Nature of gold mineralisation in the Walhalla Goldfield,southeast Australia

The Walhalla-Woods Point Goldfield in southeast Australia is characterised by large gold deposits associated with a Late Devonian dyke swarm. The setting of this goldfield is unique because unlike the major gold deposits in Victoria, it occurs close to the eastern margin of the Western Lachlan Orogen, and highlights the disparities between the evolving phases of orogenic gold mineralisation in the Western Lachlan Orogen, and the contrasts between sediment hosted, dyke-associated and dyke-hosted gold mineralisation. This study integrates existing and new data from renewed mapping of the geology and geochemistry of three gold deposits near the township of Walhalla, in the historically important yet under-explored and under-researched Walhalla-Woods Point Goldfield. The ten highest yielding deposits within the goldfield are either hosted within, or adjacent to, intrusions of the Woods Point Dyke Swarm. This is due to the greater chemical reactivity of the calc-alkaline dykes, and the greater rheological contrast between the dykes and surrounding low-grade metasedimentary units, which allowed for the formation of dyke-hosted quartz breccia veins that are consistently favourable sites for gold mineralisation in the Walhalla Goldfield. This is in contrast to historical production, which concentrated on visible gold within the shear zone-hosted laminated quartz veins. Gold and As assay results have highlighted the increased levels of invisible gold disseminated along dyke margins in proximity to shear zones and quartz reefs. The high-yielding gold deposits hosted wholly by the dyke intrusions of the Woods Point Dyke Swarm are orogenic gold deposits, as they are not associated with elevated levels of Bi, W, As, Mb, Te and Sb, typical of intrusion-related gold deposits.     

On the occurrence of gold mineralization in the Pala Neoproterozoic formations,South-Western Chad

The Pala region, in southwestern Chad, belongs to the northern part of the Central African Pan-African Fold Belt. It is made up of greenschist-facies schists and is characterized by bimodal, mainly mafic, magmatism. This schist unit named Goueigoudoum Series is intruded by pre- to post-tectonic plutonic rocks dated between 737 and 570 Ma and dykes of quartz. Gold is mined artisanally from alluvial deposits and primary chalcopyrite–pyrite-bearing quartz veins, brecciated and silicified zones and shear zones. The majority of the mineralized shear zones and some quartz veins generally trend N–S to NNE–SSW or NW–SE and are interpreted as extensional shear fractures related to regional NE–SW-trending sinistral strike–slip shear zones. The geological context of the Pala region clearly indicates hydrothermal fluids formed along active continental margins during collisional orogenesis, and subsequent associated fluid migration typically occurred during strike–slip events. Although the origin of fluids may be varied (magmatic, metamorphic or meteoric fluids, Proterozoic seawater, or sedimentary basin formation waters), the distribution of the mineralizations along the granitoid intrusions suggests that magmatism played a major role in the dynamics of the mineralizing fluids.     

海南抱伦金矿床控矿构造特征及其对金矿化的控制作用

抱伦金矿床是海南省新近发现的大型金矿床之一，属于成生于印支期受构造控制的岩浆热液型金矿床。矿区出露下志留统陀烈组浅变质岩系与白垩系红色碎屑岩，西北侧分布印支期花岗岩。北北东向豪岗岭断裂与其上盘的北北西向断裂破碎带组成矿区基本构造格架。磁组构分析显示矿区千枚岩以压扁变形占绝对优势，主压应力近东西向，矿化热事件前的构造变形较强，矿化之后的构造变形较弱。矿化期构造应力场为近东西向拉伸(主压应力近南北向)。北北西向断裂破碎带是主要赋矿(含矿)构造，对矿体的空间分布、形态产状起重要的控制作用。     

砂金水化学成矿因素探讨

通过从砂金矿和原生金矿中自然金在粒度、形态、成色等方面特征对比，两类矿床中自然金成色的关系研究以及砂金过采区再生产意义的分析，对砂金水化学成矿因素进行了初步探讨金在表生条件下可以活化、迁移、再生富集成矿，砂金的水化学成矿作用在诸种成矿因素中占有重要地位。     

