Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating and geological implication of the Sabei Tin ore-deposit from Eastern Junggar of Xinjiang, China
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    Abstract:The Sabei tin ore deposits in the eastern Junggar are mainly developed in the quartz veins of the biotite granites and alkali amphibole-bearing quartz veins of the alkali-enriched granites. Zircons were selected from the cassiterite-bearing quartz veins of the biotite granites for SHRIMP U-Pb zircon dating, and yielded an age of 324.2±3.4Ma, implying the tin mineralization age. This age approximates to the formation time of the Laoyaquan-Hongtujing and Sujiquan biotite granitic batholith with 358.6 Ma~304±2 Ma, and obviously is earlier than those of the Sabei alkali-enriched granites (306±3 Ma~314±5 Ma) and alkali amphibole-bearing quartz veins (263.6±3 Ma~307±11 Ma) . We propose the existence of at least two periods of tin-mineralization, which is consistent with the post-collisional plutonic rocks (330 Ma ~310 Ma and 305 Ma~280 Ma) in the eastern Junggar and correspond to the first two phases of the three post-collisional mineralization (340 Ma~330 Ma,300 Ma~285 Ma,270 Ma~260 Ma) in the northern Xinjiang Province. Accordingly, we conclude that, the formation of the Sabei tin ore deposits has a multi-phase feature and is related not only to the alkali granites, but also to the biotite granites; the above two types of tin deposits and related alkali-enriched granites were resulted from the late paleozoic post-collisional magmatic and metallogenic events in the northern Xinjiang Province, a tin metallogenic system associated with late paleozoic post-collsional alkalic granites may be well developed in the Kalamaili ore deposits zone.

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LIN Jin-fu YU Heng-xiang WU Chang-zhi SU Wen GUO Jing-fen. Zircon SHRIMP U-Pb dating and geological implication of the Sabei Tin ore-deposit from Eastern Junggar of Xinjiang, China[J]. Geology in China, 2008, 35(6): 1197-1205(in Chinese with English abstract).

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