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ORE GEOLOGY REVIEWS
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 541-548Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.02.011
Keywords
Re-Os age; Skarn Cu-Mo deposit; East Junggar; Porphyry-Skarn system; Southern Altaids
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Funding
- Major State Basic Research Development Program of China [2012CB416604]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41073037, 41272107, 41190072, 41230207]
- National 305 Project [2011BAB06B04-1]
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The Suoerkuduke Cu-Mo ore is a medium-sized skarn deposit in the East Junggar orogen of the southern Altaids, Xinjiang, Northwest China. We measured Re-Os isotopes of a molybdenite veinlet from the main ore body, of which eight yielded model ages ranging from 303 +/- 5 to 317 +/- 5 Ma with a well-constrained Re-187-Os-187 isochron age of 305 +/- 7 Ma, a MSWD of 4.9 and a weighted average model age of 310 +/- 4 Ma with a MSWD of 4.2. The Re-187-Os-187 isochron age is consistent with the weighted mean model age, within error, and indicates that the time of Cu-Mo mineralization was at c. 310 Ma in the late Carboniferous. This new age is close to the youngest porphyry-related Cu-Mo metallogenic epoch (c. 311 Ma) in the East Junggar region, and is not, as previously suggested, in the Permian. Considering the implications of this new age, we propose that the Suoerkuduke deposit was part of a large-scale porphyry-skarn system, which formed by the interaction between far-traveled hydrothermal fluids and the calcium-rich volcanic wall rocks. (C). 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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