微细浸染状金矿化与脉状金-锑矿化关系:西秦岭阳山金矿带例析

阳山是西秦岭金矿带已探明金储量最大的独立金矿,金矿化主要呈微细浸染状分布于千枚岩和花岗质岩脉中,锑矿化主要分布于花岗质岩脉与千枚岩接触带的石英±方解石脉中,是研究微细浸染状金矿化与脉状金-锑矿化的时间、空间和成因关系的理想选区。成矿主阶段微细浸染状黄铁矿-毒砂矿化已有大量研究,而晚阶段脉状金-锑矿化特征及其与主阶段微细浸染状金矿化关系尚待查明。论文系统研究了成矿晚阶段流体包裹体组合特征、辉锑矿及石英的矿物学、稀土和微量元素特征,并与成矿主阶段进行对比,以期理清阳山金矿带金矿化与锑矿化的关系。流体包裹体组合显微测温结果显示,成矿晚阶段流体均一温度为271.3～288.3℃,具有中低温、低盐度、富Cl和CO_2、还原性的变质流体来源的特征,与成矿主阶段一致。辉锑矿呈轻稀土富集、重稀土亏损的"右倾式"稀土配分模式,并可见中-弱的Eu负异常和强的Ce负异常,与千枚岩和花岗质岩脉的稀土元素配分模式相似。辉锑矿富含Ag、Au、As等微量元素,与赋矿围岩中这些元素的高背景值有关。结合硫化物硫同位素数据,指示阳山金矿带成矿物质来源可能为赋矿的千枚岩和花岗质岩脉:在区域构造抬升引发的退变质过程中,千枚岩和花岗质岩脉发生变质脱挥发分作用,释放出金等成矿物质。金矿化与锑矿化贯穿整个成矿作用,随着成矿温度、压力的变化,以及成矿流体成分的演化,成矿早、主阶段以微细浸染状含金硫化物为主,发育位置较深,成矿晚阶段以自然金-辉锑矿脉为主,发育位置较浅,在矿带尺度上符合造山型金矿地壳连续成矿模式的垂向分布规律。本文查明了阳山金矿带微细浸染状金矿化与脉状金-锑矿化的关系,明确其为造山型金矿浅成金-锑矿化,并在此基础上提出了找矿方向,为西秦岭及其他地区类似金矿床的理论研究与找矿勘探提供了有益参考。     

Geology and geochemistry of the Huilvshan gold deposit,Xinjiang, China: Implications for mechanism of gold precipitation

The Huilvshan gold deposit in the west Junggar (Xinjiang, China) is hosted in chloritized basalts, chlorite–siderite-altered basalts, and quartz–siderite rocks. Our study demonstrated that all these rocks were derived by alteration of basalts in a shear zone. The orebodies, consisting of quartz-sulfide veins and disseminated sulfides, formed in five stages: quartz–muscovite (I), disseminated sulfides (II), quartz–ankerite-sulfide (III), quartz–calcite-sulfide (IV), and quartz–calcite (V). Auriferous minerals are native gold in stage III and electrum in stage IV. During alteration of basalts in the shear zone, ore-forming elements were released from basalts to ore-forming fluid. Compared with fresh basalts, sulfide-bearing chloritized basalts contain much higher Sr, Ba, P, La, Ce, U, Mn, Ni, Zn, As, Ag, and Au contents. Phase analysis of the As–Cu–Fe–S–O system with the SUPCRT92 software package indicates that a decrease of the a_H2S value, caused by the fluid–rock reactions and crystallization of sulfides, induced gold precipitation.     

新疆伊宁金山金矿床金的赋存状态

新疆伊宁金山大型金矿床为一典型的浅成低温热液型金矿床。利用显微镜观察、电子探针扫描、物相分析、化学分析等综合分析技术对金矿石中金的赋存状态进行了研究。结果表明,金主要以独立矿物相存在,金的载体矿物主要为黄铁矿、石英和褐铁矿。金矿物以自然金为主(成色为969.6~997.8),含银自然金、银金矿较少。金的嵌布类型有粒间金、包裹金、裂隙金和连生金4种。矿石中自然金的粒度主要以显微微粒金(0.01~0.005mm)为主(约占60%),其次是显微极微粒金(0.005~0.0002mm)(约占26.6%)。尽管显微中粒-细粒金数量不太多,但它对矿石品位和储量来说是重要的。     

