辽西地区砂金成矿地质条件及找矿方向

砂金成矿地质条件：砂金物质来源于含金丰度较高的建平群以及具金矿化的构造破碎带和火山岩型金矿床（点）;有利的新构造运动,地壳缓慢差异上升,剥蚀作用大于堆积作用,使含金地质体长期处于地表氧化带遭受充分地风化破碎作用,使金容易从含金地质体中解离出来;本区为干燥、多风、少雨气候条件,不易形成冲积型大型砂金矿。建平群出露区、凌源-北票-阜新断裂带两侧、含金多金属硫化物矿床（点）的氧化带、原生金矿床（点）分布区以及山前、山间、洪积扇、支谷的中上游或源头是寻找残积、坡积、洪积和细各砂金矿的有利地区。     

辽宁省凌源-阜新金成矿带地质特征及找矿标志

凌源-阜新金矿成矿带是辽西及辽宁省至关重要的金成矿带.区内出露的各时代地层较齐全,与成矿关系最密切的为建平群小塔子沟组.构造运动发育从太古宙到中生代均有较大规模的构造活动,同时这些构造运动也控制了岩浆岩的侵入和金矿的形成与分布.成矿带内发育含金石英脉型金矿和次火山热液型金矿两种类型的金矿.通过对区域地质背景、典型矿床特征分析,总结了凌源-阜新金成矿带的金矿的赋矿层位、构造对金矿的控制作用及侵入岩与金矿的时空关系等3个方面的找矿标志.     

华北陆台北缘糜棱岩型金矿地质特征及找矿方向

以排山楼金矿床和八亩地金矿点为例,总结了华北陆台北缘韧性剪切糜棱岩型金矿的地质特征:①地处地体边界的多期复杂活动带;②韧脆性剪切富集金,矿化局限于糜棱岩内;金矿与韧性剪切糜棱岩二者同生;③含金纹带状集合体组成主要为细粒石英和黄铁矿;④矿体呈透镜状,金的集合体在糜棱岩中与糜棱面理呈整合关系;⑤矿石主要组分不是简单的裂隙充填物,而是动态重结晶的产物,表明成矿是活化或复活的韧性剪切作用的产物;⑥蚀变为弱绢云母化、绿泥石化和碳酸盐化.     

Shear-zone hosted copper mineralisation of the Omitiomire deposit — Structural controls of fluid flow and mineralisation during subduction accretion in the Pan-African Damara Belt of Namibia

The Omitiomire copper deposit is a relatively recent discovery in the Pan-African Damara Belt of central Namibia. The deposit is situated in Mesoproterozoic gneisses and amphibolites of the Ekuja Dome overlain by amphibolite-grade metaturbidites of the Southern Zone accretionary prism that formed during northward subduction of the Kalahari Craton below the Congo Craton between ca. 580–520 Ma. Copper mineralisation is confined to an anastomosing system of shallowly-dipping, retrograde mylonitic shear zones within the Ekuja Dome. The shear zones are centred around a lithologically heterogeneous amphibolite-gneiss sequence. Mylonitisation and copper mineralisation are closely associated with the retrogression of particularly amphibolites and the partial or complete replacement of amphibolites by biotite–epidote and biotite–chlorite–epidote schists that host the chalcocite-dominated mineralisation.Deformation and mineralisation in the heterogeneous shear-zone system can be shown to describe a progression. Initial strain localization is confined to lithological (amphibolite-gneiss) contacts and associated quartz veining and fluid flow are preferentially developed around the margins of competent amphibolite units. Fluid infiltration and the retrogression of amphibolites to biotite–epidote schists leads to strain localization into the marginal schists that envelop amphibolites. Further veining and fluid flow are localised into the central parts of amphibolite units leading to the pervasive retrogression to biotite–epidote schists that dominate the central parts of the shear-zone system. Earlier quartz-vein generations appear as isoclinally folded and dismembered ribbons or boudins in mineralised schists. The clearly syntectonic introduction of the copper mineralisation is underlined by the intergrowth of chalcocite with the retrograde assemblages and chalcocite forming part of the mylonitic shear-zone fabric.3D modelling of drillhole data combined with limited surface exposure delineates a shallow east dipping, gently undulating ore body parallel to the regional gneissosity of the Ekuja Dome. The ore body comprises several mineralised lenses varying in thickness from 10 m to > 100 m. Prominent ore shoots are gently doubly plunging to the N and S and parallel to the regionally developed L > S fabric in the gneisses. Kinematic indicators in the mineralised shear zone system point to a top-to-the S sense of shear, parallel to the regional L fabric and parallel to the southverging transport recorded in the structurally overlying prism metasediments.The regional setting of the Omitiomire deposit, kinematics, and retrograde, but high-temperature overprint of original mineral assemblages in the mineralised shear zones indicate deformation and fluid flow during the expulsion of the basement gneisses during N-ward direction subduction of the Kalahari Craton below the Congo Craton. Lithological, geochronological, structural and P–T data suggest numerous similarities and, indeed, correlations between the Omitiomire-style copper mineralisation of the Damara Belt with the large copper deposits hosted by basement gneisses in the Domes Region of the Lufilian Arc in Zambia.     

