Earth Science Frontiers ›› 2025, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (4): 405-421.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2025.3.72

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Petrographic and geochronological studies of albite granite and diorite porphyry in the Yinggezhuang gold deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula: Implications for multi-stage gold mineralization events

WANG Yeming(), LEI Wanshan*(), ZHANG Haidong, WANG Teng, ZHAO Bo, TIAN Honghao   

  1. School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
  • Received:2025-03-21 Revised:2025-03-30 Online:2025-07-25 Published:2025-08-04

Abstract:

The Jiaodong Peninsula, despite covering less than 10000 km2, has proven gold reserves exceeding 6000 tons, and its massive gold mineralization characteristics have attracted widespread attention and research from both domestic and international scholars. Numerous dating studies show that the gold mineralization in Jiaodong is concentrated around 120±5 Ma. However, with the reporting of more varying gold mineralization age data, discussions about multi-stage mineralization have arisen, although these discussions lack evidence from geological bodies directly related to gold mineralization. This study discovered potential gold-related rocks at the Yinggezhuang gold deposit, including albite granite containing nodular and dendritic quartz and diorite porphyry coexisting with quartz-sulfide veins. Through petrographic analysis, precise gold, silver, sulfur content determination, and dating studies, the albitite granite was characterized by high sulfur ((17-2134)×10-6), gold (average 5.2×10-9), and volatile content. These features suggest that at the late stage of high-fractionation granite magma evolution, molten bodies rich in silica, sulfur, and gold might have resulted in gold-bearing quartz-sulfide veins. The U-Pb age of the magmatic titanite in the albite granite is 144.5±1.8 Ma, while the U-Pb age of zircons from the diorite porphyry that nearly simultaneously formed with the quartz-sulfide vein is 147.1±0.58 Ma, indicating that the Jiaodong region may have experienced gold mineralization events related to alkaline magmatic activity around 147-144 Ma.

Key words: Jiaodong, Yinggezhuang gold deposit, albite granite, high-precision gold abundance testing, titanite U-Pb chronology

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