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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (06): 1275-1285.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.06.13

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Geochemistry and Their Implications for Mineralization of Disuga Indosinian Porphyry in Zhongdian, Yunnan, China

PAN Yanning1, DONG Guochen2(), LI Xuefeng2, WANG Peng2, SUN Zhuanrong2, DONG Pengsheng2, LI Huawei2   

  1. 1. College of Geology and Environment, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710054, China
    2. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences,Beijing 100083,China
  • Received:2019-04-15 Revised:2019-09-28 Online:2019-12-26 Published:2019-12-27
  • Contact: DONG Guochen

Abstract:

Disuga Indosinian porphyry, proved as quartz diorite porphyry, is located at the north of the eastern-porphyry belt in Zhongdian island arc. Influenced by subduction of the Ganzi-Litang Ocean, both porphyries from Disuga and Pulang super-large porphyry copper deposit, are products of the same magmatic activity in the late subduction. Studies on major element compositions show that Disuga quartz diorite porphyries contain normal SiO2 but high Al2O3 and alkali (K2O +Na2O) contents. The porphyries are also enriched in large ion lithophile elements (LILEs) and depleted in high field strength elements (HFSEs).Light and heavy rare earth elements are highly fractionated in these porphyries,and they are enriched in LREEs but depleted in HREEs.Compared with 38 chemical data of Pulang ore-bearing quartz diorite porphyries, Disuga quartz diorite porphyries have lower SiO2 and Y, higher ∑REE and (La/Yb)N ratio, but similar MnO and Al2O3/(CaO+Na2O+K2O) ratio. In diagrams of SiO2-Al2O3/(CaO+Na2O+K2O) and Y-MnO for ore-bearing and baron porphyries, Disuga porphyries data were ploted in the same area as Pulang. In addition, Disuga porphyries have obvious anomalies of geophysical survey, geochemical prospecting and remote sensing images, which can serve as mineralized indicators. The local denudation predicted was less than the porphyry emplacement in depth, which was more favorable to the ore preservation. The above results indicate that Disuga porphyry intrusion has the potential to hold a certain large scale porphyry copper deposit.

Key words: Disuga, Zhongdian, porphyry copper deposit, Pulang, geochemistry, ore-bearing and baron porphyries

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