Abstract
Qibaoshan is a recently discovered ore district including a significant epithermal deposit; it has three different types of deposits that have been developed in the Qibaoshan subvolcanic complex, including Jinxiantou copper–gold deposit, Qibaoshan polymetallic epithermal deposit and Diaoyutai pyrite deposit.The characteristics of these deposits and geochronological studies indicate that they may belong to the same mineral system. To study the relationship between the deposits and to determine potential for deposits under cover, surface alteration mapping by short-wave infrared spectroscopy (SWIR) analyses was conducted on the ore field. The results showed that the Jinxiantou copper–gold deposit has illite + chlorite alteration, and the Qibaoshan deposit has illite + chlorite alteration as vein halos and gradually transitions outwards to montmorillonite alteration. Illite alteration is widely developed in the Qibaoshan ore field.Study of the spectral characteristics of illite in the east of the ore district showed it has a lower wavelength Al-OH absorption peak position (Pos2200) and higher illite crystallinity (IC) value and shows a trend of gradually decreasing Pos2200 and increasing IC to the west, indicating that the inferred heat center in the eastern ore district may be the center of hydrothermal activity. The Qibaoshan ore district contains a porphyry-epithermal hydrothermal mineral system, and the east of the ore district may have potential for discovery of porphyry deposits.
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