Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Metallogenic Prediction of Nonferrous Metals and Geological Environment Monitoring, Ministry of Education, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
Abstract
The grossular–andradite garnet is an ideal mineral for indicating the formation age of skarn, which also pretends to constrain skarn processes because of its higher REE (rare earth elements) content. The Tongshanling deposit is a medium-sized reduced skarn Cu–W–Pb–Zn deposit associated with a highly evolved I-type granodiorite intrusion in the Nanling metallogenic belt, South China. Different mineral assemblages, microscopic characteristics, and BSE images distinguish two kinds of garnets in the prograde and retrograde skarn stages. The garnet grains from the prograde skarn stage have a U–Pb isochron age of 165.4 ± 3.8 Ma (MSWD = 0.7) and that from the retrograde skarn stage have a U–Pb isochron age of 159.5 ± 1.7 Ma (MSWD = 1.8), implying that the thermal metamorphism and hydrothermal metasomatism mainly occurred in the middle Upper Jurassic. The total amount of rare earth elements (∑REE+Y) in the garnet gradually decreased and the REE patterns shifted from enriched HREE with Eu negative anomaly to HREE-depleted with Eu positive anomaly. The decreasing U content and increasing Eu anomaly in the retrograde skarn stage indicate a redox environment change from oxidation to reduction. However, garnet from different elevations within the same stage (+90 m, +5 m, −35 m, −200 m, and −400 m) exhibit similar REE patterns, despite weak cooling and significant depressurization processes confirmed by fluid inclusion microthermography. As a result, the REE content and patterns are dominated by the REE species of parent fluids, which are changed over time by symbiotic REE-enriched mineral precipitation and the redox environment, while being slightly affected by the fluid pressure. Grossular garnets, rich in U and REEs, and found in reduced skarn deposits, can constrain chronology and reveal the spatio-temporal zonal characteristics.
Funder
National Key Research and Development Plan
Subject
Geology,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
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