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Geoscience ›› 2020, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (03): 588-597.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.03.15

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Sulfur and Lead Isotopic Compositions of Habilig Uranium Deposit in Northern Margin of North China Block: Implication for Uranium Mineralization

HUANG Zhixin1(), LI Ziying1, CAI Yuqi1, ZHU Bin1, REN Quan2   

  1. 1. Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology, CNNC, Beijing 100029, China
    2. Nuclear Industry Brigade 208, Baotou, Inner Mongolia 014010, China
  • Received:2019-08-26 Revised:2019-10-25 Online:2020-07-04 Published:2020-07-05

Abstract:

Habilig uranium deposit is located in the middle part of northern margin of North China Block, which is mainly controlled by the Ulanhada-Houershan anticline and regional faults. Uranium mineralization occurs mainly in quartzite of the second member of the Wulashan Group in the Neoarchaean, and has long been consi-dered to be a metamorphic uranium deposit. Based on the study of the geological setting and mineralization cha-racteristics of the deposit, the sulfur and lead isotope compositions of pyrite in ores and surrounding rocks are systematically analyzed. The analysis results show that the sulfur isotope value varies from -4.7‰ to 12.9‰, suggesting that source of ore-forming fluids are mainly from magmatic hydrothermal fluids and are contaminated by stratigraphic materials as well. Lead isotope composition (208Pb/204Pb=36.147-42.968, 207Pb/204Pb=15.919- 34.268, 206Pb/204Pb=19.488-168.032) is much higher than that of single-stage evolution model. 207Pb/204Pb-206Pb/204Pb in different samples have a good linear relationship and represent a typical two-stage lead isotope evolution system, indicating that metamorphic strata provide uranium source for ore-forming fluid. Based on 207Pb/206Pb equation and history of regional magmatic evolution, it is considered that uranium was preliminarily enriched in the Wulashan Group because of the regional metamorphism in Paleoproterozoic (~1 805 Ma). In Late Paleozoic (374 Ma), a large amount of magmatic fluids generated from granodiorite magma, which have activated and extracted uranium from metamorphic strata and contributed to mineralization in favorable structure.

Key words: sulfur isotope, lead isotope, uranium mineralization, Habilig uranium deposit, northern margin of North China Block

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