Refinement of the time-space evolution of the giant Mio-Pliocene Río Blanco-Los Bronces porphyry Cu–Mo cluster, Central Chile: new U–Pb (SHRIMP II) and Re–Os geochronology and 40Ar/39Ar

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• 作者：Katja Deckart (1)
  Alan H. Clark (2)
  Patricio Cuadra (3)
  Mark Fanning (4)
  
• 关键词：Río Blanco ; Los Bronces ; Porphyry copper deposits ; U–Pb ; Re–Os ; 40Ar/39Ar geochronology ; Central Andes ; Chile
• 刊名：Mineralium Deposita
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：January 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：48
• 期：1
• 页码：57-79
• 全文大小：1907KB
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• 作者单位：Katja Deckart (1)
  Alan H. Clark (2)
  Patricio Cuadra (3)
  Mark Fanning (4)
  
  1. Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Chile, Plaza Ercilla 803, Casilla 12518, Santiago, Chile
  2. Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
  3. Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, Divisíon Andina, Sta. Teresa 513, Los Andes, Chile
  4. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
  
• ISSN：1432-1866

文摘

Representing one of the largest known (estimated >5 Gt at 1?% Cu and 0.02?% Mo) porphyry system, the Río Blanco-Los Bronces deposit incorporates at least five hypabyssal intrusive and hydrothermal centres, extending for about 5?km from the Río Blanco and Los Bronces mines in the north, through the Don Luis mine, to the Sur Sur mine, La Americana and Los Sulfatos in the south. The new geochronology data, which now include data on different molybdenite vein types, confirm the U–Pb ages of the pre-mineralisation intrusions but slightly increase their age range from 8.8 to 8.2?Ma. The distinct magmatic pulses of the mineralisation-associated porphyritic intrusives (Late Porphyries) indicate an age interval instead of the previously suggested individual ages: the quartz monzonite porphyry ranges from 7.7 to 6.1?Ma (Sur Sur 5.74?±-.13?Ma), the feldspar porphyry shows an interval from 5.8 to 5.2?Ma and the Don Luis porphyry from 5.2 to 5.0?Ma. The new Re–Os data on distinct molybdenite vein types confirm the protracted history of Cu(–Mo) mineralisation, inferred previously. The vein development occurred at least from 5.94 to 4.50?Ma, indicating a time-span of 1.5?Ma for the hydrothermal activity. Hydrothermal minerals dated by the 40Ar/39Ar method are generally too young to record the age of early, high-temperature mineralisation. The majority of the 40Ar/39Ar data in the Río Blanco porphyry cluster record reheating by either the youngest member of the Late Porphyry suite or the post-mineralisation dacite or rhyolite plug formations at around 4.9-.7?Ma.