内蒙古柴胡栏子金矿田燕山期岩浆岩与金矿床

岩相学、岩石化学及稀土元素和微量元素研究证明, 柴胡栏子金矿田的燕山期火成岩组合具有活动大陆边缘弧火成岩组合的特点, 介于典型的靠近海沟的钙碱性弧火成岩与陆内造山火成岩之间的过渡类型。流体包裹体测温 （１８０℃～２９０℃）, 硫同位素 （δ３４ Ｓ＝ ３１‰～７８‰）, 氢氧同位素 （成矿流体以岩浆水为主, 有大气水参与）, 岩石、矿石稀土元素配分特点的相似性等说明金的成矿主要与岩浆作用有关。燕山期岩浆构造作用引起原始矿源层太古界建平群中的金发生活化、迁移, 并在岩浆热液的进一步作用和大气水的参与下, 发生富集沉淀, 形成金矿床。柴胡栏子金矿田的北矿区金矿成矿主要与闪长岩有关, 以蚀变岩型为主。王府矿区金矿化与闪长玢岩脉关系最密切, 以石英脉型为主。岩浆作用为金矿床的形成提供了热源和大部分热液来源, 并且是成矿物质活化和转移的载体。本区金矿床应属与岩浆作用有关的中温热液矿床。     

黄土覆盖区金矿勘查评价技术方法研究——以豫西申家窑金矿邻区为例

豫西申家窑金矿及其邻区大部分被第四系黄土覆盖。高精度磁法、甚低频电磁法和CO2、Rn气测量法等方法,可有效地探测黄土覆盖下的控矿构造破碎带。金属活动态测量可以确定构造破碎带中矿致异常的部位。这些轻便的物化探方法的有机组合使用,可为此类地貌地质条件下的金矿勘查提供有效的技术支持。     

Paleoproterozoic,turbidite-hosted,gold deposits of the Ashanti gold belt (Ghana,West Africa): Comparative analysis of turbidite-hosted gold deposits and an updated genetic model

The Paleoproterozoic gold deposits of the Ashanti gold belt, Ghana, occur mainly as auriferous quartz veins in graphitic shears proximal to contacts between deformed and metamorphosed turbidites and tholeiitic volcanics (alternately block-faulted Tarkwaian sediments). They are suggested in this article to belong to that class of gold deposits recognized as ‘turbidite-hosted’. Hence, evidence from previous investigations of turbidite-hosted and turbidite-associated gold deposits occurring in circumstances roughly similar to the Ashanti deposits are used, where relevant, to produce an updated genetic model for the latter.Given the relatively significant amounts of graphite associated with the major Ashanti deposits, the role of non-carbonate carbon is assessed in the light of conclusions reached by work on other turbidite-hosted and turbidite-associated gold belts. Conclusions as to the origins of mineralizing fluids and temporary repositories of gold (auriferous interflow sediments) reached by work on these other belts are also analysed.A concept of the tectonic development of the Ashanti belt-Kumasi basin area, introduced in this article, is deemed to be critical to the origin of the Ashanti gold deposits. It encompasses the role of non-carbonate carbon, turbidites, and the primary sources and secondary repositories of Au and As in the genesis of the major Ashanti gold deposits. It examines the significance of the intimate relationship between calc alkaline volcanism and the basin sediments, the occurrences of felsic metasandstones in transition-zone sediments, and TTG granitic material and fragments of chemical sediments in turbidites: all of which are incompatible with one or the other of existing concepts of tectonic development in the area.     

The geology of the Lega Dembi gold deposit, southern Ethiopia: implications for Pan-African gold exploration

