₂O contents to build up enough to stabilize amphibole. Strongly zoned plagioclase phenocrysts in low-K intrusions indicate that low-K intrusions reached H₂O saturation early in their crystallization history, and that low-K magmas crystallized with higher dissolved H₂O contents than did porphyritic high-K magmas. None of the porphyritic intrusions contain mineral assemblages indicative of oxygen fugacity, but the lack of orthopyroxene in these intrusions may indicate oxygen fugacities greater than the minimum estimated for the Ertsberg Intrusion.     

The hydrothermal system of Central Jebilet (Variscan Belt,Morocco): A genetic association between bimodal plutonism and massive sulphide deposits?

Central Jebilet (Moroccan Variscan Belt) hosts several Cu and Pb–Zn massive sulphide deposits that are associated with a suite of gabbroic and microgranitic, tholeiitic to alkaline, intrusions emplaced 330 Ma ago. The intrusions and ore bodies form structural lineaments within marine Visean shales that are affected by very low to low-grade post-Visean metamorphism and contemporaneous shortening accompanied by the development of conjugate ductile to brittle shear zones. The ductile shear zones are localised in thermally softened aureoles around magmatic intrusions, while brittle deformation is common far from the intrusions. The intrusions have induced a contact metamorphism that reaches the hornblende hornfels facies, and their emplacement was accompanied by hydrothermal activity that leached base metals from the felsic intrusions.The massive sulphide deposits consist of steeply dipping elongate lenses that are located in shear zones 1–1.5 km away from the intrusions. They are dominated by pyrrhotite (up to 90%), sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite and arsenopyrite forming a mylonitic texture. Their wall rocks are altered to syntectonic mineral assemblages similar to those found in the alteration zones associated with the magmatic intrusions. The massive sulphide deposits located near the felsic intrusions are rich in lead and zinc compared to those located near the mafic intrusions, which are copper deposits. These relationships indicate that the whole Central Jebilet hydrothermal system could be described in terms of a lateral secretion of base metals from source zones (i.e. bimodal intrusions) to discharge zones (i.e. the Jebilet sulphide deposits). The metapelites in the contact metamorphic zone around felsic intrusions contain zincian ilmenite that was probably related to interaction of the host rocks with chlorine-rich fluid carrying zinc and other metals leached from the microgranites.     

Intrusion–Related Vein Gold Deposits: Types, Tectono-Magmatic Settings and Difficulties of Distinction from Orogenic Gold Deposits

Abstract: A spectrum of intrusion-related vein gold deposits is recognized. Representative examples are described of the following geochemical associations: Au-Fe oxide–Cu, Au–Cu–Mo–Zn, Au–As–Pb–Zn–Cu, Au–Te–Pb–Zn–Cu and Au–As–Bi–Sb. The associated intrusions range from small outcropping stocks to complex batholiths. The different vein associations are believed to reflect the compositions of related intrusions, which themselves characterize distinct tectonic settings. The Au-Fe oxide–Cu and Au–Cu–Mo–Zn associations belong to two broad groups of deposits, Fe oxide–Cu–Au and porphyry Cu–Au, both of which are related to highly oxidized calc-alkaline intrusions emplaced in sub–duction–related arcs. The Au–As–Pb–Zn–Cu association seems to be linked to somewhat less oxidized intrusions emplaced in a similar setting. The Au–Te–Pb–Zn–Cu association, which possesses well-known epithermal counterparts, is also found with highly oxidized intrusions, but of alkaline composition and back-arc location. In contrast, the Au–As–Bi–Sb association, part of a newly recognized class of intrusion-hosted Au–Bi–W–As deposits, is related to relatively reduced intrusions, spanning the boundary between the magnetite– and ilmenite–series. Such intrusions, which may host major bulk-mineable gold deposits, were emplaced along the landward sides of arcs, possibly during lulls in subduction, as well as in continental collision settings. Therefore, a variety of geological environments is prospective for vein and, by extrapolation, other styles of gold mineralization, not all of them fully appreciated in the past. Several features of vein gold deposits, including imprecise relationships to individual intrusive phases, poorly developed mineral and metal zoning, apparent time gaps between intrusion and mineralization and presence of low–salinity, CO₂–rich fluid inclusions, are commonly taken to indicate a non-igneous origin and to be more typical of orogenic (mesothermal) gold deposits generated during accretionary tectonic events. However, several or all of these features apply equally to some intrusion– related vein gold deposits and, therefore, do not constitute distinguishing criteria. The currently popular assignment of most gold-rich veins to the orogenic category requires caution, because of the geological convergence that they show with some intrusion-related deposits. A proper distinction between intrusion-related and orogenic gold deposits is crucial for exploration planning.     

