The gold-telluride connection: Evidence for multiple fluid pulses in the Jinqingding telluride-rich gold deposit of Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China

Abstract

The mechanism of gold migration, enrichment, and precipitation in forming world-class gold deposits has been a topic of wide interest, particularly where these deposits are abundant in tellurides. The Jiaodong Peninsula in eastern China hosts some of the world-class gold deposits among which the Jinqingding deposit is one of the best examples with substantial telluride mineralization and thus provides opportunity to investigate the genetic connection between tellurium and gold mineralization. The orebody in this deposit is hosted in the NE-NNE-trending Jiangjunshi-Quhezhuang fault with the Jurassic Kunyushan granitic pluton as wall rock. The deposit involved three mineralization stages as inferred from assemblages and crosscutting relationships between veins. These stages are: (I) pre-ore gold-poor quartz-pyrite veins, (II) main ore auriferous quartz-pyrite-Te/Bi-minerals ± sphalerite ± chalcopyrite ± barite ± marcasite veins, and (III) post-ore quartz-calcite veins. We present here the textural, isotopic, and geochemical variations of different stages/generations of pyrite based on scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM–EDS), electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS).

Keywords

Episodic fluid pulses / Sulfur reservoir / Gold-Te precipitation / Jinqingding deposit / Jiaodong Peninsula

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Wenyan Cai: Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft. Mingchun Song: Data curation, Supervision. M. Santosh: Writing – review & editing. Jian Li: Data curation, Methodology, Formal analysis.

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the Prof. Huan Li and anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, which greatly improved the manuscript. We thank Prof. C. Manikyamba and Dr. Lily Wang for their handling of the manuscript and editorial input. This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Shandong Joint Fund (No. U2006201), Shandong Natural Science Foundation (No. ZR2021QD056), and National Key R&D Program of China (2023YFC2906901).

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