Intermediate sulfidation epithermal gold-base metal deposits in Tertiary subaerial volcanic rocks,Sahinli/Tespih Dere (Lapseki/Western Turkey) |
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| Authors: | Huseyin Yilmaz Tolga Oyman F Nuran Sonmez Greg B Arehart Zeki Billor |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Institute of Geo-Fluids, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China;2. Fujian Yangxing Mining Company, Limited, Dehua 362509, China;3. Fujian Shuangqishan Mining Company, Limited, Dehua 362509, China;1. Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey;2. Department of Geological Engineering, Mu?la University, 48100 Turkey;3. Isotope Geosciences Unit, SUERC, East Kilbride, G75 0QF, UK;1. Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, D-30631 Hannover, P.O. Box 510163, Germany;2. Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie, Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany;3. Koza Altin Ì?letmeleri A.?., Ìstanbul Yolu 10.km. No:310, TR-06370 Yenimahalle/Ankara, Turkey |
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| Abstract: | Gold in the Sahinli and Tespih Dere intermediate sulfidation gold-base metal deposits in Western Turkey occurs in relatively deep epithermal quartz veins along with base metal minerals which have epithermal textures, including plumose quartz, vug infills, comb and cockade textures and matrix-supported milled breccias. The total sulfide content of the veins in the area is variable ranging from < 1% to 60% and is dominated by pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Sphalerite is Fe-poor (0.6 to 1.4 mol% FeS). Minor amounts of Ag-rich tetrahedrite are present. Primary hydrothermal alteration minerals include illite/muscovite, mixed-layer illite/smectite (11.6 Å) and clinochlore towards the east and, alunite, dickite/nacrite and pyrophyllite towards the west at Sahinli; major illite/muscovite and dickite occur at Tespih Dere and Sarioluk, respectively.Fluid inclusions in main-stage quartz at Sahinli are only liquid-rich, with homogenization temperatures ranging from 220 to 322 °C and the majority of Th values between 250 and 300 °C. Salinity ranges from 4.3 to 6.9 wt.% NaCl equiv. First ice-melting temperatures (Tmf) between ?24.5 and ?19.0 °C indicate that the fluids were dominated by NaCl – H2O during mineralization. The relatively higher average Th at the Tespih Dere deposit (295 °C) is attributed to a relatively deeper level of exposure.Calculated δ18O values indicate that ore-forming hydrothermal fluids in the study area had δ18OH2O ranging from + 1.1 to + 9.7‰ (average = 3.8‰), strongly 18O-enriched compared with present-day hydrothermal meteoric water in the area (δ18O = ?8.5‰). δD values of fluid inclusions in quartz range from ?58 to ?93‰ and δD values of clay minerals and alunite from ?40 to ?119‰. δD values from intermediate argillic alteration (average = ?68‰) in the study area are very similar to δD values of the present-day local geothermal system (average δD = ?54‰) whereas δD values from advanced-argillic alteration (average δD = ?33‰) are very different from the present-day local geothermal system.The δ34S values in samples from the Sahinli and Tespih Dere deposits average ?2.9‰ for pyrite; ?3.3‰ for chalcopyrite; ?5.4‰ for sphalerite and ?7.6‰ for galena. These data are consistent with derivation of the sulfur from either igneous rocks or possibly from local wallrock. |
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