The Lega Dembi deposit is the largest gold producer in Ethiopia. It is situated in late-Precambrian metamorphosed sediments of the N-S trending, volcano-sedimentary Megado belt, which forms part of the late-Proterozoic Adola granite-greenstone terrane in southern Ethiopia. The lode-gold mineralization occurs in a N-S trending, steep westerly dipping quartz-vein system that follows the structural contact between underlying feldspathic gneisses and the volcanosedimentary sequence of the Megado belt. This contact also marks the northernmost extension of the regional-scale, sinistral strike-slip Lega Dembi-Aflata shear zone. Mineralization and intense quartz-veining is best developed in graphite-rich sediments within an area not more than 80 m away from this tectonic contact. Hydrothermal wall-rock alteration includes actinolite/tremolite-biotite-calcite-sericite and chlorite-calcite-epidote assemblages. Gold occurs preferentially in the sericite alteration zone, where it is closely associated and intergrown with galena. The variable deformation of the gold-quartz veins suggests a syn-kinematic timing for the gold mineralization during transcurrent shearing in a dilational segment of the shear zone. In addition to the structural control, lithological control on gold deposition is indicated by the almost exclusive occurrence of the gold mineralization in graphite-rich metasediments. This close relationship suggests that gold precipitation was the result of chemical reduction of regional ore-bearing fluids. Temperature conditions of mineralization are constrained by the actinolite-biotite alteration assemblage and by arsenopyrite chemistry, which indicate that ore deposition occurred at or close to peak metamorphic conditions at upper-greenschist to lower-amphibolite metamorphic grades. Rb-Sr dating of sericite indicates an age of about 545 Ma. for hydrothermal alteration and, thus, for gold mineralization. The style of gold mineralization, structural pattern and lithological assemblages at Lega Dembi are very similar to lode-gold deposits most commonly reported from Archaean granite-greenstone terranes. These similarities may open new perspectives for the exploration of lode-gold deposits, which has previously primarily focused on Archaean greenstone belts rather than Proterozoic or even Phanerozoic meta-volcanosedimentary belts. Received: 26 July 1996 / Accepted: 8 January 1997     

西秦岭阳山金矿带安坝矿床热液蚀变作用

安坝金矿床是阳山金矿带内已探明金资源储量最大的金矿床,矿体受NEE向的区域性安昌河-观音坝断裂带及其次级断裂-裂隙系统控制,主要赋存于紧邻断裂带的千枚岩和斜长花岗斑岩中。围绕断裂-裂隙系统的赋矿围岩硫化、硅化、绢云母化、碳酸盐化、绿泥石化、绿帘石化和粘土化蚀变发育,其中前三种蚀变与金成矿作用关系最为密切。论文在厘定安坝金矿床热液蚀变类型、矿物组合特征、以及断裂变形与蚀变空间变化关系的基础上,通过对蚀变岩及其原岩的地球化学分析,剖析了热液蚀变作用过程与机理。研究结果表明,硅化蚀变贯穿发育于成矿前、成矿期和成矿后,绢云母化蚀变为成矿前和成矿期的产物,碳酸盐化蚀变主要发育于成矿晚阶段和成矿后,而粘土化蚀变为成矿后的产物。在长石蚀变为绢云母的过程中,有少量Al2O3带出,而TiO 2在蚀变过程中相对稳定,为此选取TiO 2作为不活动组分,开展质量平衡计算得出:在硅化过程中,明显带入的组分有SiO 2、Fe2O3、FeO、MgO、CaO、C、S、Au、As、Hg、Pb和Zn,而被带出的元素为Rb和Ba;在绢云母化过程中,明显带入的组分为SiO 2、Fe2O3、CaO、C、S、Au、As、Hg、Pb、Zn、Rb和Ba,带出组分为Na2O。稀土元素地球化学特征显示千枚岩原岩稀土元素含量比硅化和绢云母化千枚岩的稀土元素含量高,表明在蚀变过程中有稀土元素的流失。此外,千枚岩原岩的δEu=0.70,δCe=0.95;硅化千枚岩的δEu=0.72,δCe=1.00;绢云母化千枚岩的δEu=0.76,δCe=0.95。硅化、绢云母化千枚岩与千枚岩原岩的REE球粒陨石标准化配分模式曲线变化趋势相似,表现为明显的Eu负异常、无Ce异常的富轻稀土的右倾型曲线。含矿流体沿断裂带运移并与围岩反应,形成了石英和绢云母等蚀变矿物。硅化过程中,含矿流体中还原硫活度降低导致金沉淀;而绢云母化过程中,含矿流体的pH增大及K+和H+含量的减少和CO2含量的增加,致使载金黄铁矿、毒砂和金的沉淀。     

The Wyoming gold deposits: volcanic-hosted lode-type gold mineralisation in the eastern Lachlan Orogen,Australia

