Abstract
AbstractThe Dayingezhuang gold deposit is located in the central part of the Zhaoping Fault Zone, which is one of the most important gold‐hosting faults in the Jiaodong gold province of China. Dayingezhuang is a typical large‐scale shear zone‐hosted disseminated gold deposit with superimposed silver mineralization. Fluid inclusion (FI) petrography and microthermometry, and analysis of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes for fluid inclusions were conducted to determine the characteristics of the ore‐forming fluids and the processes of silver mineralization. Microthermometry data of FI indicated that ore‐forming fluids are characterized by low salinity and low density. Homogenization pressures of FI are estimated at 20 × 105–220 × 105 Pa. The change in ore‐forming fluids from K2SO4type to NaCl type indicates the superposition of two hydrothermal mineralizing events. Ore‐forming fluids were dominated by magmatic components in the early mineralization period, and affected by meteoric waters in the late period. Gold may have been transported as Au‐S or Au‐Cl complexes, whereas silver was transported as Ag‐Cl complexes. Early fluid boiling and later fluid mixing are thought to be two of the main factors causing the deposition and superimposing of gold and silver to form the large deposit.
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