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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (05): 945-956.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.062

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Bimodal Mixing Model on the Dolomite Alteration Geochemistry in the Yangshudixia Gold Deposit in Huairou, Beijing

YAO Ning(), GONG Qingjie(), WANG Xuyang, CHAO Yuede, PENG Cheng, WU Yuan, LIU Ningqiang   

  1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2020-05-20 Revised:2020-08-20 Online:2020-10-28 Published:2020-10-29
  • Contact: GONG Qingjie

Abstract:

Altered rocks are important objects in the study of hydrothermal mineralization. The alteration belt is clear at the Yangshudixia gold deposit in the Huairou district of Beijing (China). A lateral surficial alteration profile on dolomite was selected to investigate the alteration geochemistry. Two dolomite samples were collected from each end of the profile, 2 altered samples with different alteration intensity were collected from the quartz vein in the profile, and 2 samples were collected from the quartz vein. Eleven major element oxides and 39 trace elements were analyzed on the 6 samples. The results indicate that the 2 dolomite and the 2 quartz vein samples have similar geochemical contents, while those of the 2 altered rocks are clearly different. Using the bimodal mixing model, two end-members of dolomite and quartz vein were first determined geochemically. Subsequently, the proportional function method and the plateau method were adopted to calculate the mixing ratios of the 2 altered samples based on the 11 major components. The calculation results show the technical defect of the proportional function method, in which the fitting results are much affected by the maximum value and the feasibility of the plateau method, and the median values were used to overcome the defect. According to the mixing ratios of the 2 altered samples calculated on 11 major components with the plateau method, the contents of other 39 trace elements were calculated on the bimodal mixing model for the 2 altered samples. Within the error of 0.3 log interval, the calculated values are similar to the analytical results. This indicates that the bimodal mixing model can well be used to explain the geochemical components of the altered dolomite at Yangshudixia. Our findings can help to reveal the formation mechanism of the dolomite alteration zone in the area.

Key words: Yangshudixia, Huairou, Beijing, gold deposit, quartz vein, proportional function method, plateau method

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