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Chapter 21: Geology of the Fruta del Norte Epithermal Gold-Silver Deposit, Ecuador 第二十一章:厄瓜多尔Fruta del Norte浅成热液型金银矿床地质
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.21
S. Leary, R. Sillitoe, Jorge Lema, Fernando Téliz, Diego Mena
Fruta del Norte is a completely concealed and extremely well-preserved, Late Jurassic epithermal gold-silver deposit of both low- and intermediate-sulfidation type, which is located in the remote Subandean mountain ranges of southeastern Ecuador. Currently defined indicated resources are 23.8 million metric tons (Mt) averaging 9.61 g/t Au and the total endowment is 9.48 Moz Au. The deposit, notable for the widespread occurrence of visible gold and bonanza grades, will be bulk mined underground. Fruta del Norte was discovered in 2006 during greenfield exploration and systematic drill testing of a conceptual geologic model, which predicted that auriferous veins would occur in andesitic volcanic rocks inferred to underlie a zone of arsenic- and antimony-anomalous silicification in fluvial conglomerate. The host andesitic volcanic rocks, crosscutting feldspar porphyry, and associated phreatic breccia are part of a roof pendant in the Zamora batholith. Together, they are products of a continental-margin volcanoplutonic arc of Middle to Late Jurassic age. The deposit lies beneath the northern extremity of the ~16-km-long, Suárez pull-apart basin where it is localized by steep, second-order faults within the regionally extensive Las Peñas strike-slip fault zone. The pull-apart basin was progressively filled by fluvial conglomerate, dacitic ignimbrite, finer grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks, and, finally, andesite flows. The Fruta del Norte deposit comprises a 1.3-km-long and up to >300-m-wide vein stockwork associated with quartz-illite-pyrite alteration. The deposit comprises two principal vein types, one in the south dominated by quartz, manganoan carbonates, and abundant base metal sulfides and the other in the north dominated by manganese- and base metal-poor quartz, chalcedony, and calcite. Adularia is a minor gangue mineral in both. Both vein types are abruptly transitional upward and westward to a third important ore type characterized by intense silicification and chalcedony veining, with disseminated and veinlet marcasite (± pyrite). An extensive silica sinter horizon directly overlies the andesitic rocks and/or occurs as interbeds in the lowermost 20 m of the conglomerate and, consequently, is in unusual proximity to the underlying gold-silver orebody. Much of the conglomerate lacks silicification except for a narrow, steeply inclined zone exposed above the deposit, which led to its discovery.
Fruta del Norte是一个完全隐蔽且保存极为完好的晚侏罗世浅成热液型低硫化和中硫化型金银矿床,位于厄瓜多尔东南部偏远的Subandean山脉。目前确定的指示资源量为2380万吨(Mt),平均为9.61克/吨金,总禀赋为9.48万盎司金。该矿床以可见金矿和富矿品位普遍存在而著称,将在地下大规模开采。Fruta del Norte是在2006年的绿地勘探和概念地质模型的系统钻探测试中发现的,该模型预测含金矿脉将出现在安山岩火山岩中,这些火山岩被推断位于河流砾岩中砷和锑异常硅化带的下面。寄主安山岩火山岩、横切长石斑岩和伴生的潜水角砾岩是萨莫拉岩基顶板垂坠的一部分。它们都是中晚侏罗世大陆边缘火山-深成弧的产物。该矿床位于约16公里长的Suárez拉分盆地的北端,位于区域广泛的Las Peñas走滑断裂带内的陡峭二级断裂中。拉分盆地逐渐被河流砾岩、英灰质火成岩、细粒硅质沉积岩填充,最后是安山岩流。Fruta del Norte矿床包括一条长1.3公里、宽>300米的脉网,并伴有石英-伊利石-黄铁矿蚀变。矿床主要有两种脉型,南部以石英、碳酸锰为主,贱金属硫化物丰富;北部以缺锰、贱金属的石英、玉髓、方解石为主。两者都是一种次要的脉石矿物。这两种矿脉类型都突然向上和向西过渡到第三种重要的矿脉类型,其特征是强烈的硅化和玉髓脉状,并带有浸染状和脉状的黄铁矿(±黄铁矿)。广泛的硅质烧结层直接覆盖在安山岩上和/或在砾岩最下方20米处互层,因此,与下伏的金银矿体异常接近。大部分砾岩缺乏硅化作用,除了在矿床上方露出一个狭窄的、陡峭的倾斜带,这导致了它的发现。
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Chapter 37: Giant Placers of the Upper Kolyma Gold Fields, Yana-Kolyma Province, Russian Northeast 第37章:俄罗斯东北部Yana-Kolyma省上Kolyma金矿的巨型砂矿
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.37
N. Goryachev, A. Yakubchuk, I. S. Litvinenko, A. Lozhkin, Y. Pruss, V. Smirnov
The Upper Kolyma gold placers of northeastern Russia produced 2,700 metric tons (t) Au. Approximately 40% of this gold was extracted from just five placers, Chai-Yuria, Berelekh, Maldyak, Malyi At-Yuryakh, and Omchak, and their immediate tributaries. The placers were derived from Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous lode deposits, formed during sinistral translation subsequent to the Kolyma-Omolon superterrane accretion to the Verkhoyansk passive margin of the Siberian craton. The metallogenic events produced either abundant and widespread small quartz veins or more localized large to superlarge quartz stockworks and disseminated gold deposits. These orogenic gold deposits acted as a principal hard-rock source during formation of the gold placers, beginning in the Late Cretaceous but most importantly during the Cenozoic. Tectonic, geomorphologic, and climatic factors at a triple junction of the North American, Eurasian, and Okhotsk lithospheric plates provided the ultimate controls on placer formation.