Spatial data analysis of mineral deposit point patterns: Applications to exploration targeting

Systematic spatial analysis of mineral deposit point patterns can reveal significant spatial properties of mineral systems, with major implications for regional mineral prospectivity modelling. For valid results, a study area needs to be clearly defined, taking into account permissiveness of the geological units for a particular mineral system and effects of cover. Standard statistical tests assuming an isometric contiguous study area with regionally homogeneous distribution of deposits are likely to produce invalid results. Analysis of regional uniformity of spatial deposit density is required for adequate design and interpretation of tests for clustering. Spatial distribution of orogenic gold deposits in the Hodgkinson Province in Queensland and the Western Lachlan Orogen in Victoria (Australia) indicates the presence of significant regional linear metallogenic zones, probably controlled by deep crustal domain boundaries oblique and not related to any recognised major faults. Within the metallogenic zones in both regions, individual gold occurrences are strongly clustered into ore fields, but the distribution of ore fields is random.     

辽南丹东地区中生代金成矿的FIP的证据

辽南丹东地区产出有五龙、四道沟两个大型金矿床,两矿床与中生代燕山期三股流花岗岩体存在密切的空间华生关系。长期以来,对这一地区金的成矿作用时代存在有不同的认识,一种观点认为金的成矿作用只有一期,即中徨代（燕山期）;另一种观战认为金的成矿作用有两期,即元古代和中生代（燕山期）分别以四道沟金矿和五龙金矿为代表,作者利用流体包裹体面（ＦＩＰ）研究的新方法对金矿床及伴生花岗岩进行了研究。结果表明,三股流花岗     

石湖金矿区中石英的找矿信息研究

石英与金矿床关系十分密切,石英中含有众多的信息.通过对它的研究,可提取出许多找金矿的信息或标志.石英热发光曲线反映金的矿化强度,矿体中的石英热发光曲线呈双蜂或多峰;而矿化带中则呈包含多种隐伏峰的单蜂曲线.与成矿有关的石英红外吸光度D_2、D_2/D_1可定性地评价其含金性.含金石英中的Al_2O_3、K_2O、Na_2O、H_3O~(+)的含量随着矿体埋藏深度的增大而增加,可用其判别矿体的埋藏深度.     

对金矿成矿作用的重新认识

含金建造是富含C、S、Fe的沉积岩系或火山沉积岩系,根据形成环境和演化特点,将含金建造划分5种类型.认为金元素地球化学二重性决定其成矿作用具有二重性,含金建造是各种类型内生金矿床成矿物质的直接来源,成矿热液来源于建造水.对独立金矿床进行了类型划分,强调含金建造的存在是金矿成矿的基本条件,运用液态矿源说和二次迁移论探讨了成矿作用机制,并建立了金矿成矿模式.     

金矿床成矿时代研究的一些问题与对策

对金矿床测年研究近年来取得了很大进展,但也有诸如对金矿床成矿时代认识存在的差异及测试方法本身具有局限性的问题.应当重新理解金成矿时代的概念,注重新的测年方法的使用,尽可能开展多元同位素体系测年工作.     

