小东沟早白垩世斑状黑云母花岗岩株侵位于上二叠统火山-沉积岩中,属富碱钙-碱性火成岩。钼矿化大多产在该岩株的顶部及其内、外接触带,呈细脉浸染状、条带状和团块状,最大矿化深度可达300m。钼矿石中的金属矿物有黄铁矿、辉钼矿、黄铜矿、闪锌矿和磁铁矿;非金属矿物有钾长石、石英和绢云母。从岩株中心向外,热液蚀变类型依次为硅化、钾化、云英岩化和青磐岩化,其中硅化和云英岩化与钼矿化具密切空间分布关系。据流体包裹体测试数据,可推测该矿床的形成温度为320~420℃,形成深度为1.56~2.85km。稳定同位素测定结果表明,钼矿石主要是以岩浆水为主的混源流体淀积的结果,硫和钼主要来自中酸性岩浆源。另外,低f(O2)和高f(S2)的弱酸性还原效应以及成矿流体“沸腾”作用均是导致辉钼矿沉淀的原因。小东沟矿床属斑岩型中高温热液钼矿床。
Located in the easternmost part of the Early Paleozoic tectono-magmatic belt within the Ondur Sum-Ongniud Banner on the northern edge of the North China Craton, the newly discovered Xiaodonggou deposit is a medium-size porphyry molybdenum deposit occurring in central-eastern Inner Mongolia. During the Mesozoic Yanshanian orogeny, intense tectonic and igneous activities resulted in large-scale granitoid magmatism in Xiaodonggou and its neighboring areas. The Xiaodonggou granitoid porphyry stock was emplaced in the volcano-sedimentary sequence of the Upper Permian Ranfangdi Formation, controlled by the NS-trending fault zone. With an outcrop area of 0.22 km^2, it consists mainly of porphyritic biotite granite and fine-grained biotite granite which have the same mineral assemblage. Rock-forming minerals are mainly quartz, microcline, microperthite and plagioclase associated with minor biotite and sericite. Accessory minerals comprise magnetite, apatite, zircon, sphene and allanite. The porphyry stock is petrochemically characterized by relatively high SiO2, K2O, Rb, U and Th, and obviously low CaO, Fe2O3 + FeO, MgO, St, Ba, Nb, Ta and REE, thus belonging to siliconhigh, potassium-rich rock of calc-alkaline series. Molybdenum mineralization occurs exclusively within the Xiaodonggou porphyritic granitoid stock as veins, veinlets and disseminated blocks. Molybdenum ore consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite, molybdenite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, scheelite, wolframite, K-feldspar, quartz, sericite, chlorite and epidote. As the most important economic molybdenum mineral, molybdenite occurs in the forms of impregnation, radioflakes, thin films, aggregated flakes and veinlets in veins. Re-Os isotopic data of six molybdenite separates define a correlation line corresponding to an age of (135.5 ± 1.5) Ma. Hydrothermal alterations in Xiaodonggou roughly show zonation of K feldspathization, greisenization, silicification, and propylitization from the porphyritic biotite granite stock outward. Of these alterations, silicificati