Metallogenica Age of Mississippi Valley Type Pb Zn Deposit in Fankou Guangdong: Evidence from SHRIMP U Pb Zircon Dating of Diabase
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    The Fankou MVT type lead zinc deposit located in northern Guangdong province is one of the largest Zn Pb deposits in China, with a proven reserves of up to 10 million tons. It occurs in dolomitized limestone in the upper part of the Devonian transgressive sequence as irregular lead zince orebodies, which are controlled by the NNE trending faults and cut by NWW or NNW trending diabase veins. Diabases close to ore bodies are carbonatized and clayizized. Diabases cut through both Zn Pb ore bodies and dissemiated Zn Pb veinlets, indicating the diabase formed later than mineralization. The fact that the ore forming continued a long term and the diabase intruded at the late period of the ore forming support that the diabase and the lead zinc ore formed at almost the same period. The SHRIMP U Pb zircon ages of the diabase are 2213~957 Ma, 341~216 Ma, 138~127 Ma and 122~90 Ma. The first two groups of the ages represent the captured zircons. Comparing the geological characteristic and evolution, ages of uranium deposit and diabases, we can infer that the deposit formed at 122~90Ma (Cretaceous Period) in the extensional tectonic environment corresponding to the formation of large scale red bed basin. Thus, the ore forming model of the Fankou deposit is established as fallows: since early Cretaceous, red bed basins started to develop within the South China area due to uplift of Wuyi mountains which held back the moisture air from Pacific ocean, with the lead zinc deposits distributed mainly around the margin of the red bed basins, and mixing of brines from the red bed basins and the sulfur rich reductive brines from the hydrocarbon layer resulted in the formation of the Zn Pb deposits.

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ZHU Xinyou, WANG Jingbin, LIU Shengbo, WANG Yanli, HAN Ying, ZHEN Shimin, GUO Ningning.2013. Metallogenica Age of Mississippi Valley Type Pb Zn Deposit in Fankou Guangdong: Evidence from SHRIMP U Pb Zircon Dating of Diabase[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica,87(2):167-177

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  • Received:December 22,2011
  • Revised:November 15,2012
  • Adopted:February 04,2013
  • Online: February 15,2013
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