ISSN:
1432-0967
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Geosciences
Notes:
Abstract Some of the most vanadium-rich silicate minerals known are present in green mica schist from the Hemlo gold deposit, Ontario, Canada. Vanadium-rich silicate minerals include green mica (up to 17.6 wt. % V2O3), phlogopite (10.1 wt. % V2O3), pumpellyite (25.7 wt. % V2O3), garnet (18.5 wt. % V2O3), epidote-group minerals (9.1 wt. % V2O3), antimonian vesuvianite (4.3 wt. % V2O3), and titanite (18.5 wt. % V2O5). In addition, minor amounts of V (〈2 wt. % V2O3) are present in tourmaline, chlorite, talc and tremolite in other lithologies of the Hemlo deposit. The principal substitution that incorporates V into most of these silicate minerals is Al3+=V3+ in octahedral positions. Vanadium is incorporated into phlogopite mainly by the two substitutions: 3Mg2+ =2V3++□ and VIMg2++IVSi4+=VIV3+ +IVAl3+, and all of the three substitutions Ti4++O2- =V3++(OH,F)-, Ti4+=V4+, and 5Ti4+=4V5+ +□ may have operated in titanite. Vanadium-enriched green mica schist from the Hemlo gold deposit is characterized by uniform Ti/Zr ratios, systematically low Ti, Ni, Co and Sc abundances, and low levels of incompatible elements Th, U, Hf and Zr and is distinct in these respects from its Cr-enriched counterpart. These geochemical features, along with textural evidence (relict quartz and oligoclase phenocrysts), indicate that the V-enriched green mica schist from Hemlo was most likely derived mainly from quartz-oligoclase porphyry. However, its anomalously high V and Cr contents were probably introduced metasomatically from local maficultramafic sources and were fixed in green mica and oxides during the waning of a second regional metamorphism. Vanadium was further remobilized, and its concentration probably enhanced, during the late hydrothermal alteration, which resulted in the formation of the characteristic V-rich calc-silicate minerals.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00306553
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