Manganese ore deposits in Koira-Noamundi province of Iron Ore Group, north Orissa, India: In the light of geochemical signature

Several small Mn–Fe oxide and Mn-oxide ore bodies associated with Precambrian Iron Ore Group of rocks are located within Koira-Noamundi province of north Orissa, India. These deposits are classified into in situ (stratiform), remobilized (stratabound) and reworked categories based on their field disposition. Volcaniclastic/terrigenous shale in large geographic extension is associated with these ore bodies.The in situ ore bodies are characterised by cryptomelane-, romanechite- and hematite-dominating minerals, low Mn/Fe ratio (1.1) and relatively lower abundance of trace (1500–2500 ppm) constituents. In such type of deposits the stratigraphic conformity of oxides with the tuffaceous shale suggests precipitation of Mn and Fe at a time of decreased volcaniclastic/terrigenous contribution. The minor and trace elements were removed from solution by adsorption rather than by precipitation. Both Mn and Fe oxides when precipitated adsorb trace elements strongly but the partitioning of elements takes place during diagenesis. The inter-elemental relationship reveals that Cu, Co, Ni, Pb and Zn were adsorbed on precipitating hydrous Mn oxides and form manganates. Some of these elements probably get desorbed from Fe oxide because of their inability to substitute for Fe³⁺ in the lattice of its oxide. However, P, V, As and Mo were less partitioned and retained in Fe-oxide phase. Positive correlation between Al₂O₃ and SiO₂, MgO, Na₂O, TiO₂ and some traces like Li, Nb, Sc, Y, Zr, Th and U points to their contribution through volcaniclastic/terrigenous detritus of both mafic and acidic composition.The remobilized ore bodies are developed in a later stage through dissolution, remobilization and reprecipitation of Mn oxides in favorable structural weak planes under supergene environment. Increase in average Mn/Fe ratio (8) and trace content (5000–8500 ppm) by 5–2.5 orders of magnitude, respectively, or more above its abundance in adjoining/underlying protore is characteristic of these deposits. The newly formed Mn ores constituting lithiophorite, cryptomelane/romanechite and goethite get quantitatively enriched in traces like Cu, Co, Ni, Pb and Zn. Positive correlation between Mn, Li, Co and Zn is due to the formation of mineral of lithiophorite–chalcophanite group during redistribution and reconcentration of Mn oxide. P and V, which were present in Fe oxide, also get dissolved and reprecipitate with Fe oxyhydroxide in these ores. Some other elements like Y, Th and U show positive relation with Fe. This is probably due to leaching of these elements during chemical weathering of associated shale and getting re-adsorbed in Fe-oxyhydroxide phase.However, under oxidizing environment selective cations like Ba, K, etc. resorb from Mn-structure, resulting in the development of pyrolusite (Mn/Fe>20). In such transformation, trace metals from pyrolusitic structure expels out, resulting thereby in a considerable reduction in total trace value (<3000 ppm).The reworked ore bodies are allochthonous in nature and developed through a number of stages during terrain evolution and lateritisation. Secondary processes such as reworking of pre-existing crust; solution and remobilization; precipitation and cementation and transport, etc. are responsible for their development. Such deposits are usually very low in Mn/Fe ratio (3) and trace content (<2000 ppm).     

华北陆块北缘西段中元古代与裂谷作用有关的铁、稀土、多金属矿床特征及成因

华北陆块北缘西段狼山—白云鄂博裂谷系中元古代形成的大型多金属矿床 ,是我国重要的铁、稀土、铜、铅、锌矿产地。矿床为产于沉积岩中热水沉积型多金属矿床。其形成受地层、构造控制 ,与裂谷作用有着密切的关系。裂谷系内外分支的地质环境及矿床矿种不同 ,导致矿床特征及成因具有一定差异。白云鄂博铁、稀土矿床为钾、钠、磷等含量较高的热水沉积型 ,霍各乞铜、铅、锌多金属矿床为与中基性火山岩有关的过渡热水沉积型 ,东升庙和甲生盘等铅、锌多金属矿床为热水沉积型。文中将对上述矿床分别进行论述。     

Paleomagnetic dating of Alleghanian orogenesis and mineralisation in the Mascot–Jefferson City zinc district of East Tennessee, USA

The Mascot–Jefferson City (M-JC) Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits are in the Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachian orogen in East Tennessee. They have been a major source of zinc for the USA but their age is uncertain and thus their genesis controversial. About 10 specimens from each of 37 sites have been analysed paleomagnetically using alternating field and thermal step demagnetisation methods and saturation isothermal remanence methods. The sites sample limestones, dolostones, breccia clasts and sphalerite–dolomite MVT mineralisation from mines in the Lower Ordovician Kingsport and Mascot formations of the Knox Group. The characteristic remanent magnetisation (ChRM) is carried by magnetite in the limestones, by both magnetite and pyrrhotite in the dolostones and by pyrrhotite preferentially to magnetite in the mineralisation. Mineralized sites have a more intense ChRM than non-mineralised, indicating that the mineralising and magnetisation event are coeval. Paleomagnetic breccia tests on clasts at the three sites are negative, indicating that their ChRM is post-depositional remagnetisation, and a paleomagnetic fold test is negative, indicating that the ChRM is a remagnetisation, and a post-dates peak Alleghanian deformation. The unit mean ChRM direction for the: (a) limestones gives a paleopole at 129°E, 12°N (d_p=18°, d_m=26°, N=3), indicating diagenesis formed a secondary chemical remanent magnetisation during the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian; (b) dolomitic limestones and dolostone host rocks gives a paleopole at 125.3°E, 31.9°N (d_p=5.3°, d_m=9.4°, N=7), recording regional dolomitisation at 334±14 Ma (1σ); and (c) MVT mineralisation gives a paleopole at 128.7°E, 34.0°N (d_p=2.4°, d_m=4.4°, N=25), showing that it acquired its primary chemical remanence at 316±8 Ma (1σ). The mineralisation is interpreted to have formed from hydrothermal fluid flow, either gravity or tectonically driven, after peak Alleghanian deformation in eastern Tennessee with regional dolomitisation of the host rocks occurring as part of a continuum during the 20 Ma prior to and during peak deformation.     

