Abstract:
With more than ten million tons of lead and zinc resource reserves, the Huayuan lead-zinc deposit is expected to become the largest Pb-Zn deposit in China and one of the world-class superlarge ore deposits.In this paper, researches on carbon, hydrogen, oxygen isotope of calcite and sphalerite from the Huayuan lead-zinc deposit formed during the main mineralization period are report-ed.The analytical results show that δ
13C
PDB values of calcite samples display the range from 2.71‰ to 1.21‰, the δ
18O
SMOW values are in the range from 16.09‰ to 22.48‰.The δ
13C
PDB and δ
18O
SMOW isotope values of calcite minerals from the Tuanjie, Limei, Tu-diping, Fengtang and Dashigou lead-zinc deposits are gradually reduced in turn, falling between native carbonate rock and marine carbonate in the δ
18O
SMOW-δ
13C
PDB diagram.In the Huayuan lead-zinc deposit, the carbon in the ore-forming fluid was mainly de-rived from marine carbonate dissolution.The δ
13C
PDB values of surrounding rocks in the Huayuan lead-zinc deposit vary from 0.15‰ to 1.17‰, the δ
18O
SMOW values vary from 19.79‰ to 23.89‰, and the surrounding rock is sedimentary marine carbonate.The δD
SMOW values of fluid in calcite and sphalerite vary from 91.1‰ to 15‰, the δ
18O fluid vary from-4.1‰ to 9.25‰, and the migra-tion direction of fluid in the ore district was from north to south.The δ
18O
fluid-δD
SMOW diagram shows that the main source of oreforming fluid was formation water and atmospheric precipitation.Water-rock reaction between ore-forming fluid and wall rock was the main mechanism leading to the precipitation and crystallization of calcite and sphalerite in the Huayuan Pb-Zn deposit of western Hu'nan Province.