Home Contrasting alteration textures and geochemistry of allanite from uranium-fertile and barren granites: Insights into granite-related U and ion-adsorption REE mineralization
Article
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

Contrasting alteration textures and geochemistry of allanite from uranium-fertile and barren granites: Insights into granite-related U and ion-adsorption REE mineralization

  • Long Zhang , Fangyue Wang , Taofa Zhou and Zhenyu Chen
Published/Copyright: July 10, 2023
Become an author with De Gruyter Brill
Author Information
American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 108 Issue 7

Abstract

Allanite is an important rare earth element (REE)-U-bearing mineral in granites, and it can act as a metal source for the formation of some hydrothermal uranium deposits and ion-adsorption REE deposits. To investigate the potential of allanite as a mineral probe of granite-related uranium mineralization processes and the formation of ion-adsorption REE deposits, we present textures, geochemistry, and in situ U-Pb isotope data for allanite from the fertile Changjiang granite associated with the Changjiang uranium ore field and barren Jiufeng granite in the Zhuguangshan batholith, South China. Alteration of allanite in the Changjiang granite is characterized by the altered domains with lower backscattered electron (BSE) intensities than the unaltered domains and replacement by other secondary minerals such as REE fluorocarbonates, calcite, fluorite, thorite, clay minerals, quartz, chlorite, and epidote. Crystals from the Jiufeng granite were partly replaced by the altered domains appearing darker in BSE images and minor REE fluorocarbonates. The darker domains of the Changjiang and Jiufeng allanite grains have higher Fe3+/(Fe3++Fe2+) ratios and U concentrations than those of the brighter domains, indicating that the alteration of allanite was probably related to more oxidized fluids. This study suggests that the Changjiang granite might have been subjected to the influx of F- and CO2-bearing fluids.

The brighter domains of the Changjiang and Jiufeng allanite grains have weighted mean 207Pb-corrected 206Pb/238U ages of 156.7 ± 4.3 Ma and 161.6 ± 5.3 Ma, respectively, consistent with the corresponding zircon 206Pb/238U ages of 156.1 ± 1.4 Ma and 159.8 ± 1.8 Ma. The darker domains of the Changjiang allanite grains yield a weighted mean 206Pb/238U age of 141.4 ± 5.6 Ma, which overlaps within error the timing of a uranium mineralization event (~140 Ma) in the Changjiang uranium ore field and the age of a crustal extension event (140–135 Ma) in South China. The BSE images and elemental maps reveal that rare earth elements such as La and Ce have been released from the Changjiang allanites during alteration and were precipitated as REE-fluorocarbonates that are susceptible to chemical weathering, which sets the stage for the formation of an ion-adsorption REE deposit. Our study suggests that the regional crustal extension might have played an important role in the formation of both granite-related uranium and ion-adsorption REE deposits in South China, as it could have triggered alteration or breakdown of REE-U-bearing minerals in source rocks.

Keywords: Allanite; mineral chemistry; geochronology; granite-related U deposits; ion-adsorption; REE deposits; South China

† Present address: No. 193, Tunxi Road, Baohe District, Hefei 230009, Anhui Province, China.

Funding statement: This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 91962218, 42002077), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2022HGTB0301), and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Public Interest Scientific Institution (KK2011).

Acknowledgments

We thank the staff of the Research Institute No. 290 of the China National Nuclear Corporation for their support during fieldwork. We thank Xian Liang and Xiuling Du for their assistance with LA-ICP-MS analyses. The authors thank Associate Editor Paul Tomascak and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments.

