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Geoscience ›› 2011, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (2): 261-270.

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Study on the Mineral Electron Microprobe Evidence of the Formation  Conditions and Fission Track of Gold Deposits in Ganzi-Litang Gold  Belt, Western Sichuan Province

HUAN WEI -Jing,YUAN  Wango-Ming,LI  Na   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing100083, China
  • Online:2011-04-25 Published:2011-05-13

Abstract:

Ganzi-Litang gold belt is located in the Eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the junction area of Songpan-Ganzi orogenic zones and Yidun arc orogen. The authors attempt to explore the ore-formating temperature, depth and environments of the five gold deposits, i.e. Gala gold ore district, Cuo-a gold ore district, Xionglongxi gold ore district, Ajialongwa gold ore district and Qukailongwa gold ore district, using electron microprobe analysis of the main goldbearing minerals of pyrite and arsenopyrite. The mineralizing age is discussed based on the fission track age of zircon in the ore. The pyrites are characteried by lossing sulfur content and generally containing cobalt and nickel,in which the content of cobalt is from 0.04% to 1.73%, and that of nickel is from 0.01% to 2.97%. The mean content of cobalt is 0.43%, and the composition ratios of Co/Ni range from 0.08 to 10.04 with an average of 2.28. The pyrites have the composition ratios of Fe/(S+As) between 0.841 and 0.907, averaging 0.875. Arsenopyrite belongs to arsenicrich sulfur type, the ratio of Fe/(As+S) is from 0.49 to 0.57 while that of As/S is from 0.73 to 0.87.Therefore, we consider that the gold deposits formed in the condition of higher oxygen fugacity, middle-shallow depths and middle-low temperature hydrotherm of 165-250℃. They are the epithermal gold deposits, and the mineralizing age of gold is between 82 and 140 Ma with a multi-stage characteristics, and the oremineralization was closely related to the alkaline magmatic hydrotherm in Yanshanian Period.

Key words: electron microprobe analysis, fission track, epithermal gold deposit, GanziLitang gold belt, Tibet Plateau

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