CRediT authorship contribution statement
Jia-jun Liu conceived of the presented idea. Meng-xu Guo, De-gao Zhai and Jia-jun Liu performed the computations and verified the analytical methods. Jia-jun Liu encouraged Meng-xu Guo and Rui Zhu to investigate the Zaozigou gold deposit. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript.
Acknowledgment
This work was supported by Records of China's Mineral Geology from the China Geological Survey (DD20190379), the State Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41730426), and the 111 Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology (BP0719021).