References Cited

Bailey, E.H. and Ragnarsdottir, K.V. (1994) Uranium and thorium solubilities in subduction zone fluids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 124, 119–129, https://doi.org/10.1016/0012-821X(94)00071-9Search in Google Scholar

Banks, D.A., Yardley, B.W.D., Campbell, A.R., and Jarvis, K.E. (1994) REE composition of an aqueous magmatic fluid: A fluid inclusion study from the Capitan Pluton, New Mexico, U. S.A. Chemical Geology, 113, 259–272, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(94)90070-1Search in Google Scholar

Battaglia, S. (1999) Applying X-ray geothermometer diffraction to a chlorite. Clays and Clay Minerals, 47, 54–63, https://doi.org/10.1346/CCMN.1999.0470106Search in Google Scholar

Berger, A., Gnos, E., Janots, E., Fernandez, A., and Giese, J. (2008) Formation and composition of rhabdophane, bastnäsite and hydrated thorium minerals during alteration: Implications for geochronology and low-temperature processes. Chemical Geology, 254, 238–248, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.03.006Search in Google Scholar

Bern, C.R., Yesavage, T., and Foley, N.K. (2017) Ion-adsorption REEs in regolith of the Liberty Hill pluton, South Carolina, U.S.A.: An effect of hydrothermal alteration. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 172, 29–40, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2016.09.009Search in Google Scholar

Bonnetti, C., Cuney, M., Bourlange, S., Deloule, E., Poujol, M., Liu, X.D., Peng, Y.B., and Yang, J.X. (2017) Primary uranium sources for sedimentary-hosted uranium deposits in NE China: Insight from basement igneous rocks of the Erlian Basin. Mineralium Deposita, 52, 297–315, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-016-0661-0Search in Google Scholar

Bonnetti, C., Liu, X.D., Mercadier, J., Cuney, M., Deloule, E., Villeneuve, J., and Liu, W.Q. (2018) The genesis of granite-related hydrothermal uranium deposits in the Xiazhuang and Zhuguang ore fields, North Guangdong Province, SE China: Insights from mineralogical, trace elements and U-Pb isotopes signatures of the U mineralization. Ore Geology Reviews, 92, 588–612, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.12.010Search in Google Scholar

Borst, A.M., Smith, M.P., Finch, A.A., Estrade, G., Villanova-de-Benavent, C., Nason, P., Marquis, E., Horsburgh, N.J., Goodenough, K.M., Xu, C., and others. (2020) Adsorption of rare earth elements in regolith-hosted clay deposits. Nature Communications, 11, 4386, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17801-5Search in Google Scholar

Chabiron, A., Cuney, M., and Poty, B. (2003) Possible uranium sources for the largest uranium district associated with volcanism: The Streltsovka caldera (Transbaikalia, Russia). Mineralium Deposita, 38, 127–140, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-002-0289-0Search in Google Scholar

Chen, W.T. and Zhou, M. (2014) Ages and compositions of primary and secondary allanite from the Lala Fe-Cu deposit, SW China: Implications for multiple episodes of hydrothermal events. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 168, 1043–1062, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-014-1043-1Search in Google Scholar

Chen, Y.W., Bi, X.W., Hu, R.Z., and Dong, S.H. (2012) Element geochemistry, mineralogy, geochronology and zircon Hf isotope of the Luxi and Xiazhuang granites in Guangdong province, China: Implications for U mineralization. Lithos, 150, 119–134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.06.025Search in Google Scholar

Chi, G.X., Ashton, K., Deng, T., Xu, D.R., Li, Z.H., Song, H., Liang, R., and Kennicott, J. (2020) Comparison of granite-related uranium deposits in the Beaverlodge district (Canada) and South China—A common control of mineralization by coupled shallow and deep-seated geologic processes in an extensional setting. Ore Geology Reviews, 117, 103319, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103319Search in Google Scholar

Cuney, M. (2009) The extreme diversity of uranium deposit. Mineralium Deposita, 44, 3–9, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-008-0223-1Search in Google Scholar

Cuney, M. (2014) Felsic magmatism and uranium deposits. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 185, 75–92, https://doi.org/10.2113/gssgfbull.185.2.75Search in Google Scholar

Cuney, M. and Friedrich, M. (1987) Physicochemical and crystal-chemical controls on accessory mineral paragenesis in granitoids: Implications for uranium metallogenesis. Bulletin de Minéralogie (Paris), 110, 235–247, https://doi.org/10.3406/bulmi.1987.7983Search in Google Scholar

