Characterization of Iron Grains near the P/T Boundary in the Meishan Section of China

The Meishan section of China has been confirmed as the ＂Global Stratotype Section and Point＂ of the P/T boundary. In the section, the authors found several types of iron grains, including pyrite, pure iron grains and goethite. From the research of macro minerals, it is easy to find that the grains rich in iron appear from the bottom of the event layer of the section. In other words, it is probably residue of the geochemical catastrophe of that time. Therefore, it is important to trace the source of these iron grains and their relationships, which probably provides evidence for volcanic eruption or impact-volcanoes and has directive significance to the crisis during the P/T transitional period. Through the study of the characterization and relationships of these iron grains, the authors make a preliminary discussion on the P/T mass extinction.     

Pyrite Formation in Organic-rich Clay, Calcitic and Coal-Forming Environments

The early diagenetic characteristics of pyrite formation processes in a Miocene freshwater sequence of mixed sediments （coal fragments in clays, sandstones or shales） alternating with continuous brown coal layers was investigated. Based on abundant minerals, the following main sedimentary environments were distinguished： the illite-montmorillonitic （I-M）, calcitic （Ct） and coal-forming environment （CL）. For these hydrogeochemically differing environments the effects of limiting factors on the pyrite formation process （availability of sulphate and Fe, amount of organic matter and participation of organic sulphur） were assessed by correlation analysis. Significant differences in the effects of these limiting factors in the particular environments were observed. These differences were explained taking in account the different oxidative activity, Fe-complex and surface complex forming properties of humic substances in dependence of pH of environment and the abundance of sorptionally active clay minerals. In environments having a relatively low pH and containing clay minerals （I-M- and CL-environments） the oxidative activity of humic substances （Hs） on pyrite precursors was greatly prevented however pyrite formation depended on reactive Fe availability as the consequence of complex formation. On the contrary, in environments with a relatively high pH, as it was the calcitic, the oxidative activity of Hs was greatly enhanced, thus oxidizing the sulfur precursors of pyrite. The oxidation degree of organic matter was probably also a consequence of the differing activity of the humic electron-acceptors.     

江西相山铀矿田深部多金属矿化中黄铁矿微量元素地球化学特征

在对相山铀矿田的深部勘查过程中陆续发现了一批铅、锌、银、铜多金属矿化,利用ICP-MS方法对多金属矿化中的重要金属矿物黄铁矿进行了微量元素分析。结果表明,黄铁矿中富集Co、Ni、Cu、Zn、Cd、Sb、Tl、Pb、Bi等微量元素。对比黄铁矿与矿区出露的主要岩浆岩和基底变质岩的LREE/HREE、(La/Yb)N、Y/Ho、Zr/Hf和Nb/Ta特征参数,结果表明多金属成矿流体在上升运移过程中受到变质基底的强烈混染。LREE富集,Hf/Sm、Nb/La和Th/La值小于1的特征表明多金属矿化成矿流体并非为富F流体,与铀成矿流体具有较大差异。微量元素Co含量与Co/Ni特征值显示矿化形成于中低温环境,成矿物质主要来自于基底变质岩。     

辽宁青城子矿集区铅锌-银-金矿床硫化物化学成分及找矿意义

对辽宁青城子铅锌-银-金矿床的主要矿石矿物方铅矿、闪锌矿和黄铁矿进行了显微鉴定、电子探针和ICP-MS分析,获得它们的固结顺序为：黄铁矿早于闪锌矿,二者早于方铅矿（闪锌矿交代黄铁矿,方铅矿交代前两者）。从硫化物成分空间分布可以判断成矿流体以甸南-榛子沟为中心分别向二道-喜鹊沟和大地-白云迁移。根据方铅矿固结温度（327℃）参考石英流体包裹体均一温度（322℃）,限定以方铅矿为主的矿床其硫化物形成温度约为322～327℃;利用Cd在方铅矿-闪锌矿分配系数温度计获得铅锌矿成矿温度在344～464℃之间,结合闪锌矿出溶黄铜矿温度（高于350℃）,参考石英流体包裹体均一温度（300～360℃）,并参考黄铁矿发生脆性变形温度（400℃）,获得以闪锌矿为主的矿床硫化物形成温度约为360～400℃,银铅锌矿床的成矿温度被限定在390～400℃;由于自然金主要赋存在黄铁矿微裂隙中,利用黄铁矿发生脆性变形温度并结合石英流体包裹体温度（230～370℃）约束金成矿温度约为370～400℃。成矿温度较高可能归因于样品采集位置较深所致;最后利用矿石矿物、侵入岩、围岩微量元素对比分析判断成矿流体与中生代（特别是印支期）侵入岩具有亲缘性,根据印支期岩浆混合特征认为岩浆混合作用可能对本地区成矿作用具有重要贡献。     