The eastern Lachlan Orogen in southeastern Australia is noted for its major porphyry–epithermal–skarn copper–gold deposits of late Ordovician age. Whilst many small quartz vein-hosted or orogenic lode-type gold deposits are known in the region, the discovery of the Wyoming gold deposits has demonstrated the potential for significant lode-type mineralisation hosted within the same Ordovician volcanic stratigraphy. Outcrop in the Wyoming area is limited, with the Ordovician sequence largely obscured by clay-rich cover of probable Quaternary to Cretaceous age with depths up to 50 m. Regional aeromagnetic data define a north–south trending linear belt interpreted to represent the Ordovician andesitic volcanic rock sequence within probable Ordo-Silurian pelitic metasedimentary rocks. Drilling through the cover sequence in 2001 to follow up the trend of historically reported mineralisation discovered extensive alteration and gold mineralisation within an andesitic feldspar porphyry intrusion and adjacent volcaniclastic sandstones and siltstones. Subsequent detailed resource definition drilling has identified a substantial mineralised body associated with sericite–carbonate–albite–quartz–(±chlorite ± pyrite ± arsenopyrite) alteration. The Wyoming deposits appear to have formed as the result of a rheological contrast between the porphyry host and the surrounding volcaniclastic rocks, with the porphyry showing brittle fracture and the metasedimentary rocks ductile deformation. The mineralisation at Wyoming bears many petrological and structural similarities to orogenic lode-style gold deposits. Although the timing of alteration and mineralisation in the Wyoming deposits remain problematic, a relationship with possible early to middle Devonian deformation is considered likely.     

胶东中生代金成矿系统

胶东是我国最重要的金矿集区,其内已发现金矿床150余处,探明金资源储量4000余吨。虽然其金矿床数量众多、资源储量巨大、分布地域广泛、产出空间各异、矿化类型多样,但它们的成矿地球动力学背景、赋矿围岩环境与产出条件及其成矿作用特征总体一致:(1)胶东是一个主要由前寒武纪基底岩石和超高压变质岩块组成、中生代构造-岩浆作用发育的内生热液金矿集区,约130~110Ma的金成矿事件比区域变质作用晚约2000Myr;(2)区域金成矿系统形成于早白垩世的陆缘伸展构造背景,大规模金成矿事件发生在区域NW向伸展转换为NE向伸展后的NEE向挤压变形作用过程中,对应于中国东部岩石圈大规模减薄、华北克拉通破坏和大陆裂谷作用的高峰;(3)金矿床群聚于NNE向玲珑、鹊山和昆嵛山变质核杂岩周边,主要沿前寒武纪变质岩与中生代花岗岩体接触带形成的区域NE-NNE向拆离断层带分布;(4)控矿断裂带经历了早期的韧-脆性变形和晚期的脆性变形构造叠加,在三维空间上呈舒缓波状延展,控制了金矿体的侧伏和分段富集;(5)矿化样式以破碎带蚀变(砾)岩型、(硫化物-)石英脉型和复合脉带型为主,矿石普遍发育压碎、晶粒状和填隙结构,浸染状、细脉浸染状、网脉状、脉状、团块状和块状构造,反映其形成于韧-脆性→脆性变形环境;(6)矿石中金属矿物以黄铁矿、黄铜矿、方铅矿和闪锌矿为主,非金属矿物以石英、绢云母、钾长石、斜长石和方解石为主;金矿物以银金矿和自然金为主、含少量金银矿,主要以可见金的形式赋存于黄铁矿和石英裂隙中、含少量晶隙金和包体金;热液蚀变主要为黄铁矿化、硅化、钾长石化、绢云母化和碳酸盐化;成矿元素为Au-Ag(-Cu-Pb-Zn);呈现出中-低温蚀变矿化组合特征;(7)成矿流体为壳-幔混合来源,以壳源变质流体为主;成矿物质总体来源于中生代活化再造的前寒武纪变质基底岩石,并混入了少量浅部地壳和地幔组分。这种区域成矿特征的一致性,表明胶东金矿集区早白垩世大规模金成矿作用受控于统一的地质事件,属于后生的中-低温热液脉金成矿系统。这些金矿床具有明显的时空群聚分布特征,主要沿三个变质核杂岩周边的岩相接触带产出,且自西向东,金成矿作用年龄由老变新。据此,可划分为胶北隆起蚀变岩-石英脉型、苏鲁超高压变质带硫化物-石英脉型和胶莱盆地北缘蚀变砾岩型三个金成矿子系统。其矿化样式由浸染-细脉、细脉-网脉型和石英脉型→硫化物-石英脉型→蚀变(角)砾岩型变化,矿石结构、构造以细脉浸染状构造为主→环带结构与梳状构造→角砾状构造为特色,反映其成矿作用分别发生于脆-韧性转换带(约15km)→脆性张剪性断裂带→脆性角砾岩带(约5km)环境;矿化、蚀变规模和强度逐渐减弱,成矿物质中浅部壳源组分逐渐增多,可能与其矿床定位空间越来越远离源区有关;成矿温度和压力依次降低、成矿流体中大气降水和/或盆地卤水贡献逐渐增大,与其成矿深度越来越浅、成矿构造环境越来越偏张性的变化趋势一致。这种成矿特征的区域规律性变化反映至少在拆离断层韧-脆性转换带附近→脆性角砾岩带之间的地壳剖面中、在不同的垂向深度上连续成矿。胶东中生代金成矿系统的上述特征明显区别于典型的"与侵入岩有关的金矿"和"造山型金矿",也不同于全球其它已知的金矿床类型,不能被已有成矿模式所涵盖。为合理解释胶东中生代金成矿系统独特的地质与成矿特征,我们提出新的"胶东型金矿"成矿模式,指出古太平洋Izanagi俯冲板片的回转作用可能是引起区域前寒武纪变质基底岩石中成矿物质大规模活化再造的主要驱动机制,成矿流体主体来源于俯冲板片变质脱水,金可能主要以Au(HS)2-络合物的形式在流体中沿拆离断层系输运,在韧-脆性转换带附近→脆性角砾岩带,由于构造空间急剧增大、成矿流体的温度和压力突然降低,CO2、H2S逸出和硫化作用导致Au(HS)2-等金络合物失稳分解,金大规模沉淀富集成矿。     

