Re-evaluation of quartz vein history in the Dolgellau Gold-Belt,North Wales,United Kingdom

Conspicuous, gently inclined, lenticular quartz–carbonate veins with fibre-textured infills dissect the steep, gold-bearing quartz veins in the Dolgellau Gold-Belt. Similar quartz veins fill the necks of boudin-like structures affecting the main gold-bearing veins at Clogau mine. They also dissect the post-mineralization ENE–WSW ‘Clogau Stone’ dykes. The uniformly oriented regional cleavage shows marked deflection around the gently inclined quartz veins. These late quartz veins were emplaced whilst the mudstones of the Clogau Formation, which host the steep gold-bearing quartz veins, were undergoing ductile deformation. The stretching involved in the late vein and boudin development requires these structures to be contemporaneous with some stage in the development of the regional sub-vertical cleavage and upright fold system. The earlier gold-bearing veins show evidence of brittle fracture and still retain some drusy space-filling textures. Cleavage is deflected adjacent to these early veins and in breccia clasts within the veins. The rare minor folds seen in the gold-bearing quartz veins have axial planar cleavages. It is concluded that the gold-bearing veins pre-date cleavage development. Thus they were forming when large amounts of water were still available in the sedimentary sequence, removing the severe source and transport problems that are implicit in the previous view that the veins were post-tectonic. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fluid Inclusion Microthermometry and Implications for the Mechanisms of Ore-Grade Gold Mineralization in Epithermal System, Lalab Orebody, Sibutad, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines

The Sibutad gold deposit has gold associated in quartz veins. The most important of these is the Lalab orebody, which contains ore‐grade gold, predominantly, in milky quartz veins and veinlets. Here, alteration quartz and fine‐grained crystalline clear and milky quartz were formed from hydrothermal fluids in three stages, namely stages I, II and III. Fluid inclusion microthermometry was carried out on stage I milky quartz, stage II fine‐grained alteration quartz and stage III milky quartz ± barite veins and veinlets. Homogenization temperatures (T_H) are >248°C in stage I, 214–232°C in stage II and 186–239°C in stage III. These fluid inclusions have salinity between 1 and 2 wt% NaCl equivalent. In terms of gold assay, stage I drill‐core samples have gold grades 0.53–0.76 g/ton Au, stage II samples have 1.12–3.70 g/ton Au and stage III samples have 9.06–23.88 g/ton Au. This correlation suggests that gold was precipitated from the stage II and III fluids.     

埃达克质岩与Cu-Au成矿作用关系的初步探讨

近来的研究发现，埃达克质岩与Au、Cu、Mo等浅成低温热液矿床及斑岩矿床有密切的关系。我们的研究表明：(1)我国的斑岩铜矿大多与埃达克质岩有关，如德兴、沙溪、多宝山、乌奴格吐山和新近发现的东疆土屋斑岩铜矿等，有些被划归与富碱侵入岩或A型花岗岩有关的斑岩铜矿，如玉龙，也具有埃达克质岩的地球化学特征；(2)华北地区的Au矿床大多与埃达克质岩有关，最典型的如胶东和小秦岭；(3)长江中下游地区的Cu、Au、Mo矿床的岩浆岩大多为埃达克质岩。埃达克质岩与成矿作用之所以密切相关，其原因在于它们在地壳深部形成的条件和环境类似，这就为Au、Cu、Mo等的找矿开辟了一个新的思路。埃达克质岩浆是玄武质岩石在高压、高温和含水条件下熔融形成的，上述条件有利于Cu、Au、Mo等金属元素溶解进入熔体。关于找矿方向，文中指出3点：(1)埃达克质岩发育的地区可能是矿床聚集的地区；(2)与消减作用有关的埃达克岩更有利于成矿元素的富集，对于中国来说，晚元古宙-古生代的古亚洲洋造山带内消减作用广泛发育，有巨大的找矿前景；(3)找矿工作应围绕埃达克质岩体及周围地质体进行。     

1: Subduction, slab detachment and mineralization: The Neogene in the Apuseni Mountains and Carpathians

