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Geoscience ›› 2024, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (01): 46-55.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2023.122

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Geochronology and Genesis of the Zhaobinggou Fe-P Deposit, Northern Hebei, China

WANG Yi1(), LI Lixing1(), LI Houmin1, LI Xiaosai1, MA Lanjing2, XING Yuliang2, SUN Xinyu3, DAI Yang3, WANG Xiaohui1   

  1. 1. MLR Key Laboratory of Metallogeny and Mineral Assessment, Institute of Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing 100037, China
    2. The Fifth Geological Brigade of Hebei Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Exploration and Development, Tangshan, Hebei 063002, China
    3. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2023-06-10 Revised:2023-11-11 Online:2024-02-10 Published:2024-03-20

Abstract:

In order to investigate the genesis of the iron-phosphorus (Fe-P) deposits hosted in the Archean metamorphic series in Northern Hebei-Western Liaoning, we carried out petrographic, geochronological, and geochemical studies on the typical Zhaobinggou deposit.Field observations show that the so-called “the banded Fe-P ore” is hosted as veins in the biotite-hornblende-plagioclase gneiss, and is characterized by the gneissic schistosity with cross-cutting Fe-P veins.The formation of the vein folds is associated with the post tectonic deformation.Zircons in the Fe-P-bearing biotite-hornblende-plagioclase gneiss are intergrown with the Fe-Ti oxides and apatite.Cathodoluminescence imaging of these zircon grains shows no or weak zoning or patchy texture, which is typical of mafic magmatic origin.Zircon U-Pb dating using LA-ICP-MS technique obtained a weighted average age at (282±3) Ma (MSWD=0.78), which constrains the Fe-P mineralization to be in the early Permian, rather than Neoarchean as supposed previously.Comprehensive comparison studies show that the geochemical characteristics and the ore-forming age of the Zhaobinggou Fe-P-bearing biotite-hornblende-plagioclase gneiss are similar to those of the regional mafic pyroxenite-hornblendite, which is considered as the parent rock of the Fe-P mineralization.The results indicate that the Zhaobinggou Fe-P deposit is associated with Phanerozoic Alaskan-type mafic-ultramafic magmatism along the Hongshila-Damiao fault zone, but not related to any metamorphism as reported previously.Further investigations are needed for revealing the genesis of other similar deposits.

Key words: Fe-P deposit, ore-forming age, ore genesis, Alaskan-type complex, North China Craton

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