Restudy on the Putou Pyrite Ore Deposit
- Received Date: 1997-03-28
- Rev Recd Date: 1997-05-27
- Publish Date: 1998-06-10
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Key words:
- pyrite /
- submarine exhalative /
- hydrothermal sedimentation
Abstract: The Putoupyrite ore deposit, formed in Givetian of Devonian, is a medium-scale stratiform deposit in Chengbu County of Hunan Province, China. The author reported its sedimentary environment in the present journal in 1984, and in this paper its genesis was discussed based on new data. This deposit is located in a N E deep water basin which developed in the rift system of the South China palaeocontinent margin. The ore-bearing section consists of dark siliceous rock and mar1. The ore beds are stratiform and conformably deposited in the synchronous strata. The ore is composed of only pyrite with massive and banded structures. The composition of sulfur isotope is rich in 32S, and its variation range is from -17.4‰ to -30.1‰. The ore-bearing rock and ore are rich in organic carbon, which is sapropel-humic type with higher maturity. Charateristics of the ore texture are widespread framboidal pyrite that consists of micrograined pyrite (d < 1μm) with different crystal forms and ordered or disordered structures, some framboidal pyrite appears massively with pyrite crystal in dense ores . Charateristics of REE and trace element s in the ore and hsted rocks, which conform with the mordern hydrothermal deposits of oceanic rift or rise in the pacific, suggested that their origin is the same. For this reason, the Putoupyrite deposit is a sedexore deposit and its abundant organic matter plays an important role in ore deposits.
Citation: | Liu Wenjun, Yi Haisheng, Wen Chungi. Restudy on the Putou Pyrite Ore Deposit[J]. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 1998, 16(2): 61-67. |