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Hiroshi Takeda Ted J. Huston Michael E. Lipschutz 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1984,71(2):329-339
We report on the petrology, mineralogic properties and contents of major elements and trace elements Ag, Au, Bi, Cd, Co, Cs, Ga, In, Rb, Se, Te, Tl, U and Zn (determined by radiochemical neutron activation analysis) in Yamato 74160, interpreted as an LL7 chondrite. All properties are consistent with this meteorite having been recrystallized and partially melted locally once at temperatures well above 1090°C under conditions such that some minerals (e.g. plagioclase, euhedral pyroxene, tetrataenite) grew from melt pockets and siderophilic and chalcophilic elements were lost by extraction into eutectic melt that drained away. Inhomogeneous plagioclase compositions and mobile element loss suggest shock as the most likely heat source. Yamato 74160, while inferentially chondritic, is a larval achondrite: even higher temperatures and longer times would have been required to cause the separations necessary to transform it to an identifiable achondrite type. 相似文献
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Leon Bagas David L. Huston James Anderson Terrence P. Mernagh 《Mineralium Deposita》2007,42(1-2):127-144
Significant gold deposits in the western Tanami region of Western Australia include deposits in the Bald Hill and Coyote areas. The ca. 1,864 Ma Bald Hill sequence of turbiditic and mafic volcanic rocks hosts the Kookaburra and Sandpiper deposits and a number of smaller prospects. The ca. 1,835 Ma turbiditic Killi Killi Formation hosts the Coyote deposit and several nearby prospects. The Kookaburra deposit forms as a saddle reef within a syncline, and the Sandpiper deposit is localized within graphitic metasedimentary rocks along a limb of an anticline. Gold in these deposits is hosted by anastomosing quartz–(–pyrite–arsenopyrite) veins within quartz–sericite schist with disseminated arsenopyrite, pyrite, and marcasite (after pyrrhotite). Based on relative timing relationships with structural elements, the auriferous veins are interpreted to have been emplaced before or during the ca. 1,835–1,825 Ma Tanami Orogeny (regional D1). Gold deposition is thought to have been caused by pressure drops associated with saddle reef formation (Kookaburra) and chemical reactions with graphitic rocks (Sandpiper). The Coyote deposit, the largest in the western Tanami region, consists of a number of ore lenses localized along the limbs of the Coyote Anticline, which formed during the Tanami Orogeny. The largest lenses are associated with the Gonzalez Fault, which is located along the steeply dipping southern limb of this fold. Gold was introduced at ca. 1,790 Ma into dilatant zones that formed in local perturbations along this fault during later reactivation (regional D5) towards the end of a period of granite emplacement. Gold is associated with quartz–chlorite–pyrite–(arsenopyrite–galena–sphalerite) veins with narrow (<?5 mm) chloritic selvages. A quartz–muscovite–biotite–K–feldspar–(tourmaline–actinolite–arsenopyrite) assemblage, which is interpreted to relate to granite emplacement, overprints the regional greenschist facies metamorphic assemblage. The mineralogical similarity between this overprinting assemblage and the vein assemblage suggests that the auriferous veins at the Coyote deposit are associated with the granite-related metamorphic–metasomatic assemblage. Gold deposition is thought to have been caused by pressure drops within dilatant zones. 相似文献
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David L. Huston Jorge M. R. S. Relvas J. Bruce Gemmell Susan Drieberg 《Mineralium Deposita》2011,46(5-6):473-507
Assessment of geological, geochemical and isotopic data indicates that a significant subgroup of volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS) deposits has a major or dominant magmatic?Chydrothermal source of ore fluids and metals. This group, which is typically characterised by high Cu and Au grades, includes deposits such as those in the Neoarchean Doyon-Bousquet-LaRonde and Cambrian Mount Lyell districts. These deposits are distinguished by aluminous advanced argillic alteration assemblages or metamorphosed equivalents intimately associated with ore zones. In many of these deposits, ??34Ssulphide is low, with a major population below ?3??; ??34Ssulphate differs from coexisting seawater and ??34Ssulphate?Csulphide????20?C30??. These characteristics are interpreted as the consequence of disproportionation of magmatic SO2 as magmatic?Chydrothermal fluids ascended and cooled and as a definitive evidence for a significant magmatic?Chydrothermal contribution. Other characteristics that we consider diagnostic of significant magmatic?Chydrothermal input into VHMS ore fluids include uniformly high (>3 times modern seawater values) salinities or very 18O-enriched (??18O?