西藏西部马攸木金矿床成矿流体的特征

马攸木金矿床是西藏最近发现的独立岩金矿床。对马攸木金矿床热液成矿期各矿化阶段石英中的流体包裹体温度与压力、盐度与密度、包裹体成分和H、O同位素诸方面的初步研究表明,成矿流体属中低温(198～259℃)、低盐度(3.10～7.08%NaCl)、低密度(0.85～0.93g/cm3)的流体,属(SO42-)Cl--(K+)Na+水化学类型,成矿环境为低压(22.7～26.7MPa)浅成(0.825～0.971km)环境。成矿流体可能主要来源于与大气降水有成因联系的地下热水。马攸木金矿床可能是与热泉相关的浅成中低温热液矿床。     

黑龙江金厂J-1号金矿体地质特征及深部预测

黑龙江东宁金厂金矿床是与印支-燕山期中酸性火山-次火山岩有关的大型金矿床，矿化类型主要有隐爆角砾岩型，多金属硫化物细脉充填型及破碎蚀变岩型，矿体主要受隐爆角砾岩筒，环状，放射状构造控制，筒状角砾岩型金矿的资源量占全区的80%以上。矿区内最主要的J-1号金矿体矿化类型为隐爆角砾岩型。品位高且稳定，在系统总结该矿体地质特征的基础上，对其深部远景进行了预测。     

内蒙古新地沟金矿床中金的赋存状态研究

内蒙古新地沟金矿床为一典型绿岩型金矿。利用显微镜、扫描电子显微镜观察到自然金602粒。研究表明,金的赋存形式主要有包体金、裂隙金、粒间金和连生金。载金矿物以黄铁矿、石英为主,所占比例达到95%;其次是钾长石、绢云母、菱铁矿、褐铁矿、黝铜矿、方铅矿、闪锌矿等。自然金的粒度主要以显微极微粒金(0.2~5μm)、显微细粒金(10~20μm)、显微中粒金(20~50μm)、显微微粒金(5~10μm)为主,分别占32.23%、26.91%、20.6%、16.11%;手标本及显微镜下也能观察到显微粗粒金(50~100μm)和巨粒金(100~200μm),虽然其含量仅占4.15%,但其面积可达33.97%,对于矿石品位和储量来说十分重要。电子探针和物相分析显示,矿石中金主要以独立矿物存在,包括大量的自然金和少量的银金矿;通过计算表明金的平均成色为803,金矿物的成色和特征反映金矿形成条件为中温和中等深度。     

河南省桐柏县银洞坡金矿床同位素地球化学

银洞坡金矿床位于河南肖桐柏地区围山城金银多金属矿带内,矿体定位受新元古界歪头山组地层控制。各成矿阶段热液石英中流体的δ~(18)O_w值为0.0‰～10.8‰,晚期碳酸盐中流体的δ~(18)O_W 值为-5.3‰～-9.7‰,流体的δD值为-65‰～-84‰,显示早阶段成矿流体以来自赋矿地层的变质水为主,晚阶段大气降水不断混入。包裹体的δ~(13)C_(CO)_2值介于-3.7‰～ 6.7‰,指示流体的碳主体来自碳酸盐储库。硫化物的δ~(34)S 值介于 1.3‰～ 3.1‰,具塔式分布特征,硫主要源自围岩歪头山组。~(206)Pb/~(204)Pb=16.540～17.216,~(207)Ph/~(204)Pb=15.056～15.612,~(208)Pb/~(204)Pb=37.336～38.861,显示较明显的铀铅亏损特征,矿石铅ω值介于39.50～48.62,显示铅源的物质成熟度高,为赋矿地层歪头山组,矿石铅同位素与歪头山组地层的一致性及其与南、北秦岭其它构造岩石单元的差异表明,银洞坡金矿的成矿物质主要来自歪头山组地层。无论在成矿流体和物质来源方面,还是在矿床地质特征方面,银洞坡金矿都应属于典型的层控造山型金矿,并形成于扬子与华北大陆板块的碰撞体制。     