安徽铜陵凤凰山岩体若干特征及成矿关系

<正> 安徽铜陵凤凰山岩体,出露面积约9km2,呈似岩株状,总体成分属正常的钙碱系列的花岗闪长岩,副矿物为磁铁矿、榍石、磷灰石型,主要侵入于中三叠纪扁担山组灰岩中。岩体接触带北部向北陡倾,东部向东中等倾斜,南部向南倾较缓,西部超覆于围岩之上而产状较复杂。     

Geochronology and Significance of Granites Associated with Gold Deposits in the Jidong Area, China

The Jidong area is located on the north margin of the North China craton. It is a nucleus composed of the oldest rocks in China. Precambrian metamorphic rocks with various Phanerozoic granitoids invaded are widespread. Gold deposits here have close spatial relations to granitoids. Some deposits occur within them and others in the outer zone of the contact belt of the intrusion, extending thousands of metres. There have been controversial views in regard to the relations of the deposits to the intrusions although traditional techniques have been used to date the intrusions. In order to solve such a problem, the SHRIMP technique was adopted to date the U-Pb ages of zircon collected from the Yuerya intrusion which hosts the large-sized Yuerya Au deposit and Qingshankou intrusion 2 km away from the Jinchangyu (larger-sized) Au deposit. Analysis shows that the ages of 175±1 Ma and 174±3 Ma for Yuerya intrusion and the age of 199±2 Ma for Qingshankou granite indicate the Early Yanshanian stage of the Meso-     

红旗岭3号含矿岩体地质年龄及其岩石学特征

以1号和7号岩体为代表的红旗岭铜镍硫化物矿床,是兴蒙造山带中典型的岩浆熔离型矿床。矿区内共有30多个镁铁-超镁铁质岩体,3号岩体是其中的含矿岩体,多年来因其地质产状与主要含矿岩体不同被认为形成于燕山期。本次工作对采自不同深度岩心样品中的单矿物角闪石进行⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar同位素年代学研究,得到（228.2±3.0 ）Ma的坪年龄和（230.1±7.1）Ma的等时线年龄。该年龄和近年发表的红旗岭1号岩体地质年龄基本一致,说明它们均为早印支期岩浆作用的产物。通过对比分析1号和7号主含矿岩体与3号岩体的岩石地球化学特征发现,无论是稀土元素还是微量元素图解均显示了它们具有相同的配分模式,暗示了这些岩体的同源性特点。     

Magnetic anomalies of the Baikal rift zone and adjacent areas

The magnetic field of the Baikal rift zone differs both from that of adjacent territories and from oceanic rifts in its character and intensity. There is no strip-like structure of the field in Baikal. It is assumed that the thickness of the magnetic anomaly-generating layer in this region is small, due to a high thermal gradient in the crust. Basic intrusions are predicted at depths up to 18 km. There is evidence of instability in the geothermal field.     

岩浆作用过程的矿物记录:以邯邢地区中生代侵入岩为例

矿物环带结构是岩浆过程的良好记录,而矿物温压计可以定量计算岩浆的物理化学条件。该次研究对邯邢地区中生代侵入岩中两个浅成侵入体中典型的斜长石斑晶进行了电子探针和LA-ICP-MS元素面扫描,同时对其中不同成因的角闪石晶体进行了电子探针分析和物理化学条件计算。通过研究发现这两个样品中的斜长石斑晶属于循环晶。辉石闪长玢岩中的斜长石斑晶主要成分为更长石,而斑状石英二长岩中斜长石斑晶主要成分为中长石和拉长石。两者具有明显不同的环带结构,分别记录了不同的岩浆混合过程:前者记录了基性岩浆多次注入酸性岩浆房,并最终获得体积优势;后者记录了少量基性岩浆注入酸性岩浆房内,两者不断混合,形成均质化岩浆的过程。Fe元素从斜长石中心到边部有富集的趋势,表明岩浆最终向富铁的方向演化。角闪石温压计的计算结果表明,辉石闪长玢岩的岩浆房深度在5.5 km左右,温度大约为850 ℃,氧逸度大约为ΔNNO+1,熔体中的含水量大约为4.0%,其最终侵位于2.1 km的地壳深度。而斑状石英二长岩最终定位于2.0 km的地壳深度,角闪石结晶的平均温度为737 ℃,相对氧逸度为ΔNNO+1.2,熔体含水量为3.9%。     

