Rb-Sr Isotopic Age of Sphalerite from the Paoma Lead-Zinc Deposit in Sichuan Province and Its Implications
Located in Nanning County of Sichuan Province, the Paoma lead-zinc deposit is a stratabound deposit in a cataclastic zone of Lower Cambrian Maidiping dolomite. Being a reworked sedimentary stratoid (irregular) lead-zinc deposit, it includes two ore horizons. Pb and Zn in the ore deposit are economic elements possessing an average grade of 6% ~9%, with the grade of rich ore in excess of 30%. The sphalerite Rb-Sr isochron age of (200 ±1) Ma by TIMS method suggests an age of Late Indosinian-Early Yanshanian. This ore deposit has the same age as the Huize lead-zinc deposit in