Syngenetic gold in western Victoria: occurrence,age and dimensions

In western Victoria, a widespread stratiform style of gold enrichment in Palaeozoic black mudstone and chert—clearly different from the classic mesothermal quartz vein deposits of the Victorian goldfields—has been confirmed by whole-rock geochemistry and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICPMS). This enrichment pre-dates compaction, deformation and low-grade metamorphism of the sedimentary host-rocks, and therefore possibly developed diagenetically during slow deposition of the thin carbonaceous black mudstone beds and the thinner layers of chert. These paired strata have been documented at many locations in three regional outcrop areas of chevron-folded Cambrian and Lower Ordovician metasediments in the Stawell and Bendigo Zones, where they are interbedded with quartz-rich turbidites. The layers were named ‘indicators’ by the early miners, who found locally rich nuggety gold deposits at intersections between these layers and mesothermal quartz veins. Gold is present in euhedral pyrite crystals in both black shale and chert. LA-ICPMS analysis of individual pyrite crystals in the indicator beds shows that pyrite is enriched in Au, As, Sb, Se, Te and Bi. The Au content of pyrite varies from 0.03 to 2.69 ppm with a mean of 0.58 ppm and shows a positive correlation with As, which varies from 1000 to 6000 ppm. Many pyrite crystals show enrichment of gold in their cores and depletion in their rims, confirming the likely syngenetic or syndiagenetic accumulation of gold during pyrite formation in the sediments. Prior to regional metamorphism, folding and faulting, the many indicator strata in the outcrop areas were parts of an extensive marine sequence of Late Cambrian and Early Ordovician age. The former primary source of this mineralisation is considered to have been one or more contemporaneously exhalative submarine hydrothermal systems. Thus, the older Palaeozoic sediments of the western Lachlan Fold Belt were significantly enriched in syngenetic gold in the Early Palaeozoic, at least 40 million years before emplacement of the quartz – gold vein deposits of the goldfields.     

The origin of the Maozu carbonate-hosted Pb–Zn deposit,southwest China: Constrained by C–O–S–Pb isotopic compositions and Sm–Nd isotopic age

The Maozu Pb–Zn deposit, located on the western margin of the Yangtze Block, southwest China, is a typical carbonate-hosted deposit in the Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Pb–Zn metallogenic province with Pb + Zn reserves of about 2.0 million tonnes grading 4.15 wt.% Pb and 7.25 wt.% Zn. Its ore bodies are hosted in Sinian (635–541 Ma) Dengying Formation dolostone and show stratiform, vein and irregular textures. Ores are composed of sphalerite, galena, pyrite, calcite, dolomite, quartz and fluorite with massive, banded, disseminated and veined structures. The C–O–Sm–Nd isotopic compositions of hydrothermal calcites and S–Pb isotopic compositions of sulfides were analyzed to constrain the origin of the Maozu deposit. δ¹³C_PDB and δ¹⁸O_SMOW values of hydrothermal calcites range from −3.7‰ to −2.0‰ and +13.8‰ to +17.5‰, respectively, and plot near the marine carbonate rocks field in a plot of δ¹³C_PDB vs. δ¹⁸O_SMOW, with a negative correlation. It suggests that CO₂ in the hydrothermal fluids was mainly originated from marine carbonate rocks, with limited influence from sedimentary organic matter. δ³⁴S_CDT values of sulfides range from +9.9‰ to +19.2‰, similar to that of Cambrian to Triassic seawater sulfate (+15‰ to +35‰) and evaporate (+15‰ to +30‰) in the Cambrian to Triassic sedimentary strata. It suggests that reduced sulfur was derived from evaporate in sedimentary strata by thermo chemical sulfate reduction. Sulfides have low radiogenic Pb isotope compositions (²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 18.129–18.375, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 15.640–15.686 and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb = 38.220–38.577) that plot in the field between upper crust and the orogenic belt evolution curve in the plot of ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb vs. ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, and similar to that of age corrected Proterozoic basement rocks (Dongchuan and Kunyang Groups). This indicates that ore-forming metals were mainly derived from basement rocks. Hydrothermal calcite yields a Sm–Nd isotopic age of 196 ± 13 Ma, possibly reflecting the timing of Pb–Zn mineralization in the SYG province, younger than the Permian Emeishan mantle plume (∼260 Ma). All data combined suggests that hydrothermal fluids circulated through basement rocks where they picked up metals and migrated to surface, mixed with reduced sulfur-bearing fluids and precipitated metals. Ore genesis of the Maozu deposit is different from known magmatic–hydrothermal, Sedimentary Exhalative or Mississippi Valley-types, which maybe represent a unique ore deposit type, named as the SYG-type.     

