Fahlore and Sphalerite from the Darasun Gold Deposit in the Eastern Transbaikal Region, Russia: I. Mineral Assemblages and Intergrowths, Chemical Composition, and Its Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. Lyubimtseva ◽  
N. S. Bortnikov ◽  
S. E. Borisovsky ◽  
V. Yu. Prokofiev ◽  
O. V. Vikent’eva
2010 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Yu. Prokof’ev ◽  
N. S. Bortnikov ◽  
V. A. Kovalenker ◽  
S. F. Vinokurov ◽  
L. D. Zorina ◽  
...  

1985 ◽  
Vol 49 (354) ◽  
pp. 649-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. S. Angus ◽  
R. Middleton

AbstractHögbomite occurs in two contrasting mineral assemblages within the Currywongaun-Dough-ruagh intrusion of north Connemara: a cordierite-rich pelitic xenolith and an orthopyroxenite. In the latter, högbomite and green spinel form blebs within magnetite-ilmenite grains. The högbomite displays significant compositional variation from grain to grain: TiO2 (3.0–6.3%), FeO (21.6–21.3%), MgO (10.0–7.5%), ZnO (3.6–2.4%). This chemical heterogeneity appears to represent variable degrees of partial substitution of Mg and Zn by Ti, in the replacement of spinel by högbomite. By contrast, in the cordierite-hornfels, the högbomite compositions are more notably enriched in iron: TiO2 (4.7–7.0%), FeO (29.6–24.3%), MgO (4.2–6.2%), ZnO (2.7–2.1%). This iron-rich högbomite appears to have formed primarily by interaction between opaque ore and adjacent cordierite, rather than by replacement of spinel.Two high-grade metamorphic episodes appear to be necessary for högbomite growth, one determining chemical composition and the other appropriate physical parameters. In the Connemara occurrences thermal metamorphism and partial melting, coupled with contamination of the surrounding magma, controlled the formation of mineral assemblages rich in Fe, Mg, Al, Ti, and Zn. Emplacement of the intrusion was accompanied by amphibolite facies regional metamorphism and it is to this metamorphic event that the growth of högbomite may be attributed.


2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 1015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Β. ΜΕΛΦΟΣ ◽  
Π. ΒΟΥΔΟΥΡΗΣ ◽  
Κ. ΑΡΙΚΑΣ ◽  
Μ. ΒΑΒΕΛΙΔΗΣ

The present study correlates both the mineralogy of the hydrothermal alteration and the mineral chemistry of molybdenites from three porphyry Mo ± Cu occurrences in Thrace: Melitena, Pagoni Rachi/Kirki and Ktismata/ Maronia. The mineralisations are genetically related to calcalkaline, subvolcanic bodies of Tertiary age. According to their mineralogical and chemical composition the host rocks are characterized as dacite (Melitena), dacitic andésite (Pagoni Rachi) and porphyry microgranite (Ktismata/Maronia). The molybdenites occur in disseminated form, as fracture fillings, as well within quartz stockworks crosscuting the central alteration zones of the intrusives. They are accompanied by the following mineral assemblages: quartz, sericite, pyrophyllite, diaspore, Ca-Ba-rich alunite, pyrite (Melitena); quartz, albite/K-feldspar, biotite, actinolite, magnetite (Pagoni Rachi); and sericite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, chlorite (Ktismata). Preliminary microthermometric results showed homogenisation temperatures from 352° to 390 °C for Pagoni Rachi area and from 295° to 363 °C for Melitena area. The salinities range between 4.5 and 6.1 wt% eq. NaCl and between 2.7 and 3.4 wt% eq. NaCl, respectively. Detailed study on over 400 fluid inclusions from the porphyry Cu-Mo deposit in Maronia area revealed formation temperatures from 300° to 420 °C, whereas salinities are distincted in two different groups from 6 to 16 wt% eq. NaCl and from 28 to 55 wt% eq. NaCl. The chemical composition of the molybdenites from the three porphyry Mo±Cu deposits in Thrace was studied with 155 microprobe analyses. The results revealed unusual high and variable Re concentrations in the studied molybdenites. Re content in molybdenite from Melitena area vary from 0.21 to 1.74 wt%, 0.79 wt% on average. The highest values were measured in samples from Pagoni Rachi (0.45-4.21 wt%, 1.98 wt% on average). Finally, microprobe analyses from molybdenite in Ktismata/Maronia showed Re content between 0.12 and 2.88 wt% (0.76 wt% on average). Rhenium is a very rare element with many definite uses, and is mainly associated with molybdenite in porphyry type deposits. According to the data published so far the Re content in molybdenite reaches up to 0.42 wt%. It is obvious therefore that such high Re concentrations (0.12 to 4.22 wt%) from the studied molybdenites in Thrace, are very ineresting for a possible future exploitation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-203
Author(s):  
N. G. Lyubimtseva ◽  
N. S. Bortnikov ◽  
S. E. Borisovskii

