Genetic Analogy Between Sediment—Hosted Gold Deposits and Sediment—Hosted Copper Deposits in Southwest China

The sediment-hosted copper deposits according to the authors‘ study were formed from connate formation water during the post-sedimentary or diagenetic stage while the sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits are unanimously considered to be of post-sedimentary hydrothermal origin.Therefore,apart from their own individulities.These two types of deposits must share some characters in common.Comparisons are attempted,in this paper,between the sediment-hosted copper deposits in southwest China and the Triassic sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposits in the Yunnan-Guizhou-Guangxi Triangle in terms of geological and geochemical features.     

The Chahe Copper Deposit—Its Age and Genesis

The Chahe copper deposit occurs in the Early Proterozoic metamorphic series in the area of Chahe and its chalcopyrite yielded a Pb−Pb isochron age of 951±36 Ma, providing evidence for copper mineralization at the early stage of the Jinning movement. The ore-forming material came from terrestrial clastic sediments and marine volcanic eruption and the ores were deposited in a relatively open beach environment. The Jinning movement led to folding and metamorphism of country strata, as well as to the rebomilization and transport of copper, resulting in ore deposition in structurally weak locations. This deposit is a volcano-sedimentary metamorphic deposit.     

On the Yangtze—type Copper Deposits and Their Polygentic Origin

The so-called“Yangtze-type”copper deposits include:（1）Cu-bearing massive pyrite bed ,(2)Cu-bearing skarn and magnetite-type ore deposits,with replacement Cu-vein-type deposits near the metasomatic zone,and (3)mineralized intrusive bodies and breccia pipes ,some of which are known as porphyry copper ores(e.g.Chengmenshan).This type of ore deposits is a typical example to verify the polygenesis of inost of the deposits in China,as has been promoted by Prof.Tu Guangchi in view of the polycyclic development of the geological history in China.This paper is con-cemed with one sub-type of such deposits.     

The Material Sourece of a New Type of Copper Deposits—Evidence from Stable Isotopes

The new type of copper deposits concerned with in this paper are vein copper deposits found in the Lanping-Simao Rift Basin, Yunnan,China. As is indicated by H,O,C,S,Pb and Sr isotopes, water and mineralizers in the ore-forming fluids were derived from heated meteoric water and mantle, respectively.The metallic elements(Cu,Ag,Pb,Zn,As,Sb,Fe,REE,etc.)are characterized by a mixed source from the crust and the mantle.     

Tungsten Enrichment in the South China—type Massive Sulphide Deposits

Tungsten is a characteristic element of the South China-type massive sulphide deposits that were formed on the continental crust.The high contents of tungsten in these deposits are attributed to the pri-mary enrichment of this element in the basement sequences of the region,providing an indication of the tungsten-enrichment in the continental crust.Tungsten in thd basement sequences was mobilized and trans-ported to the massive sulphides by a combination of different geological processes such as terrigenous sedimentation,submarine hydrothermal deposition and magmatic hydrothermal superimposition.     

Geology and Geochemistry of Reworking Gold Deposits in Intrusive Rocks of China—Ⅱ Gold Deposits and Their Genesis

Gold deposits in intrusive masses include the veinlet dissemination,quartz vein and veinlet dissemination vein types,They are distributed in fracture zones along the endocontact zone of a batholith or in the centre and edge of a stock.The metallogenic epochs are Yenshanian,Hercynian,Archean,Proterozoic and Himalayan,The gold deposits are characterized by a big difference in time span between gold mineralization and the formation of host masses Ore-forming materials were derived from the masses and auriferous strata and ore-forming fluids came from meteoric and formation waters.When circulating water was heated by ascending heat flow,gold would be extracted,concentrated and transported from auriferous rocks and then precipitated in the masses during the late tectonic movement,Finally gold deposits were formed in the intrusive masses.     

The Genesis of Lincang Germanium Deposit—A Preliminary Investigation

The mechanism of formation of the Lincang germanium deposit is discussed in the light of the spatial distribution of Ge-rich coal and siliceous rocks,the sulfur isotopic composition of pyrite in the Ge-rich coal,the variation of Ge abundance in the coal seams and the geochemical characteristics of the siliceous rocks.The results show that the siliceous rocks intercalated with the coal seamw were deposited from a hyrothermal medium through which germanium was enriched in the coal beds.The primary source of germanium is thought to be the Gerich granite in the basement of the sedimentary basin.     