俄罗斯东北部的上科雷马(Upper Kolyma)金矿产金2700公吨。大约40%的黄金是从五个砂矿中提取的:Chai-Yuria、Berelekh、Maldyak、Malyi At-Yuryakh和Omchak,以及它们的直接支流。这些砂来自晚侏罗世至早白垩世的矿脉矿床,形成于西伯利亚克拉通Verkhoyansk被动边缘的Kolyma-Omolon超地体增生后的左旋平移过程中。成矿事件或形成丰富而广泛的小石英脉,或形成较为局部的大到超大型石英网和浸染型金矿床。这些造山带金矿床在晚白垩世开始,但最重要的是在新生代,在金矿形成过程中起了主要的硬岩源作用。北美、欧亚和鄂霍次克岩石圈板块的三交界处的构造、地貌和气候因素对砂矿的形成提供了最终的控制。
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Chapter 13: Boddington: An Enigmatic Giant Archean Gold-Copper (Molybdenum-Silver) Deposit in the Southwest Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia 第13章:Boddington:西澳大利亚Yilgarn克拉通西南部一个神秘的太古宙巨型金铜(钼银)矿床
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.13
S. Turner, Graeme Reynolds, S. Hagemann
Boddington is a giant, enigmatic, and atypical Archean Au-Cu deposit hosted in a small, remnant greenstone belt within granite-gneiss and migmatite of the Southwest terrane of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. Primary Au and Cu (and Mo) mineralization consists of a network of thin fractures and veins, controlled by shear zones, and dominantly hosted by early dioritic intrusions and their immediate wall rocks, which comprise felsic to intermediate-composition volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. The pre-~2714 Ma host rocks are typically steeply dipping and strongly deformed, with early ductile and overprinting brittle-ductile fabrics, and have been metamorphosed at mid- to upper greenschist facies. Features consistent with porphyry-style mineralization, classic orogenic shear zones, and intrusion-related Au-Cu-Bi mineralization are all recognized, giving rise to a variety of genetic interpretations. It is clear that Boddington does not fit any classic Archean orogenic gold deposit model, having a general lack of quartz veins and iron carbonate alteration, a Cu (Mo and Bi) association, zoned geochemical anomalism, and evidence of high-temperature, saline ore-forming fluids. Detailed petrographic, geochemical, and melt inclusion studies suggest a late-stage ~2612 Ma, monzogranite intrusion as one of the principal sources of the mineralizing fluids. However, there is also local evidence for older, perhaps protore, porphyry-style Cu (±Au) in the dioritic intrusions and patchy, locally high-grade, orogenic-style gold mineralization associated with enclosing shear zones and brittle-style deformation, which was focused on the relatively competent dioritic intrusions. The relative contributions of metals from these components to the system may not be resolvable. It appears that the Boddington deposit has been a locus for multiple episodes of intrusion, alteration, and mineralization over an extended period of time, as has been demonstrated in a number of other large Canadian and Australian gold deposits, including the Golden Mile near Kalgoorlie.
