Exploration of gold mineralization in a tropical region using Earth Observing-1 (EO1) and JERS-1 SAR data: a case study from Bau gold field,Sarawak, Malaysia

Bau gold mining district, located near Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, is a Carlin style gold deposits. Geological analyses coupled with remote sensing data were used to detect hydrothermal alteration rocks and structure elements associated with this type of gold mineralization. Image processing techniques, including principal components analysis, linear spectral unmixing, and Laplacian algorithms, were employed to carry out spectrolithological–structural mapping of mineralized zones, using Advanced Land Imager, Hyperion, and JERS-1 synthetic aperture radar scenes covering the study area and surrounding terrain. Hydrothermally alteration mineral zones were detected along the SSW to NNE structural trend of the Tai Parit fault that corresponds to the areas of occurrence of the gold mineralization in the Bau limestone. The results show that potentially interesting areas are observable by the methods used, despite limited bedrock exposure in this region and the constraints imposed by the tropical environment.     

Carlin-type Gold Prospects in Surigao del Norte, Mindanao Island, Philippines: Their Geology and Mineralization Potential

Abstract. Three calcareous sedimentary rock-hosted Carlin type-like gold prospects were mapped in a mineral production sharing agreement area of Philex Gold Philippines Inc. in Taganaan municipality, Surigao del Norte province in Mindanao island in the Philippines. They occur along a 20–25 km long trend of known epigenetic gold and porphyry copper deposits that lie close to several splays of the Philippine Fault Zone. The gold district forms part of the Late Cretaceous Eastern Mindanao Range that hosts early Paleogene and late Pliocene to Quaternary intrusive rocks.
Gold is invisible in the jasperoid outcrops in Lascogon, Napo, and Danao prospects. The jasperoids occur in lenses of marls belonging to the Taganaan Marl Member that is associated to a turbiditic member of the Middle Miocene Mabuhay Formation. The marl lenses include gently dipping interbedded silty limestones and calcareous shales. The "invisible gold" mineralization in silicified calcareous rocks resembles Carlin-type deposits. Based on the mapped igneous and sedimentary rocks, a possible heat source for the gold mineralization is either or both of the two main phases of intrusion, Mabuhay An-desite or Alipao Andesite Porphyry. Forty-eight rock samples, fifteen stream sediment samples, and one soil sample were critical in delineating the general features of the potential Carlin-type prospects. The gold grades of jasperoids in the three prospects range from trace amounts to 20 g/t Au. Regional studies of gold and porphyry copper mineralization in the Surigao del Norte mineral district are important in delineating ore targets for drilling in the three prospects.     

Red Clay Type Gold Deposits in China

<正>Red clay type gold deposits,located in the south of China,are situated not only in orogenic belts,but also in inner cratons,where climate is tropical-subtropical with clear arid and humid.The lateritic weathering crust often can be divided into five zones,including topsoil,siliceous duricrust zone,multi-color zone(or red clay zone in some deposits),pallid zone and saprolite zone from surface to the base rock,several of which are absent in some deposits.The base rocks are composed mainly of carbonate rocks with minor clastic rocks,intermediate-basic volcanic rocks and intermediate-acid and alkalic intrusions.The orebodies are mainly located in the multi-color zone with part of them in the pallid and saprolite zones.The ore sources include orebodies of Carlin-type gold deposits and porphyry gold deposits,as well as gold-rich base rocks.The red clay type gold deposits experienced early-stage endogenic gold mineralization and laterization during the Tertiary and Quaternary.The areas with endogenic gold deposits,especially Carlin-type gold deposits and porphyry gold deposits in karst depressions on the plateau,structual erosional platforms in the middle-lower mountains,and intermountain basins in southern China are well worth studying to trace red clay type gold deposits.     

