Abstract:The Huayuan leadzinc deposit is expected to become the biggest PbZn deposit in China, and one of the worldclass superlarge ore deposits with more than ten million tons of lead and zinc resource reserves. In this paper, C, O, H, S, Pb and Sr isotope geochemistry were analyzed in this paper in order to understand comprehensively the source of the ore metals and ore fluids. The analysis results show that δ13CPDB values of calcite samples display a range of 2.71 ‰ to 1.21 ‰, the δ18.OSMOW values in a range of 16.09 ‰ to 22.48 ‰. In the Huayuan leadzinc deposit, the carbon in the oreforming fluid is mainly derived from marine carbonate dissolution. The δ13CPDBvalues of surrounding rock in Huayuan leadzinc deposit range of 0.29 ‰ to 1.05 ‰, the δ18OSMOWvalues range of 21.33‰ to23.89‰, the surrounding rock is sedimentary marine carbonate. The δ34SV-CDT values of sulfides are 24.93‰~34.66‰, and the 34S values of barite are 32.78‰~34.22‰, suggesting that the sulfur should be derived from the insitu thermochemical reduction of sulfates from the sedimentary strata. The 206Pb/204Pb, 207Pb/204Pb and 208Pb/204Pb values of the ores are in the range of 17.999~18.919, 15.554~15.798 and 38.088~38.576 respectively, and the normal Pb model ages are 437~534 Ma, so the ore metals were likely derived from the OrdovicianCambrian strata. The δDSMOWof fluid in calcite and sphalerite changes from 91.1‰ to 15‰, the δ18Ofluidrange of 4.1 ‰ to 8.75 ‰, The δDSMOWδ18Ofluiddiagram shown that, the main source of oreforming fluid is formation water and atmospheric precipitation. Waterrock reaction between oreforming fluid and wall rock is the main mechanism leading the precipitation and crystallization of calcite and sphalerite in Huayuan PbZn deposit, west Hunan. The initial 87Sr/86Sr values of the oreforming fluid are 0.70906~0.71022, higher than 87Sr/86Sr values (0.70886~0.70921) of the host rock Cambrian limestone, implying that the oreforming fluid probably migrated through the underlying formation of Qingxudong Group, and experienced waterrock reaction and isotope exchange between the ore fluid and the shale, clastic rocks and mudstones which had high 87Sr/86Sr values.