黑龙江省嫩江—黑河构造混杂岩带科洛金矿床成因:来自黄铁矿化学成分及He-Ar、S、Pb同位素证据

科洛金矿床位于黑龙江省嫩江—黑河构造混杂岩带中,为一正在勘查的中型金矿床。前人研究认为该矿床为一中温、富水、低盐度的韧性剪切带型金矿床。但随着勘查工作的持续开展,新发现了大量含多金属硫化物的石英脉型矿石。为进一步明确该矿床成因,对科洛金矿床内韧性变形和浸染状-团块状两种不同产状黄铁矿进行了系统的成分标型及稳定同位素特征研究。结果表明:韧性变形黄铁矿较浸染-团块状黄铁矿的S/Fe值低,Au、Ag、Co含量高,As含量低,总体显示韧性变形黄铁矿相对贫硫;黄铁矿微量元素显示两类黄铁矿REE具有相似的地球化学特征,整体呈轻稀土富集、重稀土亏损的“右倾”式稀土配分模式。稀土元素总量为17.00×10^-6~66.95×10^-6,韧性变形黄铁矿含量明显偏低,LREE/HREE值为5.25~12.50,相对较稳定。Y/Ho值与地幔和地壳重合范围较多,Zr/Hf值、Nb/Ta值变化范围较大,显示成矿环境不稳定;黄铁矿³He含量为2.405×10^-13~10.811×10^-13,⁴He含量为3.35×10^-7~4.99×10^-7,³He-⁴He图和R/R_a-⁴⁰Ar/³⁶Ar图显示成矿流体有以地幔为主的壳幔混源特征,成矿过程应有大气降水的参与;黄铁矿δ³⁴S变化范围小,集中在+2.3‰~+7.6‰(韧性变形黄铁矿δ³⁴S平均值偏低),稍正向偏离陨石硫特征;黄铁矿的²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=18.157~18.211;²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.542~15.594;²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=38.032~38.218(韧性变形黄铁矿的²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb、²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb、²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb平均值偏低),均显示与造山作用关系密切。利用黄铁矿化学成分特征元素Co/Ni值及Co-Ni成因判别图解认为科洛金矿有热液成因矿床特征;利用w(Fe+S)-w(As)图解和Co-Ni-As含量图解显示石英脉型矿石反映浅成低温热液型金矿特征。综合区域变质变形事件、典型矿床特征及矿区内已取得的年龄、流体包裹体等相关数据认为,科洛金矿床应存在两期矿化:三叠纪形成的韧性剪切带型金矿床和白垩纪形成的浅成低温热液型金矿床。建议在今后的矿产勘查中注意寻找真正的韧性剪切带型金矿。     

Genesis of Strata-bound Sulfide Orebodies in the Tongling Polymetallic Mineralization Cluster, SE China: Evidence from Colloform Pyrite

Colloform pyrite (CPy) is widely distributed in the Tongling mineralization cluster of the Middle–Lower Yangtze River Mineralization Belt (MLYRMB), China. There have many debates as to whether such CPy is associated with Late Mesozoic igneous or Carboniferous sedimentation. CPy from the Xinqiao deposit, a representative of the stratabound sulfide deposits in the MLYRMB, was studied by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results show that CPy mainly comprises pyrite, pyrrhotite, quartz, and illite. Pyrite in CPy shows cubic, globule, and xenomorphic morphologies. No octahedral or pyritohedron was observed. Most of the quartz crystals display xenomorphic morphology, where pyrite mold are popular on the surface. Organic matter (OM), which is usually bound to illite, is an important component in CPy. Morphological investigations which exhibit detrital features of quartz and clay minerals indicate that they were derived from continental weathering. Specially, some hexagonal pyrrhotite nanoparticles which show mackinawite morphology are coexisted with OM. The results indicate that the transformation process of sulfides possibly is mackinawite (the precursor)—hexagonal pyrrhotite—pyrite. Thus, compositional and micro-textural characteristics of CPy in Xinqiao deposit suggest it to be a sedimentary origin rather than a hydrothermal origin which is associated with Yanshanian magmatism. Moreover, the coexistence of CPy and stratabound sulfide orebodies in the MLYRMB suggests a causal link between the two. It is considered that CPy might have served as a Cu mineralization geochemical barrier for the Cu-bearing ore-forming fluids, which originated from the Mesozoic magma in the MLYRMB.     