Dahlkamp, F.J. (2009) Uranium Deposits of the World: Asia, 504 p. Springer-Verlag.Search in Google Scholar

Darling, J.R., Storey, C.D., and Engi, M. (2012) Allanite U-Th-Pb geochronology by laser ablation ICPMS. Chemical Geology, 292-293, 103–115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.11.012Search in Google Scholar

Deer, W.A., Howie, R.A., and Zussman, J. (1986) Rock-Forming Minerals: Disilicates and Ring Silicates,Vol. 1B. 2nd edition, 652 p. Longman.Search in Google Scholar

Deng, P., Ren, J.S., Ling, H.F., Shen, W.Z., Sun, L.Q., Zhu, B., and Tan, Z.Z. (2012) SHRIMP zircon U-Pb ages and tectonic implications for Indosinian granitoids of southern Zhuguangshan granitic composite, South China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 57, 1542–1552, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-011-4951-8Search in Google Scholar

Deng, X.D., Li, J.W., and Wen, G. (2014) Dating iron skarn mineralization using hydrothermal allanite-(La) U-Th-Pb isotopes by laser ablation ICP-MS. Chemical Geology, 382, 95–110, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.05.023Search in Google Scholar

Fu, W., Li, X.T., Feng, Y.T., Feng, M., Peng, Z., Yu, H., and Lin, H. (2019) Chemical weathering of S-type granite and formation of Rare Earth Element (REE)-rich regolith in South China: Critical control of lithology. Chemical Geology, 520, 33–51, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.05.006Search in Google Scholar

Gieré, R. and Sorensen, S.S. (2004) Allanite and other REE-rich epidote-group minerals. Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 56, 431–493.Search in Google Scholar

Gregory, C.J., Rubatto, D., Allen, C.M., Williams, I.S., Hermann, J., and Ireland, T. (2007) Allanite micro-geochronology: A LA-ICP-MS and SHRIMP U-Th-Pb study. Chemical Geology, 245, 162–182, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.07.029Search in Google Scholar

Hu, R.Z. and Jin, J.F. (1990) Mechanism of the migration and deposition of uranium in ascending hydrothermal solutions—Evidence from the Xiwang uranium deposit. Dizhi Lunping, 36, 317–325 (in Chinese with English abstract).Search in Google Scholar

Hu, R.Z., Bi, X.W., Su, W.C., Peng, J.T., and Li, C.Y. (2004) The relationship between uranium metallogenesis and crustal extension during the Cretaceous-Tertiary in South China. Earth Science Frontiers, 11, 153–160 (in Chinese with English abstract).Search in Google Scholar

Hu, R.Z., Bi, X.W., Zhou, M.F., Peng, J.T., Su, W.C., Liu, S., and Qi, H.W. (2008) Uranium metallogenesis in South China and its relationship to crustal extension during the Cretaceous to Tertiary. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 103, 583–598, https://doi.org/10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.583Search in Google Scholar

Hu, H., Wang, R.C., Chen, W.F., Chen, P.R., Ling, H.F., and Liu, G.N. (2013) Timing of hydrothermal activity associated with the Douzhashan uranium-bearing granite and its significance for uranium mineralization in northeastern Guangxi, China. Chinese Science Bulletin, 58, 4319–4328, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-013-5986-9Search in Google Scholar

Huang, J., Tan, W., Liang, X., He, H., Ma, L., Bao, Z., and Zhu, J. (2021) REE fractionation controlled by REE speciation during formation of the Renju regolith-hosted REE deposits in Guangdong Province, South China. Ore Geology Reviews, 134, 104172, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104172Search in Google Scholar

