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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (06): 1095-1113.

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U-Pb Zircon, Geochemical and Hf Isotopic Constraints on Origin of the Bayandulan Copper Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China

YU Chao1(), LIU Zhenjiang1(), MI Kuifeng1, WANG Changbo2, ZHANG Jie2, WANG Jianping1, LIU Jiajun1, ZHANG Mei3   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
    2. Xilingol League Tongren Mining Co., Ltd, Xilinhot, Inner Mongolia 026000, China
    3. Institute of Geological Survey of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 010020, China
  • Received:2017-03-15 Revised:2017-07-07 Online:2017-12-10 Published:2017-12-25

Abstract:

The Bayandulan high-mesothermal vein-type copper deposit is a newly discovered deposit in the Erenhot-East Ujimqin Banner metallogenic belt. In this paper, the authors present the new results of zircon laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) U-Pb dating, rock geochemistry and in-situ Hf isotopic analyses of biotite monzogranite from the deposit. These data provide insights into the timing as well as the mineralization of the Bayandulan deposit. The LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating yields the crystallization ages of (300.2±2.2) Ma and (300.0±2.0) Ma for biotite monzogranite. The rock geochemistry of the granite is rich in Si, high potassium calc-alkali, weakly peraluminous, together with highly enriched the light rare earth element (LREE), Rb, K and other large-ion lithophile element (LILE), depleted Sr, Nb, Ta and other high field-strength element (HFSE). The granite has high positive εHf(t) values of 6.1-10.7 and two-stage model ages (TDM2) of 632-924 Ma, which reveals that granites are mainly derived from the partial melting of young accreted lower crust converted from the subduction of oceanic crust. Based on these analytical results, we inferred that the tectonic setting of the Bayandulan deposit has been entered into the post-orogenic stage and gradually turned to widely extension setting, since the Hegenshan back-arc basin closed between Late Carboniferous and Early Permian. During this period, the lithosphere delamination effect after collision and the upwelling of the mantle material under tension mechanism made young accreted lower crust reactivation, then acidic magma mixed with mantle source material, the emplacement of the magma brought sufficient metal elements and hydrothermal fluids, which in the end formed the Bayandulan copper deposit.

Key words: Bayandulan copper deposit, zircon U-Pb geochronology, Hf isotope, post-collisional setting, Erenhot-East Ujimqin Banner metallogenic belt, Inner Mongolia

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