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Martin J. Gole 《Mineralium Deposita》2014,49(7):821-842
Komatiite-hosted disseminated Ni sulphide deposits in the Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt occur both above and below the olivine isograd that was imposed on the greenstone sequence during the M2 metamorphic/deformation event. Deposits in the northern and central part of the belt and that are located below the isograd (Mount Keith, Honeymoon Well and West Jordan) have complex sulphide mineralogy and strongly zoned sulphide assemblages. These range from least-altered assemblages of pentlandite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite±pyrite to altered assemblages of pentlandite±chalcopyrite, pentlandite-heazlewoodite (or millerite), heazlewoodite (or millerite), and rarely to heazlewoodite-native Ni. Deposits to the south and that are above of the olivine isograd (Six Mile, Goliath North) are dominated by less complex magmatic assemblages with a lower proportion of weakly altered pentlandite±chalcopyrite assemblages. More altered assemblages are uncommon in these deposits and occur as isolated patches around the periphery of the deposits. The sulphide zonation is reflected by whole-rock reductions in S, Cu, Fe and Zn, whereas Ni, Pt and Pd and, with some exceptions, Co are conservative. The leaching of S, Cu, Fe and Zn from sulphide assemblages and the whole rock was initiated by highly reduced conditions that were produced during low fluid/rock ratio serpentinization. Consumption of H2O resulted in Cl, a component of the fluid, being concentrated sufficiently to stabilise iowaite as part of lizardite-rich assemblages. Once the rate of olivine hydration reactions declined and during and after expansion and associated fracturing of the ultramafic sequence allowed higher fluid access, a more fluid-dominated environment formed and new carbonate-bearing fluid gained access to varying extents to the ultramafic rock sequence. This drove Cl from iowaite (to form pyroaurite) and caused the sulphide assemblages to be altered from the original magmatic assemblages and compositions to those stable at the prevailing fO2 and fS2 conditions. Mass transfer was made possible via metal chloride complexes and H2S with fluids driven by deformation associated with the M2 metamorphism. Disseminated deposits in higher metamorphic grade terrains where olivine was stable during peak metamorphism did not undergo the metasomatism seen in the deposits in areas of lower metamorphic grade. Some minor leaching of S, Fe and Cu occurred around the periphery of the deposits during early, pre-M2 peak metamorphism, but once olivine stability was reached the driving force for the series of leaching reactions was exhausted. The effect of this process on the original magmatic sulphides is to induce significant variability in texture, mineralogy and bulk composition and to markedly reduce the Fe and S contents of the sulphide fraction (in extreme cases to zero for both elements), and to reduce the volume of the sulphide fraction per unit of Ni. These changes impact unfavourably on Ni sulphide recoveries and metallurgical characteristics of these Ni ores. 相似文献
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John C. Volesky Robert J. Stern Jan M. Peter Daniel Layton-Matthews Sarah Rice 《International Geology Review》2017,59(16):1975-2002
The Wadi Bidah Mineral District of Saudi Arabia contains more than 16 small outcropping stratabound volcanogenic Cu–Zn–(Pb) ± Au-bearing massive sulphide deposits and associated zones of hydrothermal alteration. Here, we use major and trace element analyses of massive sulphides, gossans, and hydrothermally altered and least altered metamorphosed host rock (schist) from two of the deposits (Shaib al Tair and Rabathan) to interpret the geochemical and petrological evolution of the host rocks and gossanization of the mineralization. Tectonic interpretations utilize high-field-strength elements, including the rare earth elements (REE), because they are relatively immobile during hydrothermal alteration, low-grade metamorphism, and supergene weathering and therefore are useful in constraining the source, composition, and physicochemical parameters of the primary igneous rocks, the mineralizing hydrothermal fluid and subsequent supergene weathering processes. Positive Eu anomalies in some of the massive sulphide samples are consistent with a high temperature (>250°C) hydrothermal origin, consistent with the Cu contents (up to 2 wt.