山东焦家金矿煌斑岩特征及其与金矿化关系

焦家金矿煌斑岩为钙碱性云斜煌岩和拉辉煌斑岩,为成矿后脉岩。区内煌斑岩及金矿体的产状统计表明,二者产状无明显相关性。地球化学分析表明,煌斑岩中w(SiO2)为38.56%～47.52%,w(TiO2)为0.85%～2.20%,Mg#为45～70,Rb/Sr为0.02～0.08,显示幔源特征。矿石中广泛发育的含CO2包裹体、辉碲铋矿的存在及前人关于氦氩同位素的研究结果表明,幔源物质参与了本区成矿。胶东地区煌斑岩时代集中于89～130 Ma,与大规模成矿作用几乎同时发生;本次研究获得其K-Ar年龄为93.5±1.4 Ma,认为焦家金矿中的煌斑岩与金矿化为幔源C-H-O流体分异演化不同阶段的产物,形成于晚白垩世中国东部岩石圈持续伸展减薄的地球动力学背景。     

胶东玲珑金矿田成矿特征和成矿作用

位于华北克拉通东南缘的胶东地区深部找矿取得重大突破，已成为全球第三大金成矿区。玲珑金矿田是胶东石英脉型金矿的典型产地，也是我国最早勘查开发金矿的地区之一，近年来在该区深部探明的蚀变岩型金矿资源量已超过以往探明的石英脉型金矿。但对深部矿体的空间分布以及石英脉型与蚀变岩型金矿的关系还缺乏系统的认识。本文较详细分析了玲珑金矿田的矿床特征及深部变化，综述了矿床地球化学特征和成矿时代的研究成果，探讨了断裂与成矿的关系、石英脉型金矿与蚀变岩型金矿的关系和矿床成因机制。研究发现，蚀变岩型金矿受总体缓倾斜的主断裂控制，石英脉型金矿赋存于主断裂下盘的陡倾张裂隙中。以往认为的多个蚀变岩型矿床实际是同一个金资源量近600 t的巨型金矿床，矿床在垂向2500 m范围内形成3个矿化富集带。其Ⅰ- 2号主矿体埋深44～2333 m，控制最大走向长4750 m，最大倾斜深2430 m，矿体平均厚度11. 50 m，矿石平均品位3. 15 g/t。综合前人研究结果认为：金矿化发生于约120 Ma。成矿流体为中—高温、低盐度、还原条件H2O- CO2- NaCl±CH4体系热液，H- O同位素组成大部分投点于岩浆水与大气降水线之间，矿石的S、Pb同位素特征与赋矿围岩相似，成矿物质主要来自于下地壳，有少量幔源组分贡献。研究发现，大型蚀变岩型金矿体主要赋存于断裂倾角变化部位构成阶梯成矿模式，其原因是断裂倾角变化引起流体压力波动造成金质沉淀；石英脉型和蚀变岩型金矿的矿体特征有明显区别，后者矿体倾角缓、规模大，矿石平均品位低，矿石中金属硫化物含量少（平均S含量约是前者的1/3），金矿物粒度细，金矿物的赋存状态以晶隙金为主（前者主要为包体金）；二者的地球化学特征略有差异，后者成矿期的流体包裹体类型较为单一、盐度和温度相对较低，石英脉型矿石的H- O同位素投点位置更接近于岩浆水，蚀变岩型金矿偏向于大气降水，石英脉型矿石的S同位素特征与胶东岩群相似，而蚀变岩型矿石的S同位素特征与晚中生代岩浆岩更接近。这些差异说明，石英脉型和蚀变岩型金矿是同一成矿事件不同成矿方式和不同构造位置的产物。综合分析认为，胶东地区的大规模壳幔混合源岩浆活动，为成矿流体活动提供了热动力条件、运移通道和部分流体来源；岩浆快速隆升引发地壳浅部产生拆离断层和相关张裂构造，为流体聚集、成矿提供了有利空间。     

