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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (03): 494-503.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.019

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Zircon U-Pb and Molybdenite Re-Os Ages and Geological Significance of the Chaganhua Molybdenum Deposit, Urad Rear Banner, Inner Mongolia

LI Guangyao1,2(), LI Zhidan1,2(), WANG Jiaying1,2, LI Xiaoguang1,2, LI Chao3, TU Jiarun1,2, XIE Yu1,2, DING Ning4   

  1. 1. Tianjin Center, China Geological Survey, Tianjin 300170, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Uranium Geology, China Geological Survey, Tianjin 300170, China
    3. National Research Center of Geoanalysis, Beijing 100037, China
    4. The First Monitoring and Application Center, China Earthquake Administration, Tianjin 300180, China
  • Received:2019-06-12 Revised:2019-12-30 Online:2020-07-04 Published:2020-07-05
  • Contact: LI Zhidan

Abstract:

The Chaganhua molybdenum (Mo) polymetallic deposit is a large concealed deposit in the Baoyintu magmatic arc of North China Craton. The Mo orebody is hosted within the exo-contact between the Permian granodiorite and the two-mica quartz schist of the Baoyintu Group. The orebodies are NW-trending, and occur as irregularly-thick layers, veins,or stockworks. The wall-rock alteration styles include potassic, greisen, and chlorite, consistent with the typical porphyry-type deposit. In this study, we separated and LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dated zircons from the Mo-mineralized granodiorite from Chaganhua. Our results yielded a weighted mean 206Pb/238U age of (257.2±1.3) Ma (n=32, MSWD=1.6),indicating that the Chaganhua granodiorite was formed in the Late Permian.In addition, molybdenite Re-Os dating yielded an isochron age of (238.6±4.4) Ma and a model age of (240.0±1.6) Ma (n=9, MSWD=0.27),which reveals that the Chaganhua Mo mineralization was the product of the Early Indosinian magmatism.Furthermore, the Re content of molybdenite ranges from 64 502×10-9 to 245 6 21×10-9, suggesting that the ore-forming material was sourced from a mixture of crust and mantle.

Key words: zircon U-Pb age, Re-Os dating, Chaganhua molybdenum deposit, Urad Rear Banner, Inner Mongolia

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