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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (01): 378-388.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.01.33

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Geological Characteristics and Genesis of the Xinjiazui Gold Deposit in Back-Longmenshan Orogenic Belt

LIU Ji(), YANG Ke, ZHANG Xiaoxing, KOU Shaolei, YANG Wei, WANG Zhanbin, TIAN Yuan   

  1. Xi’an Center of Mineral Resources Survey, China Geological Survey,Xi’an, Shaanxi 710100, China
  • Received:2021-04-14 Revised:2021-07-05 Online:2022-02-10 Published:2022-03-08

Abstract:

The Xinjiazui gold deposit is located in the north-eastern section of Back-Longmenshan orogenic belt. This deposit (annual gold resources of about 960 kg) is newly discovered by the Xi’an Center of Mineral Resources Survey in 2020, and shows huge resource potential. Based on detailed study of outcrops, exploration trench, drillhole logging and microscope observation, it is found that the mineralization of primary ores in the Xinjiazui gold deposit is dominated by quartz-vein-type gold ore. In addition, gold is mainly hosted by pyrite, quartz and a small amount of polymetallic sulfides and occurs as fracture gold or gold inclusions. Combining with the crosscutting relationship of veins, the characteristics of mineral paragenetic association and typical ore fabric, mineralization of the Xinjiazui gold deposit can be divided into hydrothermal mineralization epoch and supergene oxidation epoch. The hydrothermal metallogenic epoch is the main ore event, and can be subdivided into three stages: Ⅰ.quartz-pyrite stage, Ⅱ.quartz-calcite-natural gold polymetallic sulfide stage, and Ⅲ.quartz-carbonate stage. Moreover, the Xinjiazui gold deposit is developed in Yanzibian-Huashigou brittle-ductile shear zone, the ore production is strictly controlled by the shear zone, and high-grade gold ore is developed only in the position with strong ductile deformation and brittle fracture. Therefore, the Xinjjiazui gold deposit is a brittle-ductile shear zone type gold deposit.

Key words: geological features of deposit, metallogenic stage, structural control of ore-body, the Xinjiazui gold deposit, Back-Longmenshan orogenic belt

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