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Textural and geochemical characteristics of garnet from the Luoyang Fe skarn deposit, eastern China: implications for ore-forming fluid evolution and mineralization conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2021

Qiang Wang ,
Yu-Long Yang Open the ORCID record for Yu-Long Yang [Opens in a new window] ,
Yao Tang ,
Wen-Qi Guo  and
Tian-Xin Xiao
Qiang Wang
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
Yu-Long Yang*
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
Yao Tang
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
Wen-Qi Guo
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
Tian-Xin Xiao
Affiliation:
College of Earth Sciences, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, Sichuan, China
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Author for correspondence: Yu-Long Yang, Email: yangyulong17@cdut.edu.cn
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Abstract

The late Palaeozoic Yong’an–Meizhou depression belt is an important iron (Fe) and polymetallic metallogenic belt in southern China. It has undergone a transformation from Tethys to the circum-Pacific tectonic domain. The Luoyang deposit is one of the typical Fe skarn deposits in the Yong’an–Meizhou depression belt of eastern China. Garnet is a characteristic mineral in the deposit. Two generations of garnets are detected in the deposit based on their textural characteristics and trace-element contents, and are represented by Fe-enriched andradite. The first generation of garnets (Grt1) have two types of garnets (Grt1-A and Grt1-B). Type A garnets of the first generation (Grt1-A) (Adr80-88) replaced by massive diopside-magnetite assemblage exhibit distinct oscillatory zonings and display patterns of enriched light rare earth elements (LREE) to weak heavy rare earth elements (HREE), with weak negative to positive Eu anomalies, and highest U, ΣREE and Sn contents. Type B garnets of the first generation (Grt1-B) are irregular zones (Adr94-96) coexisting with magnetite, in which Grt1-A is generally dissolved, and have obviously LREE-enriched and HREE-depleted patterns, with weak negative to positive Eu anomalies, and moderate U, ΣREE and Zn contents. Garnets of the second generation (Grt2) (Adr96-99) that replaced massive magnetite together with sphalerite show unzoned patterns, with a flat REE pattern and pronounced negative Eu anomalies as well as contents of lowest U and ΣREE, and highest W. The substitution of REEs in garnets occurs as [X2+]VIII –1[REE3+]VIII +1[Si4+]IV –1[Z3+]IV +1in an Al-enriched environment. Luoyang hydrothermal fluids shifted from reducing conditions with relatively high-U and -ΣREE characteristics to oxidizing conditions with relatively low-U and -ΣREE characteristics. The reduced siderophile elements and increased fO2 in fluid during Grt1-B formation caused magnetite mineralization and reduced Zn contents during Grt2 formation, causing the deposition of sphalerite. All garnets formed from magmatic fluid and were controlled by infiltrative metasomatism in an opened system.

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LA-ICP-MSgarnetLuoyang depositeastern China
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Geological Magazine , Volume 158 , Issue 11 , November 2021 , pp. 1937 - 1950
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

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