Boddington是一个巨大的、神秘的、非典型的太古宙金铜矿床,位于西澳大利亚Yilgarn克拉通西南地块的花岗片麻岩和混杂岩中一个小的残余绿岩带中。原生金、铜(和钼)矿化由细裂缝和脉网组成,受剪切带控制,以早期闪长岩侵入体及其直接围岩为主,由长英质至中等成分火山岩和火山碎屑岩组成。2714 Ma前寄主岩具有明显的急倾斜、强变形特征,具有早期韧性和叠印脆性-韧性组构,变质为中上绿片岩相。与斑岩型成矿相一致的特征、经典造山带剪切带以及与侵入体相关的Au-Cu-Bi成矿均得到确认,并提出了多种成因解释。显然,Boddington不符合任何经典的太古宙造山带金矿模式,普遍缺乏石英脉和碳酸铁蚀变,铜(钼和铋)组合,地球化学异常分带,并有高温、含盐成矿流体的证据。详细的岩石学、地球化学和熔融包裹体研究表明,晚期~2612 Ma的二长花岗岩侵入岩是成矿流体的主要来源之一。然而,在闪长岩侵入体中也存在较老的、可能是原矿石的斑岩型Cu(±Au)的局部证据,以及与封闭剪切带和脆性变形相关的斑片状、局部高品位造山型金矿化,这些证据主要集中在相对富集的闪长岩侵入体中。这些组成部分的金属对系统的相对贡献可能无法确定。在很长一段时间内,Boddington矿床似乎是多次侵入、蚀变和矿化的发生地,正如加拿大和澳大利亚其他一些大型金矿所证明的那样,包括Kalgoorlie附近的黄金地段。
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Chapter 16: Giant Carlin-Type Gold Deposits of the Cortez District, Lander and Eureka Counties, Nevada 第16章:内华达州兰德和尤里卡县科尔特斯地区的巨型卡林型金矿
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.16
M. Bradley, L. Anderson, N. Eck, Kevin D. Creel
The Cortez district is in one of the four major Carlin-type gold deposit trends in the Great Basin province of Nevada and contains three giant (>10 Moz) gold orebodies: Pipeline, Cortez Hills, and Goldrush, including the recently discovered Fourmile extension of the Goldrush deposit. The district has produced >21 Moz (653 t) of gold and contains an additional 26 Moz (809 t) in reserves and resources. The Carlin-type deposits occur in two large structural windows (Gold Acres and Cortez) of Ordovician through Devonian shelf- and slope-facies carbonate rocks exposed through deformed, time-equivalent lower Paleozoic siliciclastic rocks of the overlying Roberts Mountains thrust plate. Juxtaposition of these contrasting Paleozoic strata occurred during the late Paleozoic Antler orogeny along the Roberts Mountains thrust. Both upper and lower plate sequences were further deformed by Mesozoic compressional events. Regional extension, commencing in the Eocene, opened high- and low-angle structural conduits for mineralizing solutions and resulted in gold deposition in reactive carbonate units in structural traps, including antiforms and fault-propagated folds. The Pipeline and Cortez Hills deposits are located adjacent to the Cretaceous Gold Acres and Jurassic Mill Canyon granodioritic stocks, respectively; although these stocks are genetically unrelated to the later Carlin-type mineralization event, their thermal metamorphic aureoles may have influenced ground preparation for later gold deposition. Widespread decarbonatization, argillization, and silicification of the carbonate host rocks accompanied gold mineralization, with gold precipitated within As-rich rims on fine-grained pyrite. Pipeline and Cortez Hills also display deep supergene oxidation of the hypogene sulfide mineralization. Carlin-type mineralization in the district is believed to have been initiated in the late Eocene (>35 Ma) based on the age of late- to postmineral rhyolite dikes at Cortez Hills. The Carlin-type gold deposits in the district share common structural, stratigraphic, alteration, and ore mineralogic characteristics that reflect common modes of orebody formation. Ore-forming fluids were channeled along both low-angle structures (Pipeline, Goldrush/Fourmile) and high-angle features (Cortez Hills), and gold mineralization was deposited in Late Ordovician through Devonian limestone, limy mudstone, and calcareous siltstone. The Carlin-type gold fluids are interpreted to be low-salinity (2–3 wt % NaCl equiv), low-temperature (220°–270°C), and weakly acidic, analogous to those in other Carlin-type gold deposits in the Great Basin. The observed characteristics of the Cortez Carlin-type gold deposits are consistent with the recently proposed deep magmatic genetic model. Although the deposits occur over a wide geographic area in the district, it is possible that they initially formed in greater proximity to each other and were then spatially separated during Miocene and post-Miocene r
Cortez地区是内华达州大盆地省四个主要的carlin型金矿趋势之一,包含三个巨型(100万盎司)金矿体:Pipeline, Cortez Hills和Goldrush,包括最近发现的Goldrush矿床的Fourmile延伸。该地区的黄金产量为653吨,储量和资源为809吨。卡林型矿床赋存于奥陶纪泥盆纪陆架和斜坡相碳酸盐岩的两个大型构造窗(Gold Acres和Cortez)中,这些碳酸盐岩通过上覆罗伯茨山脉逆冲板块的变形的、时间等效的下古生代硅质碎屑岩暴露出来。这些对比鲜明的古生代地层的并置发生在晚古生代鹿角造山运动期间。上、下两层序均受到中生代挤压事件的进一步变形。始新世开始的区域伸展,为成矿溶液开辟了高、低角度的构造通道,导致金在构造圈闭中的活性碳酸盐岩单元中沉积,包括反形态和断层扩展褶皱。Pipeline和Cortez Hills矿床分别位于白垩纪Gold Acres和侏罗纪Mill Canyon花岗闪长岩矿床附近;虽然这些矿床在遗传学上与晚期卡林型成矿事件无关,但它们的热变质光晕可能影响了后期金沉积的地面准备。碳酸盐寄主岩广泛的脱碳、泥化和硅化作用伴随着金矿化,金在细粒黄铁矿的富砷边缘内沉淀。管线和科尔特斯山也表现出深部表生氧化下生硫化物成矿作用。根据Cortez Hills晚至矿物后流纹岩岩脉的年龄,认为该区卡林型成矿作用开始于晚始新世(> ~ 35ma)。区内卡林型金矿床具有共同的构造、地层、蚀变特征和矿物学特征,反映了共同的矿体形成模式。成矿流体沿低角度构造(Pipeline、Goldrush/Fourmile)和高角度构造(Cortez Hills)形成通道,晚奥陶世泥盆系灰岩、灰质泥岩和钙质粉砂岩形成金矿床。卡林型金流体与大盆地其他卡林型金矿相似,具有低盐度(2-3 wt % NaCl当量)、低温(220°~ 270°C)、弱酸性的特征。科尔特斯卡林型金矿的观测特征与最近提出的深部岩浆成因模式一致。虽然矿床分布在该区较广的地理范围内,但它们可能最初形成时距离较近,然后在中新世和后中新世的区域伸展中被分隔开。
