The possible source of uranium mineralization in felsic volcanic rocks, Eastern Desert, Egypt of the Arabian-Nubian Shield: Constraints from whole-rock geochemistry and spectrometric prospection

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gehad. M. Saleh ◽  
Bahaa. M. Emad ◽  
Ibrahim. B. Abdel Kader ◽  
Rania. M. Sakr
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Uranium Mineralization ◽  
Nubian Shield ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Arabian Nubian Shield ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

Evolution of a Neoproterozoic island arc in the northern Arabian-Nubian Shield: Volcanic rocks and their plutonic equivalents in the Hamash area, south Eastern Desert, Egypt

2021 ◽  
Vol 358 ◽  
pp. 106145
Author(s):  
Moustafa E. Gharib ◽  
Ayman E. Maurice ◽  
Ahmed H. Ahmed ◽  
Paul D. Asimow ◽  
Bottros R. Bakhit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Nubian Shield ◽  
Arabian Nubian Shield

Geochemistry and Isotope Composition of Paleoproterozoic Granites and Felsic Volcanics of the Elash Graben: Evidence of the Heterogeneity of the Early Precambrian Crust

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (10) ◽  
pp. 1175-1187
Author(s):  
A.D. Nozhkin ◽  
O.M. Turkina ◽  
K.A. Savko
Keyword(s):  
Isotope Composition ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Temporal Association ◽  
Metal Deposit ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Rare Metal Deposit ◽  
Geochronological Study ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

Abstract —The paper presents results of a petrogeochemical and isotope–geochronological study of the granite–leucogranite association of the Pavlov massif and felsic volcanics from the Elash graben (Biryusa block, southwest of the Siberian craton). A characteristic feature of the granite–leucogranites is their spatial and temporal association with vein aplites and pegmatites of the East Sayan rare-metal province. The U–Pb age of zircon from granites of the Pavlov massif (1852 ± 5 Ma) is close to the age of the pegmatites of the Vishnyakovskoe rare-metal deposit (1838 ± 3 Ma). The predominant biotite porphyritic granites and leucogranites of the Pavlov massif show variable alkali ratios (K2O/Na2O = 1.1–2.3) and ferroan (Fe*) index and a peraluminous composition; they are comparable with S-granites. The studied rhyolites of the Tagul River (SiO2 = 71–76%) show a low ferroan index, a high K2O/Na2O ratio (1.6–4.0), low (La/Yb)n values (4.3–10.5), and a clear Eu minimum (Eu/Eu* = 0.3–0.5); they are similar to highly fractionated I-granites. All coeval late Paleoproterozoic (1.88–1.85 Ga) granites and felsic volcanics of the Elash graben have distinct differences in composition, especially in the ferroan index and HREE contents, owing to variations in the source composition and melting conditions during their formation at postcollisions extension. The wide range of the isotope parameters of granites and felsic volcanic rocks (εNd from +2.0 to –3.7) and zircons (εHf from +3.0 to +0.8, granites of the Toporok massif) indicates the heterogeneity of the crustal basement of the Elash graben, which formed both in the Archean and in the Paleoproterozoic.

scholarly journals The Atud gabbro–diorite complex: glimpse of the Cryogenian mixing, assimilation, storage and homogenization zone beneath the Eastern Desert of Egypt

2020 ◽  
Vol 177 (5) ◽  
pp. 965-980
Author(s):  
Robert J. Stern ◽  
Kamal Ali ◽  
Paul D. Asimow ◽  
Mokhles K. Azer ◽  
Matthew I. Leybourne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fractional Crystallization ◽  
Mafic Magma ◽  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Igneous Complex ◽  
Nubian Shield ◽  
Partial Melts ◽  
Supplementary Material ◽  
Lower Crustal ◽  
Arabian Nubian Shield

We analysed gabbroic and dioritic rocks from the Atud igneous complex in the Eastern Desert of Egypt to understand better the formation of juvenile continental crust of the Arabian–Nubian Shield. Our results show that the rocks are the same age (U–Pb zircon ages of 694.5 ± 2.1 Ma for two diorites and 695.3 ± 3.4 Ma for one gabbronorite). These are partial melts of the mantle and related fractionates (εNd690 = +4.2 to +7.3, 87Sr/86Sri = 0.70246–0.70268, zircon δ18O ∼ +5‰). Trace element patterns indicate that Atud magmas formed above a subduction zone as part of a large and long-lived (c. 60 myr) convergent margin. Atud complex igneous rocks belong to a larger metagabbro–epidiorite–diorite complex that formed as a deep crustal mush into which new pulses of mafic magma were periodically emplaced, incorporated and evolved. The petrological evolution can be explained by fractional crystallization of mafic magma plus variable plagioclase accumulation in a mid- to lower crustal MASH zone. The Atud igneous complex shows that mantle partial melting and fractional crystallization and plagioclase accumulation were important for Cryogenian crust formation in this part of the Arabian–Nubian Shield.Supplementary material: Analytical methods and data, calculated equilibrium mineral temperatures, results of petrogenetic modeling, and cathodluminesence images of zircons can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4958822

The Duck Pond and Boundary Cu–Zn deposits, Newfoundland: new insights into the ages of host rocks and the timing of VHMS mineralization

2010 ◽  
Vol 47 (12) ◽  
pp. 1481-1506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicki McNicoll ◽  
Gerry Squires ◽  
Andrew Kerr ◽  
Paul Moore
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Isotopic Data ◽  
Sulphide Ores ◽  
Intrusive Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic ◽  
Host Rocks ◽  
Felsic Volcanic Rocks

The Duck Pond Cu–Zn–Pb–Ag–Au deposit in Newfoundland is hosted by volcanic rocks of the Cambrian Tally Pond group in the Victoria Lake supergroup. In conjunction with the nearby Boundary deposit, it contains 4.1 million tonnes of ore at 3.3% Cu, 5.7% Zn, 0.9% Pb, 59 g/t Ag, and 0.9 g/t Au. The deposits are hosted by altered felsic flows, tuffs, and volcaniclastic sedimentary rocks, and the sulphide ores formed in part by pervasive replacement of unconsolidated host rocks. U–Pb geochronological studies confirm a long-suspected correlation between the Duck Pond and Boundary deposits, which appear to be structurally displaced portions of a much larger mineralizing system developed at 509 ± 3 Ma. Altered aphyric flows in the immediate footwall of the Duck Pond deposit contained no zircon for dating, but footwall stringer-style and disseminated mineralization affects rocks as old as 514 ± 3 Ma at greater depths below the ore sequence. Unaltered mafic to felsic volcanic rocks that occur structurally above the orebodies were dated at 514 ± 2 Ma, and hypabyssal intrusive rocks that cut these were dated at 512 ± 2 Ma. Some felsic samples contain inherited (xenocrystic) zircons with ages of ca. 563 Ma. In conjunction with Sm–Nd isotopic data, these results suggest that the Tally Pond group was developed upon older continental or thickened arc crust, rather than in the ensimatic (oceanic) setting suggested by previous studies.

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