论角砾／网脉-斑岩型金矿

斑岩型金矿可分为伴生／共生－斑岩型、角砾／网脉型和单脉／网脉－斑岩型３类。角砾岩筒及其内部构造裂隙、角砾岩筒与围岩的接触带构造、与角砾岩筒有成生关系的断裂构造是斑岩金矿的重要控矿构造。其由角砾状和网脉状矿石组成,两者又难以划分开,故称角砾／网脉－斑岩型金矿。我国本亚类斑岩型金矿中,往往伴有冰长石化（团结沟、义兴寨、祁雨沟等矿床）,个别矿床伴有明矾石化（紫金山矿床）,国外同类斑岩型金矿中罕见报道,反     

中国东北部陆缘内生金矿床成因类型、成矿时代及地球动力学背景

中国东北部陆缘是我国内生金矿床较为发育的地区之一,以成矿作用复杂、蕴藏丰富的金资源量倍受国内外地质学家关注。通过对该区内生金矿的地质和成矿年代的系统研究,初步将该区内生金矿床划分为中温热液金矿床、接触交代-热液金矿床、斑岩型/类斑岩型金铜矿床和浅成低温热液金矿床4种主要成因类型和3个重要成矿期（170～160 Ma、130～110 Ma和110～90 Ma）。结合同位素地球化学特征,进一步确定中温热液金矿床的成矿物质主要来自下地壳源,成矿作用与中生代燕山早期古太平洋板块俯冲作用引发的中国东部大陆边缘岩石圈减薄及拆沉的动力学过程密切相关;接触交代-热液金矿床的成矿物质来源于年轻地壳,成矿作用与古太平洋板块俯冲引起的岩石圈减薄拆沉的伸展构造背景下的岩浆接触交代作用更为密切;而斑岩型/类斑岩型金铜矿床和浅成低温热液金矿床的成矿物质来源为壳幔混合源,其成矿发生在古太平洋板块向亚洲大陆正北向俯冲转入Izanagi Farallon板块西向俯冲的构造转换期。     

蒙甘新相邻(北山)地区金铜矿床时空分布特征及成矿作用

文章首次对蒙甘新相邻(北山)地区各类金、铜和铜—镍矿床(点)地质特征、成因类型和空间分布特点进行了系统总结，论证了金、铜和铜—镍成矿作用与古生代岩浆活动的关系，对区域地壳演化过程中金、铜和铜—镍成矿的动力学机制进行了深入讨论。研究结果表明，该区的金矿床(点)大体可划分为变质岩型、火山岩型、斑岩型和深成侵入岩型；铜矿床(点)有斑岩型、夕卡岩型和铜—镍硫化物型。金和铜矿床(点)大都沿古板块汇聚带分布，与海西期火成岩具密切的时空分布关系，它们是古板块对接碰撞期和碰撞期后大规模构造—岩浆活动的产物。     

Au-(Ag)-Te-Se成矿系统与成矿作用

根据金矿床中碲、硒赋存特点与富集程度,可将Au-(Ag)-Te-Se成矿系统的矿床成因类型划分为:(1) 浅成低温热液型金-银矿床;(2) 造山型金矿床;(3) 卡林-类卡林型金矿床;(4) 碱性-偏碱性侵入岩型金矿床;(5)斑岩型(铜)金矿床;(6) 夕卡岩型(铜)金矿床;(7) VMS型金多金属矿床。碲、硒都是亲地幔的元素,侵入岩与火山岩是Au-(Ag)-Te-Se成矿系统中碲、硒的重要来源,黑色岩系也是硒的重要来源。温度、pH、氧逸度等是控制Te、Se的迁移与富集的重要因素。Au-(Ag)-Te-Se成矿系统的成矿机制与岩浆脱气、流体-熔体分离、水-岩反应、流体沸腾与混合、有机作用密切相关。其中岩浆脱气、流体-熔体分离、流体沸腾与流体混合是碲化物型金矿床的重要成矿机制,而水-岩反应、流体混合、有机作用是硒化物型金矿床的重要成矿机制。在成矿过程中,先期形成一些亚稳定或不稳定的过渡态矿物易发生固溶体分离作用,或是不饱和流体与已形成的矿物发生溶解-再沉淀作用,导致矿石具有丰富的物质组成和结构特点。     

