扫描电子显微镜对花岗岩中主要矿物裂隙作用的研究(英文)

微裂隙对于岩石的物理性质有重要影响.通过光学显微镜对显微裂隙进行的观察,难以将薄片的制作过程中产生的裂隙同自然裂隙区分;其次,观测的裂隙大小限制在0.1mm或以上数量级,一些重要细节观察不到.扫描电镜的高放大倍数和三维分辨率使其成为适合于裂隙研究的理想工具.利用扫描电镜观测了浙江花岗岩在室温下由51.6MPa压力产生的裂隙的发育过程.观察花岗岩的表面以研究其微裂隙和矿物的解理、晶形及破裂作用.微裂隙分为3种类型:晶体内裂隙(完全发育在颗粒内部),晶体间裂隙(穿过颗粒边界进入其他颗粒中),颗粒边界裂隙(沿颗粒边界发育或与边界重合).本研究中的花岗岩为中—粗粒(1～6mm),经过蚀变,约含40%斜长石,25%钾长石,25%石英,10%镁铁矿物(主要为黑云母和白云母).(1)石英裂隙表面的石英颗粒具有边界破裂和贯穿颗粒破裂.贯穿石英颗粒的破裂常呈贝壳状断口.变形集中带与滑动面相伴,其上发育有擦痕和沟槽,这是石英典型的脆性破裂类型.石英矿物的贝壳状破裂产状指示其变形作用早期的碎裂作用,在变形作用中发生交代作用.一些平滑的破裂面上没有石英颗粒的微裂隙构造,但在石英表面却有明显的擦痕面,可指示应力的方向.由于石英的各向异性,这些面也是由贯穿颗粒破裂所形成.一些开放的裂隙集中于石英晶体之中或沿     

扫描电子显微镜对花岗岩中主要矿物裂隙作用的研究

微裂隙对于岩石的物理性质有重要影响.通过光学显微镜对显微裂隙进行的观察,难以将薄片的制作过程中产生的裂隙同自然裂隙区分;其次,观测的裂隙大小限制在0.1mm或以上数量级,一些重要细节观察不到.扫描电镜的高放大倍数和三维分辨率使其成为适合于裂隙研究的理想工具.利用扫描电镜观测了浙江花岗岩在室温下由51.6MPa压力产生的裂隙的发育过程.观察花岗岩的表面以研究其微裂隙和矿物的解理、晶形及破裂作用.微裂隙分为3种类型:晶体内裂隙(完全发育在颗粒内部),晶体间裂隙(穿过颗粒边界进入其他颗粒中),颗粒边界裂隙(沿颗粒边界发育或与边界重合).本研究中的花岗岩为中-粗粒(1~6mm),经过蚀变,约含40%斜长石,25%钾长石,25%石英,10%镁铁矿物(主要为黑云母和白云母).     

Episyenite formation in the Toki granite,central Japan

Episyenite is a quartz-depleted vuggy rock resulting from hydrothermal alteration of granitic rocks. This is the first report of its existence in an island arc, which is identified in a deep drill core of the Toki Cretaceous granite distributed in central Japan. In order to understand the petrographical features of the episyenite, neutron porosity measurement, geochemical analysis, microscopic observation, and X-ray computed tomography scanning were carried out. The results show remarkably high porosity (35.4 %) due to interconnecting vugs and the removal of quartz, plagioclase, and biotite. The Rb–Sr isotopic results and the paragenetic sequence of secondary minerals in the vugs suggest that the hydrothermal alteration process can be divided into an episyenitization stage and a later hydrothermal stage. At the episyenitization stage (70.6 ± 3.1 Ma) ca. 6 million years after the emplacement of the unaltered granite (76.3 ± 1.5 Ma), dissolution of quartz, biotite, and plagioclase occurred and was followed by the precipitation of albite, vermicular chlorite, and platy calcite. The episyenitization is considered as a local alteration of the Toki granite in an isotopically closed system. At the later hydrothermal stage, illite and secondary quartz precipitated from circulating meteoric-derived water in the dissolution vugs. Superimposing alteration at the later hydrothermal stage is limited, which results in the preservation of the episyenite in an almost primitive condition.     

