A preliminary study on ore-forming environments of Xianglushan-type iron deposit and the weathering

• 作者: Guofan Cheng Youping Liu Hansheng Long Tao Cui Ning Yu
• 来源期刊: 地球化学学报(英文）
• 关键词: Emeishan basalt paleo-weathering crust Xianglushan-type iron deposit Ore-forming environment Weathering mineralization Western Guizhou Province
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（3）
• 页码范围: 556-565
• 页数: 9页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1007/s11631-017-0235-6

摘要

Xianglushan-type iron deposits are one of the new types of iron deposits found in the Weining Area of Western Guizhou. The iron-bearing rock system is a paleo-weathered crustal sedimentary (or accumulating) stratum between the top of the Middle-Late Permian Emeishan basalt formation and the Late Permian Xuanwei formation. Iron ore is hosted in the Lower-Middle part of the rock system. In terms of the genesis of mineral deposit, this type of deposit should be a basalt paleo-weathering crustal redeposit type, very different from marine sedimentary iron deposits or continental weathering crust iron deposits. Based on field work and the analytical results of XRD Powder Diffraction, Electron Probe, Scanner Electron Microscope, etc., the geological setting of the ore-forming processes and the deposit features are illustrated in this paper. The ore-forming environment of the deposit and the Emeishan basalt weathering mineralization are also discussed in order to enhance the knowledge of the universality and diversity of mineralization of the Emeishan Large Igneous Province (ELIP), which may be a considerable reference to further research for ELIP metallogenic theories, and geological research for iron deposits in the paleo-weathering crust areas of the Emeishan basalt, Southwestern, China.