Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4681512 Geoscience Frontiers 2016 12 Pages PDF
Abstract

•The deposit is located on the periphery of Great Xing'an belt.•Mineralization is represented by polymetallic and gold-ore mineral complexes.•Evidence for superposition of precious-metal mineralization.

The Berezitovoe deposit in the Sergachi volcano-plutonic and metallogenic belt preserves evidence for polymetallic mineralization of multiple stages. The steeply dipping garnet-tourmaline-muscovite-quartz metasomatites (with K-Ar ages of 132 ± 2.9 and 127 ± 4.4 Ma) carry two distinct stages of mineralization developed at different times: (1) polymetallic mineralization and (2) gold-quartz. The deposit is located within Paleozoic gneissose granitoids of the Pikansky complex (dated as 379 ± 1.1 Ma by zircon U-Pb method) intruded by early Cretaceous porphyry-like granites of the Haikta pluton (dated as 137 ± 0.67 Ma by zircon U-Pb method) and late Cretaceous dikes of porphyrites, porphyries, and lamprophyres. Evidence suggests the action of late gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids on the early polymetallic ores and the selective mobilization of some elements from these lead to redeposition together with complex sulphosalts.

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