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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (04): 757-767.

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Study on Geochemical Characteristics and Genesis of Calcite Deposit from Ziyun County, Guizhou Province, China

CAO Zhengduan(), YANG Ruidong(), GAO Junbo, CHEN Jun, ZHANG Wei, SHEN Minglian, ZHANG Xu, LI Ji   

  1. College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025,China
  • Received:2016-09-04 Revised:2016-11-06 Online:2017-08-10 Published:2017-09-15

Abstract:

The Ziyun calcite deposit is a newly discovered non-metallic deposit in southwest of Guizhou Pro-vince. Orebodies are veined, lenticulared or stratoid in form and are hosted in the carbonate rocks and are found to have been developed in the faults. Calcite is the dominant mineral.The ores revealed a variety of hydrothermal structural characteristics. Ore samples were collected from Huoshanguan, Daze, etc. at Ziyun County and were tested for the isotope geochemistry, trace and rare earth element contents. The carbon and oxygen isotope geochemistry indicate that metallogenetic material came from marine carbonate rocks. Ore-forming fluids are dominated by $\mathrm{HCO}_{3}{ }^{-}$, and thus a great amount of precipitation is added in the following mineralization, which has not a close relationship with magma. In contrast to the surrounding rocks, the Daze ore block has obvious characteristics by analysis of different REE distribution patterns, Eu positive anomalies and high content of Sr, Zn and Ni. This indicates that the ore-forming fluid was probably from deep source evolved in the process of mineralization of the Daze ore block. Both the orebodies and the surrounding rocks have similar REE distribution pattern and regularity variation of ∑REE in the Huoshanguan, Dalao and other ore blocks, which shows that the metallogenetic material may come from carbonate rocks. Compared with the regional mineralization, metallogenetic epoch of the calcite deposit could be Indo-Yanshanian.

Key words: geochemical characteristic, carbon and oxygen isotope, calcite deposit, Ziyun County, Guizhou Province

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