Isotope Geochemistry of the Dongchuan Copper Deposit,Yunnan,SW China： Stratigraphic Chronology and Application of Lead Isotopes in Geochemical Exploration

In this paper the Pb-Pb isochron method was used to determine the isotopic ages of the Luoxue Formation dolomites (1716 ±56 Ma), the Heishan Formation carbonaceous slates ( 1607 ±128 Ma) of the middle sub-group of the Kunyang Group and the Dayingpan Formation carbonaceous slates (1258 ±70Ma) of the upper sub-group of the Kunyang Group. The age of the middle sub-group of the Kunyang Group is about 1800 – 1600 Ma, belonging to the Late Paleo-Proterozoic, and that of the Dayingpan Formation in the upper sub-group of the Kunyang Group is about 1200 – 1300 Ma, belonging to the Middle Proterozoic. In addition, the Pb isotope chemical exploration techniques were used to study systematically the Pb isotopic compositions of rocks and ores across the No. 14 vein in the middle segment of the No. 1 pit of the Tangdan copper deposit and the result showed that the Pb isotope V₁ values are negatively correlated with the copper contents. It is the first trial to use the systematic section method to conduct Pb isotope chemical exploration. This research project was financially supported jointly by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 49702022, 40073001) and the State 973 Program (No.G1999043215).     

Multistage Carbonatization and Mineral Geochemistry of a Skarn—type Copper Deposit at Tongshan ,Guichi

The Tongshan copper deposit at Guichi can be considered as a skarn-type copper deposit. Multi-stage carbonatization was well developed in the skarn zone and copper-bearing orebodies. Mineralogy, mineral chemistry and stable isotope data allow it to be divided into five stages: (1) carbonatization of single calcite crystals in the skarn stage; (2) calcite carbonatization in the oxide stage; (3) carbonatization in the early sulfide stage; (4) carbonatization in the late sulfide stage; and (5) carbonatization in the post-sulfide stage. Carbonatization in the early sulfide stage is, among other things, closely related to copper mineralization and is one of the alteration indicators of copper mineralization of this type. C. O, Rb and Sr isotopic studies indicate that the calcites of skarn and oxide stages were formed from hydrothermal solutions predominated by magmatic water, and those of sulfide stage were formed from hydrothermal solutions mainly involving heated meteoric water. The former was formed in the environment wherefO ₂ (fO ₂ < 10⁻³³ and 10⁻³³< fO₂>10⁻³⁶)(pH = 7–8) is high as compared with the latter (10⁻³⁵< fO₂< 10⁻³⁸; pH = 5–7).     

Sedimentological environment and diagenetic metallogenesis of Dongchuan-type stratiform copper deposits in western Sichuan and Yunnan

Lagoon behind stromatolite-reefs and bathyal areas in front of the reefs are the original basins where copper-bearing water was accumulated. The corresponding rock facies are the rear-reef bay syngenetic dolomite and the pro-reef black shale and dolomite respectively. Stratiform copper deposits were formed during diagnesis, being genetically connected with the stromatolite reef. No direct genetic relationship has been established between copper mineralization and volcanic tuffs.     

赞比亚砂（页）岩型铜矿成矿年龄及其成因意义

砂(页)岩型铜矿床是全球第二重要的铜矿类型,重要性仅次于斑岩型铜矿,具有巨大的资源量和找矿潜力。本文总结了砂(页)岩型铜矿床的时空分布特点,然后选取该类矿床的典型——赞比亚砂(页)岩型铜矿床来探讨大型砂(页)岩型铜矿的控矿因素。本文系统论述了赞比亚砂(页)岩型矿床的地质背景,报道了赞比亚铜带省典型矿床卢安夏矿床黄铜矿Rb-Sr放射性同位素等时线年龄为501±19 Ma,Sm-Nd等时线年龄为499.1±38 Ma,总结了赞比亚砂(页)岩型矿床的分布规律,探讨了其成矿物质来源,认为赞比亚砂(页)岩型矿床为岩浆期后热液充填矿床。     

城门山、武山铜矿床成因

城门山、武山铜矿床是由斑岩型-矽卡岩型-似层状硫化物型、矽卡岩型和似层状硫化物型组成的“多位一体”铜矿床。本文概括了成矿与岩浆侵入活动、断裂构造和围岩性质的关系;对三种类型矿石的空间分布、金属元素的分带、黄铁矿的特征元素、稳定同位素特征及成矿温度等进行了较详细的阐述。根据三类矿石的密切联系和相似性,提出了它们是在同一岩浆成矿作用下彤成的一组有内在联系的铜矿床。     

Applications of computer modeling to the study of the genesis of stratiform sulfide deposits

