Leadville, Colorado district: oxygen isotopic evidence for a magmatic-hydrothermal origin
A magmatic-hydrothermal origin for much of the manto and vein complex at Leadville, Colorado, is indicated by 60 /sup 18/O//sup 16/O and D/H analyses of rocks and minerals. The ore-related samples around Breece Hill all interacted with a high-/sup 18/O and high-D fluid. Phyllically altered Tertiary porphyries equilibrated with fluids of delta/sup 18/O = +4.5 to +7.5 and deltaD = -53 to -70 permil (SMOW). Metal-rich quartz veins above, and vug quartz within manto ore, were deposited by fluids with delta/sup 18/O = +3.4 to +11.3. The host Leadville Dolomite shows high-/sup 18/O alteration adjacent to ore. Finally, silica-dolomite tubes surrounding mantos, possible conduits for spent ore fluids, transmitted fluids of delta/sup 18/O = +6.4 to +8.7. By contrast, early jasperoid and late golden barite formed from meteoric waters. Early white barite formed from a fluid of indeterminate origin. These data clearly show that a local meteoric-hydrothermal system was interrupted by a massive flux of high-/sup 18/O high-D fluid with the isotopic character of magmatic water.
- Research Organization:
- Noranda Exploration, Inc., Denver, CO (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6595576
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8510489-
- Journal Information:
- Geol. Soc. Am., Abstr. Programs; (United States), Vol. 17; Conference: 98. annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Orlando, FL, USA, 28 Oct 1985
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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