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The Xinqiao deposit is located in the Tongling area, Anhui Province. This deposit is dominantly composed of stratiform sulfide orebodies, which are restricted to the transitional zone from clastic rocks to carbonates at the base of the Late Carboniferous Huanglong Formation. There are discordant veinlets or networks of mineralization in the footwall rocks below the stratiform sulfide orebodies. The underlying discordant mineralization zones coexist with conformable stratiform sulfide orebodies, which are considered to be the most representative features of massive sulfide deposits formed by submarine exhalative sedimentation. This study reports a pyrite 187Re-187Os isotopic age of 319±13 Ma (MSWD=16) for the footwall mineralization zone. This isochron age is consistent with the interval of strata hosting the conformable stratiform sulfide orebody, and provides direct geochronological evidence for Carboniferous exhalative sedimentary mineralization.
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Guo, W., Lu, J., Jiang, S. et al. Re-Os isotope dating of pyrite from the footwall mineralization zone of the Xinqiao deposit, Tongling, Anhui Province: Geochronological evidence for submarine exhalative sedimentation. Chin. Sci. Bull. 56, 3860–3865 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-011-4770-y
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