~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar Dating and Its Significance of the Ertix Gold Metallogenic Belt in the Altay Orogen, Xinjiang
~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar Dating and Its Significance of the Ertix Gold Metallogenic Belt in the Altay Orogen, Xinjiang
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2004
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Yan Shenghao
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Yan Shenghao
The Ertix shear zone is currently one of the most important gold metallogenic belts in the Paleozoic Altay Orogen, but there remain disputes both in genesis and geodynamic setting of the mineralization. Through field investigations and isotope chronological studies of two typical gold deposits (e.g. Duolanasayi and Saidu) in the Ma'erkakuli shear zone northwest of the Ertix belt, the authors obtained a group of Ar/Ar chronological data of altered auriferous rocks, i.e., a plateau age of 292.8±1.0 Ma and isochronal age of 293.13±4.84 Ma for muscovite from the Duolanasayi deposit, and a plateau age of 289.2±3.1 Ma and isochronal age of 291.93±8.37 Ma for muscovite from the Saidu deposit, suggesting that the ductile-brittle shearing of the Ertix belt and shear zone-hosted gold deposits were chiefly formed at the time around 290 Ma. These chronological data together with regional geology show that the ore-controlling shear zone experienced a structural evolution from ductile deformation in the deeper tectonic domain to brittle deformation in the shallower tectonic domain, and was coupled with two magmatic events, and the gold-forming process mainly occurred during the post-collisional extensional environment of the Altay Orogen and genetically related to the late stage of the tectono-magmatism.