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Journal Article 

Evidence of fluid inclusions for two stages of fluid boiling in the formation of the giant Shapinggou porphyry Mo deposit, Dabie Orogen, Central China 

Ni, Pei; Wang, GuoG; Yu, Wen; Chen, Hui; Jiang, LaiLi; Wang, BoHua; Zhang, HD; Xu, YF 

2015 

1 

Ore Geology Reviews
ISSN: 0169-1368
EISSN: 1872-7360 

65 

1078-1094 

10.1016/j.oregeorev.2014.09.017 

WOS:000348083800025 

The Shapinggou porphyry Mo deposit, one of the largest Mo deposits in Asia, is located in the Dabie Orogen, Central China. Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization at Shapinggou can be divided into four stages, i.e., stage 1 ore-barren quartz veins with intense silicification, followed by stage 2 quartz-molybdenite veins associated with potassic alteration, stage 3 quartz-polymetallic sulfide veins related to phyllic alteration, and stage 4 ore-barren quartz +/- calcite +/- pyrite veins with weak propylitization. Hydrothermal quartz mainly contains three types of fluid inclusions, namely, two-phase liquid-rich (type I), two- or three-phase gas-rich CO2-bearing (type II) and halite-bearing (type III) inclusions. The last two types of fluid inclusions are absent in stages 1 and 4. Type I inclusions in the silicic zone (stage 1) display homogenization temperatures of 340 to 550 degrees C, with salinities of 7.9-16.9 wt.% NaCl equivalent. Type II and coexisting type III inclusions in the potassic zone (stage 2), which hosts the main Mo orebodies, have homogenization temperatures of 240-440 degrees C and 240-450 degrees C, with salinities of 34.1-50.9 and 0.1-7.4 wt.% NaCI equivalent, respectively. Type II and coexisting type III inclusions in the phyllic zone (stage 3) display homogenization temperatures of 250-345 degrees C and 220-315 degrees C, with salinities of 02-65 and 32.9-39.3 wt.% NaCI equivalent, respectively. Type I inclusions in the propylitization zone (stage 4) display homogenization temperatures of 170 to 330 degrees C, with salinities lower than 6.5 wt.% NaCI equivalent. The abundant CO2-rich and coexisting halite-bearing fluid inclusion assemblages in the potassic and phyllic zones highlight the significance of intensive fluid boiling of a NaCl-CO2-H2O system in deep environments (up to 2.3 kbar) for giant porphyry Mo mineralization. Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions indicate that ore-fluids were gradually evolved from magmatic to meteoric in origin. Sulfur and lead isotopes suggest that the ore-forming materials at Shapinggou are magmatic in origin. Re-Os dating of molybdenite gives a well-defined Re-187/Os-187 isochron with an age of 112.7 +/- 1.8 Ma, suggesting a post-collisional setting. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 

Fluid boiling; Fluid inclusion; H-O-S-Pb isotopes; Re-Os dating; Shapinggou porphyry Mo deposit; Dabie Orogen