Origin of Paleozoic granitoids in the Yuhai Cu–Mo deposit, Eastern Tianshan, NW China and implications for regional metallogeny

The Yuhai porphyry Cu–Mo deposit is located at the eastern section of the Dananhu–Tousuquan Arc in Eastern Tianshan, NW China. Cu–Mo mineralization generally occurs as disseminations and veins in potassic and phyllic alteration zones, and is predominantly hosted in the Yuhai quartz diorite, granodiorite and minor syenogranite intrusions. New LA–ICP–MS zircon U–Pb dating indicates that the acidic syenogranite was emplaced at 318–320 Ma, younger...