Tianqiaocarbonate-hostedPb-Zndeposit,controlledbyNW-trendingF37thrustfaultandNW-trendingTianqiaoanticline,islocatedintheeasternpartofSichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou(SYG)Pb-Znmetallogenicprovince,southwesternYangtzeBlock,southwestChina.OrebodiesinthisdepositarehostedintheDevonian-Carboniferouscarbonaterocks,andoremineralsincludesphalerite,galenaandpyrite,whiletheganguemineralsaredominatedbycalciteanddolomite.Usinghigh–precisionsolidthermalionizationmassspectrometry(TIMS),thispaperreportsthestrontiumisotopiccompositions(0.7119to0.7167)ofsulfidesamplesfromtheTianqiaodepositinordertotracetheoriginofhydrothermalfluids.Comparedwiththecountryrocks,thecalculated87Sr/86Sr200Mavaluesofsulfiderangefrom0.7118to0.7130,higherthanthoseoftheage-correctedDevoniantoPermiansedimentaryrocks(0.7073to0.7101)andtheMiddlePermianEmeishanfloodbasalts(0.7078to0.7039),butlowerthanthoseoftheage-correctedProterozoicbasementrocks(suchastheKunyangandHuiliGroups,87Sr/86Sr200Ma=0.7243to0.7288).Thisimpliesamixedstrontiumsourcebetweentheolderbasementrocksandtheyoungercoversequences.Togetherwithgeologicandpreviousisotopicevidences,weconsideredthatthefluids'mixingisapossiblemechanismforsulfideprecipitationintheTianqiaodeposit.