Stratiform sulfide deposits are considered to have formed at or near the discharge vents of submarine hydrothermal systems. Such deposits constitute an important source of zinc, lead, copper, silver, and gold. They are often divided on the basis of the dominant host-rock lithology into volcanogenic and sediment-hosted types. In terms of their economic base metal contents, volcanogenic deposits contain either Cu and Zn or Zn, Pb, and Cu, whereas sediment-hosted deposits usually contain predominantly Zn and Pb. Mathematical models of the chemical characteristics of stratiform sulfide deposits are based on a program (B)which allows the calculation of the equilibrium distribution of aqueous species in a hydrothermal solution. Program B is front-ended by Program A, which defines the components of the chemical system, and back-ended by Program C, which controls the mode of output of the calculated results. Programs A and C are tailored to the specific problem under investigation. Results of chemical modeling of the two chemically active zones of the hydrothermal system (1. the hydrothermal reservoir in which the ore-forming solutions are generated and, 2. the site of ore deposition)suggest explanations of various characteristics of stratiform sulfide deposits, and include

1. The consistency of the metal associations and metal ratios suggest that ore-forming hydrothermal solutions are saturated with respect to the major metals in the reservoir zone. The chemistry of the solutions is determined mainly by temperature and chemical equilibrium between the hydrothermal solution and the rock-forming minerals of the reservoir.
2. Metal associations and metal ratios corroborate isotopic and other evidence that volcanogenic deposits were formed from hotter hydrothermal systems (> 200°Capprox.)than sediment-hosted (< 200°Capprox.)Metal ratios suggest that the hydrothermal reservoirs were contained in mafic rocks (ferromagnesian-feldspar mineral assemblages)for the Cu-Zn association; in felsic rocks and/or sediments (feldspar-mica; clay mineral assemblages)for the Zn-Pb-Cu association: and in sediments (dominated by clay mineral assemblages)for the Zn-Pb association.
3. Chemical zonation patterns and ore textures characteristics of volcanogenic deposits are explained by rapid cooling of the hydrothermal solution immediately above its discharge vent.
4. Chemical zonation patterns and the fine laminations of sediment-hosted deposits are explained by the comparatively slow degeneration of hydrothermal solutions that have collected as a brine pool on the ocean floor.

     

The association of tourmalinite with stratiform scheelite deposits

Three types of stratiform scheelite deposits are recognised. They all commonly have a close spatial association with tourmalinite. Regional prograde calc-silicate rocks in Precambrian rift settings commonly contain >100 ppm WO₃ with enrichment to 0.5–1% WO₃ in retrograde metamorphic assemblages at fold hinges, joints, faults, shears and granite and pegmatite dyke contacts. The calc-silicate progenitor was probably a impure dolomitic carbonate sediment. Amphibolite-hosted scheelite deposits occur in metamorphosed altered mafic volcanics formed in a narrow rift graben. Scheelite occurs both as stratiform and stratabound footwall stringer ore which has undergone minor remobilization during tectonism. Tourmalinites are rarely the host for stratabound quartz-scheelite±wolframite veins remobilized from the host tourmalinite and associated metavolcanics during tectonism.Tourmaline associated with stratiform scheelite deposits comprise zoned schorl-dravite and are no different from other tourmalines associated with submarine exhalative ores. Tourmalinites are characterized by high SiO₂, Al₂O₃, B₂O₃ and Fe₂O₃ and, although they are commonly stratigraphically equivalent to submarine exhalative base metal deposits, they are depleted in P₂O₅, BaO and MnO.It is suggested that soft base-soft acid ligand complexes transported W from the mantle or leached crust for surficial submarine hot spring deposition. Enrichment during tectonism, especially in calc-silicate hosted deposits, took place at the sites of fluid focussing where , and pH were high. This enrichment by up to 10² derives from dissolution of scheelite by chloride solutions resulting in redeposition of scheelite in retrograde metamorphic assemblages.     