山东焦家金矿床深部成矿预测与找矿效果对比

焦家金矿床是著名的构造破碎蚀变岩型金矿床，通过物化探研究，对深部成矿远景进行预测并布置了钻探工程，大致查明了矿床深部破碎蚀变带地质特征及含矿性；基本探明了矿体的规模，形态，产状及赋存部位，矿石的类型和结构构造等特征，并合理地圈定了矿体，以深部原生晕建立了深部化探异常模式，指出了深部矿体矿头和近矿指示元素组合特点，从而为深部是否继续开展普查提供了依据。通过钻探工程验证，矿体及构造带的位置与物探结果比较吻合，说明本区物探方法寻找隐伏矿体有较好的效果。     

新疆晚古生代裂谷中同生断裂的控矿问题

新疆晚古生代裂谷中同生断裂具有明显的控矿作用,体现出"三同一体"和多组断裂构造交会的区域构造特征.以构造的不同级别、期次,对矿带、矿田、矿床予以控制,在构造交会和构造复合地段使矿田或矿床就位.由于构造的近等距性发育,从而制约矿田或矿床的近等距分布,更由于裂谷同生断裂的多次开合和地质动力性质转换,形成了多层次、多形式、多矿种、多类型、且具有矿种分带性的综合矿产链.     

黑龙江铁力兴安一带斑岩型钼矿资源潜力预测

黑龙江省铁力市兴安地区发育晚三叠世-早侏罗世的细粒二长花岗斑岩的U-Pb锆石LA-ICPMS年龄为195～201Ma,钼矿(化)体产于斑岩体的顶部或外接触带的中细粒似斑状二长花岗岩中,斑岩体的岩石学、矿化及围岩蚀变、地球化学异常特征,均显示出斑岩型矿床的特征.另外,在花岗质火山-侵入杂岩体中也见钼矿化,其异常模式虽显示出中温火山热液有关的特征,但从区域成矿演化特征来看,可能与晚三叠世-早侏罗世细粒二长花岗斑岩具有统一的构造-岩浆-成矿体系,具"同源不同环境、部位和同位、不同成矿期次"的特征.     

中国软玉矿床类型及其矿物学特征

文章将中国11个产地的软玉（透闪石玉）矿床分为岩浆热液型和变质热液型两大类。其中岩浆热液型又根据侵入体的性质分为中酸性岩型、基性岩型、超基性岩型;变质热液型根据母岩特点分为碳酸盐岩型和蛇纹岩型,并从围岩和侵入岩体特征、矿体产状及大地构造背景等方面,对比分析了软玉矿床的相似性和差异性,总结了各产地软玉的品种、矿物成分、结构构造等矿物学特征;简单分析了软玉的找矿远景。     

金属矿气体地球化学测量技术新进展

气体地球化学测量方法由于气体的强穿透性,可将大量的与深部矿化作用有关的物质携带到地表,可直接或间接指示各种地质成矿过程,而受到勘查地球化学的重视。经历数十年的发展之后,气体地球化学测量在测量指标、方法及影响因素研究方面都取得了长足进展。特别是近年来由于分析技术提高,使得很多超微含量的气体测定成为可能,一些新的气体测量方法相继提出,在寻找隐伏矿或盲矿方面获得了较好的效果。笔者对气体测量发展史、气体测量方法、指标及影响因素进行了简单总结,并重点介绍了一种新的气体测量技术（SDP）的测量原理、使用方法及应用实例。     

哀牢山南段长安金矿深部找矿新进展

长安金矿床是"十五"期间云南省重大找矿突破之一。文章介绍了长安金矿床成矿地质背景、矿床地质特征、矿床类型、控矿因素等方面的新认识,提出了矿床主矿体并非受控于中上志留统与下奥陶统之间的加里东期不整合面,而是受控于NNW向陡立的F6断裂破碎带,属于构造破碎蚀变岩型金矿";通过采用TEM+IP物探方法圈定深部低阻、高充电率异常带,并结合成矿地质因素确定深部找矿空间,深部找矿工作获得新突破,扩大了资源∕储量。     

溧水盆地火山岩区地震波场特征及控矿因素定位预测

江苏溧水盆在晚中生代活化为地洼,受燕山期岩浆作用的影响形成火山盆地。本区的矿床严格受火山旋回、构造控制。地震勘探资料显示:不同地质体的地震波场特征各具特点,测区盆地构造清晰,火山岩系总厚约3 700m,火山旋回界面明显,前火山岩沉积地层中断裂发育,次火山岩体分布于盆地边缘隆起带。按成矿构造法观点,结合本区成矿背景、相关矿床类型和MT剖面异常分析,对盆地相关控矿因素进行了定位预测。