Progress in porphyry copper exploration from the Gangdise belt, Tibet, China

Recent mineral exploration in the Gangdise porphyry copper deposit belt, an important component of the Himalaya-Tethyan metallogenic belt, has led to the discovery of a number of deposits, as exemplified by the world-class Miocene Qulong porphyry Cu deposit. This paper reviews major advances in the studies of ore genesis and metallogenic regularity and progresses in mineral exploration of porphyry Cu deposits in the belt. Existing problems and suggestion for future exploration also are given.     

Occurrences of Ore Minerals and Fluid Inclusion Study on the Kingking Porphyry Copper–Gold Deposit, Eastern Mindanao, Philippines

The Kingking deposit is a gold‐rich porphyry copper deposit and the southernmost deposit at the eastern Mindanao mineralized belt, Philippines. It is underlain by Cretaceous–Paleogene sedimentary and volcanic rocks that are intruded by mineralized Miocene diorite porphyries and by barren Miocene–Pliocene dacite and diorite porphyries. The main alteration zones in the deposit are the inner potassic zone and the outer propylitic zone. The biotite‐bearing diorite and hornblende diorite porphyries are the primary host rocks of mineralization. Two dominant copper minerals, bornite and chalcopyrite, which usually occur as fracture fillings, are associated with fine crystalline quartz veinlet stockworks in the mineralized diorites. Minor secondary covellite, chalcocite and digenite are also observed. The primary Cu‐Fe sulfide phases initially deposited from ore fluids consisted of bornite solid solution (bnss) and intermediate solid solution (iss), which decomposed to form the bornite and chalcopyrite. Peculiar bornite pods that are different from dissemination and are associated with volcanic rock xenoliths in biotite‐bearing diorite porphyry are noted in a drill hole. These pods of bornite are not associated with quartz veinlet stockworks. Fluid inclusion analyses show three types of inclusions contained in Kingking samples: two‐phase fluid‐rich and vapor‐rich inclusions and polyphase hypersaline inclusions from porphyry‐type quartz veinlet stockworks. The liquid–vapor homogenization temperatures (T_H) and the dissolution temperature of halite daughter crystals (T_M) from the polyphase hypersaline inclusions predominantly range from 400°C up to >500°C. The wide range of T_H and T_M may be due to heterogeneous trapping of variable ratios of vapor and brine. For some inclusions, T_H > T_M and in some cases, T_H < T_M, indicating that some of the brine was supersaturated or saturated with NaCl at the time of entrapment. Calculated salinity of the polyphase hypersaline inclusions ranges from 40 to 60% NaCl equivalent. Temperature and vapor pressure of mineralized fluid were estimated to be 400°C and 16 MPa.     

Porphyry-Type Mineralization at Selogiri Area, Wonogiri Regency, Central Java, Indonesia

The Selogiri area, situated in Wonogiri regency, Central Java, is one of several gold prospecting areas in the Southern areas Mountain Range in Java, Indonesia. Three types of dioritic–andesitic intrusive rocks occur in the Selogiri area, namely, hornblende andesite porphyry, hornblende diorite porphyry and hornblende diorite, exposed in a half‐circular depression where volcanic breccia and tuff are widely distributed. The occurrence of stockwork quartz veinlets and associated with magnetite and malachite coating along the cracks in the diorite porphyry suggests porphyry type mineralization. This is also supported by the occurrence of polyphase hypersaline fluid inclusions in the stockwork veinlet quartz. Small‐scale miners are mining NS‐trending quartz veins for gold associated with base metal sulfides. These veins are probably epithermal‐type mineralization that overprinted porphyry‐type mineralization. The Neogene intermediate to silicic hydrous magmatism in Java could have formed the porphyry‐type mineralization in Selogiri, as in the rest of the Sunda–Banda arc.     

内蒙古乌努格吐山斑岩铜钼矿床辉钼矿铼锇等时线年龄及其成矿地球动力学背景

内蒙古乌努格吐山斑岩铜钼矿床是我国东北地区大型铜钼矿床之一,其矿石中5件辉钼矿Re/Os同位素模式年龄介于(166.1±2.0)～(176.4±2.8)Ma之间,~(187)Re~(187)Os等时线年龄为178±10Ma(1σ误差,MSWD=3.3),代表流体成矿年龄。斑岩流体成矿系统发育在183±6Ma左右。在区域构造演化框架中,乌努格吐山斑岩铜钼矿床形成于陆陆碰撞过程的减压增温体制,而非与B型俯冲有关的岩浆弧环境。     