%) of the massive sulphides. The REE profiles of the gossans are topologically similar to nearby hydrothermally altered felsic schists (light REE (LREE)-enriched to concave-up REE profiles, with or without positive Eu anomalies) suggesting that the REE experienced little fractionation during metamorphism or supergene weathering. Hydrothermally altered rocks (now schists) close to the massive sulphide deposits have high base metals and Ba contents and have concave-up REE patterns, in contrast to the least altered host rocks, consistent with greater mobility of the middle REE compared to the light and heavy REE during hydrothermal alteration. The gossans are interpreted to represent relict massive sulphides that have undergone supergene weathering; ‘chert’ beds within these massive sulphide deposits may be leached wall-rock gossans that experienced silicification and Pb–Ba–Fe enrichment from acidic groundwaters generated during gossan formation. 相似文献
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The South Australian portion of the Willyama Inliers hosts a diversity of small sulphide and uranium deposits and numerous outcropping gossans. This fact, together with geological similarities to the adjacent Broken Hill Block has led to extensive exploration. A broad classification distinguishes two main types of sulphide mineralisation: 1) stratiform iron sulphide-dominated (±Cu, Zn, Co) deposits which occur widespread within specific stratigraphic intervals, and stratabound occurrences of syn-depositional to diagenetic origin which show some structural control; 2) syn-tectonic to post-peak metamorphic replacement and vein-type deposits (Fe-Cu-Au and Cu-Zn-Pb), which are hosted by fractures and within faults and shear zones. These occurrences show no stratigraphic control and are not spatially related to type 1 mineralisation. Late-stage deposits also differ from stratiform/stratabound mineralisation in their texture, mineral assemblage and geochemical composition. Much of the sulphide mineralisation in the Olary Block has been interpreted as resulting from rift-associated syn- to diagenetic processes, such as hot spring exhalations and base metal precipitation along reduction-oxidation interfaces. Subsequent granitic intrusive, high grade metamorphic and multiphase deformation events would have induced remobilisation and redeposition of sulphides in a variety of epigenetic modes. However, a detailed petrographic and geochemical study of sulphide mineralisation in the Olary Block demonstrates that due to the lack of abundant pervasive fluids, translocation and modification of preexisting sulphides were restricted to less than a few centimetres. Instead, widespread syn-tectonic to epigenetic (i.e., post-peak metamorphic) mobilisation of ore constituents occurred to form retrograde sulphide mineralisation as well as multiple generations of late-stage vein deposits. These epigenetic deposits are genetically unrelated to synsedimentary and diagenetic occurrences, an aspect of significance for exploration in the Olary Block. Temporal separation of peak metamorphism in deeper crustal levels from its occurrence in shallow levels, periodic tectonic disturbances and repeated seismic pumping are processes believed to have resulted in intermittent mobilisation of ore constituents from a deep-seated metasedimentary reservoir. 相似文献
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Abstract Mineralogical and geochemical evidence indicates that partial melting and desulphidation have occurred in the Big Bell gold deposit. Decarbonation may also have occurred, to account for the lack of a carbonate alteration halo; this is compatible with the present data, but difficult to test. The Big Bell deposit consists of auriferous sulphide-bearing (‘lode’;) schists with muscovite and K-feldspar, and surrounding biotite schists, all derived by intense premetamorphic alteration of rocks of mafic composition. Assemblages which include cordierite-sillimanite-K-feldspar-garnet-biotite-quartz suggest peak metamorphic conditions of 4–5 kbar, and 650–700° C, based on phase relations, geobaro-meters and garnet-biotite Fe-Mg exchange partitioning. Partial melting occurred at peak metamorphism, particularly in the altered mafic rocks in and around the deposit, and its occurrence may have been essential to the preservation of the deposit. Melting greatly limited the importance of devolatilization reactions, resulting in negligible aqueous fluids and no means of removing