海南屯昌地区高通岭钼矿床的地质、地球化学 特征及成矿时代

高通岭钼矿床位于华南板块南部的华南褶皱系五指山褶皱带内,共查明平行脉状矿体9个、矿化体5个.矿石分石英脉型和钾长花岗岩型2种,矿石中含辉钼矿、黄铁矿、黄铜矿、方铅矿、闪锌矿及石英、钾长石、黑云母、绢云母、绿泥石等.高通岭花岗岩体的Mo含量比其克拉克值高4倍,沿岩体构造裂隙发育钾长石化、黄铁矿化、硅化、绢云母化、绿泥石化等蚀变和钼矿化.成矿流体成分为K -Na -Cl--F--SO42-型;S、C、H、O同住素组成反映成矿物质以岩浆源为主,流体为岩浆水与大气降水混合来源.辉钼矿Re-Os等时线年龄为98.4Ma 2.5Ma.与高通岭花岗岩体侵位的时代一致.该矿床为与燕山晚期岩浆活动有关的热液石英-硫化物脉型钼矿床.     

与湘南白腊水锡矿床有关的骑田岭花岗岩的绿泥石化研究

湘南白腊水锡矿床位于骑田岭燕山期黑云母花岗岩中。绿泥石化是这一含矿花岗岩中常见的热液蚀变现象,对采自
钻孔的岩石样品研究发现,花岗岩的绿泥石化程度变化较大。本文选择三组绿泥石化蚀变程度显著不同的花岗岩样品进行
研究,探讨了与锡成矿密切相关的含矿花岗岩的绿泥石化作用。研究表明,不同程度绿泥石化花岗岩中的绿泥石,在产出
形式与化学成分上均表现出一系列明显不同的特征。依据绿泥石产出形式、化学成分、绿泥石化花岗岩地球化学等特征认
为,绿泥石对花岗岩造岩矿物的交代顺序为：角闪石、黑云母→斜长石、钾长石→石英;绿泥石形态特征的变化一方面与
绿泥石成分有关,另一方面与被其交代的造岩矿物晶体结构有关;花岗岩绿泥石化越强烈,全岩的烧失量和Zn含量就越
高,原岩的Cl丢失到蚀变流体中去的量也越多。随着花岗岩绿泥石化程度的加强,其绿泥石的主要成分含量会呈现出规律
性的变化。绿泥石的Si含量在绿泥石化过程中逐渐减少;长石遭受破坏溶解后释放出的Al在厘米尺度范围内发生迁移与再
分配,引起绿泥石Al含量的升高;Fe从热液中带入,蚀变花岗岩中绿泥石矿物含量的多少与水-岩反应体系中Fe的多少有
关;形成绿泥石所需的Mg主要来源于花岗岩暗色矿物内Mg的释放与再分配;Mn则主要由外部流体带入。     

Dissolution–precipitation reactions in hydrothermal experiments with quartz–feldspar aggregates

Batch and flow-through experiments were performed on quartz–feldspar granular aggregates at hydrothermal conditions (up to ≈150 °C, up to 5 MPa effective pressure, and near-neutral pH) for up to 141 days. The effect of dissolution–precipitation reactions on the surface morphology of the mineral grains was investigated. The starting materials as well as the solids and fluids resulting from the experiments were characterized using BET, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, electron microprobe analysis, inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffraction, and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The electrical conductivity of fluid samples was used as a proxy for the evolution of the fluid composition in the experiments. The chemical analyses of the fluids in combination with hydrogeochemical simulations with PHREEQC suggested the precipitation of Al–Si-bearing solid phases. Electron microscopy confirmed the formation of secondary amorphous Al–Si-bearing solid phases. The microscopic observations are consistent with a process of stoichiometric dissolution of the mineral grains, transport of dissolved ions in the fluid phase, and spatially coupled precipitation of sub-μm sized amorphous particles on mineral surfaces. These findings shed light onto early stages of diagenesis of quartz–feldspar sands and indicate that amorphous phases may be precursors for the formation of crystalline phases, for example, clay minerals.     