The Syama and Tabakoroni goldfields,Mali

Gold deposits in the Syama and Tabakoroni goldfields in southern Mali occur along a north-northeast trending mineralised litho-structural corridor that trends for approximately 40 km. The deposits are interpreted to have formed during a craton-wide metallogenic event during the Eburnean orogeny. In the Syama goldfield, gold mineralisation in 9 deposits is hosted in the hanging-wall of the Syama-Bananso Shear Zone in basalt, greywacke, argillite, lamprophyre, and black shale. Gold is currently mined primarily from the oxidised-weathered zone of the ore bodies. In the Syama deposit, mineralisation hosted in altered basalt is associated with an intense ankerite–quartz–pyrite stockwork vein systems, whereas disseminated style mineralisation is also present in greywackes. In contrast, the Tellem deposit is hosted in quartz–porphyry rocks.In the Tabakoroni goldfield, gold mineralisation is hosted in quartz veins in tertiary splay shears of the Syama-Bananso Shear Zone. The Tabakoroni orebody is associated with quartz, carbonate and graphite (stylolite) veins, with pyrite and lesser amounts of arsenopyrite. There are four main styles of gold mineralisation including silica-sulphide lodes in carbonaceous fault zones, stylolitic quartz reefs in fault zones, quartz–Fe–carbonate–sulphide lodes in mafic volcanics, and quartz–sulphide stockwork veins in silicified sediments and porphyry dykes. The several deposit styles in the goldfield thus present a number of potential exploration targets spatially associated with the regional Syama-Bananso Shear Zone and generally classified as orogenic shear-hosted gold deposits.     

The world-class Wallaby gold deposit,Laverton, Western Australia: An orogenic-style overprint on a magmatic-hydrothermal magnetite-calcite alteration pipe?

Gold mineralisation at the Wallaby gold deposit is hosted by a 1,200 m thick mafic conglomerate. The conglomerate is intruded by an apparently comagmatic alkaline dyke suite displaying increasing fractionation through mafic-monzonite, monzonite, syenite, syenite porphyry to late-stage carbonatite. In the mine area, a pipe-shaped zone of actinolite-magnetite-epidote-calcite (AMEC) alteration overprints the conglomerate. Gold mineralisation, associated with dolomite-albite-quartz-pyrite alteration, is hosted in a series of sub-horizontal, structurally controlled zones that are largely confined within the magnetite-rich pipe. The deposit has a current ore reserve of 2.0 Moz Au, and a total resource of 7.1 Moz Au.TIMS U–Pb analysis of magmatic titanite and SHRIMP U–Pb analysis of gold-related phosphate minerals are used to constrain the timing of magmatism and gold mineralisation at Wallaby. Monzogranite and carbonatite dykes of the Wallaby syenite intruded at 2,664±3 Ma, at least 5 m.y. and probably 14 m.y. before gold mineralisation at 2,650±6 Ma. The significant hiatus between proximal magmatism and gold mineralisation suggests that gold-bearing fluids were not derived from magmas associated with the Wallaby syenite, particularly since intrusive events are unlikely to drive hydrothermal systems for more than 1 m.y.Analysis of the C and O isotopic compositions of carbonates from regional pre-syenite alteration and AMEC alteration at the Wallaby gold deposit suggests that AMEC alteration formed via interaction between magmatic fluids and the pre-syenite wallrock carbonate. The C and O isotopic composition of gold-bearing fluids, as inferred from ore-carbonate, are isotopically distinct from proximal magmatic fluids, as inferred from magmatic carbonate in carbonatite dykes.Thus, detailed isotopic and geochronological studies negate any direct genetic link between proximal magmatic activity related to the Wallaby syenite and gold mineralisation at Wallaby. The gold endowment of the Wallaby gold deposit, combined with the relatively low solubility of gold as thiosulfide complexes in low-salinity ore fluids at temperatures of about 300°C, implicates the influx of very large volumes of auriferous hydrothermal fluids. No large-scale shear-zones nor faults through which such large fluid-volumes could pass have been identified within the immediate ore environment, so fluid influx most probably occurred largely in a unit-confined, brittle-ductile fracture system. This was the ~500-m diameter AMEC alteration pipe, which was a brittle, iron-enriched zone in an otherwise massive conglomerate. During compressional deformation, the competency contrast between unaltered and AMEC-altered conglomerate created a zone of increased fracture permeability, and geochemically favourable conditions (high Fe/Fe+Mg ratio), for gold mineralisation from a distal source.Editorial Handling: C. Brauhart     

Conflicting evidence on the timing of mesothermal and paleoplacer gold mineralisation in early Proterozoic rocks from Southwest Ghana,West Africa

Rocks of early Proterozoic age (ca. 2100 Ma) host the major gold deposits in Ghana. The deposits are either located in mesothermal quartz vein systems or hosted in a quartz pebble conglomerate that represents a paleoplacer. Both types of mineralisation are largely confined to the Ashanti Belt, one of four parallel northeast-trending volcanic belts. While the stratigraphy and structure of the belts are similar, the Ashanti belt is characterised by a more tectonised northwest margin where most of the epigenetic gold deposits are located. In these deposits, gold mineralisation is located in faults that parallel the regional trend of the belts and were active late in the deformation history of the terrane. The auriferous quartz pebble conglomerate is part of a clastic sequence that is largely derived from the adjacent volcanic and plutonic rocks with the gold widely regarded as having originated from eroded vein deposits. Structural data, however, show that both the volcanic rocks and clastic sequence were deformed jointly prior to epigenetic gold mineralisation. Thus, the quartz vein deposits could not have been the source of the paleoplacer mineralisation. The paleoplacer gold could have originated from one of several possible sources but none has been unequivocally identified.     

