Remobilization of metasomatized mantle lithosphere: a new model for the Jiaodong gold province, eastern China

The ~ 120 Ma Jiaodong province in the North China Craton, composed of abundant Mesozoic granites that intrude Precambrian metamorphic basement, is bordered by the Sulu orogenic belt, which formed through the collision between the North China and Yangtze cratons in the Triassic. Insights on the geodynamic setting and source of gold and fluids in the Jiaodong gold province are based on a detailed study of the Sanshandao deposit. The δ13CPDB and...