appreciable gold. Minor gold loss may have accompanied desulphidation. A diversity of complex metamorphic assemblages occurs around the mine, compared to the assemblages developed regionally; variable bulk rock composition influences this contrast, but there is no evidence of higher metamorphic grades at the mine, nor that this might have been the prime control on the different assemblages in this narrow belt. It is suggested that the Big Bell and Hemlo deposits are the higher metamorphic grade equivalents of the more abundant greenschist facies gold deposits within Archaean greenstone belts. This interpretation is favoured by the host rock setting and geochemical characteristics of Big Bell. Alternative models that suggest that this class of deposit is a new type must account for the absence of high-grade equivalents of the greenschist facies deposits and also the lack of low-grade equivalents of the Big Bell/Hemlo type. Archaean gold deposits in high-grade metamorphic terrains have undergone a series of processes that are not recorded in the more typical gold deposits of the greenschist facies. 相似文献
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The Precambrian Rajpura-Dariba polymetallic deposits of Rajasthan, associated with black schists, quartzite and calcsilicate rocks, exhibit several primary structures, suggesting a syn-sedimentary origin. The secondary features of the sulphides are attributed to the effects of metamorphism. 相似文献
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Andrew G. Tomkins 《Mineralium Deposita》2007,42(6):627-637
The relative importance of mechanical re-mobilisation, hydrothermal dissolution and re-precipitation, and sulphide melting
in controlling redistribution of metals during concurrent metamorphism and deformation is evaluated at the middle amphibolite
facies Montauban deposit in Canada. As at many other deposits, ductile deformation was important in driving mechanical re-mobilisation
of massive sulphides from limb regions into hinge regions of large-scale folds and is thus the most important for controlling
the economics of Pb and Zn distribution. Two possible stages of hydrothermally driven re-mobilisation are discussed, each
of which produces characteristically different alteration assemblages. Prograde hydrothermal re-mobilisation is driven by
pyrite de-sulphidation and concurrent chlorite dehydration and is thus an internally driven process. At Montauban, the H2S-rich fluid generated through this process allowed re-mobilisation of gold into the wall rock, where it was deposited in
response to sulphidation of Fe Mg silicates. Retrograde hydrothermal re-mobilisation is an externally driven process, whereby
large volumes of fluids from outside the deposit may dissolve and re-precipitate metals, and cause hydration of silicate minerals.
This second hydrothermally driven process is not recognised at Montauban. Sulphide melting occurred as temperatures neared
the peak metamorphic conditions. Melting initiated in the massive sulphides through arsenopyrite breakdown, and a small volume
of melt was subsequently re-mobilised into the wall rock. Trace element partitioning and fractional crystallisation of this
melt generated a precious metal-rich fractionate, which remained mobile until well after peak metamorphism. Thus, prograde
hydrothermal re-mobilisation and sulphide melting were the most important mechanisms for controlling the distribution of Au
and Ag. 相似文献
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Aluminous, mafic, felsic, calcareous, and sulphide‐rich rocks have been involved in localized deformation and retrograde metamorphism at Broken Hill, western New South Wales, where retrograde schist‐zones intersect high‐grade, regional metamorphic rocks of the lower granulite facies (or the amphibolite‐granulite facies transition). Although technically retrograde, the schists contain mineral assemblages indicative of the lower amphibolite facies. The schist‐zones were formed by local folding, apparently as part of the third stage of deformation in the Broken Hill area. 相似文献
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Sub-ophiolite metamorphic rocks from NW Anatolia, Turkey 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