Imai, A., Yonezu, K., Sanematsu, K., Ikuno, T., Ishida, S., Watanabe, K., Pisutha-Arnond, V., Nakapadungrat, S., and Boosayasak, J. (2013) Rare earth elements in hydrothermally altered granitic rocks in the Ranong and Takua Pa Tin-Field, Southern Thailand. Resource Geology, 63, 84–98, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-3928.2012.00212.xSearch in Google Scholar

Ishihara, S., Hua, R., Hoshino, M., and Murakami, H. (2008) REE abundance and REE minerals in granitic rocks in the Nanling Range, Jiangxi province, southern China, and generation of the REE-rich weathered crust deposits. Resource Geology, 58, 355–372, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-3928.2008.00070.xSearch in Google Scholar

Jackson, S.E., Pearson, N.J., Griffin, W.L., and Belousova, E.A. (2004) The application of laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry to in situ U-Pb zircon geochronology. Chemical Geology, 211, 47–69, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.06.017Search in Google Scholar

Keppler, H. and Wyllie, P.J. (1990) Role of fluids in transport and fractionation of uranium and thorium in magmatic processes. Nature, 348, 531–533, https://doi.org/10.1038/348531a0Search in Google Scholar

Kynicky, J., Smith, M.P., and Xu, C. (2012) Diversity of rare earth deposits: The key example of China. Elements, 8, 361–367, https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.8.5.361Search in Google Scholar

Langmuir, D. (1978) Uranium solution-mineral equilibria at low temperatures with applications to sedimentary ore deposits. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 42, 547–569, https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(78)90001-7Search in Google Scholar

Li, X.H. (2000) Cretaceous magmatism and lithospheric extension in Southeast China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 18, 293–305, https://doi.org/10.1016/S1367-9120(99)00060-7Search in Google Scholar

Li, X.H. and McCulloch, M.T. (1998) Geochemical characteristics of Cretaceous mafic dikes from northern Guangdong, SE China: Age, origin and tectonic significance. In M.F.J. Flower, S.L. Chung, C.H. Lo, and T.Y. Lee, Eds., Mantle Dynamics and Plate Interaction in East Asia, 27, p. 405–419. American Geophysical Union.Search in Google Scholar

Li, Y.H.M., Zhao, W.W., and Zhou, M.F. (2017) Nature of parent rocks, mineralization styles and ore genesis of regolith-hosted REE deposits in South China: An integrated genetic model. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 148, 65–95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.08.004Search in Google Scholar

Li, M.Y.H., Zhou, M.F., and Williams-Jones, A.E. (2019) The genesis of regolith-hosted heavy rare earth element deposits: Insights from the world-class Zudong Deposit in Jiangxi Province, South China. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 114, 541–568, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4642Search in Google Scholar

Liao, X., Li, Q.L., Whitehouse, M.J., Yang, Y.H., and Liu, Y. (2020) Allanite U-Th-Pb geochronology by ion microprobe. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 35, 489–497, https://doi.org/10.1039/C9JA00426BSearch in Google Scholar

Littlejohn, A.L. (1981) Alteration products of accessory allanite in radioactive granites from the Canadian Shield. Papers Geological Survey of Canada 81-1B, p. 95–104.Search in Google Scholar

Luo, J.C., Hu, R.Z., Fayek, M., Li, C.S., Bi, X.W., Abdu, Y., and Chen, Y.W. (2015) In-situ SIMS uraninite U-Pb dating and genesis of the Xianshi granite-hosted uranium deposit, South China. Ore Geology Reviews, 65, 968–978, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2014.06.016Search in Google Scholar

Mao, J.W., Chen, Y.B., Chen, M.H., and Franco, P. (2013) Major types and time– space distribution of Mesozoic ore deposits in South China and their geodynamic settings. Mineralium Deposita, 48, 267–294, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-012-0446-zSearch in Google Scholar

McFarlane, C.R.M. (2016) Allanite U–Pb geochronology by 193nm LA ICP-MS using NIST610 glass for external calibration. Chemical Geology, 438, 91–102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.05.026Search in Google Scholar

