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ARTICLE IN Volume 11, 2016 - Number 2

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PHLOGOPITE, TOURMALINE AND ILLITE FROM HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS OF THE NISTRU DEPOSIT, BAIA MARE, ROMANIA



Ivan A. BAKSHEEV1, Floarea DAMIAN2, Gheorghe DAMIAN2, Vsevolod Yu. PROKOFIEV3, Igor’ A. BRYZGALOV1 & Lubov’ I. MARUSHCHENKO1
1Department of Geology, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia, e-mail: baksheev@geol.msu.ru
2Technical University of Cluj Napoca, North University Center of Baia Mare, Romania, 62A Dr. Victor Babeş Street, 430083 Baia Mare, Romania, e-mail: damgeo@cunbm.utcluj.ro & loricadamian@cunbm.utcluj.ro
3Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetny per. 35, Moscow 119017, Russia, e-mail: vpr@igem.ru

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Abstract

The chemical composition of phlogopite, tourmaline, and illite from altered rocks of the Nistru Cu-Au-Bi deposit has been examined. Phlogopite of potassic alteration is enriched in fluorine and is similar in chemical composition to phlogopite from potassic alteration at porphyry copper deposits. Tourmaline occurs as three generations. The first-generation tourmaline is classified as dravite or oxy-dravite; second generation is dravite or schorl; and third generation is classified as dravite. Tourmaline II is enriched in ferric iron. The chemical substitutions in tourmaline I are Al + O2- → Mg2+ + OH- and Fe → Mg; in tourmaline II, the substitution is Fe → Mg; and in tourmaline III, assumed substitution is Ca + Mg + Fe2+ → 2Al + X-site vacancy. Tourmaline I could crystallize with potassium feldspar in potassic alteration; tourmaline II enriched in ferric iron and tourmaline III are found from propylitic alteration that is not related to porphyry system. Illite corresponds in composition to that of epithermal volcanogenic Au-Ag deposits. Thus, the chemical composition of examined minerals indicates three different hydrothermal stages at the Nistru deposit: (1) early porphyry not mentioned so far, (2) later propylitic accompanying minor ore mineralization and not related to porphyry system and (3) epithermal volcanogenic accompanying the base and precious metal mineralization.

Keywords:

  • phlogopite
  • tourmaline
  • illite
  • Baia
  • Mare
  • Nistru
  • chemical
  • composition
  • porphyry-epithermal
  • system.

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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF PHLOGOPITE, TOURMALINE AND ILLITE FROM HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS OF THE NISTRU DEPOSIT, BAIA MARE, ROMANIA

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