Genesis of the Fenghuangshan gold deposit, eastern Hebei, China: Insights from ore geology, fluid inclusion and H–O–S isotopes
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The Jidong area is a vital gold province in North China, including plenty of metamorphic rock-hosted gold deposits. Whether ore-forming fluids are magmatic or metamorphic remains controversial. The genesis for gold mineralization in this gold province is ambiguous. The Fenghuangshan gold deposit lies on the eastern fragment of the Jidong gold province. In this paper, we present a detailed study on ore geology, fluid inclusions, and stable isotopes for the deposit to illustrate the characteristics of ore-forming fluids and ore genesis. The deposit occurs as gold-bearing quartz vein and disseminated- and veinlet-type mineralization. The main orebody named 7# is hosted in migmatitic granite, controlled by NE trending secondary fracture system. Four hydrothermal mineralization stages were identified, including: (Ⅰ) white quartz, (II) pyrite-quartz, (III) quartz-polymetallic sulfide, and (IV) calcite-chlorite-quartz. The Stage II and III belong to main gold mineralization stage. Fluid inclusions from different stages show that a lowering trend of fluid inclusion homogenization temperature was observed. They ranged from 222 °C to 407 °C (early-stage), 144 °C to 375 °C (main-stage), and 86 °C to 174 °C (late-stage), respectively. The salinities of the ore-forming fluids were typically low, ranging from 0.83 to 15.47 wt% NaCl equivalent. On the basis of Laser Raman analysis and fluid inclusion microthermometry, the ore-forming fluids belonged to a low- to moderate-temperature, low-salinity H2O-NaCl-CO2 system. Fluid immiscibility gave rise to rapid gold deposition. The early-stage δD and δ18OH2O values from quartzs ranged from –96.4‰ to –92.5‰ and from 1.74‰ to 2.44‰, whereas main-stage fluids had δ18OH2O values of –4.10‰ to –3.50‰ and δD values of –91.5‰ to –89.5‰. The early- and main-stage sulfide δ34S values varied from –2.0‰ to + 2.2‰, with average values of + 0.4‰. H-O-S-isotope data indicated that the primary ore-forming fluids were magmatic water mixing meteoric water during mineralization, and ore-forming materials were derived from a homogeneous magmatic source. Ore geology, fluid inclusions, and stable isotopes illustrate that the Fenghuangshan gold deposit is a low- to moderate-temperature magmatic-hydrothermal gold deposit. Future deep-seated and surrounding gold exploration should center on this area.Keywords:
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