安徽庐枞盆地小包庄铁矿的矿床地质特征和成矿机制以及与罗河铁矿的关系

小包庄铁矿位于长江中下游成矿带庐枞火山岩盆地中,是近年发现的又一大型玢岩型铁矿床。本文基于详细的岩相学、矿相学观察,对小包庄铁矿的围岩及典型矿物的主微量元素、硫同位素、流体包裹体进行了分析测试,结果显示,小包庄铁矿磁铁矿矿石中不同成矿阶段形成的黄铁矿、硬石膏的δ34S值异常高,黄铁矿集中在6‰~15‰之间,硬石膏集中在16‰~24‰之间,并且随着成矿期次由早到晚、深度由深到浅,黄铁矿、硬石膏的δ34S值逐渐降低,同时测得小包庄铁矿下部三叠系东马鞍山组膏盐层的δ34S值为30.1‰,反映了小包庄铁矿有膏盐层硫的加入。包裹体测温结果表明,小包庄铁矿透辉石-磁铁矿-硬石膏化蚀变阶段、绿帘石化蚀变阶段、碳酸盐-硬石膏-黄铁矿化蚀变阶段和硬石膏-石英-黄铁矿化蚀变阶段的成矿流体温度分布区间分别为326~496℃、259~317℃、178~280℃和107~189℃,盐度分布区间为14%~21%NaCleqv、11%~20%NaCleqv、6%~16%NaCleqv、2%~13%NaCleqv,成矿流体经历了从高温高盐度向低温低盐度演化的过程。从成矿岩体、矿体矿石特征、蚀变分带以及成矿温度等方面与罗河铁矿进行对比表明,小包庄铁矿与罗河铁矿为同一类型的两个独立矿床,其在空间上上下叠覆的模式可能是由闪长质岩浆在不同深度侵位造成的。     

大兴安岭南段热液脉状矿床的流体包裹体和稳定同位素特征:对矿床成因的启示

大兴安岭南段发育大井、双尖子山、布金黑、拜仁达坝、维拉斯托等多个具有典型后生特征的热液脉状铅锌银锡多金属矿床。为了查明上述矿床在成矿流体、成矿物质等方面的特征与差异,进而总结大兴安岭南段热液脉状矿床成矿作用特点,本次研究在野外地质调研的基础上,对上述矿床进行了流体包裹体、激光拉曼和氢氧硫同位素的研究,并取得了如下主要的认识:(1)双尖子山银多金属矿床成矿流体属简单盐水体系热液,维拉斯托和布金黑矿床成矿流体属富碳质盐水体系热液,而大井铜矿成矿流体则为含子矿物的不均匀盐水体系热液;(2)大井、布金黑、拜仁达坝和维拉斯托等矿床早期成矿流体均来自于岩浆热液,但布金黑、拜仁达坝和维拉斯托矿床成矿流体在运移过程中明显地受到了大气降水和地层中有机质的影响;(3)大兴安岭南段多数热液脉状多金属矿床矿石硫同位素δ34S值具有岩浆来源特点,个别矿床硫同位素δ34S值偏高可能是由复杂的岩浆源区性质及地层硫混入所引起。总的来说,大兴安岭南段不同热液脉状矿床在物质来源和流体演化方面的差异明显,而这也体现了该区中生代热液成矿作用的多样性和复杂性特点。     