湖南苗儿山韧性剪切带与金矿化

湖南雪峰弧形构造带中的苗儿山韧性剪切带存在糜棱岩和片理化岩石两大构造岩类,各具不同的变形特征,根据金矿的产出规律,认为该地区金矿化受韧性剪切带,老地层,后期脆性断裂等多重因素控制,发育于老地层中的片理化带提供了成矿流体的运移通道和容矿空间,加强片理化带的研究对于在雪峰弧形构造带上找金具有重要意义。     

冀北东坪金矿床深部-外围的构造-蚀变-流体成矿研究

冀北东坪金矿田是我国首次在碱性杂岩体内发现的金矿床,曾被认为是与碱性岩有关的金矿床。近年来年代学数据表明,东坪-后沟一带金矿的赋矿碱性杂岩体形成于海西期,而成矿却主要发生在燕山期。金矿床严格受构造裂隙控制,构造-蚀变-流体成矿作用显著,钾长石化是最重要的蚀变。由未蚀变岩石向矿体和断裂带中心方向,典型的构造-蚀变-矿化分带依次为:0-原岩(二长岩、正长岩)带,I-微斜长石化带,II硅化绢云母化微斜长石岩带,III碎裂微斜长石岩带,及IV断层泥。从0带到III带,Au含量增加,Ag、Cu、Pb、Zn、Mo也略有增加。东坪金矿构造-蚀变-矿化阶段可分为4个:Ⅰ钾长石-石英脉阶段;Ⅱ黄铁矿-白色石英阶段;Ⅲ多金属硫化物-烟灰色石英脉阶段;Ⅳ晚期碳酸盐阶段。深部中段各阶段脉石英的流体包裹体研究表明, 在I、II、III阶段均发育富CO₂包裹体。第Ⅰ阶段钾长石石英脉L-V型包裹体均一温度(Th)为220.3~359℃,盐度1.1%~3.1% NaCleqv;H₂O-CO₂型包裹体Th在346.5~383.5℃。第Ⅱ阶段黄铁矿白色石英脉中L-V型包裹体Th范围是217.2~372.5℃,盐度在1.1%~5.7% NaCleqv;H₂O-CO₂型包裹体Th在241.2~396.7℃,盐度为2.2%~6.2% NaCleqv。第Ⅲ阶段的烟灰色石英脉中L-V型包裹体Th范围为158.2~350.5℃,盐度在0.7%~5.5% NaCleqv;H₂O-CO₂型包裹体Th范围在215.2~378℃之间,盐度范围在3.0%~6.0% NaCleqv。第Ⅳ阶段晚期石英脉L-V型包裹体Th范围为151.2~249.8℃,盐度在0.9%~8.3% NaCleqv。矿区外围转枝莲矿段的II阶段白色石英脉中包裹体的Th范围为220~416.2℃,III阶段烟灰色石英脉的Th范围为195.3~425℃。富金石英脉形成于中高温(＞300℃,可达400℃以上)、中深压力(70~160MPa以上)条件下。其成矿背景、热液蚀变、矿物共生组合及流体性质与典型的造山型金矿有一定的差别,归属于"与侵入岩有关的金矿床"更合理。     

山东省胶东地区焦家式金矿床中含金石英大脉流体包裹体的特征

著名的焦家式金矿以破碎蚀变岩型矿化为特征,但近年来也发现有含金石英大脉。含金石英大脉的流体包裹体以气液两相为主,含液相CO2包裹体次之;均一温度主峰在290℃附近,次峰在200℃附近;盐度主要为(2～10)%NaCl;估算压力为20～38MPa;包裹体气相成分以H2O为主,其次为CO2;黄铁矿包裹体离子组成一般Na+>K+>Ca2+,SO42->Cl->F-,石英包裹体离子组成一般K+>Na+>Ca2+(变形石英Na+>K+>Ca2+),SO42->Cl->F-。焦家式金矿含金石英大脉的上述特征与玲珑式金矿含金石英脉类似,但与处于同一矿床的破碎蚀变岩型矿化有一定差异。含金石英大脉以充填为特征,而破碎蚀变岩型矿化以交代为特征。     