冀东兴隆一带层状黄铁矿—铅锌矿床的地质特征及其成因

冀东兴隆一带中元古界高于庄组中有一些层状黄铁矿-铅锌矿床,如杨树庄、高板河、杨树台、黄土梁、梓木林、椴木峪和沙窝店(关堂子)等,分布在近东西向长六七十千米的一条线上,它们的地质特征很相似。矿床的成因有争议。一派认为是后生热液交代矿床,选择性交代使矿体依岩层成假象;     

The genesis of Cu-bearing quartz veins by metamorphic remobilization from stratiform red bed deposits,SW County Cork,Ireland

Summary Polymetallicmajor veins of the West Carbery district (County Cork) are compared with the nearby stratiform-disseminated copper mineralization in metasedimentary rocks, containingminor veins (metamorphic quartz veins and veinlets). These stratiform deposits are hosted by non-marine Devonian sediments (Old Red Sandstone), metamorphosed in the Hercynian orogeny. In sulphides from the stratiform deposits and minor veins, isotopic compositions of sulphur (³⁴S) range from – 21.00 to + 5.14%₀, consistent with the vein sulphide being remobilized stratiform-disseminated sulphide, and the latter being of diagenetic bacteriogenic origin. Sulphate (barite), found in veins separate from the sulphides, has ³⁴S + 12.3 to + 15.7%₀. consistent with groundwater origin. In minor-vein quartz, fluid inclusions have homogenization temperatures consistent with trapping under the estimated peak-metamorphic conditions (300–400°C, 1–3 kbar).In the major veins, sulphide ³⁴S (–15.8 to –4.2 0) suggest remobilization of diagenetic sulphide. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopes suggest deposition from metamorphic fluids (calculated ¹⁸O_H2O approximately + 8 to + l3%₀, measured range of D –52.2 to –27.3%₀). Immiscible C0₂-bearing fluids were trapped in the temperature range 280–350°C with fluid pressure < ca. 600 bar. The inferred pressure-temperature history is attributed to late-metamorphic uplift, with fluid pressures falling below lithostatic. The sulphide-bearing veins are interpreted as a small-scale example of redistribution of mineral deposits by metamorphic fluids.

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Die Genese Cu führender Quarzgdnge durch metamorphe Remobilisation aus stratiformen Rotsedimenten, SW County Cork, Irland

Zusammenfassung Polymetallische Erzgänge (major veins) des westlichen Carbery Distriktes (County Cork) werden mit kleineren Gängchen (minor veins), die in den benachbarten, eine disseminierte stratiforme Cu-Vererzung führenden, Metasedimenten liegen, verglichen. Diese stratiformen Lagerstätten sind an nichtmarine devonische Sedimente (Old Red Sandstone), die während der hercynischen Orogenese metamorphisiert wurden, gebunden. Die Zusammensetzung der Schwefelisotope (³⁴S) der Sulfide in der disseminierten Vererzung und in den kleineren Gängen variiert von –21.00 bis –5.14%₀. Diese Zusammensetzung ist mit der Interpretation, daß der Schwefel in den Gängchen aus den stratiformen disseminierten Sulfiden remobilisiert wurde, die ihrerseits diagenetischbakteriogene Signatur zeigen, konsistent: Die ³⁴5-Werte der Sulfate (Baryt) in den Gängchen variieren von + 12.3 bis + 15.7%₀, was mit einer Herkunft aus Grundwässern übereinstimmt. Die Homogenisierungs-Temperaturen der FlüsBigkeitseinschlüsse in Quarz der Gängchen sind mit einem Einschluß der Fluide während des Höhepunktes der Metamorphose (300–400°C, l-3 kbar) konsistent.In den polymetallischen Erzgängen weisen die ³⁴S-Werte (–15.8 bis –4.2%0) auf die Remobilisation diagenetischen Schwefels, die Sauerstoff und Wasserstoffisotope auf Ausfällung aus metamorphen Wässern hin. Die berechneten ¹⁸O-Werte liegen zwischen ca. +8 bis +13%₀ die gemessenen H-Werte zwischen –52.2 bis –27.3%₀. Nicht mischbare C0₂-führende Fluide wurden im Temperaturbereich von 280–350°C bei Fluid-Drucken < ca. 600 bar eingeschlossen. Der abgeleitete P-T Pfad wird mit spätmetamorpher Hebung, während der der Fluiddruck unter den lithostatischen Druck fiel, erklärt. Die Sulfid-führenden Gänge werden als kleinmaßstäbliche Beispiele für Wiederverteilung von Minerallagerstätten durch metamorphe Fluide gedeutet.

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东川式铜矿的成矿作用及后期叠加改造:来自硫化物原位硫同位素的制约

沉积岩型层状铜矿床(SSC型)的成因争论聚焦在成矿作用主要集中在沉积成岩期并可能叠加有后期成矿作用,还是形成于成岩后盆地闭合过程和造山作用有关.产于扬子板块西缘的东川式铜矿是中国SSC型矿床的典型代表,这些矿床赋存在晚古元古界东川群岩石中,主要呈层状矿体产出,但也存在少量脉状矿体.文章选择东川铜矿田内因民、汤丹和滥泥坪...