Sulfur Content and Isotopic Ratio of Cambro-Ordovician Carbonate Rocks from South Korea: A Possible Source for Mesozoic Magmatic-hydrothermal Ore Sulfur     

Shunso ISHIHARA  Myung–Shik JIN  Yoshimichi KAJIWARA 《Resource Geology》2002,52(1):41-48

Abstract: Carbonate rocks of Cambrian (18 samples) and lower-middle Ordovician (11 samples) ages from South Korea were analyzed for sulfur contents of structurally substituted sulfate (SSS) and sulfides and their δ³⁴S values. The δ³⁴S values of SSS ranging from +25.9 to +45.2 permil, are averaged as +33.6 and +33.5 permil for the Cambrian and Ordovician rocks, respectively, which indicate high δ³⁴S values of the Cambro-Ordovician seawater. The SSS contents in the carbonate rocks are low being 2.9 to 17.3 ppm S (averaged as 7.0 ppm S). Sulfide sulfur, on the contrary, is much abundant containing 3 to 1,880 ppm S and the δ³⁴S values range widely between –17.6 and +31.1 permil. Sulfide sulfur of the studied rocks excluding impure carbonates has an average content of 187 ppm S and δ³⁴S value of +12.8 permil (n=24). The estimated δ³⁴S (sulfate–sulfide) values, which range from 13.8 to 25.4 permil in general with a few exceptions from 36.5 up to 52.3 permil for some impure carbonates, may provide evidence for the persistent oceanic anoxia with its temporary recovery during the Cambro-Ordovician time.
The SSS and sulfide sulfurs have often higher δ³⁴S values than the Mesozoic-Cenozoic ore sulfur (Ishihara et al., 2000). Since carbonate rocks are very reactive with circulating hydrothermal ore solution, high δ³⁴S values of the Korean ore deposits might be caused to some extent by ³⁴S enrichment from the host carbonates, resulting in the low SSS contents observed.  相似文献   

Paleomagnetic dating of Alleghanian orogenesis and mineralisation in the Mascot–Jefferson City zinc district of East Tennessee, USA     

D. T. A. Symons  K. K. Stratakos 《Tectonophysics》2002,348(1-3)

The Mascot–Jefferson City (M-JC) Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits are in the Valley and Ridge province of the Appalachian orogen in East Tennessee. They have been a major source of zinc for the USA but their age is uncertain and thus their genesis controversial. About 10 specimens from each of 37 sites have been analysed paleomagnetically using alternating field and thermal step demagnetisation methods and saturation isothermal remanence methods. The sites sample limestones, dolostones, breccia clasts and sphalerite–dolomite MVT mineralisation from mines in the Lower Ordovician Kingsport and Mascot formations of the Knox Group. The characteristic remanent magnetisation (ChRM) is carried by magnetite in the limestones, by both magnetite and pyrrhotite in the dolostones and by pyrrhotite preferentially to magnetite in the mineralisation. Mineralized sites have a more intense ChRM than non-mineralised, indicating that the mineralising and magnetisation event are coeval. Paleomagnetic breccia tests on clasts at the three sites are negative, indicating that their ChRM is post-depositional remagnetisation, and a paleomagnetic fold test is negative, indicating that the ChRM is a remagnetisation, and a post-dates peak Alleghanian deformation. The unit mean ChRM direction for the: (a) limestones gives a paleopole at 129°E, 12°N (d_p=18°, d_m=26°, N=3), indicating diagenesis formed a secondary chemical remanent magnetisation during the Late Ordovician–Early Silurian; (b) dolomitic limestones and dolostone host rocks gives a paleopole at 125.3°E, 31.9°N (d_p=5.3°, d_m=9.4°, N=7), recording regional dolomitisation at 334±14 Ma (1σ); and (c) MVT mineralisation gives a paleopole at 128.7°E, 34.0°N (d_p=2.4°, d_m=4.4°, N=25), showing that it acquired its primary chemical remanence at 316±8 Ma (1σ). The mineralisation is interpreted to have formed from hydrothermal fluid flow, either gravity or tectonically driven, after peak Alleghanian deformation in eastern Tennessee with regional dolomitisation of the host rocks occurring as part of a continuum during the 20 Ma prior to and during peak deformation.  相似文献   

