The Rb-Sr isotopic dating of pyrite mineral from ore deposits can directly provide mineralization age. However, many geological factors may affect the Rb-Sr isotopic system,which baffles application of this method. Employing ultra-low procedural blank Rb-Sr method,we have dated pyrites separated from the No. 4 breccia pipe of the Qiyugou gold deposit,western Henan Province. Single grains of euhedral pyrite crystal with few microcracks yield an isochron age of 126 ± 11 Ma, which represents time of the main mineralization stage of the deposit. Pyrite grains of cataclastic type show nevertheless scattered Rb-Sr isotopic composition and no reasonable isochron can be defined. Crystal morphology and mineral inclusion studies reveal that Rb and Sr of pyrite mineral probably are preserved mainly in biotite, K-feldspar, and sericite mineral inclusions. The dating results likely suggest that cataclastic pyrite is not suitable for the Rb-Sr dating due to modification of the Rb-Sr isotopic system by later hydrothermal activity of fluid.
HAN YiGuiLI XiangHuiZHANG ShiHongZHANG YuanHouCHEN FuKun
对沙河湾岩体的主量元素、微量元素地球化学进行了研究,结果显示沙河湾岩体与附近同一时期的曹坪岩体,及南秦岭花岗岩带的米坝、光头山、张家坝等岩体的地球化学特征很相近。SiO_2为64.99%～69.69%,具有高的 Al_2O_3(14.53%～16.2%),富集轻稀土和大离子亲石元素,尤其是沙河湾岩体没有明显 Eu 的负异常,表现出与典型的板内奥长环斑花岗岩明显不同的微量元素地球化学特点。因此,它可能是一种造山带环斑花岗岩,而不是典型的奥长环斑花岗岩。沙河湾环斑花岗岩的年龄曾被看作秦岭造山带主造山过程结束、后造山陆内演化开始的证据。本文研究结果表明沙河湾岩体与曹坪和其它南秦岭同碰撞型花岗岩形成于相同的地质背景,所以不能以其环斑结构来限制秦岭造山带主造山过程结束时代,该岩体也很可能不是沿商丹断裂带的早期碰撞的产物。
The Yangtze Valley was one of the most important metallogenic regions during the Jurassic-Cretaceous period in East China, where more than 200 polymetallic Cu-Fe-Au, Mo, Zn, Pb, Ag deposits have been found. Trace elements were chemically analyzed and the relevant data were collected from literature for the Yanshanian (Mesozoic) igneous rocks which have close relationship with Cu-Au mineralization. Copper mineralization in the lower Yangtze Valley can be divided into three major types: skarn type, porphyry type and volcanic type. The porphyry type is of rare occurrence, such as the Shaxi porphyry copper deposit in the northern part of the lower Yangtze metallogenic valley. This paper focuses on the REE and trace element geochemistry of several Cu-Au deposits along the lower part of Yangtze metallogenic valley in Anhui. The results showed that there are differences in REE distribution for these four types of Cu-Au mineralization, which confine the sources of REE and trace elements as well as other mantle and transitional compatible elements. The results of both REE and trace element geochemical studies showed that these elements with different characteristics have different origins, probably representing different sources of Cu-Au deposits in the deep crust and upper mantle environments. The 40Ar/39Ar dating of one biotite sample gave an age of 131 Ma with a high level of confidence, which represents the age of formation of the Shaxi porphyrite intrusive with porphrytic Cu-Au mineralization, which is consistent with that of the majority of the adjacent acid intrusives with mass Cu-Au mineralization along the Yangtze metallogenic belt in the Yanshanian period (Mesozoic). This is the first attempt to use the high precision method to date the Shaxi porphyrite intrusive.