浅成低温热液型金矿床研究最新进展

浅成低温热液型金矿床是目前世界上最为重要的金矿床类型之一 ,也是当前国际矿床学界研究的热点之一。近年来对该类型矿床的深入研究 ,包括对该类矿床的进一步分类、流体形成演化、成矿时代、与碱性岩之间的关系 ,以及与斑岩型及其他类型矿床之间的内在联系等方面均取得了重要进展。研究表明 ,高硫化型与低硫化型金矿床不仅在矿物组合上具有显著差别 ,而且在形成的构造背景、成矿机理等方面也明显不同。高硫化型矿床主要形成于挤压应力场环境和流体混合导致成矿物质沉淀 ,而低硫化型矿床主要产于张性或中性环境下由于流体的沸腾使得矿体形成。浅成低温热液型金矿床的形成时间受其所处大地构造环境演化的控制。与浅成低温热液型金矿床有关的碱性岩通常具有相似的地球化学特征 ,即碱性岩具有异常高的氧逸度和富含挥发份。由于发现大量的浅成低温热液型金矿床与斑岩型矿床之间密切伴生 ,它们之间的内在关系正在引起越来越多矿床学家的重视 ,对其形成机理的研究还有待于进一步深入     

浅成低温热液型金矿特点、分布和找矿前景

浅成低温热液矿床的概念,最初由Lindgren首先提出.20世纪80年代以来环太平洋活动带上一系列大型、超大型金矿床的发现,在世界范围内掀起了一股空前的"浅成低温金矿"热.浅成低温金矿具有低温、低压、低盐度、成矿深度浅的特点.矿化作用发生在火山活动晚期,最终定位于火山地热系统波及范围内.全球浅成低温金矿明显呈集中成带分布的特点,绝大多数分布在著名的环太平洋带、古特提斯带和中亚-蒙古(古亚洲)带.此类金矿成矿在时间上的分布特点大体是①第三纪(最重要)、②第四纪更新世(次重要)、③中生代(重要)、④石炭-二叠纪(次要).成矿环境主要为岛弧带、板内走滑断裂带和上叠火山盆地、陆内裂谷.我国地处三大浅成低温成矿带分布区,已经发现诸如阿希、团结沟、紫金山等金(铜)矿床,找寻同类矿产前景广阔.     

西藏多龙尕尔勤——一个遭受过剥蚀的浅成低温热液金矿床

西藏具有形成巨型斑岩铜成矿系统的地质背景。浅成低温热液型金矿常发育于斑岩铜成矿系统上部,极具经济价值,但由于形成深度较浅,易于剥蚀,目前西藏地区尚未发现独立的浅成低温热液型金矿床。多龙超大型铜金矿集区位于西藏班公湖-怒江成矿带西段,产出有大型-超大型斑岩-浅成低温热液型铜金矿床,而是否存在独立的浅成低温热液型金矿,既是重大科学问题,也是勘查的重点方向。文章运用超景深高分辨数码显微镜、扫描电镜及电子探针等手段,系统研究了多龙矿集区尕尔勤矿区内的残坡积物和外围水系沉积物中746颗砂金的大小、形貌、核部元素及不透明矿物包体特征,发现尕尔勤矿区内广泛分布的砂金不是表生环境下生物化学或化学成因金,而是尕尔勤产出的金矿(化)体剥蚀的产物。砂金普遍含有较高的w(Bi)、极低的w(Cu),部分含有高的w(Hg)、w(Te);砂金w(Ag)变化较大（0.05%～40.21%）;金成色变化范围较大（588～999）;砂金富含Bi-Pb-Te-S系列矿物包体等,显示尕尔勤矿区可能存在一个遭受过剥蚀的浅成低温热液金矿床。     

卡林金矿带勘查的新进展

近年来对卡林金矿带上勘查工作,在其西北端和深部发现并勘探了新的超大型金矿床.延伸了卡林金矿带的范围.讨论了超大型金矿床的地质特征.其主岩为不纯碳酸盐或细屑岩,成矿与中酸性火成岩,新生代火山岩有关,并且与板块构造的演化有关.提出卡林型金矿与裂谷作用有关的认识.     