From 2D to 3D: Prospectivity modelling in the Taupo Volcanic Zone,New Zealand

A 2D prospectivity model of epithermal gold mineralisation has been completed over the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), using the weights of evidence modelling technique. This study was used to restrict a 3D geological interpretation and prospectivity model for the Ohakuri region. The TVZ is commonly thought of as a present-day analogue of the environment in which many epithermal ore deposits, such as in the Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Volcanic Zone, are formed. The models utilise compiled digital data including historical exploration data, geological data from the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. Quarter Million Mapping Programme, recent Glass Earth geophysics data and historic exploration geochemical data, including rock-chip and stream sediment information. Spatial correlations between known deposits and predictive maps are determined from the available data, which represent each component of the currently accepted mineral system model for epithermal gold. The 2D prospectivity model confirms that the TVZ has potential for gold mineralisation. However, one of the weaknesses of this weights of evidence model is that the studies are carried out in 2D, with an approximation of 3D provided by geophysical and drilling data projected to a 2D plane. Consequently, a 3D prospectivity model was completed over the Ohakuri area, constrained by the results of the 2D model and predictive maps. The 3D model improved the results allowing more effective exploration targeting. However, the study also highlighted the main issues that need to be resolved before 3D prospectivity modelling becomes standard practise in the mineral exploration industry. The study also helped develop a work flow that incorporates preliminary 2D spatial data analysis from the weights of evidence technique to more effectively restrict and develop 3D predictive map interpretation and development.     

Multistage gold mineralization at the Lapa mine, Abitibi Subprovince: insights into auriferous hydrothermal and metasomatic processes in the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone

The Lapa gold deposit contains reserves of 2.4 Mt at 6.5 g/t Au and is one of the few deposits located directly within the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone (CLLFZ), a first-order crustal-scale fault that separates the Archean Abitibi Subprovince from the Pontiac Subprovince to the south. Gold mineralization is predominantly hosted in highly strained and altered, upper greenschist–lower amphibolite facies mafic to ultramafic rocks of the Piché Group. Auriferous ore zones consist of finely disseminated auriferous arsenopyrite–pyrrhotite?±?pyrite and native gold disseminated in biotite- and carbonate-altered wall rocks. Native gold, which is also present in quartz ± dolomite–calcite veinlets, is locally associated with Sb-bearing minerals, especially at depth ≤1 km from surface where the deposit is characterized by a Au–Sb–As association. At vertical depth greater than 1 km, gold is associated with arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite (Au–As association). The mineralogy and paragenesis of the Lapa deposit metamorphosed ore and alteration assemblages record the superposition of three metamorphic episodes (M1, M2, and M3) and three gold mineralizing events. Spatial association between biotitized wall rocks and auriferous arsenopyrite indicates that arsenopyrite precipitation is concomitant with potassic alteration. The predominant Au–As association recognized across the deposit is related to gold in solid solution in arsenopyrite as part of a pre-M2 low-grade auriferous hydrothermal event. However, the occurrence of hornblende?+?oligoclase porphyroblasts overprinting the biotite alteration, and the presence of porous clusters and porphyroblasts of arsenopyrite with native gold and pyrrhotite indicate an auriferous metasomatic event associated with peak M2 prograde metamorphism. Late retrograde metamorphism (M3) overprints the hornblende–oligoclase M2 assemblage within the host rocks proximal to ore by an actinolite–albite assemblage by precipitation of free gold and Sb–sulfosalts at lower P–T. The complex relationships between ore, structural features, and metamorphic assemblages at Lapa are related to the tectonometamorphic evolution of the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone at different times and crustal levels, and varying heat and fluid flow regimes. The Lapa deposit demonstrates that early, low-grade gold mineralization within the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone has benefited from late gold enrichment(s) during prograde and retrograde metamorphism, suggesting that multi-stage processes may be important to form gold-rich orogenic deposits in first order crustal-scale structures.     