贵州八客金矿富金包成因

贵州八客金矿区以产出富金包为特色，找矿及经济意义较大。以探采实践中所获地质资料为基础，通过对成矿地质背景、矿床地质特征与地球化学、物理化学因素的分析，认为含Au石英脉中富金钨的形成除与特定的地质背景有关外，与控制富金产出的小尺度构造部位、地球化学、地球物理条件的有机配置极为密切。富金包存在的标志是：1）石英脉与节理密集带复合部位、盲裂隙带、小尺度褶皱轴部；2）具有复杂硫化物组合；3）围岩蚀变化出现碳化；4）大量CO2包裹体的出现。八客金矿区乃至黔东地区找到富金包的可能性仍然较大。     

A New Genetic Type of Gold Deposits-Meso-Epithermal Carbonate-Type Gold Deposits as Exemplified by the Baguamiao Suprlarge Gold Deposit

Gold deposits of the meso-epithermal carbonate type were first proposed based on the study of the Baguamiao gold deposit.This new type of gold deposits has many unique characteristics as follows:(1)Obviously strata-bound.The gold deposits are hosted in Middle Devonian turbidite formations;(2)Structrually controlled.Struc-ture is an important factor leading to metallogenesis of this type of gold deposits.The shape and distribution of orebodies are controlled by byittle-ductile shear zones;(3)Multi-stage wall-rock alteration.According to the characteristics of mineral assemblage,gold mineralization can be classified into three stages in association with various wall-rock al-terations.Wall-rock alterations closely genetically related to the gold mineralization are ankerization ,silicification,pyrrhotization and pyritization ;(4)Mineral compositions of the orebodies are mainly pyrrhotite,pyrite,marcasitolite,chalcopyrite,quartz,ankerite,and sericite.Gold mineralization is associated closely in space and time with iron sulfides;(5)Rare elements and REE in ores are low in contents relative to those of the crust.Au content varies from 1.91g/t to 11.15g/t ,averaging 5.5g/t;(6)Studies of sulfur,hydrogen,oxygen and carbon isotopes in main gangue minerals (quartz and ankerite)indicate that fluids and ore-forming materials came from deep-seated sources;(7)Three types of inclusions are recognized in terms of their composition and the vapor amounts of inclusions.The homogenization temperatures of inclusions range from 210℃to 310℃,averaging 230℃,showing that this type of gold deposits belongs to the meso-epithermal type;(8)Metallogenic age of this type of gold deposits is similar to that of the collision between the Yangtze Plate and the North China Plate,indicating that gold deposits of this type are genetically related to continental-margin plate activity.     

LA-ICP-MS in situ analyses of the pyrites in Dongyang gold deposit,Southeast China: Implications to the gold mineralization

The Dongyang gold deposit is a newly discovered epithermal deposit in Fujian Province, Southeast China, along the Circum-Pacific metallogenic belt. Herewith, the authors present mineralogical, scanning electron microscope, and laser ablation inductively coupled clasma mass spectrometry analysis to reveal the relations between Au and Te, As, S, Fe, etc., and discuss the gold precipitation process. The pyrites in this deposit are Fe-deficient, and are enriched in Te and As. The authors infer that As was mainly in form of As-complexes, and Te-Au-Ag inclusions/solid solution also exsits in the Py I. Along with the depletion of Te and As, they were less active chemically in the Py II, and Au may be incorporated into As-rich and Fe-deficient surface sites by chemisorption onto As-rich growth surfaces. Because of the incorporation of new fluid, Te and As became the most active chemically in the Py III, which was the main elements precipitation stage, and As dominantly substituted for S in the lattice of pyrite, due to the more reducing condition. The authors propose Au was in form of invisible gold, and the incorporation of gold can be considered as post-pyrite event, while the Au-bearing minerals were result of post incorporation of gold in arsenian pyrite.