Zircon U-Pb and Pyrite Re-Os Isotope Geochemistry of 'Skarn-Type' Fe-Cu Mineralization at the Shuikoushan Polymetallic Deposit, South China: |
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Implications for an Early Cretaceous Mineralization Event in the Nanling Range |
The Shuikoushan deposit is an economic 'skarn-type' polymetallic Pb-Zn deposit in South China. The deposit is located at the southern margin of the Hengyang basin in the northern part of the Nanling Range. Recently, economic Fe-Cu mineralization that occurs spatially connected to skarns along the contact zone between the granodiorite and limestones was discovered in the lower part of this deposit. Detailed zircon U-Pb geochronological data indicate that the granodiorite was emplaced at 153.7 +/- 0.58 Ma (Mean Square of Weighted Deviates (MSWD) = 2.4). However, the pyrite Re-Os isochron age reveals that Fe-Cu mineralization formed at 140 +/- 11 Ma (MSWD) = 8.1), which post-dates the emplacement of the granodiorite, as well as the previously determined timing of Pb-Zn mineralization (157.8 +/- 1.4 Ma) in this deposit. Considering that Fe-Cu mineralization was connected with the contact zone and also faults, and that sulfide minerals commonly occur together with quartz and calcite veins that crosscut skarns, we interpret this mineralization type as being related to injection of post-magmatic hydrothermal fluids. The timing of Fe-Cu mineralization (140 +/- 11 Ma) is inconsistent with a long-held viewpoint that the time interval of 145 to 130 Ma (e.g., Early Cretaceous) in the Nanling Range is a period of magmatic quiescence with insignificant mineralization, the age of 140 Ma may represent a new mineralization event in the Nanling Range.
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MINERALS Volume: 11 Issue: 5 Article Number: 480 DOI: 10.3390/min11050480 Published: MAY 2021 |
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Li, Shengbin; Cao, Yonghua; Song, Zeyou; Xiao, Dan |
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CAO Yonghua yonghuacao@gig.ac.cn -Cent South Univ, Sch Geosci & Infophys, Key Lab Metallogen Predict Nonferrous Met & Geol, Minist Educ, Changsha 410083, Peoples R China. -Chinese Acad Sci, Guangzhou Inst Geochem, Key Lab Mineral & Metallogeny, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China. SONG Zeyou songzeyou@126.com -Ctr Nat Resources Affairs Hunan Prov, Key Lab Hunan Prov Remote Sensing Monitoring Ecol, Changsha 410114, Peoples R China. -Hunan Land & Resources Planning Inst, Hunan Key Lab Land Resources Evaluat & Utilizat, Changsha 410007, Peoples R China. |
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