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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (02): 246-257.

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Petrologic and Geochemical Characteristics of Carbonatites in Huayangchuan U-Nb-Pb Deposit, Shaanxi Province

HUI Xiaochao1,2(), CAI Yuqi1,2, HE Sheng1,2, FENG Zhangsheng3   

  1. 1. Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology,Beijing 100029,China
    2. Key Laboratory of Uranium Resources Exploration and Evaluation Technology, CNNC,Beijing 100029,China
    3. No.224 Geologic Party,Nuclear Industry of Shaanxi Province,Xi’an, Shaanxi 710024,China
  • Received:2015-11-06 Revised:2016-05-19 Online:2017-04-10 Published:2017-04-25

Abstract:

The Huayangchuan U-Nb-Pb deposit is a unique metallogenic type in the Xiaoqinling mineralization belt. The broken belt of carbonatite vein is important ore-forming space. The minerals in unmineralized carbonatites are mainly calcite, and there are few other minerals. Uranium mineralized carbonatites include a variety of minerals, major minerals of which are calcite; and minor minerals of which are amphibole, biotite,sphene,allanite,batafite,barite,apatite,quartz,magnetite,alkali feldspar. Carbonatites are characterized by high REE contents, whose δ13CV-PDB and δ18OV-SMOW values show the typical characteristics of igneous carbonatite. Based on the diagrams showing 87Sr/86Sr vs. 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb vs. 206Pb/204Pb and 143Nd/144Nd vs. 87Sr/86Sr of carbonatite veins, the authors consider that these carbonatite veins are crystal-fractionational products of alkaline silicate-carbonate melt-solution originated from the EMI.

Key words: carbonate vein, petrology, REE, isotopic geochemistry, Huayangchuan U-Nb-Pb deposit, Shaanxi Province

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