| Title | Fluid inclusion and stable isotope evidence for mixing of magmatic - hydrothermal fluids with meteoric water in vein-type Cu-Au-Bi deposits, southern New Brunswick, Canada |
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| Author | Hanley, J J; Tweedale, F; Neyedley, K; Sharpe, R; Fayek, M |
| Source | TGI 4 - Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation; by Rogers, N (ed.); Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 7843, 2015 p. 361-368, https://doi.org/10.4095/296476  Open Access |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in TGI 4 - Intrusion Related
Mineralisation Project: new vectors to buried porphyry-style mineralisation |
| Related | This publication is related to Fluid inclusion and stable
isotope evidence for mixing of magmatic- hydrothermal fluids with meteoric water in vein-type Cu-Au-Bi deposits, southern New Brunswick, Canada |
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| Province | New Brunswick |
| NTS | 21A; 21G; 21H |
| Area | Mount Pleasant; Sisson |
| Lat/Long WENS | -68.0000 -66.5000 46.0000 45.0000 |
| Subjects | economic geology; geochemistry; metallic minerals; porphyry deposits; porphyry copper; mineral exploration; mineralization; tungsten; molybdenum; tin; bismuth; copper; gold; fluid inclusions; magmatic
deposits; hydrothermal alteration; stable isotope studies; quartz veins; salinity; vein deposits; meteoric waters; Sisson deposit; Mount Pleasant deposit; Broad River Group; Paleozoic; Devonian |
| Illustrations | location maps; plots; photographs; photomicrographs |
| Program | Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) Intrusion/Porphyry Ore Systems |
| Released | 2015 06 11; 2023 03 17 |
| Abstract | Vein-type Cu-Au-Ag-Bi mineralization in the Caledonian Highlands, southern NB, Canada, is hosted within quartz-carbonate-rich shear zones cutting felsic lithic tuffs, intermediate intrusives and
interbedded felsic and mafic flows of the Neoproterozoic Broad River Group. Mineralization in the veins consists of bornitechalcocite- hematite, coprecipitated with electrum and bismuthinite; ore minerals post-date quartz and REE-rich carbonates in
the veins, with later supergene oxidation and hydration of the ores to cuprite-malachite. Wall-rock alteration is characterized by albitization and paragonitization. Replacement of bornite by chalcocite- hematite indicates changes in fluid redox with
mineralization progression.
Trails of secondary fluid inclusions in the quartz veins are two-phase liquid-vapour at room temperature. Homogenization occurs by vapour bubble disappearance between 150-270°C for all assemblages; individual
assemblages show relatively narrow ranges (e.g., 173-191°C, n=22). Bulk salinities from final ice melting range from 4 to 13 wt% NaCl eq. with individual assemblages showing similarly narrow ranges.
Stable isotope data (bulk separates, and in-situ
by secondary ion mass spectrometry [SIMS]) for vein-stage quartz (d18Obulk = 13.7-15.1perthousand; d18OSIMS-qtz = 10.8±1.5 perthousand, 1c, n=32) and carbonate (d13Cbulk = -4.4 to -4.6 perthousand) combined with microthermometric data rule out
unmodified, heated seawater and meteoric water as the dominant fluid components, and suggest that the metal-bearing fluids were magmatic in origin or represented saline formation waters modified through fluid-rock interaction with the host volcanic
rocks (calculated d18Ofluid ~ 6-7 perthousand). However, significant variations in d18OSIMS-qtz are observed within single quartz crystals across growth zones and in massive quartz texturally predating sulfides and gold (from as low as 8.2
perthousand to 14.8 perthousand in quartz enclosed entirely within bornite-chalcocite). This indicates either (i) localized mixing of the metal-bearing fluid with low latitude meteoric water (calculated d18O = -1.0 to 0 perthousand), or (ii)
fluctuations in fluid temperature during vein formation, with the lowest T portions of the vein associated with base metal-gold precipitation, or (iii) both. The isotopic composition of coeval quartz-carbonate predict a crystallization/final
equilibration T of vein-stage at ~250- 270°C; if inclusions are primary, then a maximum Ptrapping = ~1.5 kbar, based on the lowest T assemblages, is estimated.
Significant fluctuations in fO2, fluid temperature or fluid composition during vein
precipitation highlight the importance of fluid mixing for mineralization. These characteristics, combined with the style of mineralization, link these deposits in NB genetically to much larger vein Cu deposits worldwide (e.g., Churchill,
Davis-Keays, and Mamainse Point, Canada; Inyati, Zimbabwe; Copper Hills, Australia; Messina, South Africa; Cornwall, UK). |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI-4) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience
knowledge and innovative techniques to better detect buried mineral deposits, thereby reducing some of the risks of exploration. This volume summarises research activities completed under the TGI 4 Intrusion Related Mineralisation Project that
focused on porphyry-style ore systems related to the Cu- and Cu-Mo deposits of South-Central British Columbia and the Sn-W-Mo-In deposits in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 296476 |
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