scholarly journals New orogenic type gold occurrences in the Uyanga ore knot (Central Mongolia)

2019 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 08020
Author(s):  
Ariunbileg Sodov ◽  
Olga Gaskova ◽  
Altansukh Gankhuyag ◽  
Dagva-Ochir Lkhagvasuren ◽  
Otgonbaatar Dorjsuren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Metallogenic Zone ◽  
Water Rock Interaction

The Khangay-Khentey belt is located in central Mongolia (Central Asian Orogenic Belt). The Uyanga ore knot district of the Khangay metallogenic zone are hosted by the lower-middle Devonian volcanogenic-sedimentary Erdenetsogt formation. The new Burgetei, Ult and Senjit gold occurrences were studied. The rocks of the Erdenetsogt formation have an irregular gold content: 0.96 g/t Au is determined in quartz vein (BG-7/16), Au content is highest up to 3.5 g/t in the quartzite-jasper (Ult-7/16 and Ult-9/16) cut by quartz veins in the Ult occurrence. The Senjit occurrence represents Au-Hg-Sb epizonal level of orogenic gold deposits structure with highest Hgand Sb content up to 8.5 ppm and 39 ppm respectively. The Au content of arsenic pyrite of the Burgetei and Ult is below the detection limit by electron microprobe analysis. The Au content of arsenopyrite of the Ult occurrence is highest (up to 238 ppm). The ore-mineral assemblages in the new gold occurrences reflect the differences between three explored sites, formed in the course of fluid evolution during the water-rock interaction. Variable concentrations of indicative elements (As, Te, Sb, Hg) and their ratios confirm this fact.

scholarly journals New orogenic type gold occurrences in the Uyanga ore knot (Central Mongolia)

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-36
Author(s):  
Ariunbileg Sodov ◽  
Olga Gaskova ◽  
Altansukh Gankhuyag ◽  
Dagva-Ochir Lkhagvasuren ◽  
Otgonbaatar Dorjsuren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Electron Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Metallogenic Zone ◽  
Host Rocks

The Uyanga ore knot district of the Khangay metallogenic zone are hosted by the lower-middle Devonian volcanogenic-sedimentary Erdenetsogt formation. About 40 samples were collected from the host rocks, veins and quartz veins in the Uyanga ore knot district in 2016. The new Burgetei, Ult and Senjit gold occurrences were studied. The quartz-sulfide, gold-arsenic and gold-antimony-mercury mineralization are determined in the berecitization, silicification, limonitization and glauconization altered metasomatic zones within the Uyanga ore knot districts. The rocks of the Erdenetsogt formation have an irregular gold content: 0.96 g/t Au is determined in quartz vein taken from trench of the Burgetei occurrence (BG-7/16), Au content is highest up to 3.5 g/t in the quartzite-jasper (Ult-7/16 and Ult-9/16) cut by quartz veins in the Ult occurrence. The Senjit occurrence represents Au-Hg-Sb epizonal level of orogenic gold deposits structure with highest Hg content up to 851 ppm. This year no sulfide minerals were found in the siltstone of this occurrence. The Au content of arsenical pyrite of the Burgetei and Ult is below the detection limit by electron microprobe analysis. The Au content of arsenopyrite of the Ult occurrence is highest (up to 238 ppm). Therefore, the ore-mineral assemblages in the gold occurrences reflect the differences between the three explored sites, formed in the course of fluid evolution during the fluid-rock interaction. Variable concentrations of indicative elements (As, Te, Sb, Hg) and their ratios confirm this fact. The geodynamic position, the type of the hydrothermal alteration of both igneous and sedimentary rocks, textures and mineral assemblages, the mineralization sequences are consistent with orogenic classification for the Burgetei, Ult and Senjit gold occurrences.

scholarly journals A NEW GOLD ORE REGION IN TANZANIA

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
V. Mykhailov ◽  
А. Tots
Keyword(s):  
Gold Deposit ◽  
Shear Zone ◽  
Gold Mineralization ◽  
Lake Victoria ◽  
Gold Deposits ◽  
Mobile Belt ◽  
Gold Content ◽  
Gold Ore ◽  
Metallogenic Zone ◽  
The Republic