An indirect lead isotope age determination of gold mineralization at the Corinthia mine,Yilgarn Block,Western Australia

The Corinthia lode‐gold deposit in amphibolite‐facies greenstone belt rocks in the Southern Cross Province of the Archaean Yilgarn Block contains a largely undeformed pegmatite dyke emplaced during the last phases of movement along the Fraser's‐Corinthia shear zone. Gold mineralization and shear zone development were synchronous, and a Pb‐Pb isochron age of 2620 ±6 Ma for pegmatite emplacement either indirectly dates mineralization, or places a minimum age constraint on the timing of mineralization. This age is in accord with a broadly synchronous dominant episode of Archaean lode‐gold mineralization throughout the Yilgarn Block.     

安徽滁州地区金矿化地质特征及找矿前景分析

安徽滁州地区地处郯庐深大断裂中段东侧，管店－龙王尖主干断裂及其次级的NNE，NW向断裂较为发育，后者为主要的赋矿构造，燕山早期的管店岩体与前震旦纪张八岭群变质岩系广泛接触，有利于成矿元素的活化与富集。区内金矿化类型主要有蚀谱变岩型和石英脉型，前者规模较大，后者较小。1：5万水系沉物测量表明，金异常主要分布于岩体与地层的内外接触带上，并且有明显的浓集中心和浓度分带。地质和地球化学特征表明，本区具有一定的找矿前景。     

Quantitative prediction of gold lodes in gold mineralization series based on large-scale mineralization information measurement

The ability to quantitatively predict Au lodes in Au mineralization series with data from large-scale mineralization information is greatly needed. This paper discusses how to (1) classify the oreforming information, (2) set up the mineralization information model, (3) divide the statistical units within the minimum area of the mineralization anomalies, (4) select the comprehensive ore-forming (controlling) information variables, and (5) carry out the quantitative prediction using some newly proposed statistical models. Finally, the quantitative prediction results for Au lodes in a Au deposit, the Aohan Banner in Mongolia, are provided. Among the three first-grade prediction targets, two were tested and have been found to have industrial significance.     

皖南地区天井山金矿的矿化时空结构及矿体定位规律

天井山金矿的矿化类型有石英脉型、蚀变岩型和千糜岩型,构成复合金矿化体系,各矿化类型的成因及时空配置具有密切的内在成生联系,组合产出特征明显。主成矿期成矿演化可以划分为微量金-石英阶段、金-单硫化物-石英阶段、金-多金属硫化物-石英阶段和微量金-萤石-方解石-石英阶段。矿体主要赋存于接触带构造及其附近,呈脉状、透镜状,膨大狭缩、尖灭再现、舒缓波状产出特征明显;断裂产状变化处及裂隙发育地段易于形成厚大富矿体,矿化发育程度与基性岩脉空间关系密切。矿体总体走向NE,具有浅部NW倾向、NE向侧伏,深部SE倾向、SW向侧伏的定位规律。其空间定位产出样式可分为外接触带型、接触带型和内接触带型。     

新疆多拉纳萨依金矿一带花岗岩类形成时代及其对金矿成矿作用的制约

新疆阿尔泰造山带西南缘分布有多拉纳萨依、赛都、哲兰德等大中型金矿床,近年又发现沃多克等小型金矿.这些金矿主要赋存于糜棱岩化石英闪长岩中,岩石地球化学特征表明沃多克和多拉纳萨依金矿含矿石英闪长岩特征基本一致,属同一期岩浆活动的产物,而明显不同于两矿床之间的萨热乌增英云闪长岩.沃多克金矿含矿石英闪长岩和萨热乌增英云闪长岩LA-ICP-MS锆石U-Pb年龄分别为(299.4±4.1) Ma和(317.7±1.5) Ma.二者分别属于后造山和后碰撞花岗岩.沃多克含金石英闪长岩年龄限定了多拉纳萨依一带金矿形成时代不早于300 Ma,结合前人的研究成果分析,表明其主要成矿时期为290 Ma左右.萨热乌增等岩体的形成早于金矿形成时代,金的成矿作用与该期大规模花岗岩体的侵位无关.     