The metamorphic rocks from near Kütahya in north-west Anatolia record different stages in the history of closure of the Neo-Tethyan İzmir–Ankara–Erzincan ocean. Sub-ophiolite metamorphic rocks within the Tavşanlı zone are a tectonically composite sequence of quartz–mica schists, amphibole schists, amphibolites and garnet amphibolites. They show increasing metamorphic grade towards the base of the ophiolite. A first metamorphic event, typical of sub-ophiolite metamorphic sole rocks, was characterized by high-grade assemblages, and followed by retrograde metamorphism. A second event was marked by a medium-to high-pressure overprint of the first-stage metamorphic assemblages with assemblages indicating a transition between the blueschist and greenschist facies. The chemistry of the sub-ophiolite metamorphic rocks indicates an ocean island basalt origin, and Ar–Ar dating indicates a high temperature metamorphic event at 93±2 Ma. Counter-clockwise P–T–t paths recorded by the sub-ophiolite metamorphic rocks are interpreted to result from intra-oceanic thrusting during the closure of the İzmir– Ankara–Erzincan ocean, initiating subduction, which formed the high-temperature assemblages. Further subduction then produced the widespread blueschists of the Tavşanlı zone during the Late Cretaceous. Later cold thrusting obducted the ophiolite (with the metamorphic sole welded to its base), ophiolitic melanges and blueschists onto the Anatolide passive margin in the latest Cretaceous. All these events pre-date the final Anatolide–Pontide continent–continent collision. 相似文献
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J. A. McDonald 《Mineralium Deposita》1967,2(3):200-220
Metamorphism in a restricted system i. e. one from which material may be removed but not added during the metamorphic process, may have profound effects on sulphide mineral assemblages. Complex physical relations of the regional metamorphic environment, in particular, diffusion, deformation, and the timing of thermal peaks relative to periods of maximum stress, provide the means for altering original sulphide relations. Within this metamorphic environment, sulphides may undergo 1) textural and mineralogical changes, 2) generation of new or additional phases, 3) redistribution of major and minor components, and 4) mineral and chemical zoning, on a small or large scale. Although effects of metamorphism have been recognized in some deposits, changes may be more wide-spread than is commonly realized. Other features of ore deposits considered to reflect hydrothermal processes may be generated by metamorphism. Although assemblages within sedimentary-volcanic environments are emphasized, the processes apply to any sulphide accumulation subjected to metamorphism.
Zusammenfassung Metamorphosen in einem begrenzten System, d.h. einem System in welchem Material durch den metamorphen Prozeß zwar entfernt aber nicht hinzugefügt werden kann, können einen starken Einfluß auf Sulfidparagenesen haben. Komplizierte physikalische Beziehungen zwischen den örtlichen Metamorphose-Bedingungen, besonders Diffusion, Verformung, und dem zeitlichen Zusammenhang von Temperaturspitzen und Perioden maximaler Spannung, führen zu Veränderungen der ursprünglichen Sulfid-Verhältnisse. Die Sulfide können 1) strukturelle und mineralogische Veränderungen erfahren, 2) es kann zur Bildung neuer oder zusätzlicher Phasen kommen, 3) es kann eine Veränderung in der Verteilung der Hauptbestandteile und Nebenbestandteile eintreten, und 4) es kann zur Bildung von mineralogischen und chemischen Zonen, in kleinerem oder größerem Maße kommen. Es ist wahrscheinlich, daß derartige Veränderungen in einem größeren Maßstab stattgefunden haben, als meist angenommen wird. Andere Eigenschaften von Erzlagern, die im allgem. als das Resultat hydrothermaler Prozesse angesehen werden, sind möglicherweise gleichfalls Folgen einer Metamorphose. Obwohl vor allem auf Paragenesen in vulkanischem Sediment-Milieu hingewiesen wird, beziehen sich diese Prozesse auf alle Sulfidansammlungen, die einer Metamorphose unterliegen.相似文献
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安徽省大别山东段江岭地区榴辉岩及其围岩的变质作用研究 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
安徽省大别山东段江岭地区的南大别碰撞杂岩主要由榴辉岩、云母片岩－变粒岩及片麻岩系组成,这三套岩石具有不同的变质演化阶段和Ｐ－Ｔ轨迹：榴辉岩有５个变质阶段,早期出现超高压型、高压型、晚期为中压型;云母片岩－变粒岩有４个变质阶段,早期出现高压型,晚期为中压型;片麻岩系仅有一期中压绿帘角闪岩相变质。三套岩石变质历史的差异,反映其所经历的构造过程不同,三者在构造作用下混杂到一起,构成碰撞混杂岩。 相似文献
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Julian A. Lockington Nigel J. Cook Cristiana L. Ciobanu 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2014,108(6):873-890