Tanzania is one of the leading gold mining countries in the world and the discovery of new gold resources on its territory is an actual task. Known gold deposits are concentrated mainly in the northwest of the country, in the metallogenic zone of Lake Victoria, where they are associated with the Archean greenstone belts, and to a lesser extent – in the southwest, in the ore regions of Lupa and Mpanda, confined to the Ubendian Paleoproterozoic mobile belt. With regard to the eastern regions of Tanzania, where the Proterozoic structures of the Uzagaran mobile belt are developed, until recently in this region any significant manifestations of gold mineralization were not known. As a result of our research in the northern part of the Morogoro province of the Republic of Tanzania, a new previously unknown gold deposit Mananila was discovered. It is represented by a large volume, up to 400–450 m long, up to 60–80 m thick, mineralized shear zone over intensely leached and schistosed migmatites, gneisses, amphibolites, penetrated by echelon systems of quartz veins and veinlet, steeply dipping bodies of quartz breccia up to 1.0–1.5 m thick. Gold contents range from 0.61 to 8.11 g/t, the average zone content is 2.5–3.0 g/t. Parallel to the main zone, similar structures are developed on the site, although they are of lower thickness. The forecast resources of the deposit are estimated at 20 tons of gold. 2.8 km to the east from the Mananila field, the recently discovered Mazizi gold deposit is located, and a number of small occurrences of gold are also known in the region. All these objects are located within a large shear zone of the northeastern strike, up to 4–5 km width, over 20 km in length. This serves as the basis for the identification of a new gold ore region in the northern part of the Morogoro province of the United Republic of Tanzania, within the Proterozoic mobile belt of Usagaran, the possible gold content of which has never been previously discussed in geological literature.

WATER-ROCK INTERACTION THERMODYNAMIC MODELING WHILE HYDROTHERMAL EXPOSURE ON THE BAZHENOV FORMATION ROCKS

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
E. S. Sidkina ◽  
I. A. Bugaev ◽  
A. Yu. Bychkov ◽  
A. G. Kalmykov
Keyword(s):  
Thermodynamic Modeling ◽  
Hydrothermal Reaction ◽  
Saturated Water Vapor ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Bazhenov Formation ◽  
Saturated Water ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Calculation Results ◽  
Simulation Results ◽  
Water Rock Interaction

Equilibrium mineral assemblages at temperatures from 50 °C to 350 °C and pressure of saturated water vapor were established by the thermodynamic modeling of hydrothermal reaction on the Bazhenov Formation rocks. The calculation results show that the mineral parageneses vary slightly with the temperature increase: for zeolites stilbite-laumontite-wairakite row is typical, kaolinite is replaced by montmorillonite and/or albite, pyrite — by pyrrhotite, calcite — by dolomite, brannerite — by uraninite. The simulation results are confirmed by experimental data.

scholarly journals Water-Rock Interaction and Potential Contamination Risk in a U-Enriched Area

Geosciences ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Margarida Antunes ◽  
Rui Teixeira ◽  
Teresa Albuquerque ◽  
Teresa Valente ◽  
Paula Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mining Area ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Central Portugal ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Soil And Water Contamination ◽  
The Village ◽  
Soil And Water ◽  
Water Rock Interaction

The Picoto mining area is in the village of Vilar Seco (Viseu), central Portugal. Mineralization occurs mainly in quartz veins with meta-torbernite and uranophane and some U-bearing minerals, cutting a Variscan granite. Exploitation took place in two phases, between 1917 and 1953, and since the closure, the area has never been remediated. Water–rock interaction processes, including the mobility of potentially toxic elements through soil and water (surface and groundwater), were identified with the determination in situ of physicochemical parameters and selected anions and cations, by ICP-OES. The soils are contaminated with As (>44 mg/kg), Cu (>23 mg/kg), and U (>40 mg/kg) and cannot be used for agricultural or domestic purposes. The waters are generally weakly mineralized and have pH values ranging from acidic to neutral. However, some of them are contaminated with NO2 (up to 2.3 mg/L), Fe (up to 1849 mg/L), Mn (up to 777 mg/L), Cu (up to 5.4 µg/L), As (up to 14.7 µg/L), and U (up to 66.2 µg/L) and cannot be used for human consumption or agricultural activities. The soil and water contamination are mainly related to the old mine activities and the subsequent human activities that have developed in the area.

NEOPROTEROZOIC TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE OPHIOLITIC BAYANKHONGOR SUTURE ZONE, CENTRAL ASIAN OROGENIC BELT (CENTRAL MONGOLIA)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Worthington ◽  
◽  
Claire E. Bucholz ◽  
Uyanga Bold ◽  
Francis A. Macdonald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Suture Zone ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Asian Orogenic Belt ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Central Asian

87SR/86SR, δ18O AND NOBLE GASES AS TRACERS OF WATER-ROCK INTERACTION IN THE THEISTAREYKIR GEOTHERMAL FIELD

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Haut-Labourdette ◽  
◽  
Daniele Pinti ◽  
André Poirier ◽  
Marion Saby ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Noble Gases ◽  
Geothermal Field ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
Water Rock Interaction

scholarly journals PARAGUAY BELT LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC AND TECTONIC CHARACTERIZATION: IMPLICATIONS IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE OROGEN (MATO GROSSO-BRAZIL) / CARACTERIZAÇÃO LITOESTRATIGRÁFICA E TECTÔNICA DO CINTURÃO PARAGUAY : IMPLICAÇÕES NA EVOLUÇÃO DO ORÓGENO (MATO GROSSO-BRASIL)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-73
Author(s):  
Elzio Da Silva Barboza ◽  
Anderson Costa dos Santos ◽  
Carlos José Fernandes ◽  
Mauro César Geraldes
Keyword(s):  
Gold Content ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Quartz Veins ◽  
Marine Sedimentation ◽  
Amazonian Craton ◽  
Gondwana Supercontinent ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
Shelf Region ◽  
High Gold Content