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Chapter 31: Geologic Evidence of Syngenetic Gold in the Witwatersrand Goldfields, South Africa 第三十一章:南非威特沃特斯兰德金矿同生金的地质证据
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.31
H. Frimmel, G. Nwaila
The Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Basin in the central Kaapvaal craton, South Africa, has been the largest gold-producing province in history. Although mining has reached a very mature state, this ore province remains the biggest regional gold anomaly in the world. Most recent research on the Witwatersrand gold deposits has focused on postdepositional processes, often on a microscale, thereby constraining conditions of gold transport in the host conglomerates. Here we review past and current observations on the geologic setting of the orebodies and first-order controls on gold mineralization, all of which strengthen the argument for a primarily syngenetic model. The Witwatersrand deposits are regarded as remnants of a gold megaevent at 2.9 Ga when environmental conditions are suggested to have been suitable for intense gold flux off the Archean land surface and early photosynthesizing microbes could act as trap sites for riverine and possibly shallow-marine gold. Sedimentary reworking of gold-rich microbial mats led to rich placer deposits which, in turn, became sources of younger placers higher up in the stratigraphy. The same gold concentration mechanism most likely operated on all Mesoarchean land masses, not only on the Kaapvaal craton. The uniqueness of the Witwatersrand gold province is explained by exceptional preservation of these easily erodible, largely continental sediments beneath a thick cover of flood basalt and a later impact melt sheet in the middle of a buoyant craton, with little tectonic overprint over the past two billion years.
南非Kaapvaal克拉通中部的中太古代Witwatersrand盆地是历史上最大的产金省。虽然采矿已达到非常成熟的状态,但该矿省仍是世界上最大的区域黄金异常。最近对威特沃特斯兰德金矿床的研究主要集中在沉积后过程,通常是在微观尺度上,从而限制了金矿在主砾岩中的输运条件。在此,我们回顾了过去和目前关于矿体地质环境和金矿化一级控制因素的观察结果,所有这些都加强了主要同生模型的论点。Witwatersrand矿床被认为是2.9 Ga时一个黄金大事件的遗迹,当时的环境条件适合太古宙地表的强金通量,早期的光合作用微生物可能是河流和浅海黄金的捕获点。富金微生物席的沉积改造形成了丰富的砂矿床,而这些砂矿床又成为地层上层年轻砂矿的来源。同样的金富集机制很可能在所有中太古宙的陆块上都起作用,而不仅仅是在卡普瓦尔克拉通上。威特沃特斯兰德金矿省的独特之处在于,在厚厚的洪水玄武岩覆盖层和后来在浮力克拉通中间的撞击融化板下,这些容易被侵蚀的大部分大陆沉积物保存得非常完好,在过去的20亿年里几乎没有构造叠印。
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Chapter 27: Geology of the Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea 第27章:巴布亚新几内亚Porgera金矿的地质
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.27
Jonathan P. Hay, M. Haydon, F. Robert
Porgera is a ~974-metric ton (t) Au, low-sulfidation, alkalic, epithermal gold deposit located in Papua New Guinea. The deposit is spatially associated with 6 Ma stocks of the mafic alkalic Porgera Intrusive Complex, which were emplaced within Cretaceous carbonaceous mudstones in a transpressional orogenic setting linked to continent-island arc collision. As with many other major magmatic-hydrothermal ore deposits in New Guinea, deep-seated, arc-normal transfer structures have been suggested as controls on intrusion emplacement through the creation of a localized extensional environment favorable for magma ascent. Gold mineralization occurred in two distinct phases, both within ≤0.2 m.y. of emplacement of the Porgera Intrusive Complex. Stage 1 mineralization of intrusion-related carbonate-base metal association consists of extensional vein swarms dominated by coarse intergrown pyrite ± galena and sphalerite, generally hosted within or proximal to the intrusive bodies of the Porgera Intrusive Complex. These veins represent the lowest grade and economically least significant mineralization phase. Overprinted high-grade epithermal Stage 2 mineralization consists of roscoelite, pyrite, and quartz veins and breccia veins ± subordinate amounts of barite, marcasite, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, galena, hematite, and tellurides. Gold mineralization is commonly associated with the roscoelite-rich coatings on vein walls or breccia clasts. Stage 2 mineralization is controlled by a deposit-scale extensional fault-fracture mesh and displays a variety of textural styles including: (1) <5-mm veinlets dominated by roscoelite, pyrite, and gold; (2) thicker veins up to 10 cm wide with roscoelite, pyrite, and gold on the margins with central bands of alternating crustiform quartz and thin layers of roscoelite-pyrite-gold; (3) hydrothermal breccias with roscoelite, pyrite, and gold coating breccia margins and internal clasts, with crustiform quartz forming the matrix. The giant endowment of the Porgera gold system is attributed to its favorable tectonic location and local extensional setting, its vertical extent, the oxidized nature of the mineralizing fluids, and highly efficient gold precipitation.