Formation of mosaic diamonds from the Zarnitsa kimberlite

Mosaic diamonds from the Zarnitsa kimberlite (Daldyn field, Yakutian diamondiferous province) are morphologicaly and structurally similar to dark gray mosaic diamonds of varieties V and VII found frequently in placers of the northeastern Siberian craton. However, although being similar in microstructure, the two groups of diamonds differ in formation mechanism: splitting of crystals in the case of placer diamonds (V and VII) and growth by geometric selection in the Zarnitsa kimberlite diamonds. Selective growth on originally polycrystalline substrates in the latter has produced radial micro structures with grains coarsening rimward from distinctly polycrystalline cores. Besides the formation mechanisms, diamonds of the two groups differ in origin of mineral inclusions, distribution of defects and nitrogen impurity, and carbon isotope composition. Unlike the placer diamonds of varieties V and VII, the analyzed crystals from the Zarnitsa kimberlite enclose peridotitic minerals (olivines and subcalcic Cr-bearing pyropes) and have total nitrogen contents common to natural kimberlitic diamonds (0 to 1761 ppm) and typical mantle carbon isotope compositions (-1.9 to -6.2%c 5¹³C; -4.2%c on average). The distribution of defect centers in the Zarnitsa diamond samples fits the annealing model implying that nitrogen aggregation decreases from core to rim.     

贺根山豆荚状铬铁矿中硅酸盐包体及其地质意义

贺根山豆荚状铬铁矿是典型的高Al型铬铁矿(Cr#=47.8～54.9,Mg#=64.1～73.7),其中的包体以硅酸盐矿物为主(包括橄榄石、斜方辉石、单斜辉石、韭闪石、钠长石).根据包体形状、矿物组合及分布特征可将其划分为三类.第一类包体呈孤立单矿物相,主要包括橄榄石和单斜辉石,第二类包体由平衡共生的单斜辉石和斜方辉石构成,上述两类包体均具有被熔蚀的边,且零星分布在尖晶石中,属于捕虏晶成因.第三类包体属于熔融包体,具有多边形外形,包含复杂的矿物相并密集分布于尖晶石核部.利用尖晶石颗粒内部保存完好的单斜辉石以及单斜辉石和斜方辉石包体估算的温度(1148～1254℃)与压力(490～1290 MPa)表明,贺根山豆荚状铬铁矿矿床的形成深度为16～43 km.熔融包体中含大量钠长石和韭闪石,指示铬铁矿母熔体富集H2 O、Na和Si.与铬铁矿平衡母熔体的Al2 O3含量(15.4％～16.3％)、TiO2含量(0.3％～0.9％)和FeO/MgO比值(0.6～1.1)与低Ti拉斑玄武质熔体的类似.利用尖晶石和橄榄石包体计算获得铬铁矿原始熔体的Mg O含量为～19.8％.贺根山豆荚状铬铁矿经历了深部预富集和浅部成矿两个阶段,其中浅部成矿作用涉及熔体与方辉橄榄岩反应以及演化的熔体与原始熔体混合等过程.     

Production of metaluminous melt during fluid‐present anatexis: an example from the Maghrebian basement,La Galite Archipelago,central Mediterranean

Garnet brought to the surface by late Miocene granitoids at La Galite Archipelago (Central Mediterranean, Tunisia) contains abundant primary melt and fluid inclusions. Microstructural observations and mineral chemistry define the host garnet as a peritectic phase produced by biotite incongruent melting at ~800 °C and 0.5 GPa, under fluid‐present conditions. The trapped melt is leucogranitic with an unexpected metaluminous and almost peralkaline character. Fluid inclusions are one phase at room temperature, and contain a CO₂‐dominated fluid, with minor H₂O, N₂ and CH₄. Siderite and an OH‐bearing phase were identified by Raman and IR spectroscopy within every analysed inclusion, and are interpreted as products of a post‐entrapment carbonation/hydration reaction between the fluid and the host during cooling. The fluid present during anatexis is therefore inferred to have been originally richer in both H₂O and CO₂. The production of anatectic melt with a metaluminous signature can be explained as the result of partial melting of relatively Al‐poor protoliths assisted by CO₂‐rich fluids.     

