Minerogenic System of Magnesian Nonmetallic Deposits in Early Proterozoic Mg‐rich Carbonate Formations in Eastern Liaoning Province

Abstract

Abstract In the early Proterozoic the Li'eryu Formation and Dashiqiao Formation of eastern Liaoning province, China, there are distributed Mg‐rich carbonate rock formations, in which large to superlarge deposits of boron, magnesite, talc, Xiuyan jade etc. occur. The formation of these magnesian nonmetallic deposits was related to early Proterozoic evaporates; then these deposits underwent reworking of regional metamorphism and hydrothermal metasomatism during the Lüliang orogeny and tectono‐magmatism during the Indosinian‐Yanshanian. Among other things, the Mg‐rich carbonates formations, minerogenetic structures and ore‐forming fluids played a controlling role in the formation of the mineral deposits. Therefore, it can be concluded that the mineral deposits are products of combined processes of the coupling of ore source field, fluid field, thermal field (energy field) and stress field under certain time‐space conditions in the early Proterozoic and the late‐stage superimposed reworking of tectono‐magmatism.