Geochronological and mineralogical constraints on mineralization of the Hetai goldfield in Guangdong Province,South China

The Hetai goldfield, located in the southern segment of the Qinzhou Bay-Hangzhou Bay Juncture Orogenic Belt (QHJB), is the largest concentration of gold deposits in Guangdong Province, South China. The gold mineralization is hosted within the late Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic Yunkai Group and strictly confined to mylonite (ductile shear) zones. The nature of the structural control of mineralization, in particular the role of ductile versus brittle deformation and their ages, which remain unclear despite numerous previous studies, are examined in this paper through an integrated study of geochronology and mineralogy.Lamellar and filament structures shown by pyrite and pyrrhotite in the ores suggest that sulfidation took place during ductile deformation and syntectonic metamorphism, but the majority of the ores are associated with brittle deformation features. In combination with macroscopic and microscopy observations on shear fabrics, LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating on zircons of hydrothermal origin from mylonites suggests that the Hetai goldfield was subjected to two shearing events: an early sinistral ductile shearing at ca. 240 Ma, and a late dextral ductile-brittle shearing at ca. 204 Ma (Indosinian). These ages are ca. 90–30 Ma older than the previously published gold mineralizing ages of ca. 175–152 Ma (Yanshanian), suggesting that the main gold mineralization and related brittle deformation significantly postdate the ductile deformation. This inference is supported by the mineralization temperatures estimated from geothermometers of arsenopyrite (ca. 350–290 °C), chlorite (ca. 260–230 °C), and sphalerite (ca. 230–170 °C) intergrown with native gold, which are considerably lower than that for the ductile deformation (500–300 °C or higher). Based on these data, we propose that the gold mineralization in the Hetai goldfield predominantly occurred during the Yanshanian event, and only minor gold mineralization and associated sulfidation took place during the earlier Indosinian ductile deformation.     

小秦岭金矿床成矿作用及成矿物质来源

根据小秦岭地区太华群花岗-绿岩地体的形成和演化,通过太华群主要地层及岩浆岩常量元素、微量元素、稀土元素组成特征分析,对金的演化和成矿地球化学、物理化学进行分析探讨。认为本区太华群是金的矿源层,与金矿空间关系密切的燕山期文峪花岗岩体是太华群及其以下壳幔物质重熔形成的,它控制本区金异常及金矿的分布,但是岩体仅作为驱动金富集成矿的热动力,而没有提供主要的成矿物质来源。小秦岭金矿床为热液型矿床,成矿热液以岩浆水为主,混合天水成矿。成矿热液属于弱酸-弱碱性,成矿温度为中偏高温。     

小秦岭深部探矿项目某标段钻探施工方法探讨

从钻孔护壁堵漏、钻孔结构、事故预防与处理措施等方面对小秦岭深部探矿项目某标段钻探施工方法进行了探索,特别是强护壁性能的冲洗液和多级大量套管技术的应用取得突破,基本解决了第四系、第三系加断层泥埋藏深度达600～800 m的厚覆盖层钻探施工难题,为该类地层施工提供了经验。     

小秦岭文峪金矿床流体包裹体研究及矿床成因

文峪金矿位于小秦岭矿田南部,其产出受脆-韧性剪切带控制,赋矿围岩为太华群变质杂岩.根据脉体穿切关系和矿物交代关系,可以将文峪金矿流体成矿过程分为早、中、晚三个阶段,其热液石英中发育CO2-H2O型、纯CO2型和H2O溶液型三种类型流体包裹体.平阶段石英中原生包裹体主要是CO2-H2O型和纯CO2型,其成分为CO2+H2O±N2±CH4,均一温度集中在290～330℃,盐度为1.02％～9.59％ NaCleqv;中阶段为主成矿阶段,该阶段石英中包含了所有3种类型的包裹体,其中以CO2-H2O型包裹体为主,获得CO2-H2O和水溶液包裹体均一温度集中在250～290℃,盐度为0.02％～12.81％NaCleqv;晚阶段石英仅发育水溶液型包裹体,具有较低的均一温度(114～239℃)和盐度(4.18％～8.95％ NaCleqv).根据CO2-H2O型包裹体计算早、中阶段压力分别为130 ～ 178MPa和85 ～ 150MPa,对应的成矿深度分别为4.7～6.5km和3.1～5.5km.总体而言,文峪金矿的初始流体具有中高温、富CO2、低盐度的变质流体特征,晚成矿阶段流体演化为低温、低盐度水溶液流体,流体的不混溶导致了主成矿期矿质的大量沉淀,文峪金矿为中浅成的造山型矿床.     

小秦岭金矿田大湖钼金矿床地质特征

大湖钼金矿床是小秦岭金矿田内一个新的矿床类型-金、钼共生矿床,矿床产于变质核杂岩内的脆韧性剪切带中.金、钼矿体赋存于断裂构造带的不同部位,金和钼含量呈负相关关系,但受同一韧脆性剪切系统控制,矿体均向NE侧伏,该韧脆性剪切带具有多期次构造活动及多次成矿作用特征.通过对硫、铅同位素、成矿流体、成矿物理化学、包裹体成分分析研...     