McGloin, M.V., Tomkins, A.G., Webb, G.P., Spiers, K., MacRae, C.M., Paterson, D., and Ryan, C.G. (2016) Release of uranium from highly radiogenic zircon through metamictization: The source of orogenic uranium ores. Geology, 44, 15–18, https://doi.org/10.1130/G37238.1Search in Google Scholar

Middleton, A.W., Förster, H.J., Uysal, I.T., Golding, S.D., and Rhede, D. (2013) Accessory phases from the Soultz monzogranite, Soultz-sous-Forêts, France: Implications for titanite destabilisation and differential REE, Y and Th mobility in hydrothermal systems. Chemical Geology, 335, 105–117, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.10.047Search in Google Scholar

Migdisov, A., Williams-Jones, A.E., Brugger, J., and Caporuscio, F.A. (2016) Hydrothermal transport, deposition, and fractionation of the REE: Experimental data and thermodynamic calculations. Chemical Geology, 439, 13–42, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.06.005Search in Google Scholar

Min, M.Z., Luo, X.Z., Du, G.S., He, B.A., and Campbell, A.R. (1999) Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on the genesis of the granite-hosted Huangao uranium deposit, SE China. Ore Geology Reviews, 14, 105–127, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-1368(98)00020-1Search in Google Scholar

Morin, J.A. (1977) Allanite in granitic rocks of the Kenora-Vermilion Bay area, northwestern Ontario. Canadian Mineralogist, 15, 297–302.Search in Google Scholar

Ngo, X.D., Zhao, X.F., Tran, T.H., Deng, X.D., and Li, J.W. (2020) Two episodes of REEs mineralization at the Sin Quyen IOCG deposit, NW Vietnam. Ore Geology Reviews, 125, 103676, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103676Search in Google Scholar

Pal, D.C., Chaudhuri, T., Mcfarlane, C.R., Mukherjee, A., and Sarangi, A.K. (2011) Mineral chemistry and in situ dating of allanite, and geochemistry of its host rocks in the Bagjata uranium Mine, Singhbhum Shear Zone, India—Implications for the chemical evolution of REE mineralization and mobilization. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 106, 1155–1171, https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.106.7.1155Search in Google Scholar

Petrík, I., Broska, I., Lipka, J., and Siman, P. (1995) Granitoid allanite-(Ce): Substitution relations, redox conditions and REE distributions (On an example of I-type granitoids, western Carpathians, Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica, 46, 79–94.Search in Google Scholar

Poitrasson, F. (2002) In situ investigations of allanite hydrothermal alteration: Examples from calc-alkaline and anorogenic granites of Corsica (southeast France). Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 142, 485–500, https://doi.org/10.1007/s004100100303Search in Google Scholar

Romberger, S.B. (1984) Transport and deposition of uranium in hydrothermal systems at temperatures up to 300 °C: Geological implications. In B. De Vivo, F. Ippolito, G. Capaldi, and P.R. Simpson. P.R., Eds., Uranium Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Exploration and Resources, p. 12–17. The Institute of Mining and Metallurgy.Search in Google Scholar

Ruzicka, V. (1993) Vein uranium deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 8, 247–276, https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-1368(93)90019-USearch in Google Scholar

Skrzypek, E., Sakata, S., and Sorger, D. (2020) Alteration of magmatic monazite in granitoids from the Ryoke belt (SW Japan): Processes and consequences. American Mineralogist, 105, 538–554, https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7025Search in Google Scholar

Smith, M.R., Henderson, P., and Jeffries, T. (2002) The formation and alteration of allanite in skarn from the Beinn an Dubhaich granite aureole, Skye. European Journal of Mineralogy, 14, 471–486, https://doi.org/10.1127/0935-1221/2002/0014-0471Search in Google Scholar

Smye, A.J., Roberts, N.M.W., Condon, D.J., Horstwood, M.S.A., and Parrish, R.R. (2014) Characterising the U-Th-Pb systematics of allanite by ID and LA-ICPMS: Implications for geochronology. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 135, 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.021Search in Google Scholar