河北大白阳金矿床黄铁矿微量元素及S-Pb同位素地球化学特征

大白阳金矿床位于华北克拉通北缘张家口地区,为一中型金矿床。矿床产于太古宇桑干群化家营组和涧沟河组变质地层中,受区内断裂和褶皱控制,金矿脉总体走向北北西。矿石类型为含金石英脉型和蚀变岩型,矿石矿物主要为磁铁矿、赤铁矿、黄铁矿、方铅矿、闪锌矿、黄铜矿、斑铜矿、自然金、银金矿及少量碲化物。矿床的成矿期可划分为4个成矿阶段,分别为石英-钾长石阶段、石英-黄铁矿阶段、石英-多硫化物阶段和石英-碳酸盐-硫酸盐阶段。矿床硫化物的δ³⁴S_V-CDT为-16.2‰~-10.5‰,为高氧逸度成矿流体所致;Pb同位素组成²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=16.762~17.293、²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.350~15.463、²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=36.777~37.328,与区内岩浆岩Pb同位素组成一致。黄铁矿微量元素低,主要赋存于黄铁矿晶格中。黄铁矿中低的Co、Ni质量分数表明,黄铁矿从岩浆流体中沉淀。桑干群斜长角闪岩在蚀变过程中为流体提供部分成矿物质,为矿源层之一。大白阳金矿床属于与岩浆有关的热液矿床,其形成经历了泥盆纪金的初始矿化和侏罗纪-白垩纪的叠加成矿,由此也导致了张宣地区大量金矿床的出现。     

Iron geochemistry under mussel rafts in the Galician ria system (Galicia-NW Spain)

The intensive mussel culture carried out in the past 40 years in the Rias of Vigo and Arousa (Galicia-NW Spain) has led to substantial changes in the ecology and geochemistry of the seabed in these areas. Organic C enrichment of the seabed has generated strongly reducing conditions that directly affect the geochemistry of Fe and S. In the present study a total of six sediment cores were collected from the seabed under mussel rafts, and two different layers were distinguished: the biodeposit generated by the mussels, and the sediment situated immediately below this. Samples of each were analyzed to determine the pH, redox potential, sulphate and chloride in the interstitial water, as well as total percentage of organic C (TOC), N and S. Sequential extraction of the samples differentiated six fractions of Fe: exchangeable, carbonate, ferrihydrite, lepidocrocite, goethite and pyrite. The contents of total Fe, Fe associated with silicates, Fe soluble in 1 M HCl and AVS-Fe were also determined. In general, both the biodeposit and the sediment were anoxic (Eh < 100 mV) and there were no significant differences between the two in the total Fe or in the Fe associated with silicates, which appears to indicate that the input of Fe to the system did not vary greatly. However, there were significant differences between the sediment and the biodeposit in terms of the forms of Fe in each layer. The concentrations of pyrite in the biodeposit (0.37 ± 0.25 μmol g⁻¹) were high but significantly lower than in the sediment (1.10 ± 0.20 μmol g⁻¹), and there remained large quantities of reactive-Fe that were susceptible to pyritisation. In contrast, in the sediment, the reactive-Fe was intensively pyritised, and judging from the ratio of TOC–DOP, it limited synthesis of pyrite. Furthermore, a plot of the concentration of pyrite-S against TOC revealed an excess of ∼15% of pyrite-S, which is explained by the partial decoupling of pyrite formation from organic matter accumulation, caused by the formation of pyrite from the H₂S generated by the anaerobic oxidation of methane. The latter process also appears to favour, although to a lesser extent, the precipitation of Ca carbonate, with incorporation of Fe.     

累托石/聚丙烯酸(钠)-丙稀酰胺吸水保水复合材料的制备及性能

采用焙烧-磁选法、酸洗提纯法、煅烧法均能有效减少湖北钟祥累托石粘土中的黄铁矿.实验用累托石粘土中黄铁矿含量为4.37%, 硫含量为2.32%.采用焙烧磁选法, 温度300℃、时间2.0h、二次磁选后, 累托石粘土中硫含量降为0.52%;酸洗法, 酸液浓度60%、时间1.0h、温度60℃时, 硫含量为0.57%;煅烧法, 当温度550℃、时间为0.5h时, 硫含量为0.78%.研究发现所得粘土矿物对聚合复合法制备累托石/聚丙稀酰胺-丙烯酸(钠) 吸水保水复合材料的阻聚作用不明显, 且不影响后续聚合反应最高硫含量约为0.78%.在65~70℃反应条件下, 含煅烧累托石粘土20%、丙烯酰胺15%、引发剂0.25%、交联剂0.08%, 丙烯酸中和度为80%的吸水保水复合材料的吸去离子水倍率为870, 吸自来水倍率为250, 吸生理盐水倍率为68.累托石粘土添加量在0%~30%之间时, 吸水保水复合材料的吸液倍率比不含累托石的吸水树脂高.吸水保水复合材料吸液倍率从870g/g降到84g/g时, 凝胶强度从49g/cm2上升到235g/cm2.      

广西大瑶山西侧层控矿床成因类型及成矿机理

本文根据《广西大瑶山西侧泥盆系铅锌黄铁矿床控矿条件及成矿预测研究》成果,按照沉积演化观点,将本区层控矿床成固类型划分为成岩矿床、成岩—后生矿床和后生矿床。成矿物质主要来源于赋矿地层下泥盆统及基底岩石,成矿溶液主要为大气降水经深循的渗流热卤水,成矿物质的聚集与成岩后生作用有关,矿床的形成可分为沉积、成岩、后生三个阶段,并建立了成矿模式。