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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (01): 362-377.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.01.32

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Geochemical Characteristics and Prospecting Indication of Ore-bearing Rocks in the Hongtoushan Copper-zinc Deposit, Liaoning

WU Xiaolei1(), CHANG Jinyang1, ZENG Nanshi1, XU Wenjie1, TAO Mingrong1, ZHAO Gang2, HAN Jian2   

  1. 1. China Nonferrous Metal (Guilin) Geology and Mining Co., Ltd., Guilin, Guangxi 541004, China
    2. China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Fushun Hongtoushan Co.,Ltd.,Fushun, Liaoning 113321, China
  • Received:2021-03-31 Revised:2021-10-15 Online:2022-02-10 Published:2022-03-08

Abstract:

The Hongtoushan copper-zinc deposit, located in the Archean greenstone belt, is a massive sulfide deposit. The ore-bearing rocks are composed of hornblende plagiogneiss, hornblende (quartz) plagiogneiss, biotite plagiogneiss, biotite (quartz) plagiogneiss, and biotite quartz gneiss. It suggests that protoliths of these metamorphic rocks are volcanic rocks based on protolith restoration and discrimination of tectonic environment. Among them, protoliths of the hornblende plagiogneiss and hornblende (quartz) plagiogneiss are basic volcanic rocks, whereas protoliths of the biotite plagiogneiss, biotite (quartz) plagiogneiss, and biotite quartz gneiss are intermediate-acid volcanic rocks, together they were the products of the bimodal volcanics. In order to best reveal the possibility of geochemical parameters of the ore-bearing rocks as prospecting indicators, based on the major elements, rare earth elements and trace elements of the ore-bearing rocks, the authors found that the Cu (290.82 μg/g), SiO2 (57.24%), total rare earth elements (ΣREE) concentration (53.78 μg/g), and LREE/HREE ratio (4.29) of the hornblende (quartz) plagiogneiss, while the Cu (88.09 μg/g ) and SiO2 (70.50%) concentrations of the biotite (quartz) plagiogneiss and biotite quartz gneiss can be used as important prospecting indicators for the Hongtoushan copper-zinc deposit.

Key words: the Hongtoushan copper-zinc deposit, major, trace and rare earth elements, protolith restoration, tectonic environment, prospecting indicator

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