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Geoscience ›› 2025, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (03): 570-587.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2024.136

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Magnetite and Pyrite Thermal Resistance Characteristics and Their Implications for Prospecting: Taking Bayan Obo Iron Mining Area and Anhui Huangtun Copper-gold Mining Area as Examples

ZHANG Jingyuan1,2(), SHEN Junfeng1,*(), ZHAO Yongjian3, YANG Yongqiang1, WANG Zhaojing4, CHEN Qiang5, QING Min6, HU Kai2, CHEN Man6, WANG Haoyang1, LIN Hao1, TANG Nanyu1, ZHENG Xindong1   

  1. 1. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
    2. Huabei Oilfield Company, CNPC, Renqiu, Hebei 062552, China
    3. Anhui Jinding Mining Corporation, Ltd., Hefei, Anhui 231551, China
    4. Minging Research Institute of Baotou Steel(Group)Corporation, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 014010, China
    5. Beijing Zhongyu Shenzhou Data Technology Corporation, LTD, Beijing 100043, China
    6. Biyou Exploration (Beijing) Resources Exploration Corporation, LTD, Beijing 100101, China
  • Online:2025-06-10 Published:2025-07-03
  • Contact: SHEN Junfeng

Abstract:

Magnetite and pyrite are typical minerals that exist widely in metal deposits, and their resistance properties, especially at constant activation temperature, are rarely studied in ore prospecting. The resistivity of magnetite and pyrite in Bayan Obo iron mining area of Inner Mongolia and Huangtun copper-gold mining area of Anhui was measured by BHMR-08 variable temperature thermal resistance meter. The results show that there is a low resistivity area of magnetite related to metal sulfides in the eastern depth of Bayan Obo iron mine area. The resistivity of magnetite in this area is mostly less than 9×10-4 Ω·m, and it is mainly magmatic origin magnetite. Combined with previous studies, it is believed that there may be a magmatic channel in this area, which is a magmatic magnetite rich area and has great prospecting potential in the deep. The resistivity difference between the pyrite in the breccia pipe and the pyrite outside the breccia pipe is obvious in Huangtun copper-gold deposit area of Anhui Province. Among them, the resistivity value of pyrite in the breccia pipe is relatively large and the distribution range is wide, and the highest value can reach 20-40 Ω·m. The resistivity of pyrite outside the breccia tube is relatively small and the distribution range is narrow, mostly less than 10 Ω·m. Therefore, the resistivity value of pyrite is an important physical typomorphic characteristic to distinguish pyrite inside and outside breccia pipe effectively, which plays a certain role in the search for gold deposits.

Key words: thermal resistance characteristics, magnetite, pyrite, Bayan Obo deposit, Anhui Huangtun copper-gold deposit

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