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JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES
Volume 82, Issue -, Pages 103-114Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.12.017
Keywords
Intrusion-related gold deposit; Fluid inclusions; Metallogeny; Jinchang district; NE China
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- Natural Science Foundation of China [90914002, 41230311, 41030423]
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The Jinchang Cu-Au deposit is located in the easternmost part of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The mineralization here is associated with Cretaceous porphyritic intrusions of ca. 120-110 Ma and is mainly hosted within intensely altered Mesozoic granites, breccia pipes, ringed and radial faults. The gold ores are disseminated in the wall rock, and also occur as massive auriferous quartz-sulfide veins in fractures and breccias. Fluid inclusion data from breccias, chalcopyrite-quartz vein, and pyrite-quartz vein display homogenization temperatures in the range of 200 to >550 degrees C and the fluids show variable salinity in the range of 0-58 wt.% (NaCl equiv.). The halite absent fluid inclusions shows a slight increase in salinity with a sharp decrease in temperature. We interpret that the high-salinity brine and low salinity vapor-or aqueous-rich fluids from ores represent fluid unmixing from magma. The fluid inclusion data from Jinchang demonstrate that the main mineralization took place at temperatures from 480 degrees C to 200 degrees C, and evolved from high to low salinities. Geology and fluid inclusion data suggest that the Jinchang deposit is an oxidized intrusion-related Cu-Au deposit. The voluminous hydrothermal magnetite formed during high temperature potassic alteration of wall rocks in this ore deposit can be used as a potential prospecting tool. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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