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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (05): 874-886.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.05.02

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Characteristics and Significance of Skarn Minerals of Mengya’a Pb-Zn Deposit in Tibet

WU Qiumin1(), CHEN Cuihua1(), TU Zonglin2, ZHANG Yan1, SONG Zhijiao1, LAI Xiang1   

  1. 1. College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, Sichuan 610059, China
    2. No.403 Geological Party, Sichuan Bureau of Geology and Mineral Exploration and Development,Emei, Sichuan 614200, China
  • Received:2017-12-25 Revised:2018-05-31 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-11-04

Abstract:

Mengya’a lead-zinc deposit in Tibet is an important stratified or stratoid skarn deposit in the northern margin of Gangdise. Laigu Formation, the main ore-hosting strata, provides the main metallogenic material. The main skarn minerals consist mainly of wollastonite, pyroxene, garnet, hopfnerite, actinolite, epidote, chlorite etc.According to the association combination and replacement relationship of minerals, the authors infer that Mengya’a lead-zinc deposit experienced four stages, i.e., early-skarn stage, late-skarn stage, quartz-sulfide stage and carbonation stage. Combining with mineral hand specimens and microscopic observation and the electron microprobe analysis, the authors analyzed the mineralogical characteristics of garnet, pyroxene and wollastonite. The results of electron microprobe analysis show that Mengya’a lead-zinc deposit in Tibet belongs to calcareous skarn deposit; the composition of garnet and pyroxene changed greatly, which respectively were And59.9-94.72 Gro0-37.87(Pyr+Spe+Alm)0.87-6.78 and Di18.85-94.44 Hd3.39-70.58 Jo0.09-11.14; the mineral composition of wollastonite is Wo99.00-99.44Fs0.37-0.78En0.07-0.23. The garnets are mainly andradite-grossuthe, and the garnets always develop zoning structure. The pyroxene is diopside-hedenbergite series, and the wollastonite is pure. The skarn of Mengya’a deposit in Tibet is calcareous skarn. Its ore deposit experienced multi-stage and multi-order evolution of hydrothermal fluid during its formation, and the forming environment of the deposit also is not a stable close system. The mineral composition characteristics of skarn indicate that the metallogenic environment of Mengya’a Pb-Zn deposit was a low acid and oxidation-weak oxidation environment.

Key words: metallogenic environment, mineral characteristics of skarn, Mengya’a Pb-Zn deposit, Tibet

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