Hydrothermal alteration and mineralisation of the Glen Eden Mo-W-Sn deposit: a leucogranite-related hydrothermal system,Southern New England Orogen,NSW, Australia

The Glen Eden Mo-Sn-W deposit in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, is an example of a leucogranite-related, low-grade, large-tonnage hydrothermal system. It occurs in the southern part of the New England Orogen and is hosted within Permian felsic volcanic rocks, intruded at depth by dykes of porphyritic microleucogranite (Glen Eden Granite). The deposit is hosted within a pipe-like quartz-rich greisen breccia body about 500 m in diameter, surrounded by a greisen zone several hundred metres across, zoning out into altered volcanic rocks. The dominant ore minerals, largely hosted as open space fillings and disseminations in quartz and quartz-rich greisen, are molybdenite, wolframite and cassiterite; they are accompanied by minor to trace amounts of muscovite, fluorite, topaz, siderite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, bismuth, bismuthinite, joseite A, cosalite, galenobismutite, beryl, anatase and late-stage dickite and kaolinite. Two types of breccia are recognised: (1) greisenised volcanic rock fragments (quartz + muscovite), cemented by hydrothermal quartz ± K-feldspar ± ore minerals, and (2) fragments of hydrothermal quartz ± cassiterite ± wolframite enclosed in quartz ± clay. In both types of breccia and in stockwork veins, there is evidence of early precipitation of Mo-Sn-W phases, followed by Bi minerals and base metal sulfides (± fluorite, siderite).Breccia formation and associated hydrothermal alteration (greisen, potassic, argillic, propylitic) are interpreted to be related to devolatilisation of the highly fractionated Glen Eden Granite of early Triassic age (240±1 Ma based on ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology of greisen muscovite) as well as to fluid mixing with meteoric waters. The breccia pipe could have formed in part by rock dissolution and collapse, as well as by explosive degassing of boiling fluids. Fluid inclusion evidence is consistent with boiling, with breccia pipe formation and mineralisation having mainly occurred at 250–350 °C from fluids with salinity of 0.4–9 wt% NaCl equivalent in the dilute types and 30–47 wt% NaCl equivalent in the hypersaline types. Stable isotopic evidence (O, D, C, S) indicates a strong magmatic contribution to the hydrothermal fluids and metals in the breccia. The ¹⁸O values of quartz decrease outward from the breccia pipe (10.6–12.3 in the pipe to 3.4–8.7 in the peripheral quartz) indicating that there has been mixing with isotopically light (high latitude) meteoric fluids, mainly after formation of the breccia pipe.     

湖南瑶岗仙钨矿床成矿流体演化特征研究

瑶岗仙矿床位于湖南省郴州市瑶岗仙镇,是世界著名的钨矿床。近几年,随着云英岩析离体的发现,对于成矿流体的演化过程有了新的认识。文章通过对瑶岗仙石英脉型黑钨矿矿床的中粒碱长花岗岩、云英岩析离体和石英脉3个阶段地质体的石英中的流体包裹体进行显微测温和激光拉曼光谱分析,并对云英岩析离体中的熔流包裹体进行加热熔化实验,初步证明了瑶岗仙矿床石英脉型黑钨矿阶段成矿流体的演化是由花岗质岩浆→浆液过渡态岩浆→岩浆热液的一个完整连续的过程,而且成矿流体以富含挥发分为特征。并结合地质现象,提出浆液过渡态流体与成矿作用具有直接联系。     

Desilication veins in the Cadillac Mountain granite (Maine, USA): a record of reversals in the SiO2 solubility of H2O-rich vapour released during subsolidus cooling