Porgera是一个约974公吨(t)的低硫化、碱性、浅成热液金矿床,位于巴布亚新几内亚。该矿床在空间上与6 Ma基性碱性Porgera侵入杂岩有关,这些杂岩位于白垩纪碳质泥岩中,与大陆-岛弧碰撞有关。与新几内亚其他许多主要的岩浆热液矿床一样,深部弧形正转移构造通过创造有利于岩浆上升的局部伸展环境,被认为是对侵入侵位的控制。金矿成矿分两期,均在距波尔格拉侵入杂岩侵位≤0.2 m.y的范围内。与侵入体有关的碳酸基金属组合的第1阶段成矿作用由以粗大共生黄铁矿±方铅矿和闪锌矿为主的伸展脉群组成,通常赋存于波尔格拉侵入杂岩体内部或近端。这些矿脉代表了品位最低、经济意义最不显著的矿化阶段。叠印的高等级浅成热液第2阶段矿化包括辉云母、黄铁矿、石英脉和角砾岩脉±次级重晶石、马辉石、闪锌矿、四面体、方铅矿、赤铁矿和碲化物。金矿化通常与矿脉壁或角砾岩碎屑上的富辉石包覆层有关。第2阶段成矿作用受矿床规模的张拉断裂网控制,呈现出多种构造样式,包括:(1)< 5mm细脉,以云母、黄铁矿和金为主;(2)较厚的矿脉宽达10厘米,边缘有榴辉石、黄铁矿和金,中心带为壳状石英相间,有较薄的榴辉石-黄铁矿-金层;(3)热液角砾岩,角砾岩边缘和内部覆有榴辉石、黄铁矿和金,壳状石英构成基质。有利的构造位置和局部伸展环境、垂向范围、成矿流体的氧化性和高效的金沉淀作用是波尔格拉金系统赋存量巨大的主要原因。
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Chapter 4: Hemlo Gold System, Superior Province, Canada 第四章:加拿大苏必利尔省的Hemlo黄金系统
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.04
K. H. Poulsen, R. Barber, F. Robert
Hemlo combines several rare to unique features in the spectrum of Archean greenstone gold deposits. It is an isolated, approximately 800-metric ton (t) gold system in a region of otherwise limited known gold endowment. The geology of Hemlo is dominated by deformed and metamorphosed sedimentary, felsic volcanic, and volcaniclastic units, a premineral coherent felsic porphyry, and a swarm of mainly postmineral, intermediate, feldspar-phyric dikes. Ore is dominantly in the form of gold-bearing lenses of pyritic, feldspathic schist derived from deformation of both the clastic rocks and the felsic porphyry. The deposit and its host rocks were metamorphosed at moderate pressures to assemblages diagnostic of the mid-amphibolite facies, followed by progressive retrogression to those of the greenschist facies. The result is a wide range of silicate mineral species in ambiguous textural relationships. The gold system itself is known for ore and related alteration minerals with significant concentrations of Mo-As-Sb-Hg-Tl-V-Ba-K-Na. The inferences derived from lithologic mapping, structural chronology, U-Pb geochronology, and mineral paragenesis favors an interpretation of Hemlo as a deformed and metamorphosed gold system formed from oxidized hydrothermal fluids in an upper crustal setting. Uncertainty remains as to the exact nature and geometry of that ore-forming hydrothermal system, however, and the role subsequent metamorphism and deformation have played in the local remobilization of ore constituents into their present paragenetically late structural sites.
