scholarly journals LA-ICP-MS Analysis of Minerals from the Shizhuyuan W-Polymetallic Deposit, South China: Implications for Mineralization of Pb, W, Mo and Bi

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 748
Author(s):  
Jiaxin Yuan ◽  
Qingye Hou ◽  
Zhongfang Yang ◽  
Zhaochu Hu ◽  
Tao Yu

The South China Block (SCB) is a globally important metallogenic district containing numerous W-Sn deposits. Extensive studies of W-polymetallic deposits in this region have greatly improved our understanding of the petrogenesis, geochronology and metallogenesis of these systems. However, studies on the mobilization of ore-forming elements between mineralization- and alteration-related minerals using in situ analyses are rare. Using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), we analyzed W, Pb, Mo and Bi concentrations in silicate minerals and scheelite from granites and skarns associated with the Shizhuyuan W-polymetallic deposit in the Nanling Range in the SCB. Data show that muscovitized biotite in granites contains high W contents. Pb mainly occurs in K-feldspar and plagioclase in granites and epidote and scheelite in skarns. Bi mainly occurs in epidote in skarns. Scheelite in skarns contains high W and Mo contents. Pb isomorphously substitutes K or Ca in silicate minerals and scheelite. W isomorphously substitutes Ti in biotite. Mo isomorphously substitutes W in scheelite and occurs as W-bearing submicroscopic inclusions in minerals with low contents. Bi isomorphously substitutes Pb when the Pb content is relatively high and occurs as Bi-bearing micro or submicroscopic inclusions in minerals when the Pb content is low. Biotite and feldspar are altered in a magmatic-hydrothermal process, W enriched in biotite, Pb enriched in feldspar and the W-, Pb-, Mo- and Bi-bearing submicroscopic inclusions are excluded from minerals and released to the magmatic-hydrothermal fluids. Large amounts of W are precipitated in scheelite when the fluids come in contact with carbonate rocks to form skarn, while a few contents of Pb, Mo and Bi are distributed in skarn minerals. Thus, large amounts of Pb, Mo, Bi and residual W remain in the fluids, which results in the formation of a W-Sn-Mo-Bi massive skarn ore.

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lie-Wen Xie ◽  
Jin-Hui Yang ◽  
Qing-Zhu Yin ◽  
Yue-Heng Yang ◽  
Jing-Bo Liu ◽  
...  

A new LA-MIC-ICP-MS analytical technique has been developed for the rapid measurement of 206Pb/238U zircon age (<1%, 2s) at a high spatial resolution. We show that this technique can be routinely employed to date U–Pb in small and/or complex zircons, providing a powerful tool for geochronology.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (9) ◽  
pp. 1800-1809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Zhang ◽  
Zaicong Wang ◽  
Frédéric Moynier ◽  
Edward Inglis ◽  
Shengyu Tian ◽  
...  

An in situ Zr isotopic analytical method for zircons was developed using LA-MC-ICP-MS to reveal the Zr stable isotope variation in the complex mineral crystallization history.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (8) ◽  
pp. 1546-1552 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lü-Yun Zhu ◽  
Yong-Sheng Liu ◽  
Shao-Yong Jiang ◽  
Jie Lin

The 187Os/188Os ratio in low-Os sulfides could be in situ measured precisely by LA-MC-ICP-MS equipping an array of ion counters.


2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Chang ◽  
Jun-Ichi Kimura ◽  
Bogdan Stefanov Vaglarov

An analytical protocol using LA-MC-ICP-MS for precise Sr isotope ratio analysis from small glass samples is presented.


Author(s):  
Bayanova Т.B. ◽  
Drogobuzhskaya S.V. ◽  
Subbotin V.V. ◽  
Serov P.А. ◽  
Steshenko Е.N. ◽  
...  

Baddeleyite is a significant mineral successfully applied in the U-Pb geochronology for the precise dating of mafic rocks from layered intrusions with the platinum group element (PGE) and Cu-Ni mineralization. The Fennoscandian Shield hosts several layered Pt-Pd, Co-Cr-Ni, and Ti-V occurrences in the Northern (Karelian) and Southern (Karelian-Finnish) belts. The aim of this study is to estimate the content and distribution of rare earth elements (REE) in baddeleyite and to calculate temperatures (Т, ̊С) of the U-Pb system closure and baddeleyite crystallization compared to zircon from Cu-Ni and Pt-Pd deposits in the north-eastern Fennoscandian Shield. For the first time, baddeleyite crystals from Cu-Ni (Monchepluton) and Pt-Pd (Monchetundra) reefs of the Monchegorsk ore area have been studied in situ by the laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to measure the U-Pb age of formation and the REE content.


Geochronology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 337-349
Author(s):  
Bar Elisha ◽  
Perach Nuriel ◽  
Andrew Kylander-Clark ◽  
Ram Weinberger

Abstract. Recent U–Pb dating by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) has demonstrated that reasonable precision (3 %–10 %, 2σ) can be achieved for high-resolution dating of texturally distinct calcite phases. Absolute dating of dolomite, for which biostratigraphy and traditional dating techniques are very limited, remains challenging, although it may resolve many fundamental questions related to the timing of mineral-rock formation by syngenetic, diagenesis, hydrothermal, and epigenetic processes. In this study we explore the possibility of dating dolomitic rocks via recent LA-ICP-MS dating techniques developed for calcite. The in situ U–Pb dating was tested on a range of dolomitic rocks of various origins from the Cambrian to Pliocene age – all of which are from well-constrained stratigraphic sections in Israel. We present imaging and chemical characterization techniques that provide useful information on interpreting the resulting U–Pb ages and discuss the complexity of in situ dolomite dating in terms of textural features that may affect the results. Textural examinations indicate zonation and mixing of different phases at the sub-millimeter scale (< 1 µm), and thus Tera–Wasserburg ages represent mixed dates of early diagenesis and some later epigenetic dolomitization event(s). We conclude that age mixing at the sub-millimeter scale is a major challenge in dolomite dating that needs to be further studied and note the importance of matrix-matched standards for reducing uncertainties of the dated material.


2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 510-517
Author(s):  
Chao Huang ◽  
Yue-Heng Yang ◽  
Lie-Wen Xie ◽  
Shi-Tou Wu ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
...  

In the present work, we describe a sequential U–Pb and Sm–Nd systematics measurement from natural LREE-enriched minerals using Neptune Plus MC-ICP-MS coupled with a 193 nm excimer laser in a single shot.


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