Sun, S. S. and McDonough, W.F. (1989) Chemical and isotopic systematics of oceanic basalts: Implications for mantle composition and processes. In A.D. Sanders and M.J. Norry, Eds., Magmatism in the Ocean Basins, 42, 313–345. Geological Society of London, Special Publication.Search in Google Scholar

Uher, P., Ondrejka, M., Bačík, P., Broska, I., and Konečný, P. (2015) Britholite, monazite, REE carbonates, and calcite: Products of hydrothermal alteration of allanite and apatite in A-type granite from Stupné, Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Chemical Geology, 236–237, 212–225.Search in Google Scholar

Walters, A. S., Goodenough, K.M., Hughes, H., Roberts, N., Gunn, A.G., Rushton, J., and Lacinska, L. (2013) Enrichment of rare earth elements during magmatic and post-magmatic processes: A case study from the Loch Loyal Syenite Complex, northern Scotland. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166, 1177–1202, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-013-0916-zSearch in Google Scholar

Wang, F.Y., Ge, C., Ning, S.Y., Nie, L.Q., Zhong, G.X., and White, N.C. (2017) A new approach to LA-ICP-MS mapping and application in geology. Yanshi Xuebao, 33, 3422–3436 (in Chinese with English abstract).Search in Google Scholar

Wiedenbeck, M., Allé, P., Corfu, F., Griffin, W.L., Meier, M., Oberli, F., Von Quadt, A., Roddick, J., and Spiegel, W. (1995) Three natural zircon standards for U-Th-Pb, Lu-Hf, trace element and REE analyses. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research, 19, 1–23, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-908X.1995.tb00147.xSearch in Google Scholar

Wood, S.A. (1990) The aqueous geochemistry of the rare-earth elements and yttrium: 2. Theoretical predictions of speciation in hydrothermal solutions to 350 °C at saturation water vapor pressure. Chemical Geology, 88, 99–125, https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(90)90106-HSearch in Google Scholar

Wood, S.A. and Ricketts, A. (2000) Allanite-(Ce) from the Eocene Casto granite, Idaho: Response to hydrothermal alteration. Canadian Mineralogist, 38, 81–100, https://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.38.1.81Search in Google Scholar

Wu, C., Huang, D., and Guo, Z. (1990) REE geochemistry in the weathered crust of granites, Longnan area, Jiangxi Province. Acta Geologica Sinica, 3, 193–209.Search in Google Scholar

Xie, Y., Hou, Z., Goldfarb, R.J., Guo, X., and Wang, L. (2016) Rare earth element deposits in China. Reviews in Economic Geology, 18, 115–136.Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, B.T. (1990) Endogenic uranium deposits and methods of study, 1–538. Atomic Energy Press (in Chinese).Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, Z.H. and Zhang, B.T. (1991) On the uranium-bearing granites and their related uranium deposits in South China, 1–258. Atomic Energy Press (in Chinese).Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, C., Cai, Y., Xu, H., Dong, Q., Liu, J., and Hao, R. (2017a) Mechanism of mineralization in the Changjiang uranium ore field, South China: Evidence from fluid inclusions, hydrothermal alteration, and H-O isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 86, 225–253, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.01.013Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Chen, Z.Y., Li, S.R., Santosh, M., Huang, G.L., and Tian, Z.J. (2017b) Isotope geochronology, geochemistry, and mineral chemistry of the U-bearing and barren granites from the Zhuguangshan complex, South China: Implications for petrogenesis and uranium mineralization. Ore Geology Reviews, 91, 1040–1065, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.07.017Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Chen, Z.Y., Li, X.F., Li, S.R., Santosh, M., and Huang, G.L. (2018a) Zircon U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of granites in the Zhuguangshan complex, South China: Implications for uranium mineralization. Lithos, 308–309, 19–33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.02.029Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Chen, Z.Y., Li, S.R., and Huang, G.L. (2018b) Characteristics of uranium minerals in wall-rock alteration zones from the Mianhuakeng (No. 302) uranium deposit, northern Guangdong, South China. Yanshi Xuebao, 35, 2657–2670 (in Chinese with English abstract).Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, C., Cai, Y.Q., Dong, Q., and Xu, H. (2020a) Cretaceous-Neogene basin control on the formation of uranium deposits in South China: Evidence from geology, mineralization ages, and H-O isotopes. International Geology Review, 62, 263–310, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1598898Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Li, X.F., Wang, G., and Wang, M. (2020b) Direct evidence for the source of uranium in the Baiyanghe deposit from accessory mineral alteration in the Yangzhuang granite porphyry, Xinjiang Province, Northwest China. American Mineralogist, 105, 1556–1571, https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7383Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Chen, Z.Y., Wang, F. Y., and Zhou, T.F. (2021a) Whole-rock and biotite geochemistry of granites from the Miao’ershan batholith, South China: Implications for the sources of granite-hosted uranium ores. Ore Geology Reviews, 129, 103930, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103930Search in Google Scholar