Hemlo结合了太古宙绿岩金矿谱中几个罕见而独特的特征。这是一个孤立的,大约800公吨(t)的黄金系统在一个地区,否则有限的已知黄金禀赋。海姆罗的地质主要由变形变质的沉积、长英质火山和火山碎屑岩单元、成矿前的连续长英质斑岩和一群主要的成矿后、中间、长石-长石岩脉组成。矿石主要以黄铁矿、长石片岩的含金透镜体形式存在,这些透镜体是由碎屑岩和长英质斑岩变形形成的。矿床及其寄主岩在中等压力下变质为中角闪岩相组合,并逐渐退变为绿片岩相组合。其结果是广泛的硅酸盐矿物种类在模糊的纹理关系。金系统本身以具有显著浓度的Mo-As-Sb-Hg-Tl-V-Ba-K-Na的矿石和相关蚀变矿物而闻名。从岩性填图、构造年代学、U-Pb年代学和矿物共生等方面推断,Hemlo金矿是由上地壳环境中氧化热液形成的变形变质金体系。然而,对于该成矿热液系统的确切性质和几何形状,以及随后的变质作用和变形作用在矿石组分局部再迁移到它们目前共生的晚期构造位置方面所起的作用,仍然不确定。
{"title":"Chapter 4: Hemlo Gold System, Superior Province, Canada","authors":"K. H. Poulsen, R. Barber, F. Robert","doi":"10.5382/sp.23.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5382/sp.23.04","url":null,"abstract":"Hemlo combines several rare to unique features in the spectrum of Archean greenstone gold deposits. It is an isolated, approximately 800-metric ton (t) gold system in a region of otherwise limited known gold endowment. The geology of Hemlo is dominated by deformed and metamorphosed sedimentary, felsic volcanic, and volcaniclastic units, a premineral coherent felsic porphyry, and a swarm of mainly postmineral, intermediate, feldspar-phyric dikes. Ore is dominantly in the form of gold-bearing lenses of pyritic, feldspathic schist derived from deformation of both the clastic rocks and the felsic porphyry. The deposit and its host rocks were metamorphosed at moderate pressures to assemblages diagnostic of the mid-amphibolite facies, followed by progressive retrogression to those of the greenschist facies. The result is a wide range of silicate mineral species in ambiguous textural relationships. The gold system itself is known for ore and related alteration minerals with significant concentrations of Mo-As-Sb-Hg-Tl-V-Ba-K-Na. The inferences derived from lithologic mapping, structural chronology, U-Pb geochronology, and mineral paragenesis favors an interpretation of Hemlo as a deformed and metamorphosed gold system formed from oxidized hydrothermal fluids in an upper crustal setting. Uncertainty remains as to the exact nature and geometry of that ore-forming hydrothermal system, however, and the role subsequent metamorphism and deformation have played in the local remobilization of ore constituents into their present paragenetically late structural sites.","PeriodicalId":12540,"journal":{"name":"Geology of the World’s Major Gold Deposits and Provinces","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81336313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Chapter 24: Muruntau, Uzbekistan: The World’s Largest Epigenetic Gold Deposit 第24章:乌兹别克斯坦穆伦陶:世界上最大的表观成因金矿
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.24
R. Seltmann, R. Goldfarb, B. Zu, R. Creaser, A. Dolgopolova, V. Shatov
Muruntau in the Central Kyzylkum desert of the South Tien Shan, western Uzbekistan, with past production of ~3,000 metric tons (t) Au since 1967, present annual production of ~60 t Au, and large remaining resources, is the world’s largest epigenetic Au deposit. The host rocks are the mainly Cambrian-Ordovician siliciclastic flysch of the Besapan sequence. The rocks were deformed into a broadly east-west fold-and-thrust belt prior to ca. 300 Ma during ocean closure along the South Tien Shan suture. A subsequent tectonic transition was characterized by left-lateral motion on regional splays from the suture and by a massive thermal event documented by widespread 300 to 275 Ma magmatism. The Besapan rocks were subjected to middle to upper greenschist-facies regional metamorphism, an overprinting more local thermal metamorphism to produce a large hornfels aureole, and then Au-related hydrothermal activity all during early parts of the thermal event. The giant Muruntau Au deposit formed in the low-strain hornfels rocks at ca. 288 Ma at the intersection of one of the east-west splays, the Sangruntau-Tamdytau shear zone, with a NE-trending regional fault zone, the Muruntau-Daugyztau fault, which likely formed as a cross fault during the onset of left-lateral translation on the regional splays. Interaction between the two faults opened a large dilational zone along a plunging anticlinorium fold nose that served as a major site for hydrothermal fluid focusing. The Au ores are dominantly present as a series of moderately to steeply dipping quartz ± K-feldspar stockwork systems surrounding uncommon central veins and with widespread lower Au-grade metasomatites (i.e., disseminated ores). Pervasive alteration is biotite-K-feldspar, although locally albitization is dominant. Sulfides are mainly arsenopyrite, pyrite, and lesser pyrrhotite, and scheelite may be present both in preore ductile veins and in the more brittle auriferous stockwork systems. The low-salinity, aqueous-carbonic ore-forming fluids probably deposited the bulk of the ore at 400° ± 50°C and 6-to 10-km paleodepth. The genesis of the deposit remains controversial with metamorphic, thermal aureole gold (TAG), and models related to mantle upwelling all having been suggested in recent years. More importantly, the question as to why there was such a focusing of so much Au and fluid into this one location, forming an ore system an order of magnitude larger than other giant Au deposits in metamorphic terranes, remains unresolved.
