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Granite at Penggongmiao is a large batholith in the Nanling Range, with an outcrop area of over 900 km2. There are many scheelite-quartz veins around the granite. LA-ICP-MS U-Pb dating was carried out for zircons from the granite. The middle-coarse-grained biotite granite has U-Pb ages of 435 to 436 Ma. Ages of 426.5±2.5 Ma were obtained for aplitic dyke cross-cutting the granite. The scheelite of magmatic origin in the aplite dyke was identified from petrographic investigation. This demonstrates that W-bearing granites of Early Paleozoic (corresponding to the Caledonian orogensis in the traditional sense) occur in the Nanling Range. This finding has important implications for the ore-forming potential of Paleozoic granites and on the extent of Mesozoic mineralization. Thus it merits performing an intensive study of Paleozoic granites in South China. The occurrences of aplite or microgranite may be an indicative of the Caledonian tungsten granites and associated W mineralization.
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Zhang, W., Wang, R., Lei, Z. et al. Zircon U-Pb dating confirms existence of a Caledonian scheelite-bearing aplitic vein in the Penggongmiao granite batholith, South Hunan. Chin. Sci. Bull. 56, 2031–2036 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-011-4526-8
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