Mineralogical Characteristics of the Separated Magnetic Rutile of the Egyptian Black Sands

The Egyptian black sands contain several economic minerals, such as ilmenite, magnetite, garnet, zircon, rutile and monazite. During the concentration and separation of a high-grade rutile concentrate a bulk magnetic fraction is obtained. This fraction is composed mainly of opaques, titanhematite, ilmenite–titanhematite exsolved intergrown grains, magnetic leucoxene in addition to chromite, and magnetic rutile. The magnetic rutile occupies 6 wt.% of the bulk magnetic fraction or approx. 4 wt.% of the original rutile content in the raw sands. Most of magnetic rutile crystals are contaminated with opaque inclusions, staining-coating and/or composite locked grains. This magnetic rutile has a magnetic range from strongly paramagnetic to very weak paramagnetic. Electron microprobe analysis for twenty-three magnetic rutile grains identified mineral components of rutile, titanhematite, pseudorutile, leached pseudorutile and ilmenite in decreasing order of abundance. Some other inclusions are also detected in the different magnetic rutile grains. They are most probably garnet, silica, amphibole, ilmenite, feldspar, mica and zircon. The presence of these inclusions reflect the derivation of magnetic rutile of various crystalline igneous and metamorphic rocks. The magnetic susceptibility of magnetic rutile depends on the associated mineral components and their relative volumes in comparison to the rutile mineral component. Magnetic susceptibility of magnetic rutile is also related to both type and size of the associated mineral inclusions. The average chemical composition of the magnetic rutile is 66.34 wt.% TiO₂, 21.71 wt.% Fe₂O₃, 6.39 wt.% SiO₂, 1.80 wt.% Al₂O₃, 1.19 wt.% CaO and 0.10 wt.% Cr₂O₃. Thus, the contamination of magnetic rutile in the non-magnetic rutile concentrate would decrease the market value of the rutile concentrate. Alternatively these magnetic rutile grains are recommended to be blended with magnetic leucoxene or some types of ilmenite concentrate to improve the overall marketable specifications especially for both of Ti, Fe and Cr contents.     

斑岩铜钼矿床成矿流体的出溶、演化与成矿:以大兴安岭南段敖仑花矿床为例

本文报道了大兴安岭南段敖仑花斑岩铜钼矿床中斑状石英的一些新发现。通过对其结构、成因和内部流体包裹体的研究,反演初始成矿流体性质;结合热液期脉系特征,探讨流体从出溶到成矿的演化过程。斑状石英包括"单颗粒石英"和"多晶石英集合体",以普遍发育含子矿物流体包裹体为特征,为岩浆-热液过渡期的特有产物。流体包裹体研究显示敖仑花矿床初始成矿流体具有高温高盐度特征,为H2O、CO2和Na-K-Ca-Fe-Cu-Ti等元素组成的络合物体系,在压力≥115MPa、深度≥4.3km条件下可出溶出温度≥492℃、盐度达到47.6%～58.7%NaCleqv的流体。热液期成矿系统压力突然降低导致流体发生沸腾,同时伴随温度骤减是引发大规模成矿的主要机制。根据矿物在脉系中的发育情况和显微测温数据,将辉钼矿的析出温度限定在335℃以上,即代表以辉钼矿沉淀为峰期成矿标志的主成矿温度下限。斑状石英中流体包裹体研究揭示敖仑花矿床形成到至今抬升高度约≥4.3km,暗示区域最小平均隆升剥蚀速率为32.6m/Ma。斑岩体中斑状石英不仅可以作为流体出溶的标志判断岩体是否具有成矿潜力,指导斑岩型矿床找矿工作,还能够为区域地质演化提供重要约束。     

