Ore-Forming Fluids Features of the Yanzigou Orogenic Gold Deposit, Danba County, Sichuan Province, China
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    The Yanzigou gold deposit in Danbacounty, Sichuan, is located in the Songpan-Ganzêorogenic belt. The ores can be divided into quartz vein gold ore and layered carbonaceous slate gold ore. Gold mineralization consists of pre-mineralization, main mineralization and post-mineralization periods. The fluid in the Yanzigou gold deposit is acidic and belongs to a CO2-H2O-NaCl system.Fluid inclusions can be divided into two types. Fluid inclusions in pre-mineralization and main metallogenic period have the typical characteristics of orogenic gold metamorphic hydrothermal fluid: medium homogenization temperature, low salinity, low density and high CO2. However, the fluid inclusions of post metallogenic period shows the characteristics of meteoric water, characterized with low homogenization temperature range, low salinity, low density and low CO2. During pre-mineralization and main mineralization periods,gold was mainly transported as \[Au(Cl)4\]- complex compound and \[Au(HS)2\]-, respectively. During the transition process from compression to transpression, the P-T conditions of fluids changed greatly, coupled with penetration of meteoric water into tensile fractures, resulting in boiling and mixing of fluids. With increasingof gold-sulfur complex content, and change of physical and chemical conditions such as PH, Eh, fO2, and fS, ore-forming materials started to precipitate and form ore bodies. According to the characteristics of the ore-forming fluids, the Yanzigou gold deposit belongs to orogenic gold deposit.

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houlin, DENG Jun, DING Jun, WANG Xiongwu, PENG Huijuan.2012. Ore-Forming Fluids Features of the Yanzigou Orogenic Gold Deposit, Danba County, Sichuan Province, China[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica,86(12):1957-1971

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  • Received:November 29,2011
  • Revised:April 21,2012
  • Adopted:December 13,2012
  • Online: December 18,2012
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