scholarly journals Rare-Metal Pegmatite Deposits of the Kalba Region, Eastern Kazakhstan: Age, Composition and Petrogenetic Implications

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1017
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Khromykh ◽  
Tatiana A. Oitseva ◽  
Pavel D. Kotler ◽  
Boris A. D’yachkov ◽  
Sergey Z. Smirnov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Phase 1 ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Rare Metals ◽  
Geochronological Data ◽  
Age Composition ◽  
Deep Faults ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Rare Metal Pegmatite ◽  
Ore District ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan

The paper presents new geological, mineralogical, and isotope geochronological data for rare-metal pegmatites in the Kalba granitic batholith (Eastern Kazakhstan). Mineralization is especially abundant in the Central-Kalba ore district, where pegmatite bodies occur at the top of large granite plutons and at intersections of deep faults. The pegmatites contain several successive mineral assemblages from barren quartz-microcline and quartz-microcline-albite to Li-Cs-Ta-Nb-Be-Sn-bearing cleavelandite-lepidolite-spodumene. Ar-Ar muscovite and lepidolite ages bracket the metallogenic event between 291 and 286 Ma. The pegmatite mineral deposits formed synchronously with the emplacement of the phase 1 Kalba granites during the evolution of hydrous silicate rare-metal magmas that are produced by the differentiation of granite magma at large sources with possible inputs of F and rare metals with fluids.

scholarly journals Mineralogical Tracers of Gold and Rare-Metal Mineralization in Eastern Kazakhstan

Minerals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
Boris A. D’yachkov ◽  
Ainel Y. Bissatova ◽  
Marina A. Mizernaya ◽  
Sergey V. Khromykh ◽  
Tatiana A. Oitseva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Metallurgical Industry ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Rare Metals ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Rare Metal Mineralization ◽  
Rare Metal Pegmatite ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan ◽  
Gold Bearing

Replenishment of mineral resources, especially gold and rare metals, is critical for progress in the mining and metallurgical industry of Eastern Kazakhstan. To substantiate the scientific background for mineral exploration, we study microinclusions in minerals from gold and rare-metal fields, as well as trace-element patterns in ores and their hosts that may mark gold and rare-metal mineralization. The revealed compositions of gold-bearing sulfide ores and a number of typical minerals (magnetite, goethite, arsenopyrite, antimonite, gold and silver) and elements (Fe, Mn, Cu, Pb, Zn, As, and Sb) can serve as exploration guides. The analyzed samples contain rare micrometer lead (alamosite, kentrolite, melanotekite, cotunnite) and nickel (bunsenite, trevorite, gersdorffite) phases and accessory cassiterite, wolframite, scheelite, and microlite. The ores bear native gold (with Ag and Pt impurities) amenable to concentration by gravity and flotation methods. Multistage rare-metal pegmatite mineralization can be predicted from the presence of mineral assemblages including cleavelandite, muscovite, lepidolite, spodumene, pollucite, tantalite, microlite, etc. and such elements as Ta, Nb, Be, Li, Cs, and Sn. Pegmatite veins bear diverse Ta minerals (columbite, tantalite-columbite, manganotantalite, ixiolite, and microlite) that accumulated rare metals late during the evolution of the pegmatite magmatic system. The discovered mineralogical and geochemical criteria are useful for exploration purposes.

scholarly journals GEOCHRONOLOGY OF LITHIUM-BEARING GRANITOIDS OF INGUL MEGABLOCK (UKRAINIAN SHIELD)

2018 ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Stepanyuk ◽  
O. Hrinchenko ◽  
B. Slobodian ◽  
V. Semka ◽  
S. Kurylo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Ukrainian Shield ◽  
Rare Metals ◽  
Isotopic Method ◽  
Metallic Mineral ◽  
Level Of Economic Development ◽  
Modern Level ◽  
Marine Basins ◽  
Rare Metal Pegmatite