Sphalerite is a common sulphide and is the dominant ore mineral in Zn-Pb sulphide deposits. Precise determination of minor and trace element concentrations in sulphides, including sphalerite, by Laser-Ablation Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Mass-Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is a potentially valuable petrogenetic tool. In this study, LA-ICP-MS is used to analyse 19 sphalerite samples from metamorphosed, sphalerite-bearing volcanic-associated and sedimentary exhalative massive sulphide deposits in Norway and Australia. The distributions of Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Ga, Se, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Hg, Tl, Pb and Bi are addressed with emphasis on how concentrations of these elements vary with metamorphic grade of the deposit and the extent of sulphide recrystallization. Results show that the concentrations of a group of trace elements which are believed to be present in sphalerite as micro- to nano-scale inclusions (Pb, Bi, and to some degree Cu and Ag) diminish with increasing metamorphic grade. This is interpreted as due to release of these elements during sphalerite recrystallization and subsequent remobilization to form discrete minerals elsewhere. The concentrations of lattice-bound elements (Mn, Fe, Cd, In and Hg) show no correlation with metamorphic grade. Primary metal sources, physico-chemical conditions during initial deposition, and element partitioning between sphalerite and co-existing sulphides are dominant in defining the concentrations of these elements and they appear to be readily re-incorporated into recrystallized sphalerite, offering potential insights into ore genesis. Given that sphalerite accommodates a variety of trace elements that can be precisely determined by contemporary microanalytical techniques, the mineral has considerable potential as a geothermometer, providing that element partitioning between sphalerite and coexisting minerals (galena, chalcopyrite etc.) can be quantified in samples for which the crystallization temperature can be independently constrained. 相似文献
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《Journal of African Earth Sciences》2008,50(2-4):188-203
Central Jebilet (Moroccan Variscan Belt) hosts several Cu and Pb–Zn massive sulphide deposits that are associated with a suite of gabbroic and microgranitic, tholeiitic to alkaline, intrusions emplaced 330 Ma ago. The intrusions and ore bodies form structural lineaments within marine Visean shales that are affected by very low to low-grade post-Visean metamorphism and contemporaneous shortening accompanied by the development of conjugate ductile to brittle shear zones. The ductile shear zones are localised in thermally softened aureoles around magmatic intrusions, while brittle deformation is common far from the intrusions. The intrusions have induced a contact metamorphism that reaches the hornblende hornfels facies, and their emplacement was accompanied by hydrothermal activity that leached base metals from the felsic intrusions.The massive sulphide deposits consist of steeply dipping elongate lenses that are located in shear zones 1–1.5 km away from the intrusions. They are dominated by pyrrhotite (up to 90%), sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite and arsenopyrite forming a mylonitic texture. Their wall rocks are altered to syntectonic mineral assemblages similar to those found in the alteration zones associated with the magmatic intrusions. The massive sulphide deposits located near the felsic intrusions are rich in lead and zinc compared to those located near the mafic intrusions, which are copper deposits. These relationships indicate that the whole Central Jebilet hydrothermal system could be described in terms of a lateral secretion of base metals from source zones (i.e. bimodal intrusions) to discharge zones (i.e. the Jebilet sulphide deposits). The metapelites in the contact metamorphic zone around felsic intrusions contain zincian ilmenite that was probably related to interaction of the host rocks with chlorine-rich fluid carrying zinc and other metals leached from the microgranites. 相似文献
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F. D. Pedersen 《Mineralium Deposita》1981,16(1):157-176