>?5??) ore fluids. We do not consider other criteria [e.g. variable salinity, moderately high ??18Ofluid (2?C5??), ??34Ssulphide near 0??, metal assemblages or a spatial association with porphyry Cu or other clearly magmatic-hydrothermal deposits] that have been used previously to advocate significant magmatic?Chydrothermal contributions to be diagnostic as they can be produced by non-magmatic processes known to occur in VHMS mineral systems. However, in general, a small magmatic?Chydrothermal contribution cannot be excluded in most VHMS systems considered. Conclusive data that imply minimal magmatic?Chydrothermal contributions are only available in the Paleoarchean Panorama district where coeval seawater-dominated and magmatic?Chydrothermal systems appear to have been physically separated. This district, which is characterised by chloritic and sericitic alteration assemblages and lacks aluminous advanced argillic alteration assemblages, is typical of many VHMS deposits around the world, suggesting that for ??garden variety?? VHMS deposits, a significant magmatic?Chydrothermal contribution is not required. Other than deposits associated with advanced argillic alteration assemblages, the only deposit for which we ascribe a major magmatic?Chydrothermal contribution is the Devonian Neves Corvo deposit. This deposit differs from other deposits in the Iberian Pyrite Belt and around the world in being extremely Sn-rich, with the Sn closely associated with Cu and in having formed from high 18O-rich fluids (??18Ofluid ??8.5??). We consider these characteristics, particularly the last, as diagnostic of a significant magmatic hydrothermal contribution. Our analysis indicates that two subgroups of VHMS deposits have a major magmatic?Chydrothermal contribution: Cu/Au-rich deposits with aluminous alteration assemblages and reduced, very Sn-rich deposits in which Sn was introduced in a high-temperature ore assemblage. Comparison with ??normal?? VHMS deposits suggests that these subgroups of VHMS deposits may form in specialised tectonic environments. The Cu/Au-rich deposits appear to form adjacent to magmatic arcs, an environment conducive to the generation of hydrous, oxidised melts by melting metasomatised mantle in the wedge above the subducting slab. This contrasts with the back-arc setting of ??normal?? VHMS deposits in which relatively dry granites (In this contribution, we use the term granite sensu latto) formed by decompression melting drive seawater-dominated hydrothermal circulation. The tectonic setting of highly Sn-rich VHMS deposits such as Neves Corvo is less clear; however, thick continental crust below the ore-hosting basin may be critical, as it is in other Sn deposits. 相似文献
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Whole rock oxygen isotope data are presented for the Panorama district, in the Archean Pilbara Craton of Western Australia,
where near-perfect exposure reveals a cross section through a complete volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) hydrothermal alteration
system. The δ18O values decrease with depth in the volcanic pile, across semi-conformable alteration zones, to values below 6‰ immediately
above a large (180 km2) subvolcanic intrusion. Altered rocks in the upper parts of the subvolcanic intrusion have lower δ18O values (6–8‰) than least altered granite (8‰), apart from sericite–quartz altered zones, which are slightly higher (8–10‰).
Corridors of low δ18O values crosscut this regional zonation, and are coincident with transgressive feldspar-destructive alteration zones, which
underlie VMS mineralization. The whole rock oxygen isotope distribution patterns are interpreted to represent alteration temperature,
where high δ18O values correspond to low temperature alteration and low δ18O values correspond to high temperature alteration. Alteration temperatures, which were calculated using modal alteration
mineral abundances and an assumed fluid δ18O, are consistent with this interpretation. Increasing temperatures with depth in the volcanic pile and high temperatures
in transgressive corridors leading up to VMS deposits, are consistent with a convective hydrothermal model, in which heat
from the subvolcanic intrusion drove seawater through the volcanic pile. Granite-hosted sericite–quartz alteration zones are
18O-enriched, and are tentatively interpreted to have formed from a mixed magmatic-evolved seawater fluid.
Received: 12 April 1999 / Accepted: 6 April 2000 相似文献
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The development of a regional stratigraphy in Palaeoproterozoic basins within the Tanami region, Northern Australia has been
hindered by the difficulty of discriminating sedimentary units and facies across this isolated and poorly exposed basin. A
regional stratigraphy is important as it provides constraints on sedimentary basin evolution and assists in gold exploration.