Rare-metal elements are strategic metals which, in general, are extremely important for economic development or maintenance of defence capability of any country at the modern level. The list of needs for these strategic metals ranges depending on the level of economic development of certain country, but in general it includes such elements as Li, Ta, Nb, Be, Sb, W, REE and others. The majority of these elements has the lithophilous nature and, therefore, is characterized by close genetic relations with granites and pegmatites associated with them. In the world, industrial production of lithium is shared between deposits to lithium-bearing brine of saline depositions of marine basins (Argentina, Chile), some granites (China) and rare-metal pegmatites (Australia, China, Zimmbabve). In pegmatites lithium mineralization is represented mainly by spodumene (LiAlSi2O6), But other lithium-containing metallic minerals can also play an important role in production of this metal – petalite (LiAlSi4O10), minerals of lepidolite (Sa [Li,Al]3[Si,Al]4O10[F,OH]2) and amblygonite-montebrasite (LiAlPO4 [F,OH]) series. Rare-metal pegmatite of Ingul megablock of Ukrainian Shield can be treated as unique (insufficiently studied in world practice) pegmatitic formations in which the main metallic mineral is represented by petalite. In metallogenic interpretations two ore districts can be distinguished within the megablok, that are specialized on rare metals (Li, Rb, Cs, Be, Ta, Nb, Sn) – Polohivka and Stankuvatka. Deposits and numerous ore manifestations of rare metals formed in rather similar geological and tectonic conditions and have many common features – both country rocks composition and mineralogic composition of ores. Within Ingul megablock (Shpola-Tashlyk rare-metal district) a number of lithium rare-metal deposits associated with pegmatites is discovered. In order to determine the age of lithium mineralization in granites of Lypniazhka, Taburyshche massifs and vein bodies of pegmatitic and aplito-pegmatitic granites, which are selected from different localities of this megablock, are dated by U-Pd isotopic method by monazites. It is established that emplacement of vein granites of Ingul megablock occurred within rather narrow age interval – 2040-2020 Ma and it is not significantly separated in time from formation of most granitoids they are spatially associated with. This fact, together with geological evidences, gives grounds to make the assumption that rare-metal lithium pegmatite are formed in the same age interval.

scholarly journals Ta-Nb mineralization in rare-metal pegmatite from north-western frame of Lypniazhka granite-migmatite structure

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 32-41
Author(s):  
S.I. Kurуlo ◽  
◽  
N.M. Lуzhachenko ◽  
S.M. Bondarenko ◽  
V.O. Syomka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrothermal Alteration ◽  
Hydrothermal Fluid ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Mineral Assemblages ◽  
Lower Volume ◽  
Alkaline Feldspar ◽  
First Time ◽  
North Western ◽  
Rare Metal Pegmatite ◽  
Oscillatory Zonality

The three type of rare-metal pegmatites are know in Stankuvatske ore field (Ingul megablock, the Ukraianian Shield), such as: Li-bearing, Bi-As-U and Ta-Nb pegmatites. For the first time Ta-Nb mineralisation from Ta-Nb bearing albite-K-Feldspar rare metal pegmatite have been described. Investigated pegmatite is located on the Norh-West frame of the Lypnazky granitemigmatite massive among hosted amphibolites. Rare-metal pegmatite doesn’t have obvious zonality and consist of alkaline feldspar, biotite, muscovite, dark to black colour quartz, blue-greenish apatite, nigerite, gachnite, tourmaline, monazite. The primary ferrocolumbite and Nb-rutile-II have undergone strong hydrothermal alteration. Thus primary rutile-II decomposed with formation of skeletal intergrowths of secondary cassiterite and rutile-III with a much lower volume of Nb and Ta under the influence of hydrothermal fluid. Primary homogenous Nb-rutile-I (Nb2O5+Ta2O5 from 33,5 to 42,9 wt.%) exsolved a fine trellis-like pattern and lamellar of Nb-pure rutile-III, cassiterite and Mn-rich ilmenite. The Nb-rutile-II is occurred in tabular grains with unclear internal zonation. Primary ferrcolumbite breakdown to Ti-ixiolite and Nb-rutile-III. Primary oscillatory zonality is transformed into irregularly patchy and veinlety. Recrystallized ferrotantalite is secondary and uncommon mineral. Ferrocolumbite contains 2.93 to 4.74 wt.%TiO2, and titanian ixiolite 7,33-10,76 wt.%. The (Ti,Nb)>Ta mineral assemblages, and compositional trend of columbite with very low Ta/(Ta+Nb) and Mn/ (Mn+Fe) imply a general low level of fractionation in comparison with typical beryl-columbite rare-metal pegmatites.

scholarly journals Petrogenetic and Compositional Features of Rare Metal Pan-African Post-Collisional Pegmatites of Southwestern Nigeria; A Status Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-187
Author(s):  
Abiola Oyebamiji ◽  
Adeniyi JohnPaul Adewumi ◽  
Tehseen Zafar ◽  
Adegbola Odebunmi ◽  
Philips Falae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Chemistry ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Chemical Compositions ◽  
Molten Material ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Opening And Closing ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Rare Metal Pegmatite

