它温查汉铁多金属矿床是新近发现于柴达木盆地和祁漫塔格山结合部位靠近盆地覆盖区一侧、风成沙覆盖严重、成矿元素组合复杂的矽卡岩型多金属矿床。文章主要探讨了其地质特征和成矿年代学,利用云母Ar-Ar法同位素定年技术,获得该矿床钻孔岩芯矽卡岩磁铁矿矿石中白云母40Ar-39Ar坪年龄和等时线年龄分别为(230·7±2·0)Ma和(229·9±3·5)Ma(MSWD=1·8),等时线年龄与坪年龄在误差范围内完全一致,厘定了该矿床成矿年龄为中三叠世晚期。结合区域多金属矿床最新成岩成矿年代学数据,认为该矿床形成于碰撞向后碰撞转换的地质构造环境,构成本区十分重要的与印支期碰撞造山有关的铁铜铅锌金多金属矿床成矿系列。
Located in the basin overburden area between the Qaidam Basin and the Qimantag Mountain,the Tawenchahan deposit is a typical skarn Fe-polymetallic deposit characterized by heavy sand overburden and various mine-ralization elements.The detailed geological features and he ore-forming age of the Tawenchahan deposit were studied in this paper.In order to obtain the ore-forming age,the authors measured the muscovite separated from skarn magnetite ore in the Tawenchahan Fe-polymetallic deposit by the 40Ar-39Ar incremental heating method,and the results yield a 40Ar-39Ar plateau age of(230.7±2.0) Ma and an isochron age of(229.9±3.5) Ma with MSWD being 1.8.It is shown that the Tawenchahan Fe-polymetallic deposit was formed during Indosinian period.These new age data,combined with the available petrogenetic and metallogenic chronological data obtained by SHRIMP zircon U-Pb,zircon LA-ICP-MS U-Pb,molybdenite Re-Os isochron and Ar-Ar methods in Qimantag area of Qinghai Province,indicate that this deposit was formed from the collisional to post-collisional environment,and belonged to the metallogenic series of Fe-Cu-Pb-Zn-Au polymetallic deposits related to Indosinian collision orogeny in eastern Kunlun.