Gold is known to be more concentrated in certain rock formations. Based on Nd isotopes and whole rock geochemistry, five main
sedimentary events have been identified in the Tanami region. Some sedimentary units were derived from homogeneous local sources,
whereas others contain evidence of a well-mixed fine-grained remote provenance. Within the basins, major gold-bearing lithologies
are characterised by mafic source indicators: (1) high Cr/Th ratios; (2) low Th/Sc ratios; (3) low (La/Yb)PAAS ratios relative to Post-Archaean Average Shale (Taylor and McLennan 1985); (4) Eu anomalies equal to ∼1; and (5) distinctive ranges in initial ε
Nd values. Potential future exploration target areas have been identified in the Tanami region at the Cashel and Sunline prospects
using these geochemical parameters. 相似文献
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Kenneth H. Williford Kliti Grice Graham A. Logan Junhong Chen David Huston 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2011,301(1-2):382-392
The molecular distribution and compound specific stable carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios were measured on solvent extractable hydrocarbons from the Late Paleoproterozoic McArthur River, or “Here's Your Chance” (HYC) Pb/Zn/Ag ore deposit in the Northern Territory of Australia. Five samples were collected from the McArthur River mine on a northeast–southwest transect in order to sample a gradient of hydrothermal alteration. One sample was taken from the unmineralized W-Fold Shale unit immediately below the HYC ore deposit. δD of n-alkanes, branched alkanes and bulk aromatic fractions were measured, and δ13C of n-alkanes, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and bulk kerogen were measured to assess the isotopic effects of a varying degree of hydrothermal alteration on different components of HYC organic matter (OM). Relative to n-alkanes in Barney Creek Formation sediments that did not undergo mineralization, HYC n-alkanes are enriched in deuterium (D) by 50–60‰. This is likely to be a result of equilibrium hydrogen exchange during ore genesis with a highly D-enriched fluid that originated in an evaporitic basin. Trends with distance along the sample transect are ambiguous, but from the northernmost to southernmost point, n-alkanes are less D-enriched, and PAHs are less abundant and less 13C-enriched. This could be due to decreasing hydrothermal alteration effects, decreasing delivery of highly altered OM by the mineralizing fluid, or both. The carbon isotopic composition of HYC PAHs is inconsistent with a Barney Creek Fm source, but consistent with an origin in the underlying Wollogorang Formation. PAHs are 13C-depleted relative to n-alkanes, reflecting a kerogen source that was 13C-depleted compared to n-alkanes, typical for Precambrian sediments. PAHs are more 13C-depleted with increasing molecular weight and aromaticity, strengthening the case for a negative isotopic effect associated with aromatization in ancient sediments. Together, these data are consistent with a an ore deposition model in which fluids originated in an evaporitic deposit lower in the basin and interacted with metals and OM in the Tawallah Group at temperatures above 250 °C and a depth of ~ 6 km before ascending along a flower structure associated with the Emu Fault and cooling to 200 ± 20 °C before reaching Barney Creek sediments. 相似文献
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At the Sandpiper gold deposit in the Tanami region of northern Australia sericite is intimately intergrown with arsenopyrite in gold-bearing quartz veins and breccias, suggesting sericite crystallisation synchronous with gold-bearing fluid flow. This ore-stage sericite yields a 40Ar/39Ar plateau age of 1785 ± 32 Ma (2σ including both analytical and systematic uncertainties). Recalculation using revised and more precise values for the 40K decay constants and the age of the Fish Canyon Sanidine standard shifts the age to 1794 ±12 Ma (2σ including all known uncertainties). Given the possibility of post-mineralisation isotopic resetting this age can be conservatively interpreted as a minimum constraint on the timing of gold deposition although, given local geological relationships and estimates for the argon retentivity of white mica, we consider complete isotopic resetting to be unlikely. The preferred interpretation is, therefore, that the sericite 40Ar/39Ar age indicates the timing of gold mineralisation. Thesericite age accords with a limited dataset of 207Pb/206Pb xenotime ages of ca 1800 Ma from other gold deposits in the Tanami region, interpreted as mineralisation ages. The agreement between independently derived ages from several gold deposits lends support for a widespread gold-mineralising event at ca 1800 Ma in the Tanami region. 相似文献
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Quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes in and around the White Devil ore deposit are weakly to strongly altered, with weakly altered cores grading outward toward intensely chloritized marginal zones in contact with massive ironstone or chlorite altered sediments. Petrographic studies indicate the following sequence of alteration: sericitization of the groundmass, sericitization and chloritization of feldspar phenocrysts, chloritization of the groundmass, and alteration of igneous biotite to hydrothermal biotite and then to chlorite, intense chloritization of the groundmass as to remove quartz, and, finally, destruction of quartz phenocrysts. Isocon analyses of whole rock geochemical data from altered porphyry indicate the following relative changes during alteration: (1) consistent, near total losses of Na and Pb, (2) increasing gains of Mg, Fe, Mn and Zn, and increasing losses of Si and Sr with increasing alteration intensity, (3) gains of Ti, Cr and U, and losses of K and Rb upon alteration of feldspar phenocrysts, and (4) losses of Zr, Nb, Y and Th upon the loss of quartz in the groundmass. Of the elements studied only Ca, Al and P did not undergo significant relative changes. Immobile elements such as Ti, Zr, Nb, Y and Cr are highly mobile during the most intense alteration of the White Devil porphyry. Based on evidence from field relationships, alteration studies and petrographic observations, the quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes intruded after the formation of ironstones, but prior to Au-Cu-Bi mineralization. This conclusion is consistent with previous interpretations by Nguyen et al. (1989) and Edwards et al. (1990), but inconsistent with the interpretation by McPhie (1993) that quartz-feldspar porphyry sills at the Peko smelter site intruded into wet sediments. Two or more periods of quartz-feldspar porphyry intrusion occurred in the Tennant Creek district. 相似文献
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Large mysticete whales represent a unique challenge for chemical risk assessment. Few epidemiological investigations are possible due to the low incidence of adult stranding events. Similarly their often extreme life-history adaptations of prolonged migration and fasting challenge exposure assumptions. Molecular biomarkers offer the potential to complement information yielded through tissue chemical analysis, as well as providing evidence of a molecular response to chemical exposure. In this study we confirm the presence of cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) and cytochrome P450 isoenzyme 1A1 (CYP1A1) in epidermal tissue of southern hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). The detection of CYP1A1 in the integument of the humpback whale affords the opportunity for further quantitative non-destructive investigations of enzyme activity as a function of chemical stress. 相似文献