摘要
锂是一种战略性关键金属,因其高电位特征在新能源时代的战略地位突出,并且需求急剧增长。锂矿床是锂资源的自然载体,勘探开发锂矿床是保障低碳能源金属锂资源需求的重要途径。伟晶岩是硬岩型锂矿床重要的赋矿岩体,但大部分锂矿床赋矿岩体规模小,物性特征不明显,地球物理探测难度极大,并且在相当一段时间地球物理勘探与研究被忽视。随着锂矿勘探需求的持续攀升及仪器与方法技术的进步,地球物理在伟晶岩探测中的作用越来越被重视,在勘探应用中也在不断取得突破。本文在简要回顾锂资源需求现状的基础上,讨论和综述了伟晶岩型锂矿床地球物理探测技术,包括岩石物理特征、星载遥感技术、重磁勘探和电法勘探,最后展示了中国新疆可可托海伟晶岩稀有金属矿区音频大地电磁测深探测实例。伟晶岩与淡色花岗岩具有低磁化率、低密度、低极化率和高波速特征,而伟晶岩的电阻率受亲水矿物的影响,在几个数量级的范围内变化。由于伟晶岩和与其共伴生的花岗岩相对于片岩、片麻岩等围岩具有低密度、低磁化率特征,常用区域重磁勘探圈定这一类的花岗岩体。重磁勘探通常难以判别是否为伟晶岩,但近期有少量实例报道微重力能识别花岗岩中的伟晶岩。电法勘探因其相对较高的分辨率和穿透能力能在隐伏伟晶岩型锂矿勘查中发挥重要作用,在伟晶岩型锂矿勘探中被广泛应用。我们在可可托海开展了音频大地电磁测深。其结果表明:矿区及外围电阻率整体较高,但3号脉以南岩田内发育多处低阻体,据已知岩脉发育特征和地质调查结果,推测部分低阻异常体为隐伏伟晶岩反映。地质分析表明,可可托海伟晶岩均含矿,部分同期淡色花岗岩也有矿化特征,综合地质-地球物理特征,推测可可托海伟晶岩田南部有较好的资源前景。
Lithium is a critical metal widely used in Li-ion batteries for energy storage.The demand for lithium resource in a low-carbon economy is immense and rapidly growing,where a jump between 2015 to 2050 is predicted by Science.Currently more than half of lithium production comes from pegmatite lithium deposits.However,due to similar rock property between pegmatites and granite,lithium pegmatite prospecting by geophysical methods has proven difficult.Nevertheless,with the advancements in instrumentation and method developments,geophysical approaches have become increasingly widely used in lithium exploration.In this paper we briefly review the status of lithium resource as strategic raw material,and discuss and summarize the art of geophysical exploration for pegmatite lithium deposits,including rock physics,space remote sensing,gravity and magnetic prospecting,and geoelectrical exploration.A case study of the Koktokay rare-metal pegmatite by audio-frequency magnetotelluric(AMT)method is presented.Pegmatites and leucogranites are characterized by low magnetic susceptibility,low density,low polarizability and high velocity,and the electrical resistivity of pegmatites is affected by hydrophilic minerals and can vary by several orders of magnitude.As the host schist and gneiss in comparison have higher magnetic susceptibility and density,regional gravity and magnetic data are often used to delineate granite bodies.Recent reports show that micro-gravity in some cases can be used to identify pegmatite in host granite.With relatively high resolution and penetration depth,geoelectrical exploration plays an important role in the exploration of concealed pegmatite lithium deposits.In Koktokay,the rock formation and rock mass in the mining district are generally characterized by high resistivity by AMT method,but many low resistivity anomalies are detected.Based on the known ore deposits and geological survey results,the low-resistivity anomalies most likely reflect hidden pegmatites and indicate a good rare-metal resource prospect in the southern Koktokay mining district.
作者
何兰芳
李亮
申萍
王斯昊
李志远
周楠楠
陈儒军
秦克章
HE Lanfang;LI Liang;SHEN Ping;WANG Sihao;LI Zhiyuan;ZHOU Nannan;CHEN Rujun;QIN Kezhang(CAS Key Laboratory of Mineral Resources,Institutes of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences/College of Earth and Planetary Science,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China;School of Geoscience and Info-Physics,Central South University,Changsha 410083,China)
出处
《地学前缘》
EI
CAS
CSCD
北大核心
2023年第5期244-254,共11页
Earth Science Frontiers
基金
中国科学院重点部署项目(ZDRW-ZS-2020-4)
国家自然科学基金重大研究计划项目重点支持项目(91962213)。
关键词
锂矿床
伟晶岩
地球物理探测
电法勘探
可可托海
岩石物理
lithium deposit
pegmatite
geophysical approaches
geo-electical prospecting
Koktkay
rock physics