Late-stage hydrous fluids, which evolved during the cooling of the Cadillac Mountain granite, Maine, USA, produced narrow veins that transect the pluton. The vein margins contain microstructures transitional between granite and the vein centre. They preserve the vestige shapes of original Na-rich alkali feldspar crystals that have been pseudomorphed by cordierite+quartz+K-rich alkali feldspar. Closer to the centres of the veins, the minerals change from an outer zone with cordierite, hercynitic–galaxite spinel, minor corundum, K-feldspar and plagioclase to an inner zone with remnant cordierite, hercynitic gahnite, strongly zoned almandine–spessartine garnet, chlorite and quartz. Three allochemical reactions are inferred to have occurred with the influx of hydrous fluids during the replacement process. Reaction (1) is Na-rich alkali feldspar+iron ions in solution=Fe-cordierite+quartz+K-feldspar+sodium ions in solution. Reactions (2) and (3) occurred during desilication. Reaction (2) is Fe-cordierite=hercynite+silica in solution, and reaction (3) is Fe-cordierite+water=corundum+iron hydroxide in solution+silicic acid in solution. Two independent techniques, experimental silica-solubility data and spinel–cordierite thermobarometry, constrain the conditions of vein formation to c.   1.0  kbar and both methods indicate that the progressive mineral reactions occurred during cooling of the hydrous fluids from c. 775° to 400–340  °C. This cooling trend is consistent with the petrographic evidence, which demonstrates that reactions occurred before desilication, during desilication, and then diminished with a final phase of resilication. Although the veins are minor features of the Cadillac Mountain granite, they provide insight into the conditions that prevailed during cooling of the pluton, and similar features may be important for constraining the cooling history of shallow-level plutonic complexes elsewhere.     

库车坳陷白垩系深层致密砂岩储层溶蚀作用实验模拟研究

库车坳陷前陆区白垩系发育特低物性、强非均质性和高稳产砂岩储层,溶蚀作用显著,但成因机制尚不是很明确。利用高温高压热模拟实验还原了目的层在成岩演化过程中1种表生流体和2种埋藏流体环境下溶蚀作用差异,揭示了成岩矿物演化过程及储集空间结构变化特征。结果表明,表生成岩期大气淡水淋滤弱酸性流体环境（CO₂饱和溶液,pCO₂=1 MPa）溶蚀作用最为显著,长石类矿物发生明显溶蚀,石英和黏土矿物相对难溶,Na+、Ca2+和K+等离子析出明显,Si4+和Al3+析出较少,样品表面沉淀出较多的疑似多边形石英和铝硅酸类矿物;成岩晚期油气充注酸性流体环境（乙酸溶液,2 mL/L）溶蚀作用其次,易于溶解白云石、石膏和长石类矿物,Ca2+、Mg2+、Na+和Si4+等离子析出明显,样品表面无沉淀;成岩早-中期碱性流体环境（NaHCO₃溶液,pH=7.46、HCO₃-=0.6 mol/L）溶蚀作用相对较弱,石英、长石和部分黏土矿物均发生了不同程度的溶蚀,且随着温度、压力的增加,溶蚀作用程度增加。综合分析表明:表生流体是研究区砂岩储层溶蚀孔隙发育的关键因素,其次为有机酸和碱性埋藏流体。这一认识能够丰富致密砂岩储层孔隙成岩演化理论,为下一步寻找规模储层发育区和气田有效开发提供理论支撑。     

The Donoso copper-rich,tourmaline-bearing breccia pipe in central Chile: petrologic,fluid inclusion and stable isotope evidence for an origin from magmatic fluids