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Magmatic oxide deposits in the～260 Ma Emeishan Large Igneous Province(ELIP),SW China and northern Vietnam,are important sources of Fe,Ti and V.Some giant magmatic Fe-Ti-V oxide deposits, such as the Panzhihua,Hongge,and Baima deposits,are well described in the literature and are hosted in layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Panxi region,the central ELIP.The same type of ELIP- related deposits also occur far to the south and include the Anyi deposit,about 130 km south of Panzhihua,and the Mianhuadi deposit in the Red River fault zone.The Anyi deposit is relatively small but is similarly hosted in a layered mafic intrusion.The Mianhuadi deposit has a zircon U-Pb age of～260 Ma and is thus contemporaneous with the ELIP.This deposit was variably metamorphosed during the Indosinian orogeny and Red River faulting.Compositionally,magnetite of the Mianhuadi deposit contains smaller amounts of Ti and V than that of the other deposits,possibly attributable to the later metamorphism.The distribution of the oxide ore deposits is not related to the domal structure of the ELIP.One major feature of all the oxide deposits in the ELIP is the spatial association of oxide-bearing gabbroic intrusions,syenitic plutons and high-Ti flood basalts.Thus,we propose that magmas from a mantle plume were emplaced into a shallow magma chamber where they were evolved into a field of liquid immiscibility to form two silicate liquids,one with an extremely Fe-Ti-rich gabbroic composition and the other syenitic.An immiscible Fe-Ti-(P) oxide melt may then separate from the mafic magmas to form oxide deposits.The parental magmas from which these deposits formed were likely Fe-Ti-rich picritic in composition and were derived from enriched asthenospheric mantle at a greater depth than the magmas that produced sulfide-bearing intrusions of the ELIP.     

Chromite compositions in nickel sulphide mineralized intrusions of the Kabanga-Musongati-Kapalagulu Alignment,East Africa: Petrologic and exploration significance

Chromite is a ubiquitous accessory mineral in the olivine-pyroxene cumulate bodies that host massive and disseminated nickel sulphide mineralization in intrusions of the Kabanga-Musongati-Kapalagulu Alignment in East Africa. Its composition is related to the conditions of emplacement and petrologic evolution of its host magma in a spectrum of intrusions ranging from classical lopolithic layered intrusions to groups of smaller, discrete sill-like chonoliths.The Kapalagulu lopolithic intrusion, emplaced into polymetamorphosed Archæan-Palæoproterozoic crust, contains abundant chromite with relatively oxidized compositions, whereas chromites from the highly-mineralized Kabanga chonolith intrusions, emplaced into graphitic and sulphidic schists, are strongly reduced in terms of their Fe³⁺/Fe^total ratio. Ni in chromite correlates with Ni in olivine: Ni in both is depleted in the more strongly sulphide-mineralized intrusions. The Musongati intrusion, also emplaced through graphitic schists, but much larger and less-well mineralized in sulphides than Kabanga, has chromites intermediate in character. The compositions of the chromites can be used to determine the petrologic history of the intrusions, and may prove to be a useful exploration tool in such mineralized belts.     

新疆喀拉通克铜镍矿镁铁质岩体形成时代、成矿特征与深部找矿前景

喀拉通克镁铁质岩体群位于准噶尔地块东北缘,由13个小岩体组成。在以往的研究中,这些岩体多被视为同期形成。笔者新获得的锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄显示,镁铁质岩体群发育晚石炭世和早二叠世2个时期的岩体,其中Y3岩体闪长岩、苏长岩以及G21岩体淡色辉长岩的年龄分别为290 Ma、283 Ma和281 Ma,与Y1和Y9含矿岩体的年龄在误差范围内一致;Y5岩体辉长岩和闪长岩的年龄均为320 Ma,明显早于其他岩体。结合区域构造演化资料分析,晚石炭世Y5岩体是俯冲环境下岩浆作用的产物,这与以往研究较多的早二叠世后碰撞伸展环境下形成的岩体不同。在该矿区,具有工业价值的硫化物矿体主要赋存在Y1~Y3以及Y9岩体中,其中Y1和Y9岩体中富硫化物的矿体主要分布在岩体中部,而Y2和Y3岩体中矿体主要分布在底部的苏长岩中,在Y1-Y2以及Y2-Y3岩体结合部位均可见块状矿体。矿体空间分布及其与通道对应关系显示镁铁质含矿岩体可能形成于不同的岩浆通道系统或通道的不同部位。矿物学变化显示Y3、Y9和G21演化程度相对高于Y1和Y2岩体;同时,前者硫化物矿石多为中等稀疏浸染状和星点状,后者多为稠密浸染状和块状矿石,且前者浸染状矿石的Ni/Cu比值(0.15~2.00)总体小于后者(0.14~4.48)。上述特征表明含矿岩体的岩浆相对演化程度与矿化富集程度有一定的关系。综合分析地质、物探资料以及成矿特征,笔者认为Y1-Y3岩体深部仍具有寻找成矿岩体的潜力。G21岩体的演化程度较高,但具有与Y2、Y3岩体相似的重力异常和源区性质,推测该地段深部可能存在体积更大的岩体。     