滇西北中甸普朗斑岩铜矿流体包裹体初步研究

普朗斑岩铜矿位于三江地区义敦岛弧南端的中甸弧,是在晚三叠世甘孜.理塘洋盆向西俯冲过程中形成的一个大型.超大型矿床.通过显微测温学和激光拉曼谱学研究,发现普朗斑岩铜矿含矿石英脉中广泛发育富液相包裹体、含CO2三相/两相包裹体、含子晶多相包裹体.子晶种类复杂,盐类矿物主要有石盐、钾盐、方解石、石膏.金属矿物主要为黄铜矿和赤铁矿.流体包裹体中发现有4种流体,即高盐度岩浆流体、含CO2低盐度流体、中等盐度流体以及少量低盐度水溶液.高盐度岩浆流体的均一温度范围457～245℃,均一压力范围(259.33-25.43)×105 Pa,盐度为34%-54%NaCI,密度为1.12-1.07 g/cm3,富含Na、K、Ca、Cu、Fe、CO2、Cl、S等成分.原始岩浆流体可能是由中酸性岩浆上升至中间岩浆房后直接出溶而成,并汇聚在岩浆房的顶部.在甘孜.理塘洋盆的俯冲过程中,岩浆流体在流体内压和洋盆俯冲所产生的主压应力场的共同作用下,可以间歇性地从岩浆房上涌,为早期岩浆活动(226±3)～(228±3)Ma所形成的岩浆.热液系统提供了持续的矿质和热源.含CO2低盐度流体与高盐度岩浆流体的相分离作用是导致普朗斑岩铜矿主成矿期网脉状.浸染状矿化的主要原因.     

西藏班公湖带多不杂超大型富金斑岩铜矿的高温高盐高氧化成矿流体：流体包裹体证据

多不杂富金斑岩铜矿床位于斑公湖-怒江缝合带北侧多不杂构造岩浆弧中,成矿与侵位于中侏罗统雁石坪群和早白垩统美日切组地层中的石英闪长玢岩、花岗闪长斑岩有关。由于斑岩体的侵位,在岩体内及其围岩中形成强烈蚀变且分带明显,由含矿斑岩中心向外可划分出钾硅化带、中级泥化带、泥化带、伊利石-水白云母化-褐铁矿化带-角岩带或青磐岩化带(围岩是中基性火山岩时)。矿化为细脉-浸染状,含矿斑岩全岩矿化,少量矿化产于围岩中,成矿为铜-金组合,为典型的富金斑岩铜矿。初步识别出(1)钾化带中主要发育M型、EB型、A型及部分B型脉;(2)绿泥石化带(中级泥化带)中发育B型、C型、石英-绿泥石脉及S型、G型脉;(3)在粘土化带(泥化带)中主要发育C型脉、G型脉及S型细网脉;(4)在围岩中主要发育B型、C型、D型及G型细网脉以及碳酸盐脉、M型脉等。矿区范围内发育丰富的热液磁铁矿、赤铁矿、金红石等,铜、金沉淀与热液磁铁矿的形成关系密切;矿石中主要为黄铜矿、少量斑铜矿和辉铜矿,而黄铁矿很少,总体上为黄铜矿>斑铜矿,黄铜矿》黄铁矿。在石英斑晶及各种脉系中识别出三个大类和十个亚类的流体包裹体。包裹体显微测温数据表明最高(达935℃、压力200MPa)的均一温度出现在石英斑晶中,这种由含不透明子矿物、简单多相、含硅酸盐子矿物、赤铁矿多相包裹体类型构成的具45%NaCleq盐度的多相包裹体可能代表本矿床最原始的成矿流体组成;这种成矿流体上升到3km左右、冷却到580℃左右发生沸腾,分离出超高盐度(60%～80%NaCl eq)流体包裹体和富气相包裹体,并导致大量磁铁矿的结晶和还原硫的释放,且伴随部分金属硫化物及部分金沉淀,形成早期的M、A型脉;随着温度的进一步降低和分离出的流体包裹体的聚集,在500℃～480℃之间、22～40MPa之间、深度约1.5km发生沸腾,大量释放出的硫与金属离子结合,导致了大量铜、金的沉淀,形成如B型脉等一系列脉系及浸染状的铜矿化。在450℃～400℃之间、压力20～32MPa之间、深度1.1km左右又发生了明显的沸腾事件,形成了如C型脉、S型等含铜脉系。在370℃～200℃之间、压力5～30MPa之间,包裹体以液相包裹体和多相包裹体为主,其盐度变化较大,可能是由于岩浆流体的稀释作用或少量大气降水参与循环所致,形成了D型脉及面状硅化。我们的研究结果揭示多不杂富金斑岩铜矿是主要由直接从岩浆熔体中出溶(600℃～950℃)的具高氧化性、(超)高盐度的富含成矿元素的岩浆流体形成的,是斑岩矿床系列中正岩浆端元的典型代表。     

LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dating from granitoids in southern basement of Songliao basin:Constraints on ages of the basin basement

Seven LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb datings from granitoids in the southern basement of the Songliao basin were done in order to constrain the ages of the basin basement. The cathodoluminescence (CL) images of the zircons from seven granitoids indicate that they are euhedral-subhedral ones with striped ab-sorption and obvious oscillatory zoning rims. The dating results show that a weighted mean 206Pb/238U age is 236±3 Ma for quartz diorite (sample No.T6-1) located in the western slope of the basin,that weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages are 319±1 Ma (2126 m) and 361±2 Ma (1994 m) for diorite (sample No.YC1-1) and granite (sample No.YC1-2) located in northern part of southeastern uplift of the basin,respectively,and that weighted mean 206Pb/238U ages are 161±5 Ma,165±2 Ma,165±1 Ma and 161±4 Ma for samples Q2-1,SN121,SN122,and SN72 granitoids located in southern part of southeastern uplift of the basin,respectively. The statistical results of ages suggest that the middle Jurassic granitoids con-stitute the main part of basement granitoids,and that the Hercynian and Indo-Sino magmatisms also occur in the basin basement. It is implied that the Songliao basin should be a rift one formed in the intracontinent or active continental margin settings in the late Mesozoic after the Middle Jurassic orogeny took place.     

