O garimpo aurífero do Papagaio, localizado em Paranaíta, Mato Grosso, insere-se no setor noroeste da Província Aurífera de Alta Floresta, sul do Cráton Amazônico. Está hospedado em dacito porfirítico inicialmente afetado por alteração potássica, sobreposta por forte alteração sericítica pervasiva e, por fim, por alteração propilítica. O minério é representado pela paragênese pirita + calcopirita + esfalerita ± galena ± calcocita ± covelita e ocorre associado a sistemas de veios de quartzo e stockworks que truncam os setores de alteração potássica e sericítica. Estudos de inclusões fluidas dos veios mineralizados e estéreis presentes no garimpo permitiram identificar três grupos de inclusões fluidas: tipo I) inclusões aquocarbônicas; tipo II) aquosas bifásicas; tipo III) aquosas tri a multifásicas. Nos veios mineralizados houve a crepitação das inclusões do Tipo I a 325ºC. Foram encontradas temperaturas de homogeneização de 115,1 a 216,2ºC e salinidades entre 0,5 a 24,0% para as inclusões do Tipo II. Nos veios estéreis, as inclusões do Tipo II resultaram em temperaturas de homogeneização total entre 135,9 e 190,3ºC e salinidades de 26,0 a 30,2%. No Tipo III a homogeneização total ocorreu entre 323,2 e 402,9ºC com salinidade superior a 40,0%. Portanto, fluidos de elevada temperatura e salinidade com características de origem magmática tiveram um papel essencial na formação das zonas mineralizadas do garimpo. Nesse contexto, a colocação de corpos subvulcânicos teria sido essencial na gênese da mineralização aurífera do Papagaio, pois teria servido como fonte de calor, fluido e metais para a instalação de um sistema magmático-hidrotermal profundo, relacionado ao ambiente dos depósitos do tipo pórfiro e intrusion-related gold systems (IRGS).
The Alta Floresta Gold Province is situated on the southern portion of Amazonian Craton and forms an elongate region with WNW-ESSE direction where auriferous deposits are associated with Paleoproterozoic plutonovolcanic magmatism.The area of research covers the Papagaio artisanal gold mining, located in Paranaíta, Mato Grosso.During geological mapping, plutonic to subvolcanic rocks bodies of granodioritic and granitic compositions were identified, as well as dacitic and rhyolitic volcanic and pyroclastic rocks.These lithotypes belong to the calc-alkaline series of medium to high potassium, meta-to peraluminous corresponding to type I granites of volcanic arc in an active continental margin.U-Pb ages showed that magmatism in the region has crystallized in the range of 1.80-1.78Ga with inherited zircons up to 2.1 Ga, showing evidence of a deeper and older crust during subduction.εNd (t) data showed the contribution of crustal and mantle material in the source with T DM age between 2.15-2.02Ga.These data revealed that volcanism in the area belongs to the Colíder Suite, corresponding to a magmatism that was active for approximately 16 Ma and evolved from dacitic to a rhyolitic composition.The mining prospect occurs on gold mineralization with copper, zinc and low levels of lead, preferably confined in veins that cut potassic, seritic and propylitic alteration halos.The existing veins in the region evolve systematically into six types: (I) Barren quartz vein associated with potassic alteration halo; (II) Quartz vein with ore minerals, sometimes associated with sericitic halo; (III) Sulphide vein with a well developed sericitic alteration halo in the salbands; (IV) and (V) Late quartz and carbonate veins; (VI) system of quartz veins newer and unrelated to deposit evolution.The first three types are similar to A-B-D system described in porphyry deposits, while the newer ones have characteristics of a shallower and epithermal environment.Gold occurs mainly in the central zone of the type II veins, in paragenesis with chalcopyrite + sphalerite + pyrite ± galena ± magnetite.The quartz of the veins underwent different intensities of recrystallization due to subsequent hydrothermal pulses and cathodoluminescence images showed that aquocarbonic fluid inclusions represent primary fluids with important participation in metalliferous content transportation.The results of D, O and S stable isotope in hydrothermal quartz, sericite and pyrite show that fluids are magmatic with meteoric contributions.In this context, the Papagaio artisanal mining developed on a continental magmatic arc, from the intrusion of hydrated and oxidized granite bodies that mark the final magmatic event of the Colíder Suite.It represents a porphyry deposit that was superimposed by epithermal intermediate-sulfidation characteristics as a result of hydrothermal telescoping, resulting from the lowering of the magma chamber.