Genesis of the Mandongshan gold deposit (Xinjiang, NW China): T-P-fS(2) and phase equilibria constraints from the Au-As-Fe-S system
Genesis of the Mandongshan gold deposit (Xinjiang, NW China): T-P-fS(2) and phase equilibria constraints from the Au-As-Fe-S system
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满东山金矿床(中国西北部新疆)的成因:T-P-fS(2) 和 Au-As-Fe-S 体系的相平衡约束
DOI:
10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.11.032
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Zhu Yongfeng
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作者:
Zhang Huichao;Zhu Yongfeng
The Mandongshan gold deposit, located in the west Junggar (Xinjiang, China), is hosted in Early Carboniferous basalt and tuff. Ore bodies mainly consist of gold-bearing hydrothermal veins, mineralized basalt and tuff with disseminated sulfides. Hydrothermal process could be identified based on ore petrographic studies: quartz-albite-sulfide-native gold (stage I), arsenopyrite-calcite-native gold (II), and pyrite-calcite (III). Microthermometric and laser Raman spectroscopic analysis of fluid inclusions in quartz demonstrate the ore-forming fluid at stage I was moderate temperature (360–398 °C), low-salinity (0.5–5.1 wt% NaCl equiv), and H2O-CH4-dominant, which evolved to low-salinity (0.2–1.2 wt% NaCl equiv) with insignificant content of CH4at 219–267 °C (stage III). Contents of ore elements (As, Au, Cu, Sb, Ba, Cs, Rb) in mineralized basalt are higher than those in fresh basalt. Phase analysis for the Au-As-Fe-S system using SUPCRT92 software package with the updated database of slop98.dat indicates that a decrease of H2S activity and oxygen fugacity, caused by phase separation and fluid-rock reactions, induced native gold precipitation at stage I. The decrease of H2S activity triggered by arsenopyrite crystallization caused native gold deposition at stage II.