西藏弄如日金矿围岩蚀变特征与成矿机理

弄如日金矿床围岩蚀变类型有黄铁矿化、绢云母化、雄黄化、钠长石化、硅化、碳酸盐化等,其中强硅化、黄铁矿化、雄(雌)黄化与金矿化关系密切。从断裂-岩脉中心向两侧围岩,蚀变强度由强转弱。矿床的形成主要与喜马拉雅期花岗斑岩的侵入活动有关。     

胶东玲珑金矿田171号脉深部金矿床特征及构造控矿作用

玲珑金矿田171号脉赋存于招平断裂北段破头青断裂中,在其深部探明金资源储量150余吨,确定其为超大型破碎带蚀变岩型金矿床。为了揭示构造与成矿、深部矿与浅部矿、石英脉型矿与蚀变岩型矿等的关系,为深部找矿提供典型实例和理论依据,文章通过大量矿区地质勘探、野外地质调查和区域地质综合研究,剖析了矿床特征,揭示了构造控矿规律。171号金矿脉深部共有7个金矿体,均为盲矿体。其中,171_1号主矿体埋深120~1700m,呈似层状、大脉状分布,沿走向及倾向显舒缓波状。矿体总体走向60°,倾向SE,倾角36.5~43.5°。矿体长2500m,斜深510~3100 m,平均厚度4.23 m,平均金品位2.71×10~(-6),矿石主要为黄铁绢英岩型(蚀变岩型)。矿脉和矿体受断裂构造控制,矿化、构造、蚀变分带具有一致性。由控矿断裂的主裂面至远离主裂面,构造变形强度由强变弱,蚀变强度和矿化强度也由强变弱。招平断裂是一条切割早期韧性剪切带的脆性断裂,总体呈舒缓波状展布,大部分地段发育于早前寒武纪变质岩系与侏罗纪玲珑型花岗岩之间,断裂上盘脆性变形较弱,下盘脆性变形带宽大,是沿不同时代地质体之间发育的左行铲式正断层,类似于拆离断层,是胶东白垩纪伸展构造的组成部分。玲珑金矿田是典型的石英脉型金矿产地,但大型金矿床多为赋存于断裂构造中的蚀变岩型金矿床,石英脉型金矿床与蚀变岩型金矿床是同一构造系统中不同构造位置的产物;一般在主断裂中赋存蚀变岩型金矿床,在主断裂下盘的次级张裂隙中产出石英脉型金矿床。胶东以正断层为主的伸展构造系统为大规模成矿提供了有利条件,构造、蚀变分带和不同类型金矿床的关系是金矿找矿的重要标志。     

The geochemistry of wall rock alteration in turbidite-hosted gold vein deposits, central Victoria, Australia

Gold deposits hosted in Ordovician to Devonian turbidites in central Victoria, Australia, consist of steeply dipping quartz vein systems hosted mainly by reverse faults. Wall rock alteration of the host metasandstones, metasiltstones and shales (or slates) extends at least 20 m from the veins in the Bendigo-Ballarat zone (BBZ) and 10 m in the Melbourne zone (MZ) deposits. Alteration minerals include carbonates (ankerite, siderite and dolomite) chlorite, seriate, arsenopyrite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite, with less common barite, albite and biotite in the BBZ and carbonates (siderite, ankerite, dolomite and ferromagnesite), sericite, chlorite, arsenopyrite, pyrite, and stibnite with less common chalcostibite in the MZ. SiO₂, Na₂O, MgO and Sr with P₂O₅ commonly decreasing during alteration while CO₂, S, As, Sb, Au, V, Al₂O₃, Ga, K₂O and Rb with Ni and Cr commonly increase. TiO₂, FeO, Fe₂O₃, MnO, Th, U, Nb, La, Ce, and Sc showed little change. Concentrations of Zn, Cu, Pb, and Ca are variable.The relatively large decrease of SiO₂ could account for most, if not all, quartz present in the ore veins. The Na₂O and MgO could have crystallized in the veins in the very minor albite and chlorite present. The addition of V in all and Ni and Cr in most deposits probably reflects a source enriched in these elements such as underlying greenstones. The source of both the volatile (S, As, Sb) and lithophile (K₂O and Rb) elements as well as Au is unknown, but they could have been derived from a magmatic source or from the metamorphism of Cambrian greenstones. CO₂, present as carbonate, was derived mainly by the reaction of graphite, originally present in the sediments, with the ore solutions. Al₂O₃, the only other major element after SiO₂, probably increased mainly due to the decrease of the latter.     