陕西小秦岭金矿深部找矿潜力分析

小秦岭金矿位于华北地台南缘小秦岭隆起北部的太华台拱区,矿床成因类型为石英脉—构造蚀变岩型;区内太古界太华群地层既是赋矿地层也是矿源层,矿体严格受脆韧性构造带控制,燕山期岩浆岩为金的活化、运移提供了热动力。     

SYZX绳索取心液动锤在小秦岭金矿田复杂地层深部钻探中的应用

小秦岭金矿田南、北矿带深部找矿钻探施工中,应用SYZX绳索取心液动锤钻进技术,对深孔钻进采取防斜保直钻进,为钻孔的顺利延伸创造了条件,在硬碎地层中钻进,提高回次进尺,提高小时效率,延长钻头寿命,体现出了液动锤技术的优越性,并对液动锤使用中易出现的问题进行了总结。     

Hydrothermal Fluid Evolution Associated with Gold Mineralization at the Wenyu Mine, Xiaoqinling District, China

Abstract: The Wenyu mesothermal gold deposit is located in the Xiaoqinling district about 1000 km southwest of Beijing in central China. It occurs in the Late Archean to Early Proterozoic metamorphosed volcanic and sedimentary rocks. Three distinct stages of veins have been identified: (I) gold‐poor quartz–pyrite veins, (II) gold‐rich sulfide–quartz veins, and (III) gold‐poor carbonate–quartz veins. Stage II can be subdivided into IIa and IIb. Gold typically occurs as fracture‐fillings associated with chalcopyrite and galena. Fluid inclusions were examined in quartz samples from veins of both stage I and II. Three types of fluid inclusions are identified: CO₂–H₂O, CO₂–rich, and aqueous inclusions. The first two types are of primary in origin. The last type occurs in two ways: coexisting with CO₂–H₂O and CO₂–rich inclusions and thus primary in origin; and occurring along late healed fractures and hence secondary in origin. CO₂–H₂O inclusions display progressively decreasing Th and increasing Thco₂, from the highest Th (311–408C) and lowest Thco₂ (average 18C) in stage I quartz through middle Th (284–358C) and ThCO₂(average 25C) in stage IIa quartz to the lowest Th (275–314C) and highest ThCO₂ (average 28C) in stage IIb quartz, indicating an evolving H₂O–CO₂–NaCl fluid system. CO₂–rich and primary aqueous inclusions show consistent ThCO₂ or Th with their coexistent CO₂–H₂O inclusions. Whereas the secondary aqueous inclusions in stage I and IIa quartz have almost the same Th and salinity as the primary aqueous inclusions in stage IIb quartz. Comparing with CO₂–H₂O inclusions, these non–CO₂, low salinity aqueous inclusions may come from different origin, most probably meteoric water. Unlike in both stage I and IIa quartz, fluid inclusions in stage IIb do not show evidence of fluid immiscibility. The fact that most of gold is associated with stage IIa and IIb veins and not with veins of stage I which is the main stage of vein formation suggests that gold deposition occurs at the later stage of fluid immiscibility. The continuing phase separation led to the deposition of large amounts of gold at the Wenyu mine.     

广东河台金矿田糜棱岩磁组构对剪切带变形与成矿的约束

河台金矿田是广东省内规模最大的金矿,由于金矿床都产于糜棱岩带中,因而被认为是典型的与剪切带有关的金矿。然而,对于Au矿化与剪切带变形条件之间的关系目前仍不十分清楚。高村和云西是河台金矿田两个代表性的金矿床,分别受ML11和ML9两条剪切带的控制。本文在对两条剪切带中的含矿和无矿糜棱岩的变形特征进行野外调查和室内岩（矿）相学观察的基础上,分别开展岩石磁学和磁化率各向异性（AMS）特征研究。糜棱岩x- T曲线显示了磁黄铁矿的居里温度,结合磁滞回线、等温剩磁（IRM）以及矿相学特征,表明河台金矿田糜棱岩几乎不含磁铁矿,载磁矿物主要为黑云母和磁黄铁矿,但是磁黄铁矿的贡献要远大于黑云母。两条糜棱岩带中不含矿糜棱岩的平均磁化率Km＜500×10-6 (SI)、磁化率各向异性度Pj、椭球体形状参数T、磁面理F和磁线理L没有明显差别。并且形成两条剪切带的主应力方向也近于一致,最大主应力方向σ1（K3）为近水平NNW- SSE向,最小主应力σ3（K1）为NEE- SWW向,倾伏角较缓。运动学涡度Wk值也近似,在0. 12~0. 65之间,小于0. 71。上述特征暗示两条含金剪切带都是在印支期NNW- SSE向近水平的强烈挤压作用下形成的,其中发育的糜棱岩为S型和SL型构造岩,具有强烈压扁的特征,并且在剪切变形过程中纯剪切作用所占的比重要明显大于简单剪切。然而,两条剪切带中含矿糜棱岩与无矿糜棱岩的AMS特征有明显的区别。含矿糜棱岩的K1近于直立,且Km＞500×10-6 (SI)和Pj值都明显大于无矿糜棱岩。因此,糜棱岩的变形强度与含矿性具有一定的正相关关系,而在燕山期叠加的脆韧性变形使得最大磁化率主轴（即最小主应力轴）变陡,更有利于热液的运移和最终成矿。