Geology and geochronology of the Tokuzbay gold deposit in the Chinese Altai: A case study of collision-related orogenic gold deposits in Central Asian Orogenic Belt

The Tokuzbay gold deposit is one of the represented gold deposits in Altai Orogen and the ores hosted in metamorphic rocks and magmatic dikes in a shear zone. Ore hosting magmatic dikes are intruded at Devonian, representing the product of the subduction-accretion process of the Altai Orogen. However, the ores are mineralized at Early Permian and is closely related to the sinistral shearing of Ma’erkakuli Fault. Gold mineralization in this deposit is related to the collision between the Junggar Plate and Altai Orogen. The orogenic gold deposits represented by the Tokuzbay deposit indicate that the Altai Orogen is characterized by orogenic gold mineralization related to the late Paleozoic collision.