Genesis of the Xinqiao Gold-Sulfide Orefield, Anhui Province, China

The Xinqiao S-Fe-Cu-Au orefield is located in the Tongling ore cluster in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in East China. There have been many researches regarding the genesis of the Xinqiao orefield in recent years, showing that it belongs to various types, such as sedimentary-reformed type, stratabound-skarn type, sedimentary submarine rocks-hosted exhalative type. We propose that it was formed in two periods of mineralization base on systematic field observation and Pb and S isotopic analyses in nearly ten years. The first period was formed during a syngenetic sedimentary process, whereas the massive sulphide orebodies are mainly related to the Yanshanian granitic magmatism. Sulfide metallic mineral associations show zoning around a granite intrusion, i.e. magnetite and pyrite→pyrite, chalcopyrite and native gold→pyrite, sphalerite and galena. Gold orebodies occur outside the contact zone of the granite intrusion.

浅析安徽省新桥S-Fe矿田的成因

为探讨新桥(S-Fe-Cu-Au)矿田的成因,笔者在近10年野外系统观察的基础上,通过对野外地质的系统分析研究和部分硫、铅同位素测试,认为新桥矿田的形成经历了两期成矿作用,即沉积成矿作用和与岩浆活动有关的成矿作用。沉积作用形成了菱铁矿矿体和胶黄铁矿矿石等,而岩浆作用是形成块状硫化物矿体的主要原因。硫化物矿体围绕岩体具有岩体→磁铁矿、黄铁矿→黄铁矿、黄铜矿和自然金→黄铁矿和铅、锌矿的分布特征,原生金矿体具有围绕岩体呈环状分布的地质特征。形成富的块状硫化物矿体的成矿流体可能为类似矿浆的富硫化物流体。