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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (01): 244-257.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.01.25

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Fluid Evolution and Mineralization Mechanism of Dongchuan Copper Deposit in Yunnan Province

ZENG Ruiyin1,2,3(), JIANG Hua1,4, ZHU Xinyou2(), ZHANG Xiong2, XIAO Jian2,5, LÜ Xiaoqiang2, HU Chuan4, YANG Xiaokun4, LI Jinlin6, ZHEN Zheguang6   

  1. 1. Faculty of Land Resource Engineering,Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, Yunnan 650093, China
    2. Beijing Institute of Geology for Mineral Resources, Beijing 100012, China
    3. Sinotech Minerals Exploration Co.,Ltd., Beijing 100012, China
    4. Yunnan Copper Co.,Ltd., Kunming, Yunnan 650051, China
    5. School of Earth Sciences and Resources,China University of Geosciences,Beijing 100083, China
    6. Yunnan Copper Mining Resources Exploration and Develepment Co.,Ltd., Kunming, Yunnan 650051, China
  • Received:2020-05-05 Revised:2020-07-15 Online:2021-02-12 Published:2021-03-12
  • Contact: ZHU Xinyou

Abstract:

Dongchuan copper deposit is important sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits (SSC) in China, which has remarkable multilayered metallogenic characteristics and typical copper sulfide zoning. In this study, the fluid inclusions of copper ore from different layers were analyzed by microthermometry and laser Raman spectrum. The results show that: two types of inclusions are distinguished in the copper ores of Dongchuan Group, which are the light-colored and the dark-colored inclusions. The composition of light-colored inclusions is dominated by H2O, riching in halite, a small amount of sylvite, and anhydrite crystals, which represents oxidized ore-bearing brine, coming from dissolution of marine evaporate and formation water between strata.Microthermometry analysis shows that the ore-forming brine has the characteristics of low-medium temperature (140-300 ℃), middle-high salinity (12%-44%), and belongs to Na +-K +-Ca 2--Cl -(SO4 2-) basin brine. The dark-colored organic inclusion represents reduced fluid, which comes from the carbonaceous slate of Heishan Formation and the algal organism decomposed Luoxue Formation. Dongchuan copper deposit took the stromatolite-rich sandstone dolomite of Luoxue Formation as the precipitation system, and the carbonaceous slate of Heishan Formation as the barrier layer, forming a fluid closed physicochemical trap. The oxidized ore-bearing brine was transported to the reductive precipitation system through the supply system, and mixed with the reduced fluid and the organic-bearing stratum, and formed the sediment-hosted stratiform and veined copper orebodies.

Key words: Dongchuan copper deposit, fluid inclusion, oxidized ore-bearing brine, reductive fluid, multilayer copper orebody

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