Intrusion-Related Gold Deposits of North China Craton, People's Republic of China

Abstract. Intrusion‐related gold deposits are widely distributed within the North China craton or along its marginal fold belts. Presently, about 200 individual intrusion‐related gold deposits (prospects) have been discovered, among which Yuerya, Anjia‐yingzi, Linglong, Jiaojia, Chenjiazhangzi, Qiyugou, Jinjiazhuang, Dongping, Hougou, Huangtuliang, Guilaizhuang, Wulashan and Donghuofang are the most important ones. In general, the intrusion‐related gold deposits can be classified into three major groups according to their host rocks: (1) hosted by or related to felsic intrusions, including (la) calc‐alkaline granitoid intrusions and (lb) cryptoexplosion breccia pipes; (2) related to ultramafic intrusions, and (3) hosted by or related to alkaline intrusions. The first group contains the Yuerya, Anjiayingzi, Linglong, Jiaojia, Chenjiazhangzi and Qiyugou gold deposits. Gold mineralization at these deposits occurs within Mesozoic Yanshanian calc‐alkaline granitoid intrusions or cryptoexplosion breccia pipes as gold‐bearing quartz veins and replacement bodies. Pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, native gold and electrum are major metallic minerals. The Jinjiazhuang deposit belongs to the second group, and occurs within Hercynian diopsidite and peridotite as quartz veins and replacement bodies. Pyrite, marcasite, arsenopyrite, native gold and electrum are identified. The third group includes the Dongping, Hougou, Huangtuliang, Guilaizhuang, Wulashan and Donghuofang deposits. Gold mineralization at these deposits occurs predominantly within the Hercynian alkaline intrusive complexes as K‐feldspar‐quartz veins and replacement bodies. Major metal minerals are pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, tellurides, native gold and electrum. All these pyrite separates from Hercynian and Yanshanian intrusions or cryptoexplosion pipes associated with the gold deposits show a broad range in δ³⁴S value, which is overall higher than those Precambrian rocks and their hosted gold deposits. For the alkaline intrusion‐related gold deposits, the δ³⁴S values of the sulfides (pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite) from the deposits increase systematically from orebodies to the alkaline intrusions. All of these intrusion‐related gold deposits show relatively radiogenic lead isotopic compositions compared to mantle or lower crust curves. Most lead isotope data of sulfides from the gold ores plot in between the fields of the intrusions and Precambrian metamorphic rocks. Data are interpreted as indicative of a mixing of sulfur and lead from magma with those from Precambrian metamorphic rocks. Isotopic age data, geological and geochemical evidences suggest that the ore‐forming materials for the intrusion‐related gold deposits were generated during the emplacement of the Hercynian or Yanshanian intrusion. The calc‐alkaline or alkaline magma may provide heat, volatiles and metals for the intrusion‐related gold deposits. Evolved meteoric water, which circulated the wall rocks, was also progressively involved in the magmatic hydrothermal system, and may have dominated the ore fluids during late stage of ore‐forming processes. Therefore, the ore fluid may have resulted from the mixing of calc‐alkaline or alkaline magmatic fluids and evolved meteoric water. All these intrusion‐related gold deposits are believed to be products of Hercynian or Yanshanian calc‐alkaline and alkaline igneous processes along deep‐seated fault zones within the North China craton or along its marginal belts.     

豫西熊耳山地区重磁场特征与深部成矿预测

熊耳山地区是河南省重要的金银铅锌钼多金属矿产地,现已查明各类矿床(点)121个。通过研究发现,该区多金属矿产的形成与中生代中酸性岩浆的侵入活动关系密切,现有矿床分布比较集中的区域,深部都有隐伏岩体赋存。通过对熊耳山地区重磁场特征的分析,建立了熊耳山地区隐伏岩体侵入模型。熊耳山西段主要是寨凹隐伏岩体,赋存面积约310 km2,分3个阶梯深度:0~0.8 km、0.8~2 km、2~4 km;熊耳山中段铁炉坪-花山隐伏岩体位于寨凹隐伏岩体和花山岩体之间,赋存面积约184 km2,深度3~5 km;熊耳山东段旧县-花山隐伏岩体,赋存面积约338 km2,北部深度0~1.5km,向南逐步加深至1.5~3 km。根据区域矿产分布分带特征,结合隐伏岩体侵入模型,预测了深部成矿模型。研究表明,在熊耳山西段有寻找大型斑岩型钼钨铜矿和大型金矿的潜力;中段隐伏岩体深度较大,以寻找中低温矿产为主;东段地质勘查程度相对较高,深部仍有寻找斑岩型钼金铜矿的潜力。     