The Paraguay Belt is composed by sediments deposited due to extensional events followed by inversion with deformation and magmatism and lastly collision of the Amazonian Craton and Paranapanema Block. The marine sedimentation, with Neoproterozoic ages, should have occurred in a continental shelf region, at about 800-550 Ma, when the closing of many oceans gave place to the amalgamation of the Gondwana supercontinent. Three areas were selected for this study which configuration define the perpendicular profile of the Paraguay Belt and allow the characterization of the main regional structures.The structural analysis in the sites here reported and surrounding areas allow suggesting that three deformational events are recorded in the rocks of this region. The sedimentary bedding S0, marked by alternations of dark gray and whitish coloration in the seritic phyllites is folded and the axial plane (Sn) is marked by a cleavage of ardosian. These surfaces are cut by two other deformations, Sn + 1 surface that plunges at high angles to SE as fracture cleavage and Sn + 2 that is orthogonal to the previous deformations and has NW-SE direction with vertical dips, where sometimes occurs quartz veins with high gold content. The Paraguay Belt fan geometry observed in the Sn foliation was developed during the closing of a Brazilian ocean that evolved between the Paranapanema Block and the Amazonian Craton. ResumoO Cinturão Paraguai é composto por sedimentos depositados durante eventos extencionais  seguidos de inversão com deformação e magmatismo e, por último, colisão do Craton Amazônico e do Bloco Paranapanema. A sedimentação marinha, com idades Neoproterozóicas, ocorreu  em uma região de plataforma continental, entre 800-550 Ma, quando o fechamento de muitos oceanos deu lugar à fusão do supercontinente Gondwana. Três áreas foram selecionadas para este estudo cuja configuração define um  perfil perpendicular do Cinturão do Paraguai e permite a caracterização das principais estruturas regionais.A análise estrutural nos locais aqui relatados e áreas adjacentes permite sugerir que as rochas do orógeno passou por três eventos deformacionais. O acamamento  sedimentar S0, marcado por alternâncias de coloração cinza-escura e esbranquiçada nos filitos e siltitos, é dobrado e o plano axial (Sn) é marcado por uma clivagem ardosiana. Estas superfícies são cortadas por outras duas deformações, Sn + 1 que mergulha em ângulos elevados para SE como clivagem de fratura e Sn + 2 que é ortogonal às deformações anteriores e tem direção NW-SE com mergulhos verticais, onde às vezes ocorrem veios de quartzo com alto teor de ouro. A geometria em leque  do Cinturão Paraguay observada na foliação de Sn foi desenvolvida durante o fechamento de um oceano brasileiro que evoluiu entre o Bloco Paranapanema e o Craton Amazônico.

scholarly journals Geochemical and isotopic evidence of groundwater salinization processes in the Essaouira region, north-west coast, Morocco

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Otman EL Mountassir ◽  
Mohammed Bahir ◽  
Driss Ouazar ◽  
Abdelghani Chehbouni ◽  
Paula M. Carreira
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Recharge ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Exchange Process ◽  
Environmental Isotopes ◽  
Annual Rainfall ◽  
Groundwater Salinization ◽  
Rock Interaction ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Water Rock Interaction

AbstractThe city of Essaouira is located along the north-west coast of Morocco, where groundwater is the main source of drinking, domestic and agricultural water. In recent decades, the salinity of groundwater has increased, which is why geochemical techniques and environmental isotopes have been used to determine the main sources of groundwater recharge and salinization. The hydrochemical study shows that for the years 1995, 2007, 2016 and 2019, the chemical composition of groundwater in the study area consists of HCO3–Ca–Mg, Cl–Ca–Mg, SO4–Ca and Cl–Na chemical facies. The results show that from 1995 to 2019, electrical conductivity increased and that could be explained by a decrease in annual rainfall in relation to climate change and water–rock interaction processes. Geochemical and environmental isotope data show that the main geochemical mechanisms controlling the hydrochemical evolution of groundwater in the Cenomanian–Turonian aquifer are the water–rock interaction and the cation exchange process. The diagram of δ2H = 8 * δ18O + 10 shows that the isotopic contents are close or above to the Global Meteoric Water Line, which suggests that the aquifer is recharged by precipitation of Atlantic origin. In conclusion, groundwater withdrawal should be well controlled to prevent groundwater salinization and further intrusion of seawater due to the lack of annual groundwater recharge in the Essaouira region.

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