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Geoscience ›› 2010, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (5): 870-879.

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Thermoelectric and Thermal Decrepitation Characteristics of Pyrites from Jiapigou Gold Ore Belt, Jilin Province

 ZHANG  Yu, YUAN  Wan-Ming, WANG  Qing-Fei, LIU  Xiang-Wei, MA  Nan, ZHAO  Kai   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing100083, China
  • Online:2010-09-24 Published:2012-03-28

Abstract:

According to the thermoelectric and thermal decrepitation characteristics of pyrites, the main gold-bearing minerals in the Jiapigou gold ore belt, this article determins the main metallogenic epoch as well as the mineralization types of each epoch and discusses the possibility of prospecting to the deep. Pyrites are mainly electric conductivity Ntype, with only a few hole-core P-type. Thermoelectric coefficient of N-type counts from -347.3 to -6.2 μV·℃-1, and that of P-type from 17.4 to 193.5 μV·℃-1; mineralizing temperature centers on 258.8 to 319.2 ℃; denudation rate lies between 50.260% and 50.485%. Decrepitation curves reflect that the mineralization of medium-low temperature (<280 ℃) is poorer than that of high temperature (>290 ℃). The comprehensive research shows that the mineralization of Jiapigou gold ore belt includes the early high-temperature epoch (-120 μV·℃-1 of thermoelectric coefficient and 320 ℃ of mineralizing temperature) and the late medium-low-temperature-epoch (-210 μV·℃-1 of thermoelectric coefficient and 270 ℃ of mineralizing temperature). The former includes both quartz vein-type and alteration mineralizations, developing both where orebody trends parallel and intersect with the main Jiapigou fault. The later comprises of quartz vein-type mineralization, superposites on the former and occurs just where the orebody trend intersects with the main Jiapigou fault. The high-temperature hydrothermal mineralization epoch is the main one. However, mineralization of multi-stage superposition is enhanced.

Key words: Jiapigou gold ore belt, pyrite, thermoelectricity, decrepitation curve, metallogenic epoch

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