Re-placing the Pilbara's mining unions     

Bradon Ellem 《The Australian geographer》2003,34(3):281-296

This paper examines the attempt by mining management in Western Australia's Pilbara to replace mining unions—quite literally—by removing them from the processes of representation and bargaining. It analyses the way in which those unions have tried to re-place themselves, in the senses of transforming themselves in those spaces in which they were already operating and reviving themselves where they were not. Where unionists have succeeded in these engagements, it has been by working at a range of geographical scales, using the ‘power of place’ in the Pilbara and reshaping traditional geographies of union organisation. It is suggested here that many of these emergent outcomes are the result of the embeddedness of geographically specific historical structures along with new intersections of nationally and locally scaled labour politics.  相似文献   

试述福建顺昌南舟萤石矿地质特征   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

傅树超 《福建地质》2003,22(2):53-61

顺昌南舟萤石矿位于顺昌县埔上镇南舟村境内，1996年福建省区域地质调查队开展1：5万埔上幅区调时发现矿体，后开展普查工作表明该矿床规模大、交通方便，易于开采，现已投入开发利用。南舟萤石矿成矿地质特征在闽北丰富的萤石资源中具有一定代表性。  相似文献   

福建建宁黄埠地区金矿化基本特征     

黄美 《福建地质》2003,22(3):131-139

通过对建宁黄埠地区金矿地质特征、矿化特点、成矿地质规律的研究，认为该区成矿年龄为91Ma，提出了北西西向碎裂带为主要的含矿构造，并指出该区具有较好的找金远景。  相似文献   

从流体包裹体研究探讨金属矿床成矿条件   总被引：29，自引：4，他引：29  

芮宗瑶  李荫清  王龙生  王义天 《矿床地质》2003,22(1):13-23

根据作者多年来对流体包裹体的研究成果，参考了国内外的研究结论，提出了一个新的成矿流体分类方案，并评述了我国若干典型金属矿床的研究状况，由此探讨了金属矿床的形成机制。  相似文献   

我国钴矿矿产资源及其成矿作用   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

潘彤 《矿产与地质》2003,17(4):516-518

钴广泛应用于军事、钢铁、电器、机械等方面，它具有亲铁亲硫的双重性，在各类岩浆岩中的分布不均匀，由超基性岩向酸性岩，钴的含量迅速降低。我国钻矿资源呈现富矿少、贫矿多的特点，并且铬矿主要分布在甘肃、青海、新疆、吉林、陕西、云南、四川等地。按照矿床形成的成矿环境、矿床岩石组合，矿床类型划分为：与镁铁质-超镁铁质岩有关的硫化物钻矿、与海相火山喷发有关的钻多金属矿、与斑岩有关的铜钻矿、与砂岩有关的钻矿、与中酸性侵入岩有关的矽卡岩铁钻矿、与风化作用有关的钴矿等六类。  相似文献   

李坝式金矿床成矿作用及矿床类型探讨   总被引：5，自引：2，他引：5  

程彧  卢哲  张东旭  田继孝 《矿产与地质》2003,17(5):594-597

李坝式金矿床成矿作用过程分为成矿元素初始富集期和构造叠加热液改造成矿期，岩浆活动主号是通过改变矿床地质体物化条件而促进矿化体的形成，并有部分岩浆物质参与成矿。该矿床与国内外经典卡林型金矿床具有较大的可比性，但是由于缺乏低温矿物组合以及与岩浆活动的亲密性证据，该矿床应属广义上的卡林型金矿床。  相似文献   

福建省梅仙铅锌银矿田成矿地质特征和成因模式   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

吴志强 《矿产与地质》2003,17(5):606-609

梅仙铅锌银矿田形成于裂谷成矿环境，具有块状硫化物矿床特征，成矿物质和成矿热液有多来源特征，成矿经历了同生沉积、变质改造和岩浆热液叠加三个阶段，并与闽中裂谷带的构造演化密切相关，提出了“三阶段”成因模式。  相似文献   

油房西矿区地球物理特征及找矿标志   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

刘振山 《矿产与地质》2003,17(6):700-704

油房西矿区位于华北地台北缘，苇塘河断裂西部，具有良好的银多金属找矿前景。通过对油房西矿区物性参数及局部异常特征的分析研究，探讨激电异常与矿体的关系，总结该区找矿标志，指出进一步找矿方向，以期提高地质找矿效果。  相似文献