The copper-rich, tourmaline-bearing Donoso breccia pipe is one among more than 15 different mineralized breccias in the giant (>50 million metric tonnes of copper) Miocene and Pliocene Río Blanco-Los Bronces copper deposit in the high Andes of central Chile. This breccia pipe, bracketed in age between 5.2 and 4.9 Ma, has dimensions of 500 by 700 m at the current surface 3,670 m above sea level. Its roots have yet to be encountered, and it is >300 m in diameter at the depth of the deepest drill holes. The Donoso breccia is, for the most part, monolithic, containing clasts of the equigranular quartz monzonite pluton which hosts the pipe. It is matrix supported, with between 5 and 25% of the total rock volume consisting of breccia-matrix minerals, which include tourmaline, quartz, chalcopyrite, pyrite, specularite, and lesser amounts of bornite and anhydrite. An open pit mine, centered on this breccia pipe, has a current production of 50,000 tonnes of ore per day at an average grade of 1.2% copper, and copper grade in the breccia matrix is significantly higher. Measured '¹⁸O for tourmaline and quartz from the matrix of the Donoso breccia at different levels of the pipe range from +6.9 to +12.0‰, and measured 'D in tourmaline ranges from -73 to -95‰. Temperatures of crystallization of these minerals, as determined by the highest homogenization temperatures of highly saline fluid inclusions, range from 400 to >690°C. When corrected for these temperatures, the stable isotope data indicate that fluids from which these breccia-matrix minerals precipitated were magmatic, with '¹⁸O between +5.6 to +9.1‰ and 'D between -51 to -80‰. These isotopic data preclude participation of a significant amount of meteoric water in the formation of the Donoso breccia. They support a model in which brecciation is caused by expansion of magmatic fluids exsolved from a cooling pluton, and breccia-matrix minerals, including copper sulfides, precipitated from the same magmatic fluids responsible for brecciation. Sericitic alteration of clasts in the breccia was also caused by these magmatic fluids. Different types of fluid inclusions imply that several different magmatic fluids were involved in formation of the Donoso breccia. These include high-temperature, highly saline, non-boiling fluids, trapped in inclusions that homogenize by halite dissolution, which probably exsolved from a magma cooling under relatively high (>1 kbar) lithostatic pressure conditions, consistent with geologic constraints. Other high-temperature, highly saline fluids are trapped in inclusions that homogenize by vapor-bubble disappearance and are spatially associated with vapor-rich inclusions, suggesting either phase separation (boiling) or simultaneous separation of immiscible brine and vapor from a magma cooling at lower hydrostatic pressure conditions. Both types of high-temperature, highly saline fluids circulated intermittently, as pressure fluctuated between lithostatic and hydrostatic conditions because of episodes of sealing and rebrecciation.     

Mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal alteration and episyenitization in the Königshain granites, northern Bohemian Massif, Germany

The late-Hercynian granites of Königshain underwent multistage hydrothermal processes. Extensive high-temperature late-magmatic alteration is, for example, indicated by low Zr/Hf and an REE pattern displaying the tetrad effect. Intensive post-magmatic alteration of the granite occurred along brittle structures. At least two main stages of post-magmatic hydrothermal alteration are involved. The first high-temperature stage, which is characterized by albitization and/or quartz leaching (episyenitization), resulted from fluid–rock interaction with late-magmatic fluids that very probably mixed with external low-salinity fluids. Quartz dissolution was triggered by vapour condensation and/or the cooling of these fluids (below 450??°C) along brittle structures. The high porosity resulting from quartz leaching during stage 1 assisted subsequent circulation of low-temperature fluids at stage 2; the latter is characterized by the chloritization and illitization of episyenites. Almost all major and trace elements were enriched or depleted during one of the main alteration stages. However, Zr, Hf, Th, and Ti were immobile during post-magmatic alteration. The significant depletion of LREE and the enrichment of HREE in albitized samples is controlled by the dissolution of monazite and the new formation of HREE-rich polycrase-(Y) or aeschynite-(Y) during post-magmatic stage 1. Negative Ce anomalies of episyenites are associated with illitization and suggest oxidizing conditions during stage 2.     

Origin of Ore-forming Fluids Responsible for Gold Mineralization of the Pongkor Au-Ag Deposit, West Java, Indonesia: Evidence from Mineralogic, Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry and Stable Isotope Study of the Ciurug–Cikoret Veins

