Tungsten deposits in southern Jiangxi Province: Constraints on the origin of wolframite from in-situ U-Pb isotope dating
Xinxing Liu, Juan Zhang, Fan Huang, Jiawei Cheng, Kexuan Lu, Junfeng Yang, Meng Wang, Yingxue Wang, Jiawei Qiu, Xiaoyang Zhang
Abstract
In situ LA-ICP-MS provide high-resolution spatial analysis of wolframite grains. In this paper, wolframite U-Pb isotope dating is presented to directly constrain the timing of W mineralization in five granite-related vein-type W-polymetallic deposits from different ore-concentrated areas in southern Jiangxi Province, South China. In the Jinzhuping, Changkeng, Keshuling, Taoxikeng, and Bikeng deposits, wolframite is the dominant ore mineral, occurring as coarse, euhedral grains that are associated with gangue minerals such as cassiterite, scheelite, molybdenite, sphalerite, (±) galena, (±) marmatite, pyrite, quartz, (±) chlorite, (±) fluorite, and calcite. Wolframite U-Pb dating yielded 206Pb/238U ages of 154.2 ± 4.1 Ma for the Jinzhuping deposit, 157.8 ± 9.4 Ma for the Changkeng deposit, 150.3 ± 1.8 Ma for the Keshuling deposit, 153.8 ± 4.0 Ma for the Taoxikeng deposit, and 152.3 ± 5.6 Ma for the Bikeng deposit, respectively. By comparing the published minerlizing ages of the W-Sn polymetallic deposits in the Nanling region, we suggest that three stages of W mineralization occurred from the Triassic to the Lower Cretaceous.