Zircon and cassiterite U-Pb ages, petrogeochemistry and metallogenesis of Sn deposits in the Sibao area, northern Guangxi: constraints on the neoproterozoic granitic magmatism and related Sn mineralization in the western Jiangnan Orogen, South China
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Topaz, so common an accessory in tin lodes in all parts of the world, has hitherto been looked upon as comparatively rare in Cornwall. When massive, or even in the form of small, well-developed crystals, it is a mineral easily overlooked, or apt cursorily to be mistakcn for quartz. The presence of topaz as a microscopic accessory in granite, greisen, and rarely elvans, from most of the Cornish masses, has been determined by Dr. J. S. Flett in the course of the work of the Geological Survey; while the late Mr. J. H. Collins was responsible for the record of other interesting localities. In the present notes I have collected all the available information respecting its mode of occurrence and localities ; and have added several new ones, at some of which the mineral occurs in considerable mass, thus affording evidence that topaz is in Cornwall, as in the case of other countries, a comparatively common associate of cassiterite and wolframite, both in granite and sedimentary rocks.
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The Furong tin deposit (530,000 t Sn @ 0.8% Sn) is located in the southern part of the Mid–Late Jurassic, multiphase, granitic Qitianling batholith in the Nanling Range, South China. The spectrum of tin mineralization comprises skarn, chloritized granite, greisen, and quartz vein types, of which the skarn type is the most important. Cassiterite U–Pb dating provided Tera-Wasserburg lower intercept ages of 157.1 ± 1.5 Ma and 156.3 ± 1.5 Ma for skarn-type mineralization, 158.1 ± 1.4 Ma and 158.7 ± 1.6 Ma for chloritized granite-type mineralization, 155.8 ± 3.4 Ma for greisen-type mineralization, and 160.1 ± 1.7 Ma for quartz vein-type mineralization. These ages overlap with each other and define a pooled weighted mean age of 157.9 ± 1.1 Ma (2σ) for the tin ore system. Hydrothermal phlogopite from tin skarn and muscovite from tin greisen yielded younger 40Ar–39Ar plateau ages of 154.3 ± 1.9 Ma and 150.0 ± 1.5 Ma, respectively, which may reflect resetting due to post-ore fluid circulation. Distinctive cathodoluminescence textures and trace-element patterns of various cassiterite types indicate that the four ore types resulted from pulsed ore-forming fluids and changes in temperature in a single magmatic-hydrothermal system. In combination with the geological characteristics, the geochronological and trace-elemental data of cassiterite indicate that the formation of different ore types at Furong was associated with the most fractionated and latest alkali-feldspar granite of the Qitianling batholith, and resulted from the specific interactions of the ore-forming fluids with their granite and limestone host rocks.
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桐木山云英岩型锡矿床是湘东锡田锡多金属矿田中一个典型矿床,在详尽的野外考察、矿石结构观察以及流体包裹体岩相学研究的基础上,采用流体包裹体组合的研究方法,利用冷热台、激光拉曼等测试手段,对矿床中锡石中流体包裹体进行直接测定,同时开展与锡石共生的石英及切割矿体的后期石英脉石英中流体包裹体对比研究。结果显示,锡石中流体包裹体的组分、均一温度、盐度与共生的石英存在明显差异,表明锡石与石英形成的P-T-X条件不同。切割矿体的石英脉为成岩成矿后流体作用的产物。与锡石形成相关的流体为中高温、中低盐度的NaCl-H2O流体体系,与石英形成相关的流体为复杂的含碳流体。流体体系的冷却作用及流体与围岩的反应可能是导致锡石沉淀的主要因素,与石英形成相关的流体在演化过程中则经历了明显的流体不混溶作用。;The Tongmushan greisen type tin deposit is an important deposit in Xitian tin polymetallic ore field at eastern Hunan. Based on detailed field investigation and experimental studies upon the ore texture and the fluid inclusion petrographic properties of the Fluid Inclusion Assemblage (FIA), we carried out microthermometric and Raman microspectroscopic studies upon fluid inclusions in cassiterite and coexisting quartz in greisen type ore samples and quartz veins cutting the orebodies. The results show that significantly differences exist on the constituents, homogenization temperatures and salinities between the cassiterite and intergrowth quartz, suggesting that the P-T-X conditions related to the formation of cassiterite and intergrowth quartz are different. Quartz veins which cut the ore bodies are the products of fluid action after magmatism and mineralization. Fluids related to tin mineralization are from a NaCl-H2O system with medium to high temperatures and medium to low salinities, while fluids associated with the formation of quartz are from a carbon containing system. This study indicate that water rock reaction and the cooling of fluid are the main mechanisms for tin precipitation in the fluid,and the fluid immiscibility maybe led to the formation of the quartz.
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Abstract This contribution presents new insights into the origin and age relationships of the Geyer tin deposit in the Erzgebirge, Germany. Tin mineralization occurs in skarns, greisen, and in cassiterite-bearing fluorite-quartz veins. Skarn alteration replaces marble layers of the Cambrian Jáchymov Group and occurs in two clearly distinct stages. The first skarn stage forms skarnoid textured assemblages of clinopyroxene, garnet, and wollastonite with no tin phases recognized. Garnet U-Pb ages of this skarn stage (~322 Ma) relate the earlier skarn stage to the emplacement of the Ehrenfriedersdorf granite (~324 to 317 Ma). The second stage of skarn alteration is marked by the occurrence of malayaite and cassiterite associated with garnet recording ages of 307 to 301 Ma. Greisen- and skarn-hosted cassiterite-bearing veins provide U-Pb ages in the range of 308 to 305 Ma, relating greisenization and vein formation to the same magmatic-hydrothermal event as the second skarn stage. This suggests that tin mineralization at Geyer is related to a distinctly younger magmatic-hydrothermal event, clearly postdating the Ehrenfriedersdorf granite, which was previously assumed as the source of the tin-rich fluids. Fluid inclusions show salinities in the range of 1.0 to 31.5 % eq. w(NaCl±CaCl 2 ) and homogenization temperatures between 255 and 340 °C. Cassiterite-associated fluid inclusions show indications for heterogeneous entrapment and dilution of hydrothermal with meteoric fluids. Dilution of high-salinity fluids with low-salinity fluids and cooling of the system was probably a decisive process in the precipitation of cassiterite in the Geyer Sn system.