云南维西娃渣铁铅锌多金属矿床

矿床属与中三叠统中酸性火山岩有关的喷流型（或火山沉积改造型）铁铅锌多金属矿,并受地层构造双重控制.     

滇东北渔户村组内的富铅锌矿床成矿地质特征及成因

渔户村组为滇东北富铅锌矿床的重要产出层位。通过茂粗、金沙厂、五星、乐红、大海等矿床，总结了滇东北渔户村组内的富铅锌矿床的地质特征及成因，认为其与喷流沉积成矿作用和后期改造作用有关，为海底火山喷流沉积－改造成因。     

内蒙古布敦花铜矿区运用物探资料成矿预测研究

为扩大布敦花铜矿远景储量,寻找陷伏矿床,对布敦花铜矿区的地质、地球物理特征进行分析研究,总结已知矿体的地球物理特征,建立成矿地球物理模型,进而利用已获得的各种物探信息对矿区及其外围进行找矿远景和靶区的预测。     

峨眉山玄武岩与铅锌矿床成矿关系初探—以云南会泽铅锌矿床为例

本文以云南会泽铅锌矿为例，从成矿时代、成矿物来源、成矿流体来源和成矿热动力等方面初步讲座主峨眉山玄武岩与铅锌矿床成矿的关系。结果表明：矿床成矿时代可能与峨眉山玄武岩岩浆活动时代相近；峨眉山玄武岩在成矿过程中提供了部分成矿物质；伴随峨眉山玄武岩岩浆活动过程去气作用（包括地幔去气作用和岩浆去气作用）形成的流体参与了会泽铅锌矿成矿流体的形成；峨眉山玄武岩岩浆活动为成矿热动力的主要来源。     

会泽金牛厂铅锌矿成矿地质条件

铅锌矿体赋存于下寒武统筇竹寺组八道湾段（∈1q^1）灰黑色中厚层状泥质粉砂岩中;筇竹寺组玉案山段（∈1q^2）灰黄色、灰黑色泥质页岩夹薄层状细砂岩为矿区成矿的隔挡层。北东向的关仓箐逆断裂为矿区的导矿构造,北西西向次级张扭性断裂和北北东向层间断裂为矿区的容矿构造。     

辽宁早前寒武纪金、铜、铅、锌(银)矿床的变质成矿系列研究

金、铜、铅、锌(银)矿是辽宁地区的优势矿种,过去和现在都曾从多个不同角度或多个方面予以研究论述,但从成矿系列理论研究则是作者(1994)在Ⅱ轮区划工作中所做的一种新的尝试。根据程裕淇先生的成矿系列理论,辽宁地区早前寒武纪变质岩系中的金、铜、铅、锌(银)矿床属变质成矿系列组合,可进一步划分为三个成矿系列,六个成矿亚系列,九个矿床(种)类型和十二个矿床式。成矿系列特征表明成矿物质与原岩的含矿性关系非常密切,成矿物质或元素具有随原岩建造时空演化而演化的特点,成矿具有鲜明的专属性和层控性,是典型或比较典型的层控变质矿床。金矿床的形成和分布均与韧性剪切带及其糜棱岩有关,表明辽宁前寒武纪金矿床的形成不仅与变质作用有关,而且韧性剪切作用也是极其重要的成矿条件;铜、锌(银)和铅、锌(银)矿床以块状硫化物型为主,其成矿多与火山作用关系十分密切,变质作用过程中,发生重就位或再富集,或热液交代富集成矿。由太古宙至早元古代不同成矿系列或成矿亚系列中的矿床具有自下而上有序的空间分布规律。     