位于乌兹别克斯坦西部南天山中部Kyzylkum沙漠的Muruntau,自1967年以来过去的产量约为3,000公吨(t),目前年产量约为60公吨,剩余资源量大,是世界上最大的后生金矿床。寄主岩主要为贝沙班层序寒武—奥陶系硅屑复理岩。约300 Ma以前,在南天山缝合线洋闭期间,岩石被变形成一个广泛的东西向褶皱冲断带。随后的构造转变以从缝合线开始的区域左旋运动和300 - 275 Ma广泛的岩浆活动记录的大规模热事件为特征。Besapan岩石在热活动早期经历了中上部绿片岩相区域变质作用、局部热变质作用的叠加作用,形成了大的角粒光环,然后经历了与au相关的热液活动。巨型Muruntau金矿形成于约288 Ma的低应变角状岩中,位于东西向的Sangruntau-Tamdytau剪切带与ne向的区域断裂带Muruntau- daugyztau断裂的交汇处,该断裂带可能是在区域断层左平移开始时形成的交叉断裂。两条断裂之间的相互作用打开了一个沿俯冲背斜褶皱鼻的大型扩张带,该扩张带是热液聚焦的主要场所。金矿主要以一系列中~陡倾斜的石英±钾长石网系的形式存在,围绕着不常见的中心矿脉,并广泛分布着低金品位的交代岩(即浸染状矿石)。普遍蚀变为黑云母-钾长石,尽管局部钠长石化占主导地位。硫化物主要为毒砂、黄铁矿和少量磁黄铁矿,白钨矿可能存在于前延展性脉体和较脆的含金网状体系中。低盐度、水-碳成矿流体可能在400°±50°C、6 ~ 10 km古深度沉积了大部分矿石。矿床成因至今仍有争议,近年来已提出的变质、热光环金(TAG)和地幔上涌模式均存在争议。更重要的是,为什么会有如此多的金和流体聚集到这个地方,形成一个比变质地体中其他巨型金矿床大一个数量级的矿石系统,这个问题仍然没有解决。
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Chapter 6: The Supergiant, High-Grade, Paleoproterozoic Metasedimentary Rock- and Shear Vein-Hosted Obuasi (Ashanti) Gold Deposit, Ghana, West Africa 第六章:西非加纳Obuasi (Ashanti)超巨型、高品位、古元古代变质沉积岩-剪切脉型金矿床
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.06
N. Oliver, A. Allibone, M. Nugus, C. Vargas, R. Jongens, R. Peattie, V. Chamberlain
Obuasi, with a total mineral resource plus past production of 70 Moz, is the largest gold deposit in West Africa, and one of the largest in the world. It is hosted by ~2135 Ma siliciclastic rocks of the Eburnean Kumasi Basin, which were obliquely shortened along an inverted boundary with the older Eoeburnean Ashanti belt to the east. Greenschist facies metamorphism was coeval with mineralization and related alteration at ~2095 Ma. The steeply dipping, ENE-plunging lodes extend over an 8-km strike length and to depths of >2.5 km. They include paragenetically complex gold-rich quartz veins surrounded by refractory auriferous arsenopyrite and closely associated carbonate-muscovite alteration halos in deformed carbonaceous phyllites and subordinate metaigneous host rocks. Gold and arsenic were initially precipitated during deformation-assisted interaction with reduced host rocks at ~350°C and 100 to 200 MPa. The mineralizing fluids were derived primarily from deeper, As-rich metasedimentary sources by basinal fluid expulsion and metamorphic devolatilization triggered by inversion and shortening, followed by transpression. Continued fluid injection during and after the metamorphic peak produced changes in gold fineness, sulfide assemblages, repeated dissolution (stylolites) and reprecipitation of mineralized veins, and a change from early deformed shear-related, sulfide-rich lodes to later quartz-rich lodes that plunge down or across the axes of younger transpressional folds. Channelized fluid flow due to reactivation of basin-edge transfer structures, and/or irregularly distributed gold source rocks, may explain the variation in gold endowment along the former basin boundary.
