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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (04): 1146-1154.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.04.17

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Age-dating of Sulfide Re-Os in Quartz Vein-type Copper Deposits in Longwei Area, Guangxi and Its Significance

FU Song1,2(), LI Shehong1(), MA Wenen3, JIANG Chao1, XIE Zhuolin1, WU Jinming1, HU Xuhan1, ZHANG Zitong1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences, Guilin University of Technology,Guilin,Guangxi 541004,China
    2. College of Earth Sciences & Engineering,Shandong University of Science and Technology,Qingdao,Shandong 266590,China
    3. Guangxi Zhuang Autonnmous Region Geophysical Survey Institute,Liuzhou,Guangxi 545005,China
  • Received:2021-07-07 Revised:2021-09-15 Online:2022-08-10 Published:2022-09-09
  • Contact: LI Shehong

Abstract:

There are a large number of quartz vein-type copper deposits exposed in northwest Dayaoshan, Guang- xi,but there is a lack of research on the age of related mineral deposits. To solve this problem, the paper selects pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz vein-type copper deposits in Jinxiu Longwei area for Re-Os isotopic age-dating research. It is concluded that the isochron age of pyrite is (417±25) Ma (MSWD=0.92), which belongs to Caledonian period; the isochron age of chalcopyrite is (243±18) Ma (MSWD=0.45), which belongs to Indosinian period. Pyrite crystallization is obviously earlier than chalcopyrite, and whether there are metallogenic events in Caledonian period needs further study. In combination with rock mineralogical analysis, we think that the mineralization in the copper deposits in Longwei area experienced the processes of pyrite crystallization, pyrite fragmentation and copper-bearing hydrothermal solution filling and metasomatism in Indosinian period, and finally consolidated into mine. The metallogenic time of copper deposits in Longwei area was determined in the research, which provided evidence for the existence of metallogenic hydrothermal event in Indosinian period in the northwest of Dayaoshan.

Key words: Longwei area, quartz vein-type copper deposits, Re-Os dating, Guangxi

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