Zhang, L., Chen, Z.Y., Wang, Y.W., White, N.C., and Zhou, T.F. (2021b) Release of uranium from uraninite in granites through alteration: Implications for the source of granite-related uranium ores. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 116, 1115–1139, https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.4822Search in Google Scholar

Zhao, K.D., Jiang, S.Y., Ling, H.F., Sun, T., Chen, W.F., Chen, P.R., and Pu, W. (2016) Late Triassic U-bearing and barren granites in the Miao’ershan batholith, South China: Petrogenetic discrimination and exploration significance. Ore Geology Reviews, 77, 260–278, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.02.016Search in Google Scholar

Zhao, K.D., Jiang, S.Y., Dong, C.Y., Chen, W.F., Chen, P.R., Ling, H.F., Zhang, J., and Wang, K.X. (2011) Uranium-bearing and barren granites from the Taoshan complex, Jiangxi province, South China: Geochemical and petrogenetic discrimination and exploration significance. Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 110, 126–135, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2011.04.006Search in Google Scholar

Zhao, Z., Wang, D., Bagas, L., and Chen, Z. (2022) Geochemical and REE mineralogical characteristics of the Zhaibei Granite in Jiangxi Province, southern China, and a model for the genesis of ion-adsorption REE deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 140, 104579, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104579Search in Google Scholar

Zhong, F.J., Yan, J., Xia, F., Pan, J.Y., Liu, W.Q., Lai, J., and Zhao, Q.F. (2019) In-situ U-Pb isotope geochronology of uraninite for Changjiang granite-type uranium ore field in northern Guangdong, China: Implications for uranium mineralization. Yanshi Xuebao, 35, 2727–2744 (in Chinese with English abstract).Search in Google Scholar

Zhou, X.M., Sun, T., Shen, W.Z., Shu, L.S., and Niu, Y.L. (2006) Petrogenesis of Mesozoic granitoids and volcanic rocks in South China: A response to tectonic evolution. Episodes, 29, 26–33, https://doi.org/10.18814/epiiugs/2006/v29i1/004Search in Google Scholar
Received: 2022-03-03
Accepted: 2022-08-25
Published Online: 2023-07-10
Published in Print: 2023-07-26

