Laser Ablation ICP‐MS U‐Pb Zircon Geochronology of Granitoids and Quartz Veins in the Shihu Gold Mine,Taihang Orogen,North China: Timing of Gold‐mineralization and Tectonic Implications |
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| Authors: | CAO Ye LI Shengrong XIONG Xianxiao LI Zhenzhen LIU Xiaobin YAO Meijuan ZHANG Huafeng |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China;2. General Institute of Chemical Geology Survey, China Chemical Geology and Mine Bureau, Beijing 100013, China;3. School of Earth Science and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China |
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| Abstract: | The Shihu gold deposit, situated in the Taihang Mesozoic orogen of the North China Craton (NCC), is hosted by ductile‐brittle faults within Archean metamorphic core complex. The deposit is characterized by gold‐bearing quartz‐polymetallic sulfides veins. The Mapeng granitoids stock and intermediate‐basic dikes intruded the metamorphic basement rocks, and are spatially related to gold mineralization. Detailed laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA ICP‐MS) U‐Pb zircon ages of the granitic rocks, dykes and mineralized quartz veins in the studied area reveal its magmatic and mineralized history. The mineralized quartz veins contain inherited zircons with ages of about 2.55 Ga and 1.84 Ga, probably coming from the basement. These two Precambrian events are coeval with those in other parts of the NCC. The Mapeng granitoid stock, the largest intrusion in the area, was emplaced at ca. 130 Ma, and is coeval with magmatic zircon populations from diorites and quartz diorite pophyrites in the same region. The ca. 130 Ma magmatism and gold mineralization were most likely related to an underplating event that took place in the Taihang orogen at Late Mesozoic. The timing of gold mineralization with respect to felsic magmatism in the area is similar to those observed in other major gold‐producing provinces in the NCC. This episode is simultaneous with those in the eastern margin of NCC, indicative of a widespread late Yanshanian metallogenic event that was a response to the Early Cretaceous lithosphere in the eastern NCC, in which the mesothermal gold deposits were formed from similar tectono‐magmatic environments. |
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| Keywords: | zircon U‐Pb geochronology Shihu gold deposit geodynamic setting North China Craton |
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