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Conditions and processes leading to large-scale gold deposition in the Jiaodong province, eastern China

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The gold deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula constitute the largest gold mineralized province in China. The mineralization shows common characteristics in their tectonic setting, ore-forming fluid and metallogenic system. Sulfidation and fluid immiscibility are two important mechanisms controlling gold precipitation, both of which consume sulfur in the ore-forming fluids. The escape of H2S from the main ore-forming fluids and the decrease of total sulfur concentration not only lead to the efficient precipitation of gold, but also result in the crystallization of reducing minerals such as pyrrhotite and oxidizing minerals such as magnetite. Quartz solubility shows strong dependence on temperature, pressure, and CO2 content. The dependence of quartz solubility on pressure is weak at low temperatures, and progressively stronger at higher temperatures. Similarly, the temperature dependence of quartz solubility is relatively low at low pressures, but becomes gradually stronger at high pressures. The results of solubility modeling can constrain the dissolution and reprecipitation behavior of quartz in the ore-forming veins and the formation mechanism of different types of quartz veins. The multi-stage mineralization fluid activity resulted in the complex dissolution structure of quartz in the Jiaodong gold veins. Pyrite in the main metallogenic period in the Jiaodong gold deposits shows complex microstructure characteristics at single crystal scale. The trace elements (mainly the coupling of As- and Au-rich belt) and sulfur isotope composition also display a certain regularity. The As-rich fluids might have formed by the initial pulse of ore-forming fluids through As-rich metasedimentary strata, while the As-Au oscillation zone at the margin of pyrite grains is related to the pressure fluctuation caused by fault activity and the local phase separation of fluids. There is a temporal and spatial evolution of gold fineness in the Jiaodong gold deposits. Water/rock reaction (sulfidation) was the main ore-forming mechanism of early gold mineralization, forming relatively high fineness gold, while significant pressure drop in the shallow part accompanied by fluid phase separation promoted the late gold mineralization, forming low fineness gold. Under cratonic destruction setting, dehydration of the amphibolite and granulite facies metamorphic lower-crust resulted in the formation of Au-CO2-rich ore-forming fluids, which rose along the deep fault and secondary structure, and formed the largescale fault-controlled gold deposits in Jiaodong.

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We thank two anonymous reviewers, executive Editor-in-Chief academician Yongfei ZHENG, and Responsible Editor Professor Jianwei LI for their insightful comments and detailed reviews, which improved the quality of this manuscript. This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2016YFC0600105) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41672094, 41772080).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100029, China

    Hongrui Fan, **nghui Li, Kuifeng Yang, Fangfang Hu, Kai Feng, Huanlong Hu, Hongwei Peng & Yongwen Zhang

  2. College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100049, China

    Hongrui Fan, Kuifeng Yang, Fangfang Hu, Kai Feng, Huanlong Hu, Hongwei Peng & Yongwen Zhang

  3. Innovation Academy for Earth Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bei**g, 100029, China

    Hongrui Fan, Tingguang Lan, **nghui Li, Kuifeng Yang & Fangfang Hu

  4. State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550081, China

    Tingguang Lan & Huanlong Hu

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  6. State Key Laboratory of Mineral Processing, BGRIMM Technology Group, Bei**g, 102628, China

    Kai Feng

  7. School of Geosciences and Info-physics, Central South University, Changsha, 410012, China

    Hongwei Peng

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Fan, H., Lan, T., Li, X. et al. Conditions and processes leading to large-scale gold deposition in the Jiaodong province, eastern China. Sci. China Earth Sci. 64, 1504–1523 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-020-9789-2

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