Mesozoic gold metallogenic system of the Jiaodong gold province,eastern China
Mesozoic gold metallogenic system of the Jiaodong gold province,eastern China
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Yang Li
Jiaodong Peninsula is the most important gold concentration area of China,more than 150 gold deposits within it have been found and the proven gold reserves add up to 4000 tons. The amount of gold deposits and gold resource are huge,gold occurrence and mineralization type vary with the widely distributed gold deposits,however,the metallogenic geodynamics background,ore-host rock environment,gold occurrence conditions and metallogenic characteristics are identical as a whole:( 1) Jiaodong area is an endogenic hydrothermal gold concentration area consisting of Precambrian base rocks and ultra-high pressure( UHP) metamorphic rocks,tectonism and magmatism happened frequently in Mesozoic,130 ~ 110 Ma gold metallogenic events occurred 2000 Myr or so later than the regional metamorphism;( 2) regional gold metallogenic system formed in the Early Cretaceous continental-margin extension tectonic background,large-scale gold metallogenic events happened in the process of regional NW extension changing to NE extension followed by the NEE compression,which corresponded to the lithosphere reduction in East China,North China craton destruction and the peak of continental rifting;( 3) gold deposits clustered around the NNE Linglong,Queshan and Kunyushan metamorphic core complexes,mainly along the regional NE-NNE detachment faults developing along the contact zone of Precambrian metamorphic rocks and Mesozoic granites;( 4) the ore-controlling fault belts went through the early ductile-brittle deformation and late brittle deformation structure superposition,extended in smooth-out waveforms in 3D space and controlled the lateral trending and subsection enrichment of gold orebodies;( 5) the mineralization types mainly include clastic altered( breccia) rock type,( sulfide-) quartz vein type and compound vein-belt type,textures like the crush texture,crystalline-granular texture,interstitial texture and structures like the disseminated structure,vein structure,massive structure,crumby structure are abundant in the ore rocks,which indicates the oreforming environment changed from ductile-brittle conditions to brittle conditions;( 6) metallic minerals mainly include pyrite,chalcopyrite,galena and sphalerite,non-metallic minerals mainly include quartz,sericite,potash-feldspar and calcite; gold minerals mainly include the electrum,natural gold and a small amount of kustelite,which mainly occur in the fractures of pyrites and quartz in the form of visible gold,lesser in crystal gap and as inclusions; hydrothermal alteration types mainly include pyritization,silicification,sericitization and carbonatation; ore-forming elements mainly consist of the Au-Ag(-Cu-Pb-Zn) assemblage; the alteration and mineralization assemblage mentioned above show the characterisics of mesothermal-epithermal assemblage;( 7) ore-forming fluids came from both the crust and mantle and are mainly the crust source metamorphic fluids; metallogenic materials derived from the Precambrian metamorphic basement rock mass which reactivated in the Mesozoic,mingling with a small amount of the shallow crustal and mantle components. The consistency of regional metallogenic characteristics indicate that the Early Cretaceous large-scale gold metallogenesis in Jiaodong gold concentration area is controlled by the uniform geological events,and the gold metallogenesis belongs to an epigeneticmesothermal-epithermal hydrothermal vein gold metallogenic system. These gold deposits have obvious characteristic of spatio-temporal cluster distribution and lie mainly along the contact zones of different lithofacies around three metamorphic core complexes. From west to east,the gold mineralization age changes from older to newer. Therefore,three gold subsystems can be divided,which are the altered rock-quartz vein type in Jiaobei Uplift,the sulfide-quartz vein type in Sulu UHP metamorphic belt and the altered breccia type in north margin of Jiaolai Basin. The mineralization style changes from disseminated-veinlet,veinlet-stockwork and quartz vein type,to sulfide-quartz vein type,to altered breccia type. The texture and structure of ores are characterized by veinlet-disseminated structure dominated,to band structure and comb structure,and then to breccia structure,indicating mineralization occurred respectively in brittle-ductile transformation zone( ca. 15 km deep),a brittle extension-shear fault zone,and a brittle breccia zone( ca. 5km deep).The decrease of the size and strength of alteration and mineralization,and the increase of shallow crustal components in metallogenic materials,may be related to the deposits' location which is more and more far away from the source area. The ore-forming P-T conditions gradually decreased and the meteoric water and / or basin brine ratio in the ore-forming fluid gradually increased,respectively,which corresponds to the shallower metallogenic depth and more and more extended trending mineralization tectonic environment. All the regional regular changes of metallogenic characteristics reflect a crustal continuum metallogenic in different vertical depth of crust,between the detachment fault ductile-brittle transition zone and the brittle breccia zone. Mesozoic gold metallogenic system of the Jiaodong gold province is distinct from typical"intrusion-related gold deposit","orogenic gold deposit"or other known gold deposit type around the globe,and can't be classified into the known metallogenic model. To reasonably explain the unique geodynamic background,environment of ore-host rock and mineralization characteristics,we put forward the new understanding of the"Jiaodong type"gold deposit and metallogenic model. We conclude that the rollback of ancient Pacific Izanagi subduction plate may be the main drive mechanism leading to large-scale revitalizing of the metallogenic materials in regional Precambrian metamorphic basement rock mass,and ore-forming fluids mainly came from metamorphic dehydration of the subducting plate. Gold is mainly in Au( HS)2-complex and transported along detachment fault system in ore fluids. The tectonic space increases sharply as well as the metallogenic temperature and pressure decreases suddenly around the brittle-ductile transformation zone of detachment fault system and brittle breccia zone. Therefore,CO2 and H2S lossing from the ore fluids and sulfidation leads to a stability decreasing of Au( HS)2-and other gold complexes,and subsequent large-scale gold precipitation.