The Pongkor gold–silver mine is situated at the northeastern flank of the Bayah dome, which is a product of volcanism in the Sunda–Banda Arc. The hydrothermal alteration minerals in the Ciurug–Cikoret area are typical of those formed from acid to near‐neutral pH thermal waters. On the surface, illite/smectite mixed layer mineral (I/Sm), smectite and kaolinite, and spotting illite, I/Sm and K‐feldspar alteration occur at the top of the mineralized zone. Silicification, K‐feldspar and I/Sm zones are commonly formed in the wall rock, and gradually grade outwards into a propylitic zone. The mineralization of precious metal ore zone is constrained by fluid temperatures between 180 and 220°C, and with low salinity (<0.2 wt% NaCl equivalent) and boiling condition. The minimum depth of vein formation below the paleo‐water table is approximately 90–130 m for the hydrostatic column. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope data for quartz and calcite show relatively homogeneous fluid composition (?53 to ?68‰δD and ?5.7 to +0.3‰δ¹⁸O H₂O). There is no specific trend in the data with respect to the mineralization stages and elevation, which suggests that the ore‐forming fluids did not significantly change spatially during the vein formation. The stable isotope data indicate mixing between the hydrothermal fluids and meteoric water and interaction between the hydrothermal fluids and the host rock.     

Controlling factors for dawsonite diagenesis: a case study of the Binnan Region in Dongying Sag,Bohai Bay Basin,China

Authigenic minerals and the diagenetic sequence of the dawsonite-bearing sandstones from the Binnan Region of the Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China were studied to understand the formation of dawsonite, as a possible mechanism for mineral trapping of CO₂ in carbon capture and storage (CCS) programmes. Authigenic minerals include quartz overgrowth, dawsonite (5–15 vol%), calcite, ferrocalcite and ankerite. The major rock types are medium- to fine-grained arkose, feldspathic litharenite and lithic arkose. Quantitative analysis suggests that the burial depth and feldspar content are the two dominant controlling factors of the growth of dawsonite. The dawsonite content increases initially before decreasing with burial depth, with the peak dawsonite content occurring at approximately 1500 m depth. This trend is probably due to increases in temperature and pCO₂ with the burial depth and contributes to the formation of dawsonite. However, the pCO₂ content and stability of dawsonite decrease with increasing distance from the centre of the gas reservoir. When the formation temperature exceeds the upper limit of the preservation temperature of dawsonite, the dawsonite is suppressed, while the dissolution of dawsonite is promoted. Overall, the dawsonite content exhibits a positive correlation with the feldspar content. The dissolution of feldspar makes both Na⁺ and Al³⁺ available and creates the accommodation space necessary for dawsonite growth. In addition, feldspar dissolution also neutralises the acidity of the thermal fluid present, which again facilitates the growth and preservation of the dawsonite.     

西昌盆地东吴期深部热液作用及其对志留系碳酸盐岩储层的改造

晚古生代中国西南地区发生了"峨眉地裂运动",与此相关的深部热液作用在西昌盆地非常发育发育.对QB1井的研究表明,志留系第Ⅲ期裂缝及其中充填的异形白云石和石英是东吴期热液作用的产物,异形白云石的δ~(13)C值、δ~(18)O值异常偏负、锶同位素值异常偏高、异形白云石和石英内原生包裹体气相部分富含氮气(N_2)是这一期热液作用的地球化学标志;深部热液为幔源岩浆热液与盆地基底深变质岩地层热液的混合液,它们沿垂向断裂通道和侧向裂缝系统运移进入志留系,导致了不规则的张性热液破裂裂缝的形成、裂缝内异形白云石和石英的部分沉淀、以及溶蚀作用的发生;它们产生的缝洞系统,对西昌盆地志留系裂缝性储层的形成有重要贡献.     

Hydrothermal alteration of late- to post-tectonic Lyon Mountain Granitic Gneiss, Adirondack Mountains, New York: Origin of quartz–sillimanite segregations, quartz–albite lithologies, and associated Kiruna-type low-Ti Fe-oxide deposits

