Natureza e evolução dos fluidos hidrotermais no deposito cupro-aurifero Golden Hill, Camaguey, Cuba

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

RESUMO

The Cu-Au mineralization at the Golden Hill deposit in the Las Tunas Province, Eastem Cuba, is characterized by breccia-hosted massive and semi-massive sulfide bodies confined to the Contramaestre Fonnation in the Cretaceous Volcanic Arc. The deposit is enveloped by a silicic, argillic and advanced argillic alteration assemblage, typical of high sulfidation epithennal deposits, and the Cu-Au orebodies are particularly associated with the latter. Within the advanced argillic alteration zone, two stages of alteration were detined on the basis of the mineralogical and textural associations: (i) Stage 1 with quartz - kaolinite - alunite - zunyite - diaspore, disseminated pyrite, enargite and, probably, sub-microscopic Au; (ii) Stage TI with quartz - natroaIunite - pyrophyllite, c1osely related to pyrite - enargite - luzonite - famatinite and Au. Barite common1y occurs filling fractures and cavities and may have been introduced late during Stage lI. Fluid inc1usion studies conducted in Stage TI quartz and barite revealed that the advanced argillic alteration and the Cu-Au mineralization took place in the presence of low salinity (2 - 5 wt% eq. NaCl) aqueous solutions, with <2 mol% CO2, at temperatures between 172°C and 330°C. Gold deposition via the destabilization of a Au-S-bearing complex, particularly during Stage II, was mainly promoted by an increase in fO2 from 10-36 to 10-30 bar, perhaps as a result of the interaction of a magmatic volatile phase containing CO2 and H2S with ground or meteoric waters. The presence of CO2 in the inc1usion fluids, together with W- and Bi-Mo-bearing minerals in Stage II, attest to a possible magmatic contribution to the hydrothermal system, which would imply in the occurrence of shallow epizonal intrusions, generally considered important sites for porphyry Cu- Au mineralization

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ouro - minas e mineração - camaguey (cuba) alteração hidrotermal

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