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Dissolution channels in quartz and the role of pressure changes in gold and sulfide deposition in the Archean, greenstone-hosted, Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India

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Title Dissolution channels in quartz and the role of pressure changes in gold and sulfide deposition in the Archean, greenstone-hosted, Hutti gold deposit, Karnataka, India
 
Creator PANDALAI, HS
JADHAV, GN
MATHEW, B
PANCHAPAKESAN, V
RAJU, KK
PATIL, ML
 
Subject solid-solution model
fluid inclusions
etch pits
thermodynamic properties
schist belt
solubility
complexes
equation
chlorite
bearing
archean
gold
fluid inclusions
geothermometry
dissolution tubes
depositional modeling
 
Description The pressure, temperature and composition of ore fluids that resulted in gold deposition in the Archean, greenstone-hosted Hutti deposit have been studied using fluid inclusions and the compositions of arsenopyrite and chlorite. Five types of fluids have been identified in fluid inclusions in quartz veins associated with mineralization. They are (1) monophase CO2-rich fluid; (2) low-salinity (0 to 14 wt% NaCl equivalent) and high-salinity (16 to 23 wt% NaCl equiv.) aqueous fluids; (3) high-salinity (28 to 40 wt% NaCl equiv.), polyphase aqueous fluids; (4) CO2-H2O-NaCl fluids of low salinity (0-8 wt% NaCl equiv.); and (5) a few carbonic inclusions with halite +/-nahcolite. The diversity of entrapped fluid composition is explained in terms of changes in fluid pressure and temperature which affect a more or less uniform supply of primary low-salinity CO2-H2O-NaCl fluid to the shear zone. Geothermobarometric studies indicate that during mineralization temperature ranged between 360 and 240degreesC, and fluid pressure between 3,600 and 1,600 bar. The data are interpreted in terms of the cyclic fault-valve mechanism for active shear zones. Deposition of gold and sulfides has been studied on the basis of constraints from the composition of wall-rock chlorite, ore-mineral assemblages, and textural features. Tubular channels, 20 to 100 pm wide and up to 500 mum long that arise from fractures and C-planes in sheared quartz veins are reported for the first time. The channels have pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, pyrite and gold at their distal ends, with calcite filling up the remaining part. These channels form in response to increases in T and P, by dissolution of quartz grains, guided by dislocations in them. At the P-T conditions of interest, gold and sulfide deposition takes place in the shears and fractures of quartz veins from CO2-H2O-NaCl ore fluid of low salinity and pH due to changes in phase compositions that occur during the process of shear failure of the enclosing rocks. In the wall rock where pH is buffered, gold deposition takes place from the predominant Au(HS)(2)(-) species with progressive sulfide deposition and decrease in YES, from 0.01 to 0.001 mol/kg as T falls from 360 to 240degreesC.
 
Publisher SPRINGER-VERLAG
 
Date 2011-08-30T11:21:35Z
2011-12-26T12:58:55Z
2011-12-27T05:49:37Z
2011-08-30T11:21:35Z
2011-12-26T12:58:55Z
2011-12-27T05:49:37Z
2003
 
Type Article
 
Identifier MINERALIUM DEPOSITA, 38(5), 597-624
0026-4598
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00126-002-0345-9
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/12295
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/12295
 
Language en