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GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE WENQUAN PORPHYRY MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT IN WEST QINLING AREA |
HAN Hai-tao1,2, LIU Ji-shun1, DONG Xin1,3, Zhou Yu-guo1, WANG Guo-ren2, SHI Jian-jun2 |
1. School of Geoscience and Environmental Engineering Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;
2. Tianshui General Party of Gansu Nonferrous Metals Geological Exploration Bureau, Tianshui 741025, China;
3. Gansu Institute of Geological Survey for Nonferrous Metals, Lanzhou 730000, China |
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Abstract The Wenquan porphyry molybdenum deposit in West Qinling area occurs in Indosinian complexes, with the wall rocks being K-rich calc-alkaline rocks. CIPW calculation shows that they are of the normal type, and in Q-A-P diagram they are all plotted in the adamellite region. Trace element analyses show that Mo, Cu, Ag, As and Bi were closely related to mineralization, and REE geochemical studies reveal that the rocks are characterized by enrichment of LREE, good fractionation and strong Eu depletion. It is thus concluded that the rocks were products of crsut-mantle magmatic mixture and provided ore-forming materials.
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Received: 10 September 2007
Published: 24 April 2008
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