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (8) ◽  
pp. 791-802
Author(s):  
A. S. Vakh ◽  
V. I. Gvozdev ◽  
N. A. Goryachev ◽  
A. A. Karabtsov ◽  
D. G. Fedoseev ◽  
...  

1999 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne G Powell ◽  
David RM Pattison ◽  
Paul Johnston

Textural relations between Al2SiO5 phases, and deformation fabrics, provide constraints on the metamorphic history of the Hemlo gold deposit. Kyanite in the deposit is most common within and on the margins of boudinaged quartz ± realgar veins, and less commonly as rotated porphyroblasts within the matrix of schistose rocks. Kyanite predates the main (D2) schistosity. Sillimanite postdates kyanite, occurring irregularly as discrete knots and foliae that run parallel to, but sometimes cut across, the principal (D2) foliation, indicating that sillimanite postdates the D2 foliation. We regard kyanite to be part of the peak metamorphic assemblage, with sillimanite representing a partial later overprint most likely related to fluid infiltration. Rare andalusite occurs in two associations: as late-stage, clean, idioblastic crystals; and as large, fractured grains, locally overprinted by sillimanite, in boudinaged quartz-realgar veins. We suggest two possible origins for this second form of andalusite, one involving generally late growth, the second involving early growth prior to the development of peak metamorphic kyanite. Although not unambiguous, we prefer the second scenario. P-T conditions from petrogenetic grid constraints, and new geothermobarometric estimates, indicate 6-7 GPa, 600-650°C for the peak kyanite grade metamorphism (ca. 2677 Ma?), and 4-5 GPa, 600°C for the later sillimanite overprint (ca. 2672 Ma?). We see these two events as part of an evolving P-T path in a single metamorphic event. In our early andalusite scenario, the andalusite may have formed from pyrophyllite breakdown at 2-4 GPa, 450°C, possibly associated with emplacement of the regional suite of granodiorite plutons (ca. 2686 Ma). Late andalusite formed sporadically on the retrograde path. The occurrence of deformed andalusite and aligned kyanite in and on the margins of boudinaged auriferous realgar-stibnite-quartz veins provides evidence in support of a premetamorphic mineralization event.


Author(s):  
M. A. Boguslavskiy ◽  
S. O. Khudyakov

The paper presents the results of a study of heavy mineral concentrates of Kosumnerskoe gold deposit as well as the native gold from them. This gold deposit includes two gravel deposits. The granulometric composition, morphology, roundness, flatness, presence of intergrowths of gold with other minerals, as well as the character of the surface, the chemical composition and internal structure of gold, have been investigated. Based on these results, the placer gold of rivers Narta-Yu and Nester-Shor has been concluded to be similar in morphology, chemical composition and internal structure so it allows attributing them to a single type of motherload, which could be named as gold-polysulfide-quartz type. On the results of the analysis of two gold deposits of this field, the gravel deposit of the river Nester-Shor has been concluded to be elder than gravel deposit of the river Narta-Yu.


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