Formation of the Dongmozhazhua Pb–Zn Deposit in the Thrust‐Fold Setting of the Tibetan Plateau,China: Evidence from Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Data

The Dongmozhazhua deposit, the largest Pb–Zn deposit in south Qinghai, China, is stratabound, carbonate‐hosted and associated with epigenetic dolomitization and silicification of Lower–Middle Permian—Upper Triassic limestones in the hanging walls of a Cenozoic thrust fault system. The mineralization is localized in a Cenozoic thrust‐folded belt along the northeastern edge of the Tibetan plateau, which was formed due to the India–Asia plate collision during the early Tertiary. The deposit comprises 16 orebodies with variable thicknesses (1.5–26.3 m) and lengths (160–1820 m). The ores occur as dissemination, vein, and breccia cement. The main sulfide assemblage is sphalerite + galena + pyrite + marcasite ± chalcopyrite ± tetrahedrite, and gangue minerals consist mainly of calcite, dolomite, barite, and quartz. Samples of pre‐ to post‐ore stages calcite yielded δ¹³C and δ¹⁸O values that are, respectively, similar to and lower than those yielded by the host limestones, suggesting that the calcite formed from fluids derived from carbonate dissolution. Fluid inclusions in calcite and sphalerite in the polymetallic sulfidization stage mostly comprise liquid and gas phases at room temperature, with moderate homogenization temperatures (100–140°C) and high salinities (21–28 wt% NaCl eq.). Micro‐thermometric fluid inclusion data point to polysaline brines as ore‐forming fluids. The δD and δ¹⁸O values of ore fluids, cation compositions of fluid inclusions, and geological information suggest two main possible fluid sources, namely basinal brines and evaporated seawater. The fluid inclusion data and regional geology suggest that basinal brines derived from Tertiary basins located southeast of the Dongmozhazhua deposit migrated along deep detachment zones of the regional thrust system, leached substantial base metals from country rocks, and finally ascended along thrust faults at Dongmozhazhua. There, the base‐metal‐rich basinal brines mixed with bacterially‐reduced H₂S‐bearing fluids derived from evaporated seawater preserved in the Permo–Triassic carbonate strata. The mixing of the two fluids resulted in Pb–Zn mineralization. The Dongmozhazhua Pb–Zn deposit has many characteristics that are similar to MVT Pb–Zn deposits worldwide.     

吉林集安铅锌矿地球化学与分散元素

吉林集安铅锌矿床是我国最早报导的少数几个典型低温铅锌矿床之一。矿化具有多期次特点 ,富矿体都是多期次矿化叠加的产物。根据矿化先后和矿物生成顺序将矿化分为五个阶段 :①石英 黄铁矿矿化阶段 ;②重晶石 闪锌矿矿化阶段 ;③石英 方铅矿矿化阶段 ;④石英 黄铁矿矿化阶段 ;⑤碳酸盐 氧化矿物矿化阶段。用均一法和爆裂法测得石英、重晶石、闪锌矿包裹体成矿温度变化在 1 1 0℃～ 1 97℃之间。矿床中除含铅锌矿外 ,还有微量的Pt和Pd,并普遍含分散元素Cd、Ga、Tl、In、Se、Ge、Te,其中以Cd含量最高 ,闪锌矿中Cd含量最高可达 71 5 5× 1 0 6。分散元素主要呈类质同象形式赋存在各种矿物之中 ,未发现独立矿物。通过矿床地质和硫铅同位素研究表明该铅锌矿床属低温沉积 改造型层控矿床。