新疆红山糜棱岩型金矿床地质特征及成矿条件

红山金矿区属天山地槽北天山地向斜褶皱带，位于康古尔与苦水断裂之间狭长的含金韧性剪切带东段北缘；出露地层为中下石炭统；华力西中晚期的多期次岩浆活动、韧性剪切作用和构造活动叠加形成了一系列金及多金属矿床，已成为新疆东部主要的产金基地。通过对红山金矿床地质特征的研究，并从宏观及微观尺度进行成矿条件分析发现金的富集与多金属硫化物，尤其是与方铅矿关系密切。主要特征是贫黄铁矿，少多金属硫化物，局部富含方铅矿，金的分布极不均匀。金具多源性，主要来自岩浆，少量来自围岩。剪切作用多次叠加及强烈糜棱岩化，使金矿物与多金属硫化物沿裂隙及糜棱面理分布，形成糜棱岩型或超糜棱岩型金矿床。     

吉林六批叶沟含金剪切带地质特征

六批叶沟含金剪切带位于吉林夹皮沟金矿以南的三道溜河一带，属夹皮沟金矿NW向控矿构造的南东延伸。通过对含金剪切带的空间展布、岩石组合、变形结构特征和金矿化特征等的初步研究，认为剪切带内的金矿(化)体是多次含矿热液活动叠加的结果，产于脆—韧性剪切带内的金矿床，具有大型规模远景。初步认为主要成矿期是中生代微晶闪长岩定位之后的晚印支期。     

德兴大型铜金矿集区构造环境和成矿流体研究进展

江西德兴地区是我国东部成矿带中的大型矿集区之一,集中了铜厂斑岩铜矿、银山多金属矿和金山金矿等大型、超大型矿床。它又处在中国东南部大地构造的关键部位,因此,对德兴大型铜金矿集区的研究始终与该地区的构造背景及演化相伴随。目前对该地区构造格局的认识以NW侧的九岭地体与SE侧的怀玉地体沿赣东北深大断裂带的碰撞拼贴为主流;在这两个地体于晚元古代碰撞拼贴之后,该地区所经历的主要是板内(陆内)的构造活动。德兴大型铜金矿集区的成矿作用与燕山期构造—岩浆活动有着成因上的密切联系,而德兴地区的中元古界地层成矿元素含量较高,不同程度地为本区铜厂、金山、银山等矿床提供了成矿物质。成矿流体的研究成果已表明不同的矿床有不同的流体过程:铜厂斑岩铜矿成矿早阶段以岩浆派生流体为主、而晚阶段(主要成矿阶段)有大气降水的大量参与;银山多金属矿成矿流体主要为大气降水来源;金山金矿的成矿流体则以变质水为重要来源。     

甘肃天水花石山金矿床地质特征及找矿标志

天水花石山金矿床是甘肃东南部地区具代表性的石英脉型金矿床之一。本文通过该地区地质找矿成果,综合分析了矿床成矿地质条件、地质构造特征、控矿因素等,认为金矿体主要分布于NW向构造带中。矿区近EW向、NW向区域深大断裂旁侧的次级NW向断裂是主要的容矿构造,也是控制矿体的分布及规模。在此基础上探讨了金矿床成因类型,提出了该类金矿床地质找矿标志。     

祁雨沟金矿自然金的标型特征及其找矿意义

本文以２８００粒自然金的研究为基础，系统讨论了自然金的标型特征。研究指出：本矿床应具较大规模，矿区内除Ｊ＿２、Ｊ＿４角砾岩体外，其余几个角砾岩体也应有一定远景，｛１１１｝、｛１１１｝＋｛１００｝、｛１１０｝的出现可指示富矿地段，自然金晶体形态的空间分带规律可确定（岩）矿体的剥蚀深度及评价外围角砾岩体的含矿性及远景；自然金中Ｂｉ可做为找矿评价的指示元素。     

海南省金矿成矿规律及找矿方向

海南岛金矿资源丰富，岛人金矿分布主要受EW和NE向2组区域性断裂控制,形成2个EW向和3个NE向成矿带。金矿类型可分为1）产于深变质岩系中的金矿；2）产于浅变质、强变形岩系中的金矿；3）产于碎屑岩中的金矿；4）爆破角砾岩型金矿；5）产于花岗质岩石中的金矿。规模大、经济价值高的金矿均受区内发育的剪切带控制，同时成矿具有明显的等距性、对应性，矿化在空间具有明显的侧伏性；矿化蚀变强，硅化是直接的找矿标志。通过总结成矿规律和找矿标志，共划分出5个成矿远景区，并进行了初步评价。