Lead-isotope study of mineralization in the Cobalt district, Ontario

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1568-1575 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. I. Thorpe ◽  
M. D. Goodz ◽  
I. R. Jonasson ◽  
J. Blenkinsop
Keyword(s):  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Time Range ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Metal Source ◽  
Genetic Link ◽  
Isotope Data ◽  
Isotope Study ◽  
Homogeneous Composition ◽  
Isotope Analyses

Twenty-seven lead-isotope analyses for galena specimens from 14 localities in the Cobalt district represent sulphide-rich interflow sedimentary units in the Archean volcanic sequence, mineralized zones, fracture fillings, and local sulphide concentrations in the Cobalt Group (Proterozoic) sedimentary rocks, and vein-filling and breccia-cementing sulphides from within and near silver–arsenide veins. The analyses define a very homogeneous composition, averaging 206Pb/204Pb = 14.732, 2O7Pb/204Pb = 15.114, and 208Pb/204Pb = 34.301, for lead from these different geological settings. This result is in agreement with textural observations indicating a late paragenetic position for galena in the different settings mentioned. The model age for this lead is in general accord with the U–Pb age obtained in a study by Andrews et al. for a Nipissing diabase sheet at Gowganda.About one third of the galena specimens are interpreted by a two-stage evolution model to have formed or been remobilized during an event in the time range 1650–1945 Ma. The timing and character of this event are not clearly defined. The radiogenic composition of a specimen from the Pan Silver property is comparable to radiogenic values reported by Thorpe and suggests a young galena-forming event in the area.The lead-isotope data are permissive evidence for a genetic link between the Nipissing diabase sheets and mineralization of a variety of types in the Cobalt district. The metal source is not clearly indicated, but one analysis for Archean interflow sulphides suggests than an Archean source is unlikely for the lead in the silver–arsenide veins and other mineralized zones.

Lead isotope analyses from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates: new data regarding the ‘tin problem’ in Western Asia

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (279) ◽  
pp. 49-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Weeks
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Isotope Data ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Tell Abraq ◽  
New Research ◽  
Isotope Analyses

The ‘tin problem’ forms the focus for discussion on the earliest use of tin and bronze in western Asia and the Aegean. New research on lead isotope data from Tell Abraq in the UAE has important implications for the advent of bronze in the region.

Identification of source mine using sulfur, mercury, and lead isotope analyses of vermilion used in three representative tombs from Kofun period in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 102970
Author(s):  
Takeshi Minami ◽  
Akinori Takeuchi ◽  
Setsuo Imazu ◽  
Masayoshi Okuyama ◽  
Yu Higashikage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analyses

The paleomagnetism of Huronian red beds and Nipissing diabase; Post-Huronian Igneous Events and apparent polar path for the interval −2300 to −1500 Ma for Laurentia

1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 749-773 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Roy ◽  
P. L. Lapointe
Keyword(s):  
High Stability ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Time Range ◽  
High Latitudes ◽  
Red Beds ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Low Latitudes ◽  
The Many ◽  
Age Determinations ◽  
Good Agreement

Thermal, chemical, and alternating field (and two-stage) cleaning treatments of Huronian sediments and Nipissing diabase (which intrudes the sediments) from the Cobalt area yield five directions of magnetizations (A–E) of high stability; A, B, C, and E are found in the sediments, and C, D, and E in the diabase. It is suggested that magnetization B (337°, +52°; α95 = 8°; pole 158 °E, 67 °N) was acquired shortly after deposition of the Firstbrook beds [Formula: see text]; magnetization C (259°, +82°; α95 = 5°; pole 258 °E, 42 °N), found in both the diabase and sediments in contact with the diabase, was acquired during cooling following emplacement of the diabase [Formula: see text]; and magnetizations D and E, yielding poles at 264 °E, 15 °S and 000°, 09 °N respectively, were produced during the Hudsonian orogeny (−1850 to −1700 Ma). This interpretation resolves the previous inconsistencies between poles and age determinations. Good agreement between results from the Nipissing diabase and other igneous bodies indicate that widespread igneous events occurred in the time range approximately −2200 to −2100 Ma, immediately following deposition of Huronian sediments. This is referred to as 'Post-Huronian Igneous Events'. A proposed apparent polar path relative to Laurentia shows two distinct motions; for the 2300–1850 Ma interval, a latitudinal change (roughly along longitude 250° E) from high [Formula: see text] to low [Formula: see text] latitudes and, for the 1850–1500 Ma interval, a displacement along the present-day equator with first an eastward motion to about 000° longitude followed by a westward motion to 240° E longitude; the apex of the eastward excursion is given a date of [Formula: see text]. It is possible that this reflects a rotation of Laurentia about a vertical axis at the time of and following the Hudsonian orogeny. Subsequent uplift and cooling would explain the many overprinted stable magnetizations yielding poles distributed along the equator (track 4). Latitude maps indicate that Laurentia was in high latitudes from 2200–2000 Ma and in intermediate to low latitudes from 1900–1500 Ma.