Obuasi的总矿产资源加上过去的产量为7000万盎司,是西非最大的金矿,也是世界上最大的金矿之一。其赋存层为~2135 Ma的鄂西—库马西盆地的硅质碎屑岩,与东部的鄂西—阿散蒂古带沿倒边界斜折缩短。绿片岩相变质作用与成矿作用及相关蚀变发生在~2095 Ma。陡倾、东东倾的矿脉走向长度超过8公里,深度>2.5公里。它们包括由难熔含金毒砂包围的共生复合体富金石英脉,以及在变形的碳质千层岩和次级变质寄主岩中密切相关的碳酸盐-白云母蚀变晕。在~350℃和100 ~ 200 MPa的条件下,金和砷在变形辅助作用下与还原的宿主岩相互作用时开始析出。成矿流体主要来源于深部富砷的变质沉积岩源,由盆地流体排出和变质脱挥发作用引起反转和缩短,然后是逆压作用。变质峰期和变质峰期后持续的流体注入导致了金的细度、硫化物组合、矿化脉体的重复溶蚀(柱面岩)和再沉淀的变化,并使早期与变形剪切相关的富硫化物矿脉向晚期沿较年轻的转压褶皱轴向下或跨越的富石英矿脉转变。盆地边缘转移构造重新活化导致的水道化流体流动和(或)不规则分布的金源岩可能是原盆地边界金禀赋变化的原因。
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Chapter 32: Gold Deposits of the Archean Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada 第三十二章:加拿大太古代阿比提比绿岩带金矿床
Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.5382/sp.23.32
B. Dubé, P. Mercier-Langevin
The Neoarchean Abitibi greenstone belt in the southern Superior Province has been one of the world’s major gold-producing regions for almost a century with >6,100 metric tons (t) Au produced and a total endowment, including production, reserves, and resources (measured and indicated), of >9,375 t Au. The Abitibi belt records continuous mafic to felsic submarine volcanism and plutonism from ca. 2740 to 2660 Ma. A significant part of that gold is synvolcanic and/or synmagmatic and was formed during the volcanic construction of the belt between ca. 2740 and 2695 Ma. However, >60% of the gold is hosted in late, orogenic quartz-carbonate vein-style deposits that formed between ca. 2660 and 2640 ± 10 Ma, predominantly along the Larder Lake-Cadillac and Destor-Porcupine fault zones. This ore-forming period coincides with the D3 deformation, a broad north-south main phase of regional shortening that followed a period of extension and associated crustal thinning, alkaline to subalkaline magmatism, and development of orogenic fluvial-alluvial sedimentary basins (ca. <2679–<2669 Ma). These sedimentary rocks are referred to, in the southern Abitibi, as Timiskaming-type. The tectonic inversion from extension to compression is <2669 Ma, the maximum age of the D3-deformed youngest Timiskaming rocks. In addition to the quartz-carbonate vein-style, stockwork-disseminated-replacement-style mineralization is hosted in and/or is associated with ca. 2683 to 2670 Ma, early-to syn-Timiskaming alkaline to subalkaline intrusions along major deformation corridors, especially in southern Abitibi. The bulk of such deposits formed late-to post-alkaline to subalkaline magmatism and the largest deposits are early- to syn-D3 (ca. 2670–2660 Ma), whereas the bulk of the quartz-carbonate vein systems formed syn- to late-D3 and metamorphism. At belt scale, these illustrate a gradual transition, as shortening increases, in ore styles in orogenic deposits throughout the duration of the D3 deformation event along the length of the Larder Lake-Cadillac and Destor-Porcupine faults. The sequence of events, although similar in all camps, was probably not perfectly synchronous at belt scale, but varied/migrated with time and crustal levels along the main deformation corridors and from north to south. The presence of high-level alkaline/shoshonitic intrusions, which are spatially associated with Timiskaming conglomerate and sandstone, large-scale hydrothermal alteration, and numerous gold deposits along the Larder Lake-Cadillac and Destor-Porcupine faults indicates that these structures were deeply rooted and tapped auriferous metamorphic-hydrothermal fluids and melts from the upper mantle and/or lower crust, late in the evolution of the belt. The metamorphic-hydrothermal fluids, rich in H2O, CO2, and H2S were capable of leaching and transporting gold to the upper crust along the major faults and their splays. Although most magmatic activity along the faults predates gold, magmas may have
近一个世纪以来,苏必利尔省南部的新太古代阿比提比绿岩带一直是世界上主要的黄金产区之一,其黄金产量超过6100公吨,总禀赋(包括产量、储量和资源量)超过9375公吨。约2740 ~ 2660 Ma,阿比提比带记录了连续的镁质-长英质海底火山活动和深部火山活动。其中相当一部分黄金是同火山和/或同岩浆的,形成于约2740 - 2695 Ma的火山构造期间。然而,>60%的黄金赋存于约2660 ~ 2640±10 Ma之间形成的晚造山期石英-碳酸盐脉状矿床,主要沿Larder Lake-Cadillac和Destor-Porcupine断裂带发育。这一成矿期与D3变形相吻合,在伸展期和相关的地壳减薄期之后,出现了一个广泛的南北主要的区域缩短期,碱性到亚碱性岩浆作用,以及沿拉德湖-卡迪拉克断裂和德斯托尔-豪豪斯断层所定义的走廊发育的造山河冲积沉积盆地(约8,100 t Au),这些都表明这些断层开采出了特别肥沃的上地幔-下地壳金矿。大型同火山岩和同岩浆型金矿沿走廊富集,支持了富金来源的观点,这些富金来源可能在带演化的不同时期为成矿系统贡献了黄金。
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