Quartz–sillimanite segregations, quartz–albite lithologies (Ab_95–98), and Kiruna‐type low‐Ti iron‐oxide deposits are associated with late‐ to post‐tectonic (c. 1055 Ma) leucogranites of Lyon Mountain Gneiss (LMG) in the Adirondack Mountains, New York State. Most recent interpretations of these controversial features, which are global in occurrence, favour hydrothermal origins in agreement with results presented here. Field relations document that quartz–sillimanite veins and nodules cut, and therefore post‐date, emplacement of host LMG leucogranites. Veins occur in oriented fracture networks, and aligned trains of nodules are interpreted as disrupted early veins. Late dykes of leucogranite cut veins and nodules demonstrating formation prior to terminal magmatism. Veins and nodules consist of sillimanite surrounded by quartz that commonly embays wall‐rock feldspar indicating leaching of Na and K from LMG feldspar by acidic hydrothermal fluids. Subsequent, and repeated, ductile flow disrupted earlier veins into nodular fragments but produced little grain shape fabric. Geochemical and petrographic studies of quartz–albite rock indicate that it formed through metasomatic replacement (albitization) of LMG microperthite by sodic hydrothermal fluids that resulted in diagnostic checkerboard albite. Low‐Ti iron‐oxide ores are commonly associated with the quartz–albite sub‐unit, and it is proposed that hydrothermal fluids related to albitization transported Fe as well. The regional extent of sodic alteration suggests large quantities of surface‐derived hydrothermal fluids. Fluid inclusion and oxygen isotope data are consistent with high temperature, regionally extensive fluids consisting primarily of evolved surface‐derived brines enriched in Na and Cl. Quartz–sillimanite veins and nodules, which are significantly more localised phenomena and require acidic fluids, were most likely formed from local magmatic fluids in the crystallizing carapaces of LMG plutons.     

A combined EMPA and LA-ICP-MS study of Li-bearing mica and Sn–Ti oxide minerals from the Qiguling topaz rhyolite (Qitianling District,China): The role of fluorine in origin of tin mineralization

The Sn-rich Qiguling topaz rhyolite dike intrudes the Qitianling biotite granite of the Nanling Range in southern China; the granite hosts the large Furong Sn deposit. The rhyolite dike is typically peraluminous, volatile-enriched, and highly evolved. Whole-rock F and Sn concentrations attain 1.9 wt.% and 2700 ppm, respectively. The rhyolite consists of a fine-grained matrix formed by quartz, feldspar, mica and topaz, enclosing phenocrysts of quartz, feldspar and mica; it is locally crosscut by quartz veinlets. Lithium-bearing micas in both phenocrysts and the groundmass can be classified as primary zinnwaldite, “Mus-Ann” (intermediate member between annite and muscovite), and secondary Fe-rich muscovite. Topaz is present in the groundmass only; common fluorite occurs in the groundmass and also in a specific cassiterite, rutile and fluorite (Sn–Ti–F) assemblage. Cassiterite and rutile are the only Sn and Ti minerals; both cassiterite and Nb-rich rutile are commonly included in the phenocrysts. The Sn–Ti–F assemblage is pervasive, and contains spongy cassiterite in some cases; cassiterite also occurs in quartz veinlets which cut the groundmass. Electron microprobe and LA-ICP-MS compositions were used to study the magmatic and hydrothermal processes and the role of F in Sn mineralization. The presence of zinnwaldite and “Mus-Ann”, which are respectively representative of early and late mica crystallization during magma differentiation, also suggests a significant decrease in f(HF)/f(H₂O) of the system. Cassiterite included in the zinnwaldite phenocrysts is suggested to have crystallized from the primary magma at high temperature. Within the Sn–Ti–F aggregates, rutile crystallized as the earliest mineral, followed by fluorite and cassiterite. Spongy cassiterite containing inclusions of the groundmass minerals indicate a low viscosity of the late fluid. The cassiterite in the quartz veinlets crystallized from low-temperature hydrothermal fluids, which possibly mixed with meteoric water. In general, cassiterite precipitated during both magmatic and hydrothermal stages, and over a range of temperatures. The original fluorine and tin enrichments, f(HF)/f(H₂O) change in the residual magma, formation of Ca,Sn,F-rich immiscible fluid, decrease of the f(HF) during groundmass crystallization, and mixing of magma-derived fluids with low-saline meteoric water during the late hydrothermal stage, are all factors independently or together responsible for the Sn mineralization in the Qiguling rhyolite.     