Interpretation of Pb isotope compositions of galenas from the Midland Valley of Scotland and adjacent regions

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parnell ◽  
Ian Swainbank
Keyword(s):  
Lower Devonian ◽  
Lead Isotope ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Isotope Ratios ◽  
Igneous Rocks ◽  
Pb Isotope ◽  
Lower Carboniferous ◽  
Granite Magma ◽  
Lower Palaeozoic ◽  
Caledonian Granite

ABSTRACTThe lead isotope compositions of 61 galenas from central and southern Scotland vary markedly between different regions. Most galenas from the southern Grampian Highlands yield isotope ratios (206Pb/204Pb 17·77 ± 0·25, 207Pb/204Pb 15·47 ± 0·05, 208Pb/204Pb 37·63 ± 0·26) less radiogenic than those from Midland Valley galenas (18·22 ± 0·12, 15·55 ± 0·05, 38·13 ± 0·14) whilst galena lead from the Southern Uplands (18·28 ± 0·12, 15·56 ± 0·03, 38·21 ± 0·18) is more radiogenic than that from the southern Midland Valley (18·12 ± 0·06, 15·52 ± 0·02, 38·06 ±0·10). The change in isotopie composition across the Highland Boundary fault reflects the presence or absence of Dalradian rocks which included a magmatic component of lead. Galenas from the Dalradian sequence in Islay, where igneous rocks are lacking, have a composition (18·14±0·04, 15·51±0·01, 37·90±0·02) more like Midland Valley galenas. In the Southern Uplands, galenas yield lead isotope ratios similar to those of feldspars from Caledonian granite (18·30 ± 0·14, 15·57 ± 0·04, 37·96 ± 0·15) analysed by Blaxland et al. (1979). The similar ratios reflect the incorporation of Lower Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks into the granite magma, rather than a granitic source for the mineralisation. The granites were then thermal-structural foci for later mineralising fluids which leached metals from the surrounding rocks. Within the Midland Valley, galenas hosted in Lower Devonian-Lower Carboniferous lavas are notably more radiogenic (18·31 ±0·12, 15·58 ± 0·06, 38·20 ± 0·16) than sediment-hosted galenas (18·14 ± 0·07, 15·52 ± 0·02, 38·08 ± 0·10). The Devonian lavas at least may have inherited lead from subducted (? Lower Palaeozoic) rock incorporated in the primary magma.

A metasedimentary source of gold in Archean orogenic gold deposits

Geology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain K. Pitcairn ◽  
Nikolaos Leventis ◽  
Georges Beaudoin ◽  
Stephane Faure ◽  
Carl Guilmette ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Metamorphic Grade ◽  
Orogenic Gold ◽  
Metal Source ◽  
Main Metal ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Orogenic Gold Deposits ◽  
Archean Orogenic Gold Deposits

The sources of metals enriched in Archean orogenic gold deposits have long been debated. Metasedimentary rocks, which are generally accepted as the main metal source in Phanerozoic deposits, are less abundant in Archean greenstone belts and commonly discounted as a viable metal source for Archean deposits. We report ultralow-detection-limit gold and trace-element concentrations from a suite of metamorphosed sedimentary rocks from the Abitibi belt and Pontiac subprovince, Superior Province, Canada. Systematic decreases in the Au content with increasing metamorphic grade indicate that Au was mobilized during prograde metamorphism. Mass balance calculations show that over 10 t of Au, 30,000 t of As, and 600 t of Sb were mobilized from 1 km3 of Pontiac subprovince sedimentary rock metamorphosed to the sillimanite metamorphic zone. The total gold resource in orogenic gold deposits in the southern Abitibi belt (7500 t Au) is only 3% of the Au mobilized from the estimated total volume of high-metamorphic-grade Pontiac sedimentary rock in the region (25,000 km3), indicating that sedimentary rocks are a major contributor of metals to the orogenic gold deposits in the southern Abitibi belt.

scholarly journals Oxygen isotope composition of zircons from the Talnakh economic intrusion of the Noril’sk province: first data

2019 ◽  
Vol 489 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-173
Author(s):  
I. Yu. Badanina ◽  
E. A. Belousova ◽  
K. N. Malitch ◽  
S. F. Sluzhenikin
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Composition ◽  
Primary Magma ◽  
Crustal Component ◽  
Layered Series ◽  
Isotope Data ◽  
Oxygen Isotope Data ◽  
First Results ◽  
Isotope Analyses

This study presents the first results of oxygen isotope analyses (18O) collected on zircons from the Talnakh economic intrusion within the Norilsk province. Zircons from gabbro-diorite, gabbroic rocks of the layered series and plagioclase-bearing wehrlite have similar mantle-like mean 18O values (5,39 0,49; 5,64 0,48 and of 5,28 0,34, respectively), which differ from 18O in zircons from sulfide-bearing melanocratic troctolite with a taxitic texture in the lower part of the intrusion (mean 18O = 6,50 0,98). These new oxygen isotope data support (i) the mantle-derived origin of the primary magma(s), parental to the Talnakh intrusion, and (ii) possible involvement of a crustal component during the formation of sulfide-bearing taxitic-textured rocks.

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