Genesis of the Ciemas Gold Deposit and Relationship with Epithermal Deposits in West Java, Indonesia: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and Stable Isotopes
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This research is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NFSC No. 41573039). We are grateful to Prof. Zhou Meifu of Hongkong University and Prof. Lu Huanzhang of Quebec University for their helpful suggestions for this study. Also, we thank Prof. Guoxiang Chi (Associate Editor-in-Chief) and two anonymous reviewers so much for their careful reviews and constructive suggestions, which helped us to improve our manuscript.

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    The Ciemas gold deposit?is located?in West Java of Indonesia,?which?is a Cenozoic magmatism belt resulting from the Indo-Australian plate subducting under the Eurasian plate. Two different volcanic rock belts and associated epithermal deposits are distributed in West Java: the younger late Miocene–Pliocene magmatic belt generated the Pliocene–Pleistocene epithermal deposits, while the older late Eocene–early Miocene magmatic belt generated the Miocene epithermal deposits. To constrain the physico-chemical conditions and the origin of the ore fluid in Ciemas, a detailed study of ore petrography, fluid inclusions, laser Raman spectroscopy, oxygen-hydrogen isotopes for quartz was conducted. The results show that hydrothermal pyrite and quartz are widespread, hydrothermal alteration is well developed, and that leaching structures such as vuggy rocks and extension structures such as comb quartz are common. Fluid inclusions in quartz are mainly liquid-rich two phase inclusions, with fluid compositions in the NaCl-H2O fluid system, and contain no or little CO2. Their homogenization temperatures cluster around 240°C–320°C, the salinities lie in the range of 14–17 wt.% NaCl equiv, and the calculated fluid densities are 0.65–1.00 g/cm3. The values of δ18OH2O-VSMOW for quartz range from +5.5‰ to +7.7‰, the δDVSMOW of fluid inclusions in quartz ranges from ?70‰ to ?115‰. All of these data indicate that mixing of magmatic fluid with meteoric water resulted in the formation of the Ciemas deposit. A comparison among gold deposits of West Java suggests that Miocene epithermal ore deposits in the southernmost part of West Java were more affected by magmatic fluids and exhibit a higher degree of sulfidation than those of Pliocene–Pleistocene.

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ZHENG Chaofei, ZHANG Zhengwei, WU Chengquan, YAO Junhua.2017. Genesis of the Ciemas Gold Deposit and Relationship with Epithermal Deposits in West Java, Indonesia: Constraints from Fluid Inclusions and Stable Isotopes[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),91(3):1025-1040

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  • Received:March 17,2016
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  • Online: June 08,2017
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