The Inner Carpathians comprise several distinct Neogene late-stage orogenic Pb–Zn–Cu–Ag–Au ore districts. The mineral deposits in these districts are closely related to volcanic and subvolcanic rocks, and represent mainly porphyry and epithermal vein deposits, which formed within short periods of time in each district. Here, we discuss possible geodynamic and structural controls that suggest why some of the Neogene volcanic districts within the Carpathians comprise abundant mineralization, while others are barren. The Neogene period has been characterized by an overall geodynamic regime of subduction, where primary roll-back of the subducted slab and secondary phenomena, like slab break-off and the development of slab windows, could have contributed to the evolution, location and type of volcanic activity. Structural features developing in the overlying lithosphere and visible in the Carpathian crust, such as transtensional wrench corridors, block rotation and relay structures due to extrusion tectonics, have probably acted in focusing hydrothermal activity. As a result of particular events in the geodynamic evolution and the development of specific structural features, mineralization formed during fluid channelling within transtensional wrench settings and during periods of extension related to block rotation.In the Slovakian ore district of the Western Carpathians, Neogene volcanism and associated mineralization were localized by sinistral, NE-trending wrench corridors, which formed part of the extruding Alcapa block. The Baia Mare ore district, in the Eastern Carpathians, reflects a transtensional wrench setting on distributed oversteps close to the termination of the Dragos Voda fault. There, mineralization was spatially controlled by the transtensional Dragos Voda master fault and associated cross-fault systems. The Golden Quadrangle Cu–Au ore district of the Southern Apuseni Mountains reflects an unusual rotated transtensional/extensional setting close to the termination of a graben system. There, fluid flow was probably localized by fault propagation at the inner tip of the graben system.The spatial and temporal evolution of the magmatism and its changing geochemical signature from (N)W to (S)E strongly suggests a link with the contemporaneous northeastward roll-back of the subducted slab and a progressive southeastward detachment during accelerating roll-back. This geodynamic evolution is further supported by the present-day overall and detailed mantle lithospheric density images, the present-day heat flow patterns, the crustal architecture and its interpreted evolution, and the spatial and temporal evolution of depocentres around the Carpathian arc. In contrast to all these features, the mineral deposits in the West Carpathians, East Carpathians and Apuseni Mountains are too synchronous with respect to their individual volcanic history and contrast too much with younger volcanics of similar style, but barren, in southeastern parts of the Carpathians to simply link them directly to the slab evolution. In all three districts, the presence of magmatic fluids released from shallow plutons and their mixing with meteoric water were critical for mineralization, requiring transtensional or extensional local regimes at the time of mineralization, possibly following initial compressional regimes.These three systems show that mineralization was probably controlled by the superposition of favourable mantle lithospheric conditions and partly independent, evolving upper crustal deformation conditions.In the 13 to 11 Ma period the dominant mineralization formed all across the Carpathians, and was superimposed on structurally favourable crustal areas with, at that time, volcanic–hydrothermal activity. The period may reflect the moment when the (upper part of the) crust failed under lithospheric extension imposed by the slab evolution. This crustal failure would have fragmented the overriding plate, possibly breaking up the thermal lid, to provoke intensive fluid flow in specific areas, and allowed subsequent accelerated tectonic development, block rotation and extrusion of a “family of sub-blocks” that are arbitrarily regarded as the Tisia–Dacia or Alcapa blocks, even though they have lost their internal entity.     

相山铀矿田基底变质岩中角闪石榴(斜)黝帘石角岩的发现

在相山铀矿田变质岩区的云母片岩中，发现有脉状岩石产出，定名为角闪石榴（斜）黝帘石角岩。其原岩是基性脉岩。形成该角岩的热变质温度约为640℃，属于低压相系，与本区早一中元古代变质岩的形成条件相当。该热变质作用使早一中元古代变质岩叠加了一次热变质作用，形成了第2期的十字石、铁铝榴石和黑云母等变质矿物。它们依第1期变质矿物的晶格发生连生，也使第1期变质矿物发生了重结晶和自净作用，并趋于自形。这一角岩化基性脉岩的发现，揭示在古生代相山铀矿田变质基底仍然遭受着断裂活动、岩浆活动和变质作用三者相伴随的较为强烈的地质构造作用。     