Genetic Types and Metallogenic Model for the Polymetallic Copper–Gold Deposits in the Tongling Ore District,Anhui Province,Eastern China

The Tongling ore district is one of the most economically important ore areas in the Middle–Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt, eastern China. It contains hundreds of polymetallic copper–gold deposits and occurrences. Those deposits are mainly clustered(from west to east) within the Tongguanshan, Shizishan, Xinqiao, Fenghuangshan, and Shatanjiao orefields. Until recently, the majority of these deposits were thought to be skarn-or porphyry–skarn-type deposits; however there have been recent discoveries of numerous vein-type Au, Ag, and Pb-Zn deposits that do not fall into either of these categories. This indicates that there is some uncertainty over this classification. Here, we present the results of several systematic geological studies of representative deposits in the Tongling ore district. From investigation of the ore-controlling structures, lithology of the host rock, mineral assemblages, and the characteristics of the mineralization and alteration within these deposits, three genetic types of deposits(skarn-, porphyry-, and vein-type deposits) have been identified. The spatial and temporal relationships between the orebodies and Yanshanian intrusions combined with the sources of the ore-forming fluids and metals, as well as the geodynamic setting of this ore district, indicate that all three deposit types are genetically related each other and constitute a magmatic–hydrothermal system. This study outlines a model that relates the polymetallic copper–gold porphyry-, skarn-, and vein-type deposits within the Tongling ore district. This model provides a theoretical basis to guide exploration for deep-seated and concealed porphyry-type Cu(–Mo, –Au) deposits as well as shallow vein-type Au, Ag, and Pb–Zn deposits in this area and elsewhere.     

贵州贞丰烂泥沟金矿床地质特征及找矿条件

本文以烂泥沟金矿床１０余年的勘查成果资料为依据,在前人研究的基础上,对矿床赋金地层、控矿构造、矿体特征、矿物组成以及矿化蚀变等地质特征进行了系统研究。在此基础上总结了矿条件和找矿标志,并指出了找矿方向。     

南美洲大型-超大型金矿地质特征与成矿作用研究

金是南美洲仅次于铜的优势矿种,据美国地质调查局统计,2016年秘鲁金矿储量2800 t,巴西金矿储量2400 t,智利仅公布到2014年金矿储量3900 t。通过对南美安第斯成矿带和南美地台金矿地质背景分析,根据对31个大型-超大型金矿的综合研究,剖析斑岩型、浅成低温热液型、IOCG型、造山型等不同类型金矿床的时空分布、地质特征,梳理重要成矿区特征,摸清区域构造岩浆-成矿作用演化的关系,为以后在南美洲金矿的勘查开发提供科学依据。在安第斯成矿带,金成矿作用与太平洋板块向南美大陆板块的俯冲密切相关,大型-超大型金矿类型主要是以浅成低温热液型,以及与铜共生的斑岩型、IOCG型矿床为主,大规模金成矿作用集中在新生代,形成了众多世界著名的金矿床。南美地台成矿带位于亚马孙陆块边缘,受古元古代(2.5~1.8 Ga)Trans-Amazonian旋回影响,经历了反复俯冲造山运动,大型-超大型金矿以造山带型金矿为主,主要成矿期在太古宙—新元古代。南美的金资源相当丰富,未来具有巨大的勘查开发潜力。     

Comparative geochemistry of jasperoids from Carlin-type gold deposits of the western United States

Exploration for Carlin-type gold orebodies in the western United States typically involves sampling and analysis of jasperoid, a distinctive alteration type formed by intense silicification of marine sediments. In this study, rock suites were collected from six orebodies and four similar but barren systems. Jasperoids at all ten systems contain episodically silicified breccias, quartz vein stockworks, elevated As, Sb, Hg, Ba and Tl, and, locally, anomalous Au and Ag. Jasperoids from the four barren systems are as anomalous as jasperoids from the six orebodies in all members of an epithermal geochemical suite, including gold and silver.A database suite containing 272 samples from six of the ten systems was analyzed for 45 elements. Q-mode factor analysis shows that geochemical variance in the epithermal geochemical suite is related to geochemical variance in Li, P, Mn, Ba, Mo, Cr, Co, V, Cd, Ni, U, Zn and Pb. Metalliferous marine black shales are enriched in these elements and are spatially related to Carlin-type deposits.A test suite containing 109 samples from the four remaining systems was analyzed to determine whether a discriminant function derived from the database suite could be applied to exploration. An 8-element function correctly assigned 40 of 42 jasperoid samples collected from the surface at the Carlin and Horse Canyon gold deposits. These results indicate that elements characteristic of metalliferous marine black shales can be used to identify Carlin-type systems with associated gold ore. Gold in Carlin-type orebodies may have been leached from a source-rock sequence which contains metalliferous marine black shales.     