Possible resetting of quartz OSL signals during earthquakes—Evidence from late Pleistocene injection dikes, Dead Sea basin, Israel

Clastic dikes are formed either by passive deposition of clastic material into pre-existing fissures (depositional dikes), or by fracturing and injection of clastics during earthquakes (injection dikes). We proposed to use optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to distinguish between the two modes of formation and hypothesized that (1) depositional dikes filled from above show OSL ages younger than the host rock; and (2) injection dikes filled from below show the same OSL ages as that of the host rock. We studied the mechanisms of clastic-dike formation and their ages within the seismically active Dead Sea basin, where hundreds of dikes crosscut the late Pleistocene (70–15 ka) lacustrine sediments of the Lisan Formation. Field observations and analysis of magnetic tensors show unequivocally that most of these dikes were emplaced by injection, inferred to be due to seismically triggered fluidization–liquefaction during earthquakes. Twenty-eight samples were collected from the Lisan source material and dikes that, based on field observations, are unmistakably either depositional dikes or injection dikes.

Quartz single aliquot OSL ages of the source Lisan layers are between 43 and 34 ka, and are typical for the Lisan Formation. The ages of both depositional and injection dikes are between 15 and 17 ka, younger than the Lisan host rock. Depositional dikes show a highly scattered distribution of single grain ages, suggesting several episodes of infill. Single grain ages of injection dikes are of latest Pleistocene to Holocene, and do not contain recently bleached grains that infiltrated from above. These results imply that the OSL signals were reset at the time of fluidization–liquefaction and buildup of fluid pressure within the injection dikes. If this resetting mechanism has a physical ground, then OSL dating is an important tool for constraining the ages of earthquake-induced injection dikes and recovering paleoseismic data from them.     

滇西莲花山富碱斑岩体LA ICP MS锆石U Pb年代学、地球化学特征及其地质意义

莲花山富碱斑岩体位于兰坪盆地东缘,是滇西富碱斑岩带的重要组成部分。该岩体主要由石英二长斑岩和角闪石英二长斑岩组成,对不同岩性中的锆石进行了LA ICP MS U Pb同位素测年,获得其形成年龄为(356±05)~(357±05) Ma,表明该岩体的形成时代为始新世。其K2O/Na2O比值为097~142、K2O+Na2O含量为886%~959%,显示高钾富碱的特征,属于钾玄岩系列岩石;岩体具有轻稀土元素富集、重稀土元素亏损的特征,显示弱的Eu负异常。利用锆石Ti温度计,获得岩体中岩浆锆石样品的结晶温度较低,介于594~788 ℃,说明该岩体岩浆源区的形成与俯冲－碰撞作用有关。样品中存在有少量年龄为1 177~68 Ma的继承锆石,Nb/U比值为131~473,表明莲花山岩体的源区是由洋壳俯冲作用形成的交代富集地幔,在其上侵过程中受到壳源物质不同程度的混染;岩体侵位于印度板块—欧亚板块陆－陆碰撞的挤压环境向后碰撞伸展环境转换的构造背景下。     

秘鲁南部Don Javier斑岩铜钼矿床岩石地球化学与岛弧成因

秘鲁南部古新世-始新世斑岩铜钼成矿带是安第斯成矿带的重要组成部分,产出有大量世界级斑岩铜钼矿床,最近勘探的Don Javier斑岩铜钼矿床是该成矿带中的又一重大发现。本文对Don Javier矿床的含矿斑岩、围岩的岩石学和地球化学进行了研究,以探讨岩石成因和矿床形成的构造环境。主量元素和微量元素地球化学特征表明：①含矿斑岩体属过铝质钙碱性系列英安斑岩,围岩为过铝质钙碱性系列的花岗闪长岩,且二者具有相同的物质来源;②两类岩石均具有轻稀土富集,富大离子亲石元素特征,在球粒陨石标准化稀土配分曲线图上呈明显的右倾型,左陡而右缓,且二者均显示Eu负异常,表明岩浆岩的成岩过程中有结晶分异作用或其他地质作用参与;③含矿斑岩体和围岩形成于岛弧环境,为经典岛弧岩石;④Don Javier铜钼矿床可能是在纳斯卡板块向南美板块俯冲,熔融形成的钙碱性岩浆、岩浆弧走滑挤压环境的有利条件下形成。