论川北砂岩型铀矿床方解石脉与铀矿成矿关系

对以303和1210两矿床为代表的川北砂岩型铀矿床的野外调查、方解石脉的岩矿鉴定、包裹体测试、微量元素和铀含量分析、脉体与矿化围岩蚀变关系的研究得出:方解石脉由中低温热水充填裂隙形成,热水同时活化汲取围岩中的铀,搬迁到构造裂隙发育、富含有机质的地段再沉淀富集。迭加成矿,川北砂岩型铀矿床为热水改造成因     

福建紫金山矿田悦洋银多金属矿床银的赋存状态和沉淀机制

浅成低温热液矿床是世界上银矿的重要矿床类型, 伴生有金铜铅锌等多种金属。银的赋存状态研究可以为矿床资源禀赋、选冶成本以及经济价值的综合评价提供重要的依据。近年来, 矿物自动定量分析系统越来越多地应用到贵金属的赋存状态研究中, 相比传统方法而言其能提供精确定量的矿物学信息。悦洋银多金属矿床位于福建省紫金山矿田, 是典型的浅成低温热液矿床, 是研究银赋存状态的理想选区。通过野外地质调查研究发现, 矿体主要受控于岩性边界和断裂构造, 主要矿石类型为热液角砾岩型和石英脉型。成矿作用可以分为石英-黄铁矿、石英-黄铁矿-黄铜矿、石英-银多金属、石英-碳酸盐等四个阶段, 其中银在石英-银多金属阶段沉淀, 可以进一步划分为石英伊利石硫化物亚阶段和石英冰长石硫化物亚阶段。本文在野外地质调查的基础上, 针对不同的矿石类型使用TIMA(TESCAN Integrated Mineral Analyzer)自动矿物分析系统, 结合显微镜下观察、扫描电镜和电子探针分析手段, 对银的赋存形式和分布情况进行了定量化研究, 根据矿物共生组合对银沉淀机制及成矿过程进行了探讨。研究结果显示, 悦洋矿床中的银90%以上以独立矿物的形式存在, 主要是硫化银和自然银, 且粒径大多在10~50μm之间; 少部分银以次显微包裹体形式存在于黄铜矿中, 或以显微包裹体和类质同相形式存在于黄铁矿和闪锌矿中。成矿热液中银主要以硫氢络合物形式运移, 主成矿期大量的冰长石与银矿物共生表明沸腾作用是主要的沉淀机制。

     

The genesis of the west shropshire orefield: Evidence from fluid inclusions,sphalerite chemistry,and sulphur isotopic ratios

The Pb + Zn + Ba veins of West Shropshire, England, occupy fractures in Ordovician and Precambrian rocks of the Shelve Inlier. Precipitation of sphaleritic ores was succeeded by galena + baryte mineralization, with chalcopyrite also occurring late in the mineralizing episode. Three generations of sphalerite are recognized, and second being chemically zoned with distinct Fe + Cd-rich growth zones. Associated with these iron-rich bands are smaller (∼ 10 μm) zones rich in indium (>1.0 wt%) and copper, electron electron probe microanalyses suggesting coupled substitution of Cu⁺ + In⁺³ in the ZnS. Based on the sequence of growth zones and their chemistry a sphalerite stratigraphy can be recognized within the orefield. Fluid inclusions studies reveal the mineralizing fluids to be highly saline (18–30 wt% CaCl₂ equivalent) Na + Ca-richbrines, with mineralizing temperatures in the range 200–120°C. A trend from higher temperature-low salinity to low temperature-high salinity fluids with time is recognized. Sulphide sulphur isotopic ratios are consistent and suggest a ΔS³⁴S_H2S of the mineralizing fluid of 10%, while ³⁴S_baryte values are in the range + 14 to + 19%, indicating separate sulphate and sulphide sulphur sources. The mineralogical, fluid inclusion, and isotopic data suggest the saline fluids rose into an open plumbing system where mineral precipitation was mainly controlled by fluid cooling. The baryte however, formed due to mixing with oan overlying sulphate-bearing reservioir. Theree possible fluid sources are considered, namely: Lower Carboniferous seawater, basinal brines, and metamorphic fluids. However, the information available does not allow the source to be positively identified.