Phase Equilibria Constraints on Relations of Ore-bearing Intrusionswith Flood Basalts in the Panxi Region, Southwestern China

There are two types of temporally and spatially associated intrusions within the Emeishan large igneous province (LIP); namely, small uitramafic subvolcanic sills that host magmatic Cu-Ni-Platinum Group Element (PGE)-bearing sulfide deposits and large mafic layered intrusions that host giant Ti-V magnetite deposits in the Panxi region. However, except for their coeval ages, the genetic relations between the ore-bearing intrusions and extrusive rocks are poorly understood. Phase equilibria analysis (Q-PI-OI-Opx-Cpx system) has been carried out to elucidate whether ore-bearing Panzhihua, Xinjie and Limahe intrusions are co-magmatic with the picrites and flood basalts (including high-Ti, low-Ti and alkali basalts), respectively. In this system, the parental magma can be classified as silica-undersaturated olivine basalt and silica-saturated tholeiite. The equivalents of the parental magma of the Xinjie and Limahe peridotites and picrites and iow-Ti basalts are silica-undersaturated, whereas the Limahe gabbro-diorites and high-Ti basalts are silica-saturated. In contrast, the Panzhihua intrusion appears to be alkali character. Phase equilibria relations clearly show that the magmas that formed the Panzhihua intrusion and high-Ti basalts cannot be co-magmatic as there is no way to derive one liquid from another by fractional crystallization. On the other hand, the Panzhihua intrusion appears to be related to Permian alkali intrusions in the region, but does not appear to be related to the alkali basalts recognized in the Longzhoushan lava stratigraphy. Comparably, the Limabe intrusion appears to be a genetic relation to the picrites, whereas the Xinjie intrusion may be genetically related to be low-Ti basaits. Additionally, the gabbro-diorites and peridotites of the Limahe intrusion are not co-magmatic, and the former appears to be derived liquid from high-Ti basalts.     

The mineral system approach applied to magmatic Ni–Cu–PGE sulphide deposits

Most magmatic Ni–Cu–PGE sulphide deposits occur within long-lived magma pathways fed by high degree partial melts of the mantle. Holistic mineral-system analysis for such deposits has some parallels with dominantly hydrothermal systems, but also some important differences.Major provinces are associated with large volumes of magma erupted at margins of ancient Archaean cratons, and are associated with small intrusions through which large volumes of magmas have passed. There is no demonstrable association with any particular magma type, although in most provinces the ores are found associated with the most primitive available magmas, whatever these may be. Ore-bearing intrusions tend to form early in the evolution of the host province, although exceptions exist to this rule, and these intrusions typically account for very small proportions of the volumes of the province as a whole.Ore deposition is favoured by prolonged high-volume flow over a horizontal floor. This floor may take the form of the base of a channelized sill, tube or blade-shaped dyke, which account for most of the known host igneous bodies to significant ore deposits. Deposition mechanisms may be chemical or physical, but large high-grade deposits require a major component of transported sulphide liquid, initially carried as droplets. Late stage migration of sulphide liquid as gravity currents within intrusion networks, coupled with infiltration and melting of floor rocks, accounts for the common observation in mafic intrusion hosted deposits of cross cutting relationships between massive sulphides, host intrusions and country rocks.The following set of criteria is proposed in targeting and evaluating Ni–Cu–PGE sulphide systems: 1) nature of magmatism and relationship to pre-existing cratonic architecture; 2) magmatic and structural controls on the development of protracted-flow magma conduits; 3) access to crustal S sources at some point along the pathway; 4) favourable intrusion geometry and emplacement style for deposition, reworking and upgrading of sulphide magmas, and 5) favourable structural history and erosional level for preservation and detectability.These components can be translated into mappable geological criteria. At the predictive targeting scale, the key features are proximity to ancient cratonic boundaries and long-lived, trans-crustal structures, and relationship to voluminous mafic or ultramafic magmatism typically with high Mg and low Ti contents, but otherwise lacking distinctive characteristics. At the detection scale, there are two distinct approaches: recognition of high volume magma pathways with prolonged flow-through operating at length scales of km based on morphological, petrological, geophysical and structural observations; and identification of the petrographic and geochemical signals of accumulation or extraction of sulphide liquid.