Zircon U-Pb dating of the Shazibu Pluton in the Guocheng gold belt, Jiaolai Basin, Shandong Province: Implications for metallogeny of the Jiaodong gold province

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Yuan-yuan Feng conceived the presented idea and verified this theory. Ya-dong Li, An-kai Geng, and Da-dou Li collected and analyzed the samples, as well as providing detailed data. Yuan-yuan Feng and Liu-an Duan prepared the original draft. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest. This paper was supported by the geological researchprojects of the Shandong Yantai Xintai Gold Mining Co., Ltd.under China National Gold Group Corporation (Grant Nos.XY-DZ2020081, WTDZ2022001, XY-DZ20210161, andXY-DZ2022183)

Acknowledgment

This paper was supported by the geological research projects of the Shandong Yantai Xintai Gold Mining Co., Ltd. under China National Gold Group Corporation (Grant Nos. XY-DZ2020081, WT-DZ2022001, XY-DZ20210161, and XY-DZ2022183).

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