Mineralization Stages of the Pau-A-Pique Gold Deposit, Aguapeí Group, South-western of Mato Grosso, Central Brazil: Ore Mineral Chemistry and Fluid Inclusions Data

Abstract

The Pau-a-Pique deposit is a small gold prospect in the Southwestern of the Amazonian Craton (Mato Grosso State, Brazil). Ore types comprise quartz veins and disseminations hosted in the mylonitized metaconglomerate (Fortuna Formation, Aguapeí Group) and amphibole-biotite-chlorite mylonite. The native gold is associated with pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, native silver, galena, hematite, magnetite and martite. The aqueous-carbonic (type 1) and aqueous inclusions (type 2) in the quartz veins suggest that ore genesis is related to metamorphic fluids percolation during the late regional shearing. The ore remobilization was promoted by meteoric fluids, which are preserved as aqueous inclusions (type 3) in quartz veins.