Abstract This research reviews the geology, petrogenesis, compositional trends and geochronology of the rare-metal pegmatite of southwestern Nigeria. The source of these pegmatites is still presently debated which have been explained as either product of highly fractionated molten material or anatexis of the local crust. However, published works of past authors have been compiled to give a detailed understanding of the formation of the mineral deposits. The basement complex of southwestern Nigeria comprises of Precambrian rocks of amphibolite, the hornblende gneiss and the granite gneisses which were formed as a result of the opening and closing of the ensialic basin with significant, extensive subduction during the Pan-African orogeny. The pegmatites in this region have shown internal zoning and a high degree of evolution from the border zone to the core zone during the crystallization and solidification of the felsic granite to pegmatite melt. The rare-metal pegmatites have distinct chemical compositions and mineralogy, containing quartz, biotite, muscovite, microcline, garnet with localized tourmaline, tantalite and columbite. These pegmatites vary significantly by their bulk-rock and mineral chemistry which indicates a more peraluminous attribute and enrichments of lithophile elements of Rb, Cs, Ta and Ba. Previous K/Ar isotopic ages (502.8±13.0 Ma and 514.5±13.2 Ma) suggest that the pegmatites are related to the post-collisional phase of intensive metasomatism. Adopted from previous studies, a five-stage conceptual model of evolution which is widely accepted have been proposed for the origin of the pegmatites.

scholarly journals Mineralization of rare metals in the lakes of East Kazakhstan

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
B. B Amralinova ◽  
O. V Frolova ◽  
I. E Mataibaeva ◽  
B. B Agaliyeva ◽  
S. V Khromykh
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Composition ◽  
Inductively Coupled Plasma ◽  
Digital Terrain Model ◽  
Rare Metal ◽  
Rare Metals ◽  
Inductively Coupled ◽  
Terrain Model ◽  
Digital Terrain ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
Lake Waters

Purpose. Study on the chemical composition of lake waters, salt brines, brine and bottom sediments to identify the mineralization of rare metals and other types of minerals. Methodology. Mass spectrometric studies (mass spectrometer with inductively coupled plasma ICP-MS 7500cx from AgilentTechnologies) for the purpose of high-precision analytical studies on the chemical composition of salt lake water in order to assess the content of rare elements. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles for linking and geometrizing lakes. Findings. Field surveys on the geometrization and linking of lakes were carried out. From the materials obtained with the help of the drone, orthophotoplans were created (with a measurement accuracy of up to 1 centimeter), as well as a digital terrain model and a digital terrain model. A complex of analytical works was carried out using inductively coupled plasma spectrometry. When analyzing the distribution graphs of the absolute content of micro-components in the waters of the lakes of the Delbegeteysky massif, it was found that all samples were enriched with sodium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium and barium. The results of the analyses revealed the predominance of sulfates and chlorides in the composition of the surface waters of most of the water bodies of the Delbegeteysky massif. At the Burabai site, lake waters are characterized by an alkaline reaction of the environment (on average = 8.71). At the same time, the salinity of water bodies varies from 05 to 9 g/dm3. Originality. Large-scale outcrops of granites of the Kalba complex (P1), with which a rare-metal type of mineralization is genetically associated, are known to be on the selected study sites. Quartz-wire-greisen and quartz-wire tin, tin-tungsten and tungsten formations are also widely developed. Considering the large geochemical migration ability of rare alkaline elements in the thickness of loose sediments as a result of intensive geodynamic processes in the East Kazakhstan region, it is possible to assume the possibility of their migration to the upper horizons and accumulation in salt lakes localized within the area of development of granite intrusions of Permian age and associated deep tectonic faults. Practical value. The results of the research can serve as a revival of the rare metal industry in the region, which will allow developing new high-tech industries and creating new jobs in this area. The obtained results can be used for setting up further exploration and operational work on the selected promising areas.

scholarly journals Metallogenic Specialization Of Sienitoid Small Intrusions And Dikes Of The Kumbel-Ugam Zone Of Depth Faults (Chatkal-Kurama Region, Middle Tian Shan)

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-576
Author(s):  
U.D. Mamarozikov ◽  
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G.M. Suyundikova ◽  
S.V. Kirezidi ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Rare Earth Metals ◽  
Mass Spectrometric Study ◽  
Mass Spectrometric ◽  
Material Composition ◽  
Geochemical Data ◽  
Spectrometric Study ◽  
Rare Metals ◽  
Deep Faults ◽  
Composition Of Minerals

The article describes the geological, petrographic, mineralogical and geochemical data confirming comagmatic nature of syenitoid small intrusions and dikes of the Kumbel-Ugam zone of deep faults. Specialty of syenitoids and related metasomatites and hydrothermalites for precious and rare metals is described on the basis of the results of microprobe analyzes of the forms of occurrence, the material composition of minerals, micro segregations of ore-bearing silicon-alkaline fluids and nanocrystallites in them. The results of mass-spectrometric study of syenitoids confirm their metallogenic specialization in noble, rare and rare earth metals.

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