New age constraints on metamorphism,metasomatism and gold mineralisation at Plutonic Gold Mine,Marymia Inlier,Western Australia

The Plutonic Well Greenstone Belt (PWGB) is located in the Marymia Inlier between the Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons in Western Australia, and hosts a series of major Au deposits. The main episode of Au mineralisation in the PWGB was previously interpreted to have either accompanied, or shortly followed, peak metamorphism in the late Archean at ca 2650 Ma with a later, minor, event associated with the Capricorn Orogeny. Here we present new Pb isotope model ages for sulfides and Rb–Sr ages for mica, as well as a new ²⁰⁷Pb–²⁰⁶Pb age for titanite for samples from the Plutonic Gold Mine (Plutonic) at the southern end of the PWGB. The majority of the sulfides record Proterozoic Pb isotope model ages (2300–2100 Ma), constraining a significant Au mineralising event at Plutonic that occurred >300 Myr later than previously thought. A Rb–Sr age of 2296 ± 99 Ma from muscovite in an Au-bearing sample records resetting or closure of the Rb–Sr system in muscovite at about the same time. A younger Rb–Sr age of 1779 ± 46 Ma from biotite from the same sample may record further cooling, or resetting during a late-stage episode of metasomatism in the PWGB. This could have been associated with the 1820–1770 Ma Capricorn Orogeny, or a late-stage hydrothermal event potentially constrained by a new ²⁰⁷Pb–²⁰⁶Pb age of 1725 ± 26 Ma for titanite in a chlorite–carbonate vein. This titanite age correlates with a pre-existing age for a metasomatic event dated at 1719 ± 14 Ma by U–Pb ages of zircon overgrowths in a sample from the Marymia Deposit. Based on the Pb-isotope data presented here, Au mineralising events in the PWGB are inferred to have occurred at ca 2630, 2300–2100 Ma, during the Glenburgh and Capricorn orogenies, and 1730–1660 Ma. The 2300–2100 Ma event, which appears to have been significant based on the amount of sulfide of this age, correlates with the inferred age for rifting of the Marymia Inlier from the northern margin of the Yilgarn Craton. The texturally-later visible Au may have been deposited during the Glenburgh and Capricorn orogenies.     

Physicochemical Conditions of Differential Mineralization of Au and As in Gold Deposits,Southwest Guizhou Province,China

The conditions under which gold and arsenic are enriched separately during mineralization in gold deposits in southwestern Guizhou Province were described and the thermodynamic calculations gave: 200–150°C at 400 × 10⁻⁶ -300 × 10⁶ Pa (corresponding to a depth between 1.6 km and 1.2 km); lgf o₂,−40 to -35 Pa; lgf s₂, -20 to−16 Pa; pH 5.0 -4.2 and Eh -0.53 V. This project was jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Open Lab. of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.     

南秦岭夏家店卡林型金矿床构造特征与成矿关系

从地质背景、矿床地质、控矿构造分析了夏家店金矿床特征及其形成过程及成矿机理;矿床产于南秦岭陡岭古隆起边缘寒武系-震旦系碳-泥-硅质板岩及白云岩中;控矿构造具有二次韧性剪切变形、二次构造角砾岩化及二次脉体矿化的特征,显示出式样多种、性质多样、形式多变、活动期次与阶段多次叠加的特点;具体阐述了各构造作用阶段与矿化蚀变之间的关系,建立了地层建造-剪切与张裂构造-热液渗流的成矿系统.属于沉积岩系、构造、热液活动3种地质作用叠加改造的卡林型金矿床.