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The large-scale Maoping W–Sn deposit in the Gannan metallogenic belt of the eastern Nanling Range, South China, spatially associated with the Maoping granite pluton, hosts total ore reserves of 103,000 t WO3 and 50,000 t Sn. Two different types of mineralization developed in this deposit: Upper quartz vein-type mineralization, mostly within the Cambrian metamorphosed sandstone and slate, and underneath greisen-type mineralization within the Maoping granite. Cassiterites from both types of mineralization coexist with wolframite. Here we report for the first time in situ U–Pb data on cassiterite and zircon of the Maoping deposit obtained by LA-ICP-MS. Cassiterite from quartz vein and greisen yielded weighted average 206Pb/238U ages of 156.8 ± 1.5 Ma and 156.9 ± 1.4 Ma, respectively, which indicates that the two types of mineralization formed roughly at the same time. In addition, the two mineralization ages are consistent with the emplacement age of the Maoping granite (159.0 ± 1.5 Ma) within error, suggesting a close temporal and genetic link between W–Sn mineralization and granitic magmatism. The two types of mineralization formed at the same magmatic-hydrothermal event. Cassiterite from both types of mineralization shows high Fe, Ta, and Zr contents with a low Zr/Hf ratio, suggesting that the ore-forming fluid should be derived from the highly differentiated Maoping granite pluton. Cassiterite in greisen has higher contents of Nb and Ta but a lower concentration of Ti compared with that in quartz vein, indicating that the formation temperature of greisen-type mineralization is little higher than that of quartz-vein-type mineralization.
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콩고민주공화국 동부에 발달하는 주석광화대 중에서 카탕가 주에 위치하는 무완자와 콩골로 지역을 대상으로 광상탐사를 실시하였다. 카탕가 주에 발달하는 대부분의 광상은 주로 화강암류와 연관되며, 북동-남서 방향의 중기원생대의 키바란대 내에 위치한다. 키바란대에 위치하는 변성퇴적암류는 다양한 화성암에 의해 관입을 받았으며, 그중 tin granite(970 Ma)와 연관되어 주석, 니오비움, 탄탈륨 등의 광상이 발달한다. 무완자와 콩골로 지역 광상은 주로 tin granite와 관련된 페그마타이트, 석영맥 또는 그라이젠 부분에 석석, 콜탄, 금 등이 발달하며, 상기 광석을 대상으로 소규모 채광이 이뤄지고 있다. 또한 식생 등의 영향으로 광화대 확인을 위한 노두가 거의 노출되어 있지 않은 지역에서는, 채굴중인 충적층 및 하천퇴적물을 대상으로 조사를 수행하였다. 향후 상기 시료에 대한 화학분석 결과를 바탕으로 잠재 광화대 지역을 선정하여 정밀탐사를 수행할 예정이다. Prospection was performed on the tin mineralized belt in Mwanza and Kongolo areas of Katanga, DR Congo. Most of deposits in Katanga areas are related to the granites which are located in Kibaran belt in NE and SW trends of mid Proterozoic. Metasedimentary rocks in the Kibaran belt are intruded by granites, and tin, niobium and tantalum deposits are especially developed along with tin-granite. Cassiterite, coltan and gold are developed in the pegmatite, quartz vein and greisen in related to the tin-granite in Mwanza and Katanga areas, and they are exploited by artisan in the smale scale. And we conducted the works with the alluviums and stream sediments in the case of no outcrops. With the results of analysis of samples, we will choose a few potential mineralized zones and con-tinue to prosepect precisely.
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The Kougarok tin (tantalum-niobium) deposit is located in the north-central Seward Peninsula, roughly 130 kilometers north of Nome, Alaska. Tin and tantalum-niobium mineralization occur within granitic dikes, subhorizontal sheets, plugs, and in schists adjacent to the granite bodies. Rb/Sr and K/Ar age determinations indicate the granites at Kougarok are late Cretaceous in age and coeval with other tin granites of the Seward Peninsula. The host rock to the granites at Kougarok is polydeformed pelitic schists of possible Precambrian age. Known mineralization occurs in four geologic settings: 1) within steep cylindrical pipes of greisenized granite; 2) in greisenized dikes; 3) in greisen along the roof zone of a subhorizontal granite sheet; and 4) as stringer zones in schists. Tin mineralization is known in all the above geologic environments and occurs dominantly as disseminated cassiterite in quartz+/-tourmaline+/-topaz greisen. Grades of significant tin mineralization range from 0.1 to 15 percent tin and average approximately 0.5 percent tin. Tantalum-niobium mineralization is confined to the roof greisen environment. Tantalite-columbite occurs as disseminated grains in white mica altered granite lateral to tin-bearing quartz-tourmaline greisen. Grades for both tantalum and niobium range from 0.02 to 0.05 percent.
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