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Re–Os geochronology on sulfides from the Tudun Cu–Ni sulfide deposit, Eastern Tianshan, and its geological significance

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The Tudun deposit is a medium-sized Cu–Ni sulfide deposit, located at the westernmost edge of the Huangshan–Jing’erquan Belt in the northern part of Eastern Tianshan, NW China. Sulfide separates including pentlandite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite from the Tudun deposit, contain Re, common Os and 187Os ranging from 40.46 to 201.2, 0.8048 to 6.246 and 0.1709 to 0.9977 ppb, respectively. They have very low 187Os/188Os ratios of 1.224–2.352. The sulfides yield a Re–Os isochron age of 270.0 ± 7.5 Ma (MSWD = 1.3), consistent within uncertainty with the SHRIMP zircon U–Pb age for the Tudun mafic intrusion (gabbro) of 280.0 ± 3.0 Ma. The calculated initial 187Os/188Os ratio is 0.533 ± 0.022, and γOs values range from 283 to 307, with a mean of 297, indicating significant crustal contamination of the parent melt prior to sulfide saturation. The Tudun deposit shares the same age and Re–Os isotopic compositions with other orthomagmatic Cu–Ni sulfide deposits in Huangshan–Jing’erquan Belt, suggesting that they have formed in Early Permian.

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This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41272097), the China Geological Survey Project (No. 1212011085466, No. 12120113089300 and No. 12120114016601), the Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central Colleges, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (No. CUG120702) and the Teaching Laboratory Foundation of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (No. SKJ2013085, SKJ2014010). We are indebted to Qun’an Liao and Xionghua Zhang for their help in the field. Special thanks to Jianfeng Gao for constructive discussion of an earlier version of this manuscript. Comments and suggestions from WenJiao Xiao, anonymous reviewers and Editor-in-Chief Prof. Wolf–Christian Dullo greatly improved the quality of the paper.

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Wang, M., Wang, W., Gutzmer, J. et al. Re–Os geochronology on sulfides from the Tudun Cu–Ni sulfide deposit, Eastern Tianshan, and its geological significance. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 2241–2252 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1178-y

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