卡林型-类卡林型金矿床勘查与研究回顾及展望

20世纪60年代美国西部发现超大型卡林金矿及1000余千米的成矿带,引起世界各国重视,70年代卡林金矿找矿理论传入中国,经历了找矿实践和初步研究的认识时期,中国陕西与贵州同时发现卡林型金矿线索;80年代中后期中国找矿有重大突破,勘查确定了包含40多例大、中型卡林型-类卡林型金矿床,分布于环扬子地台的“西北金三角”和“西南金三角”,典型矿床研究取得较大进展;90年代找矿勘探又上一新台阶,除继续发现一批矿床外,成功勘查出数例特大型该类矿床,对矿床成因、成矿机理、矿床类型与成矿动力学进行综合性研究;跨入新世纪仍有金矿床的不断发现,显示出中国西北、西南地区寻找卡林型-类卡林型金矿床的巨大潜力和良好前景。     

Ordovician Intrusive-related Gold-Copper Mineralization in West-Central New South Wales, Australia

Three major types of Ordovician intrusive-related gold-copper deposits are recognized in central-west New South Wales, Australia: porphyry, skarn and high sulphidation epithermal deposits. These deposits are mainly distributed within two Ordovician volcano-intrusive belts of the Lachlan Fold Belt: the Orange-Wellington Belt and the Parkes-Narromine Belt. Available isotopic age data suggest that mineralization of the three types of deposits is essentially coeval with the Ordovician intrusive rocks (480-430 Ma).Porphyry gold-copper deposits can be further divided into two groups. The first group is associated with monzonite showing shoshonitic features, represented by Cadia and Goonumbla. The second group is associated with diorite and dacite, including the Copper Hill and Cargo gold-copper deposits. Gold skarn is associated with Late Ordovician (430-439 Ma) monzonitic intrusive complexes in the Junction Reefs area (Sheahan-Grants, Frenchmans, and Cor-nishmens), Endeavour 6, 7 and 44, Big and Little Cadia     

Metallogeny of Shoshonite-Hosted Copper-Gold Deposits in Middle-South Parts of Tancheng-Lujiang Deep Fault Zone and Its Vicinity,Eastern China

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斑岩型和浅成低温热液型矿床成矿流体与找矿预测研究:以华南若干典型矿床为例

斑岩型和浅成低温热液型矿床是全球铜、钼、金、银的主要来源之一,具有重要经济价值。这两类矿床之间通常存在紧密的时空关系,对其成矿流体性质和演化的解剖不仅有利于探究金属沉淀机制,也有助于揭示两者之间的内在成因联系。本文在综述国内外重要研究前沿基础上,以中国华南富家坞斑岩型铜钼(金)矿、桐村斑岩钼矿,以及邱村和安村浅成低温热液金矿为例,系统总结了斑岩型和浅成低温热液型矿床流体特征、演化规律和金属沉淀机制、探讨了从斑岩型到浅成低温热液型流体演化的“气相迁移”模型,并以福建紫金山铜金矿床为例,介绍了应用流体填图进行找矿预测的实例。     

埃达克岩与Cu-Au成矿作用：有待深入研究的岩浆成矿关系

研究表明，环太平洋地区新生代斑岩铜矿和浅成热液金矿与同期的埃达克质岩浆活动存在密切的时空与成因联系。埃达克岩是许多世界级的斑岩铜矿的容矿岩，也是许多浅成热液矿化系统的成矿母岩浆。根据目前的研究，二者成因联系可能在于埃达克质岩浆的富流体、高氧逸度和基性源岩等固有属性，有利于Cu、Au等深源金属元素的萃取与富集成矿一因此，这可能是一种潜在的岩浆成矿专属性关系，但对产生这种关系的原因与机制仍然不十分清楚。这有待于今后深入开展成矿与无矿的埃达克岩、成矿的埃达克岩与非埃达克岩、无矿的埃达克岩与非埃达克岩等方面的对比研究，以揭示这种成矿专属性的本质。