© 2023 by Mineralogical Society of America

Articles in the same Issue

  1. On the origin of fluorine-poor apatite in chondrite parent bodies
  2. Fluorine behavior during experimental muscovite dehydration melting and natural partitioning between micas: Implications for the petrogenesis of peraluminous leucogranites and pegmatites
  3. Telescoped boiling and cooling mechanisms triggered hydrothermal stibnite precipitation: Insights from the world’s largest antimony deposit in Xikuangshan China
  4. MSA Distinguished Lecturer Series Correlations between cathodoluminescence intensity and aluminum concentration in low-temperature hydrothermal quartz
  5. Behavior of hydrogen defect and framework of Fe-bearing wadsleyite and ringwoodite at high temperature and high pressure
  6. What is mineral informatics?
  7. Metal source and hydrothermal evolution of the Jiaoxi quartz vein-type tungsten deposit (Tibet): Insights from textural and compositional variations of wolframite and scheelite
  8. Geochemical processes and mechanisms for cesium enrichment in a hot-spring system
  9. Identifying xenocrystic tourmaline in Himalayan leucogranites
  10. Contrasting alteration textures and geochemistry of allanite from uranium-fertile and barren granites: Insights into granite-related U and ion-adsorption REE mineralization
  11. Feiite: Synthesis, stability, and implications for its formation conditions in nature
  12. Thermal equation of state of Fe3O4 magnetite up to 16 GPa and 1100 K
  13. UHP eclogite from western Dabie records evidence of polycyclic burial during continental subduction
  14. CO2 quantification in silicate glasses using μ-ATR FTIR spectroscopy
  15. Local structure determination of Zn-smectite
  16. A new UHP unit in the Western Alps: First occurrence of coesite from the Monviso Massif (Italy)
  17. Mineral evolution and mineral niches of ammonium sulfates: The case of Pastora mine, Aliseda, Spain
  18. Discrete late Jurassic Sn mineralizing events in the Xianghualing Ore District, South China: Constraints from cassiterite and garnet U-Pb geochronology
  19. Ryabchikovite, CuMg(Si2O6), a new pyroxene group mineral, and some genetic features of natural anhydrous copper silicates
https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8531
Keywords for this article
Allanite; mineral chemistry; geochronology; granite-related U deposits; ion-adsorption; REE deposits; South China

Articles in the same Issue

  1. On the origin of fluorine-poor apatite in chondrite parent bodies
  2. Fluorine behavior during experimental muscovite dehydration melting and natural partitioning between micas: Implications for the petrogenesis of peraluminous leucogranites and pegmatites
  3. Telescoped boiling and cooling mechanisms triggered hydrothermal stibnite precipitation: Insights from the world’s largest antimony deposit in Xikuangshan China
  4. MSA Distinguished Lecturer Series Correlations between cathodoluminescence intensity and aluminum concentration in low-temperature hydrothermal quartz
  5. Behavior of hydrogen defect and framework of Fe-bearing wadsleyite and ringwoodite at high temperature and high pressure
  6. What is mineral informatics?
  7. Metal source and hydrothermal evolution of the Jiaoxi quartz vein-type tungsten deposit (Tibet): Insights from textural and compositional variations of wolframite and scheelite
  8. Geochemical processes and mechanisms for cesium enrichment in a hot-spring system
  9. Identifying xenocrystic tourmaline in Himalayan leucogranites
  10. Contrasting alteration textures and geochemistry of allanite from uranium-fertile and barren granites: Insights into granite-related U and ion-adsorption REE mineralization
  11. Feiite: Synthesis, stability, and implications for its formation conditions in nature
  12. Thermal equation of state of Fe3O4 magnetite up to 16 GPa and 1100 K
  13. UHP eclogite from western Dabie records evidence of polycyclic burial during continental subduction
  14. CO2 quantification in silicate glasses using μ-ATR FTIR spectroscopy
  15. Local structure determination of Zn-smectite
  16. A new UHP unit in the Western Alps: First occurrence of coesite from the Monviso Massif (Italy)
  17. Mineral evolution and mineral niches of ammonium sulfates: The case of Pastora mine, Aliseda, Spain
  18. Discrete late Jurassic Sn mineralizing events in the Xianghualing Ore District, South China: Constraints from cassiterite and garnet U-Pb geochronology
  19. Ryabchikovite, CuMg(Si2O6), a new pyroxene group mineral, and some genetic features of natural anhydrous copper silicates
Sign up now to receive a 20% welcome discount
Institutional Access
How does access work?
Have an idea on how to improve our website?
Please write us.
© 2025 De Gruyter Brill
Downloaded on 14.9.2025 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.2138/am-2022-8531/html
Scroll to top button