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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (02): 466-476.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.038

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Zircon U-Pb Age of Granitoids from the Mamu Pb-Zn Skarn Mineralized Area in Western Gangdese and Its Geological Significance

LIU Chang1(), YANG Zhusen2(), XU Peiyan1, ZHAO Xiaoyan2, XIA Wenjie1, YANG Xiaoxu1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083,China
    2. Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037,China
  • Received:2021-01-06 Revised:2021-03-01 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-05-25
  • Contact: YANG Zhusen

Abstract:

The Mamu area in Gakyi, Tibet,China is a Pb-Zn skarn mineralized zone discovered in recent years. The area is located on the southern margin of the western central Gangdese metallogenic belt (or the central Lhasa terrane). Mineralization occurred in the contact zone between granite porphyry and limestone. Metallic minerals include galena, sphalerite, magnetite, specularite, and pyrite, whilst non-metallic ones include garnet, diopside, rhodonite, actinolite, epidote, quartz, feldspar, and calcite. Alteration styles include silicic, argillic, marl, and chlorite. The mineralization is hosted in the Jiega Formation (Fm.) limestone. To obtain geochronological constraints on the magmatism and mineralization, the granite porphyry is LA-ICP-MS zircon U-Pb dated to be (117.6±0.4) Ma, which shows that ore-causative porphyry was emplaced in the Early Cretaceous. The age of crystal lithic tuff is (119.7±0.5) Ma, and the tuff should thus belong to the Zenong Group (J3K1Z) instead of the Dianzhong Formation (E1d) in the 1∶250,000 Yagra Geologic Map Sheet. The study area experienced intense medium-felsic volcanism and plutonism in the Early Cretaceous. Combined with previous studies, the deep geodynamic background was mainly controlled by the south-dipping subduction of the Bangong-Nujiang Suture Zone. As an Early Cretaceous Pb-Zn mineralization event, the Mamu Pb-Zn prospect is of great significance to supplement the study of regional Pb-Zn mineralization and to improve our understanding on multi-phase Pb-Zn metallogenic events.

Key words: zircon U-Pb age, Early Cretaceous magmatism, Pb-Zn mineralization, western Gangdese metallogenic belt

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