Abstract
The Cihai iron skarn deposit is located in the southern part of the eastern Tianshan, Xinjiang, northwestern China. The major iron orebodies are banded and nearly parallel to each other. The iron ores are hosted in an early diabase dike and in skarn. Post-ore diabase dikes cut the iron ores and their hosting diabase. Hydrothermal activity can be divided into four stages based on geological and petrographic observations: initial K–Na alteration (stage I), skarn-minor magnetite event (II), retrograde skarn-magnetite main ore event (III), and quartz–calcite–sulfide veining (IV). Zircon U–Pb dating yields ages of 286.5±1.8Ma for early diabase and 275.8±2.2Ma for post-ore diabase dikes. Amphibole separated from massive magnetite ore gives a 40Ar–39Ar plateau age of 281.9±2.2Ma and is the time of ore formation. Formation of the Cihai iron deposit is closely related to post-collisional magmatism and associated Cu–Ni–Au polymetallic mineralization in the eastern Tianshan.
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