内蒙古二连盆地白音查干凹陷下白垩统湖相白云岩成因*

早白垩世,白音查干凹陷处于强裂陷伸展环境,并具有高地热异常。在此背景下,该凹陷发育一套仅限于深湖—半深湖相的、富含铁白云石、钠沸石和泥级长石（钠长石、钾长石）等特殊矿物成分的白云岩。该套湖相白云岩受北东向同沉积断裂控制,主要分布于凹陷北部陡坡带和湖盆中央断裂带的下降盘处,沿断裂呈线性展布。白云岩中的白云石多以铁白云石为主,并与钠沸石、长石、重晶石、水镁铁石等低温热液矿物共生,其结构可分为泥晶结构、微晶结构和中—细晶斑块状结构（多元矿物组合）3种。此外,白云岩的岩石组构还具有明显热水沉积特征,包括纹层状构造、热水碎屑结构、星散状构造、同生塑性变形、网脉状构造。综合以上初步分析,认为研究区湖相白云岩为深部热液参与并发生沉积作用形成的,即热水沉积白云岩。     

Scaling Properties of Feldspar and Quartz in Micro-images of Ideal Granites

The properties of feldspar and quartze are studied in this article from a fractal point of view using gray-scale micro-images of granite samples collected at the Fangshan (房山) granite body in Hebei (河北) Province, China, which can be regarded as an ideal granite in the sense of Vistelius. We found that there exist power-law relationships between the eigenvalues of the gray-scale matrices and their ranks for the feldspar and quartz. The fractal model used here is a λ-R model similar to the N-λ model proposed by Qiuming Cheng in 2005. Meanwhile, we found that average variances for the gray-scale matrices of feldspar are larger than those of quartz on the same sections, and this may be useful for auto-identification of feldspar and quartz as well as other minerals.     

湘南黄沙坪多金属矿床花岗斑岩的矿物化学及其对矽卡岩白钨矿成矿的指示意义

黄沙坪多金属矿床是湖南最大的铅锌生产基地,并且在与矿床内花岗斑岩接触的矽卡岩带产有隐伏的大型矽卡岩型白钨矿和中型规模的辉钼矿。钨-钼矿化的时代为晚侏罗世,与矿床内花岗斑岩侵入时代一致。然而,已有研究认为,由于该花岗斑岩规模很小,矽卡岩型白钨矿的成矿热液应来自深部岩浆房而非此花岗斑岩。为此,我们对花岗斑岩进行了仔细的镜下观测,并且对其中的副矿物和黑云母以及矽卡岩中的白钨矿进行了电子探针成分分析,应用原位LA-ICP-MS方法测定了矽卡岩中白钨矿的稀土元素含量,试图对白钨矿矿化的物质和流体来源提供确切的证据。通过研究,首次在矿床内花岗斑岩中发现了与未蚀变黑云母伴生的黑钨矿和铌铁矿,表明花岗斑岩至少在岩浆结晶作用晚期或岩浆-热液过渡阶段早期就已发生钨的矿物富集,为确定花岗斑岩是控制钨矿化的成矿岩体提供了依据。此外,发现花岗斑岩中的黑云母(属铁叶云母)含有极高的氟含量(3%),指示其应形成于富含氟的高分异岩浆。研究进一步揭示,矽卡岩中白钨矿的轻稀土元素配分模式与花岗斑岩十分一致,而重稀土元素则显著亏损,而且Eu的含量较花岗斑岩更为富集。这暗示形成白钨矿的成矿流体应直接来自花岗斑岩,即:在早期无水矽卡岩阶段,石榴子石的沉淀导致流体中的重稀土亏损而Eu相对富集;白钨矿随后再从这种流体中沉淀。此外,白钨矿的Eu含量与Sm、Gd含量具有负相关关系,表明Eu的分配是相对独立的行为,主要以Eu2+存在,从而指示沉淀白钨矿的流体具有还原的性质。结合前人的研究成果及本文所提供的新证据,我们认为,形成矽卡岩型白钨矿的钨和成矿热液应来自高分异且富F的花岗斑岩,而所需的钙则可能来自于碳酸盐围岩,即矿床内花岗斑岩应是形成钨钼矿床的物质来源,驱动热液活动的能量来源,和寻找隐伏钨矿床的重要找矿标志。