Abstract:
Many deposits and mineral occurrences are developed around the Lingshan rock mass, especially the Huangshan and Songshugang large to super-large tantalum−niobium deposits. The Nanjiawu zinc polymetallic deposit and the Jiaoling tungsten−tin deposit are located to the west of the Songshugang deposit, which is the largest tantalum−niobium deposit in Asia, and both show deep prospecting potential. The geological characteristics and metallogenic conditions of the Nanjiawu zinc polymetallic deposit were preliminarily discussed. In comparison with the Songshugang tantalum−niobium deposit, vertically from bottom to top, alteration consists of inner-zone albitization–greisenization–potassic alteration–pegmatitization and outer-zone greisenization–silicification (linear), corresponding to tantalum−niobium (rubidium−lithium) mineralization in the inner zone and greisen-type tungsten−tin mineralization to quartz vein-type tungsten−tin mineralization in the outer zone. Laterally from the center outward, alteration changes from greisenization–silicification (linear) to epidotization and chloritization–fluorite mineralization, and then to carbonatization, corresponding to greisen-type tungsten−tin mineralization, quartz vein-type tungsten−tin mineralization, lead−zinc mineralization, and fluorite mineralization. A three-dimensional metallogenic model is proposed, consisting of a stock, inner-zone tantalum-niobium mineralization with four alteration zones, outer-zone high-temperature hydrothermal tungsten−tin mineralization, and far outer-zone medium- to low-temperature hydrothermal lead−zinc (fluorite) mineralization. According to the theory of isospatial metallogenesis, combined with the interpretation of ring structures from remote sensing satellite images, it is inferred that three metallogenic centers occur in the Songshugang−Nanjiawu area: the known concealed stock in the Songshugang anticline, the Jiaoling anticline (inferred concealed stock), and the Yangjiawan syncline (inferred concealed stock). The Jiaoling tungsten−tin occurrence and the Yangjiawan zinc-tin occurrence are respectively located in the outer high-temperature hydrothermal tungsten−tin mineralization zone and the far outer medium- to low-temperature hydrothermal lead−zinc (fluorite) mineralization zone of the metallogenic model. It is predicted that the deep parts of the Jiaoling anticline and the Yangjiawan syncline have prospecting potential for altered granite-type tantalum−niobium deposits.