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Field Relationships and Geochemical Constraints on the Emplacement of the Jinchuan Intrusion and its Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposit, Gansu, China

Jérémie Lehmann 1 Nicholas Arndt 1 Brian Windley 2 Mei-Fu Zhou 3 Christina Yan Wang 3 Chris Harris 4
1 LGCA - Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaines Alpines
2 Department of Geology [Leicester]
3 Department of Earth Sciences [Hong kong]
4 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town
Abstract : Field mapping and petrological-geochemical investigation of the Jinchuan intrusion in north-central China clarifies how the intrusion was emplaced and provides a new model that explains how its large and rich Ni-Cu-platinoid deposits may have formed. The intrusion was emplaced into high-grade gneisses and marbles along a disconformity at the base of an overlying cover sequence, indicating that it was emplaced as a sill, not a near-vertical dike, as previously proposed. After emplacement the intrusion was rotated to its present orientation and deformed and metamorphosed under greenschist-facies conditions. Relative enrichment of incompatible trace elements coupled with negative U-Th and Nb-Ta anomalies in all samples from the intrusion provide evidence that the parental magma assimilated granitoid rocks in the lower crust. The presence of abundant marble xenoliths, now decarbonatized to diopside-rich skarns, and chemical indices such as high CaO/SiO2, indicate that the magma assimilated carbonate on reaching its present site. This contamination may be linked to the formation of the Ni-Cu platinoid ores. We propose that the assimilation of carbonate-rich fluids increased the oxygen fugacity of the magma and led to the segregation of metal-rich sulfides.
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Jérémie Lehmann, Nicholas Arndt, Brian Windley, Mei-Fu Zhou, Christina Yan Wang, et al.. Field Relationships and Geochemical Constraints on the Emplacement of the Jinchuan Intrusion and its Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposit, Gansu, China. Economic Geology, Society of Economic Geologists, 2007, 102 (1), pp.75-94. ⟨10.2113/gsecongeo.102.1.75⟩. ⟨insu-00254949⟩

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