Criteria for the recognition of acid-precipitated halite

Modern acid and neutral saline lakes in Western Australia are an excellent natural laboratory for testing how pH affects halite, and for developing criteria for distinguishing past acid saline waters from past neutral saline waters in the rock record. This study characterizes and compares physical, chemical and biological features in halite precipitated from acid (pH 1·7 to 4·2) and neutral (pH 6·8 to 7·3) saline lakes in southern Western Australia. Supplemental data include synthetic halite grown from acid and neutral saline solutions, as well as halite deposited in Permian acid lakes. Although physical processes of halite growth are not affected by pH, there are differences in the colour, accessory minerals, fluid inclusions and microfossils between acid and neutral halites. Acid lake halite commonly is yellow or orange in colour; neutral lake halites examined in this study are always snow white. Acid halites tend to contain abundant sulphate and iron oxide minerals, both as solid inclusions and as solids within fluid inclusions; neutral halites contain little, if any, sulphates and no iron oxides. Acid fluid inclusion freezing/melting behaviours include characteristics that differ from neutral fluid inclusion behaviours, such as lower eutectic temperatures, higher and wider temperature range of hydrohalite rims with a definable fuzzy border and more complex metastable phases. Acid halite contains 'hairy blobs', clusters of bacterial/archaeal/fungal remains and sulphate crystals, which are not found in halite from neutral lakes. This distinct assemblage of features characteristic of modern acid lake halites may serve as informal criteria for the recognition of past acid lake evaporites in the rock record.     

Was the lethal eruption of Lake Nyos related to a double CO2/H2O density inversion?

The 1986 lethal eruption of Lake Nyos (Cameroon) was caused by a sudden inversion between deep, CO₂-loaded bottom lake waters and denser, gas-free surface waters. A deep CO₂ source has been found in fluid inclusions which occur predominantly in clinopyroxenes from lherzolitic mantle xenoliths, brought to the surface by the last erupted alkali basalts. P–T conditions of CO₂ trapping correspond to a gas density equal (or higher) than that of liquid water. It is suggested that this dense CO₂, found in many ultrabasic mantle xenoliths worldwide, has accumulated at km depth, below a column of descending lake water. It may remain in a stable state for a long period, as long as the temperature is above the density inversion temperature for pure H₂O/CO₂ systems. At an estimated depth of about 3 km, cooling by descending waters (to about 30 °C) induces a density inversion for the upper part of the CO₂ reservoir. This causes a constant, regular upstream of low-density CO₂ which, in its turn, feeds the shallower lake density inversion.     

西藏驱龙超大型斑岩铜矿的成因：流体包裹体及H O同位素证据

与多数产于岩浆弧环境中的斑岩铜矿不同,西藏冈底斯带斑岩铜矿形成于碰撞造山环境,查明其形成过程有助于理解非岩浆弧环境中斑岩铜矿床的成因.为此,选择冈底斯带最大的斑岩铜矿--驱龙斑岩铜矿进行解剖,通过对矿床岩浆-热液过程形成的各类脉体详细的流体包裹体研究,以及不同蚀变阶段蚀变矿物的H-O同位素研究发现:引起矿床早期蚀变(钾硅酸盐化)与矿化的流体并非通常认为的高盐度岩浆热液,而是直接从岩浆房出溶的中等盐度(约9% NaCl)、近临界密度的高温(550～650℃)气相;气相近临界密度的特征表明,早期蚀变与矿化形成于较高的压力(105±15～90±20 MPa)条件下,用静岩压力估算,对应的古深度在4.2±0.6～3.6±0.8 km之间,成矿后(约16 Ma)矿区发生了至少3～3.5 km的剥蚀;与高盐度流体相比,中等盐度气相与熔体密度差较大,很难在斑岩体顶部聚集并集中释放,而连续释放则直接导致矿床含矿斑岩体与Cu、Mo矿体时空关系的解耦,并造就了矿床早期蚀变范围大、但强度弱,矿化范围大、但品位低的矿床地质特征;成矿物质的沉淀并非温度降低的结果,而是因压力降低及气相中S大量减少所致.总之,驱龙斑岩铜矿是一类成矿与低密度气相有关的斑岩铜矿类型,其蚀变-矿化特征及成矿过程与高盐度流体引发的斑岩矿床类型有所不同,意识到斑岩矿床蚀变及矿化特征与矿床成因的密切关系,对矿床勘查将具有重要的现实意义.