Distribution and origin of brine-type Li-Rb mineralization in the Qaidam Basin,NW China

作     者：Jiansen LI Tingwei LI Yunqi MA Fukun CHEN Jiansen LI;Tingwei LI;Yunqi MA;Fukun CHEN

作者机构：School of Earth and Space SciencesUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei 230026China Key Laboratory of Comprehensive and Highly Efficient Utilization of Salt Lake ResourcesQinghai Institute of Salt LakesChinese Academy of SciencesXining 810008China Qinghai Provincial Key Laboratory of Geology and Environment of Salt LakesXining 810008China 

出 版 物：《Science China Earth Sciences》 (中国科学（地球科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2022年第65卷第3期

页      面：477-489页

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学科分类：081803[工学-地质工程] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41972258,U1407128,and 41402229) the Talent Program of Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2020428) the Natural Science Foundation of Qinghai Province(Grant No.2021-ZJ-980Q) the Second Comprehensive Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau(Grant No.2019QZKK0805) 

主　　题：Li and Rb resources Paleobrine Salt lake brine Hydrogen H-O-B isotopes Qaidam Basin 

摘      要：The Qaidam Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is well endowed with a variety of critical metals,such as Li and ***,little is known about the distribution,source,and enrichment mechanisms of these *** this paper,we present results of systematic geochemical and H-O-B isotopic analyses of brines in the Tertiary and Quaternary sediments of the Qaidam *** results reveal that the paleobrines from oil-bearing anticlines at Dafengshan,Nanyishan,Youquanzi,Jiandingshan,and Jianshishan are significantly enriched in Li and Rb,whose contents are 81.1-128.9 mg L^(-1)and 4.5-29.2 mg L^(-1),respectively,reaching levels of economic *** Rb contents(up to 12.5 mg L^(-1))and well-endowment of Li also characterize the Dongtai,Xitai,Yiliping,and Senie salt lakes in the Qaidam *** Tertiary paleobrine average inδD andδ18O at-40.7‰and 2.84‰,*** paleobrine with the highest Li and Rb hasδD andδ^(18)O values close to magmatic ***δ^(11)B values are lower than those of river water but close to those of geothermal fluids,suggesting that replenishment by deep magmatic hydrothermal fluid is most likely the key mechanism for the anomalous enrichment of these elements in the paleobrines,though evaporation and water-rock reactions have contributed to the critical metal *** anomalous enrichment of Li and Rb in modern salt lake brines is closely related to the input of volcanic geothermal *** relatively high Li and Rb contents of intercrystalline brines in salt lakes of the western Qaidam Basin and the increase of Li and Rb contents with increasing depth were caused by upwelling of local paleobrines along the fault zones.