The massive Fe-Zn-Pb sulphide sheets constituting the Angel Zone ore body of the Black Angel Mine, show evidence of three phases of deformation at greenschist facies metamorphic grade. During an early phase an originally layered sulphide ore type was isoclinally folded. Subsequent thrusting parallel to the ore body transformed the layered ore into massive and porphyroclastic ore tectonites. Late, open folds refolded the earlier structures and caused localized differential mobilization of the sulphides. The microstructures of the layered ore tectonite indicate a period with static grain growth, interpreted as the result of prograde metamorphism, followed by a dynamic recrystallization under low stress and at low strain rates, which is correlated with the early isoclinal folding. The microstructures of the massive and the porphyroclastic ore tectonites indicate syntectonic recrystallization under high stress and at high strain rates, corresponding to the thrusting of the ore bodies. The microstructures of the mobilized sulphides show evidence of repeated plastic/cataclastic deformation and recrystallization, corresponding to highly variable strain and strain rate conditions during the mobilization. Post-deformational annealing took place at elevated temperature and was largely controlled by inhibition-dependent grain growth and to a minor extent by orientation-dependent grain growth. 相似文献
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The metapelitic schists of Jandagh or simply Jandagh metapelites can be divided into four groups based on mineral assemblages:
(1) quartz-muscovite schists, (2) quartz-muscovite-biotite schists, (3) garnet-muscovite-chlorite schists, and (4) garnet-muscovite-staurolite
schists. The Jandagh garnet-muscovite-chlorite schists show the first appearance of garnets. These garnets contain 58–76%
almandine, 1–18% spessartine, and 8–20% grossular. Microprobe analysing across the garnets demonstrates an increase in Mg#
from core to rim. This is a feature of the prograde metamorphism of metapelites. Well-preserved garnet growth zoning is a
sign that metapelites were rapidly cooled and later metamorphic phases had no effect here. The appearance of staurolite in
garnet-muscovite-chlorite schists signifies a beginning of the amphibolite facies. The absence of zoning in staurolite suggests
that its formation and growth during prograde metamorphism occurred at a widely spaced isograde. Thermobarometric investigations
show that the Jandagh metapelites were formed within a temperature range of 400–670°C and pressures of 2.0–6.5 kbar. These
results are in agreement with the mineral paragenetic evidence and show the development of greenschist and amphibolite facies
in the area studied. 相似文献
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I.A. Izbrodin G.S. Ripp A.G. Doroshkevich S.A. Sergeev D.I. Matukov V.F. Posokhov 《Russian Geology and Geophysics》2010,51(2):186-189
Results of U-Pb (SHRIMP II) and Rb-Sr dating of sillimanite schists in southwestern Transbaikalia are presented, which testify to high-temperature metamorphism in the Late Mesozoic. The metamorphism might have been related to the formation of metamorphic cores or tectonoplutonic activity accompanied by the formation of rift structures in Transbaikalia and Mongolia. 相似文献
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Robin Bernau Stephen Roberts Mike Richards Bruce Nisbet Adrian Boyce James Nowecki 《Mineralium Deposita》2013,48(2):137-153
The Lumwana Cu (± Co ± U) deposits of NW Zambia are large, tabular, disseminated ore bodies, hosted within the Mwombezhi Dome of the Lufilian Arc. The host rocks to the Lumwana deposits are two mineralogically similar but texturally distinct gneisses, a granitic to pegmatitic gneiss and a banded to augen gneiss which both comprise quartz–feldspar ± biotite ± muscovite ± haematite ± amphibole and intervening quartz–feldspar ± biotite schist. The sulphide ore horizons are typically developed within a biotite–muscovite–quartz–kyanite schist, although mineralization locally occurs within internal gneiss units. Contacts between the ore and host rocks are transitional and characterized by a loss of feldspar. Kinematic indicators, such as S-C fabrics and pressure shadows on porphyroblasts, suggest a top to the north shear sense. The sulphides are deformed by a strong shear fabric, enclosed within kyanite or concentrated into low strain zones and pressure shadows around kyanite porphyroblasts. This suggests that the copper mineralization was introduced either syn- or pre-peak metamorphism. In addition to Cu and Co, the ores are also characterized by enrichments in U, V, Ni, Ba and S and small, discrete zones of uranium mineralization, occur adjacent to the hanging wall and footwall of the copper ore bodies or in the immediate footwall to the copper mineralization. Unlike typical Copperbelt mineralization, unmineralized units show very low background copper values. Whole rock geochemical analyses of the interlayered schist and ore schist, compared to the gneiss, show depletions in Ca, Na and Sr and enrichments in Mg and K, consistent with replacement of feldspar by biotite. The mineral chemistry of muscovite, biotite and chlorite reflect changes in the bulk rock chemistry and show consistent increases in X Mg as the schists develop. δ34S for copper sulphides range from +2.3?‰ to +18.5?‰, with pyrite typically restricted to values between +3.9?‰ and +6.2?‰. These values are atypical of sulphides precipitated by bacteriogenic sulphate reduction. δ34S data for Chimiwungo (Cu + Co) show a broader range and increased δ34S values compared to the Malundwe (Cu) mineralization. The Lumwana deposits show many characteristics which distinguish them from classical Copperbelt mineralization and which suggests that they are formed by metasomatic alteration, mineralization and shearing of pre-Katangan basement. Although this style of mineralization is reported elsewhere in the Copperbelt, sometimes associated with the more widely reported stratiform ores of the Lower Roan, none of the previously reported occurrences have so far developed the tonnages of ore reported at Lumwana. 相似文献
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Dr. Ken R. McClay 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1983,72(2):469-491
Determination of preferred orientations in sulphide ores is an important facet in the analysis of the deformation and metamorphism in ore deposits. The methodology and problems of texture determinations in deformed sulphides are briefly reviewed. Deformation mechanisms and texture development in the common sulphide minerals are summarised. Axi-symmetric experimental deformation of galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite produces similar pole figures with the (110) planes aligned normal to the compression axis. Deformation textures in naturally deformed sulphides however are best preserved in monomineralic ores which have undergone simple shear deformation. These textures can be correlated with the microstructures found in the sulphides. Computer simulations of deformation textures arising from dislocation mechanisms can be used to interpret the textures but the results to date are preliminary. These theoretical models emphasize the importance of the symmetry of the kinematic axes of the deformation, the operative glide systems and the strain history and the deformation path. Little is known, however, of the influence of static and dynamic recrystallisation on sulphide preferred orientations. 相似文献
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The West Jordan nickel deposit, in the northern Agnew–Wiluna greenstone belt of Western Australia, is a newly-discovered Type 2 dunite-hosted, low-grade, large tonnage, disseminated sulphide system. Located in the core of a large dunite body, mineralisation is dominated by intercumulus sulphide blebs (20 μm to 6 mm across) in assemblages containing pentlandite, pyrrhotite, heazlewoodite and locally, native nickel, sphalerite and chalcocite. Mineralisation grades between 0.2 and 2 wt.% Ni, with the majority of samples in the 0.35–0.7% Ni range, were consistent with most komatiitic Type 2 systems. Hypogene alteration of the ultramafic host rock is interpreted to have been effected by retrograde metamorphic fluids, and has resulted in extensive serpentinisation and localised, structurally-controlled, talc-magnesite alteration. This gangue alteration has resulted in modification of original magmatic sulphide assemblages, and localised remobilisation of the minor Cu and Zn components of the magmatic sulphides. The deposit is deeply weathered, and all samples utilised in this study were obtained from a series of 12 diamond drill holes which were comprehensively assayed. An igneous stratigraphy is presented which is interpreted to be west-younging, consistent with along-strike deposits to the south, such as the Mount Keith and Yakabindie Type 2 nickel deposits. 相似文献
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造山型金矿中金的来源是目前广泛争论的问题,尽管变质成因模式受到了较多的关注,但研究实例还不多。加里东期是华南地区重要的金矿成矿期,浙江诸暨陈蔡杂岩发育了从绿片岩相到角闪岩相的岩石组合,变质时代为加里东期,同时,其变质温度和压力等都已经得到精确厘定,为研究华南加里东期金矿形成与变质作用的关系提供理想的研究剖面对象。通过系统采集陈蔡杂岩岩石样品,在详细的岩相学研究的基础上对其中的黄铁矿中的金及亲硫元素进行了激光剥蚀-电感耦合-等离子体质谱（LA-ICP-MS）原位微区微量元素分析。研究结果表明：陈蔡杂岩角闪岩相岩石岩相学特征中有绿泥石,角闪石退变质为黑云母,反映退变质作用中有变质流体的回流。华南加里东期变质过程中,从绿片岩相到角闪岩相的相变过程中金及其他亲硫元素从主要赋存矿物黄铁矿中释放出来,进入变质流体,为江南造山带造山型金矿提供了金属来源。利用硫化物单矿物进行金的含量原位分析是解决变质过程中金活化迁移的重要手段。并提出华南加里东期变质过程中金的来源模式图。 相似文献