μ-XRF技术在黄龙铺钼(铀)矿床铀矿物学研究中的应用

东秦岭碳酸岩型钼成矿带是全球最大的钼成矿带。该带内的黄龙铺矿床是中国最早发现的碳酸岩型钼矿床之一。最近的野外地质调查发现,部分钼矿石具有较高的放射性异常,但其放射性元素的赋存形式和矿物学特征尚不明确。本文借助聚毛细管微束X射线荧光光谱分析(μ-XRF)分析速度快、原位无损、高灵敏度的分析优势,快速查明铀矿物的空间位置,再结合扫描电镜分析(SEM)和X射线能谱分析(EDS),确定铀矿物的种类及其次生变化。研究表明:黄龙铺矿床高放射性矿石中主要的铀矿物为钛铀矿、铌钛铀矿和晶质铀矿,它们与方解石、长石、黄铁矿、辉钼矿和黄铜矿呈共生关系。矿石中铀矿物后期均遭受氧化性流体改造,发生了明显的蚀变,钛铀矿蚀变之后转变为含Nb的钛铁氧化物,铌钛铀矿和晶质铀矿蚀变后矿物内部形成大量空洞,流体来源可能为大气降水。背散射电子(BSE)图像上灰度差异明显,暗示着矿物中元素分布的不均一性。     

粤北棉花坑铀矿床矿物共生组合特征及其意义

基于棉花坑矿床不同类型铀矿石中矿物共生组合关系研究,讨论了棉花坑矿床成矿作用过程中铀的沉淀富集机制。研究结果显示,棉花坑矿床铀矿体主要呈脉状充填或细脉浸染状产出;铀矿石类型包括萤石型、碳酸盐型、硅质脉型和红化型。虽然不同矿石类型中成矿期形成的脉石矿物种类存在差异,但均表现出以下共性特点:铀矿物赋存于脉状充填矿石的中心部位或两壁,或与成矿期脉石矿物相间排列;或呈细脉状、浸染状赋存于碎裂蚀变花岗岩内;与成矿期脉石矿物(主要包括方解石、萤石、微晶石英)镶嵌生长;铀矿物与黄铁矿以集合态或相对独立态密切共生,两者之间及其与成矿期脉石矿物晶体之间界线平直,晶形完好,镶嵌生长。认为棉花坑矿床铀矿石中黄铁矿与铀矿物之间不存在先后的成生关系,均为成矿流体共结晶产物;铀沉淀成矿与氧化还原作用无关,减压、温度下降以及成矿流体p H值、溶解度(饱和度)变化,是制约铀矿物以及相关脉石矿物结晶沉淀的主要因素。     

云南维西大宝山铜矿地质特征及矿石中Ag与Cu关系探讨

云南维西大宝山铜矿区位于青藏高原东南缘,哀牢山-金沙江构造带西北部雪龙山成矿带中,是典型的中低温热液矿床。矿区主要包括望香台及滑石板矿段,根据矿床、矿体特征及详尽的镜下观察,将矿石类型划分为氧化矿、硫化矿及混合矿。氧化矿主要包括孔雀石及蓝铜矿,多分布在望香台矿段中浅部,是辉铜矿次生氧化富集作用的结果,出露形式多以混合矿产出;硫化矿主要包括辉铜矿及黄铜矿,且独立组成不同的矿物组合类型,分别为望香台矿段、滑石板矿段的主要矿石矿物。不同的矿石组合类型所含矿物种类、矿石结构构造不尽相同。通过对不同样品进行化学分析测试,发现在硫化矿辉铜矿等矿物组合中,Cu品位越高,相应Ag品位越高,存在一定的线性关系;而在硫化矿黄铜矿矿体中,Ag含量与Cu品位无相应关系;混合矿(辉铜矿、孔雀石及蓝铜矿)中此类关系更加显著。此外,辉铜矿、孔雀石、蓝铜矿单矿物矿石及混合矿矿石中含有硫砷铜银矿、深红银矿、雌黄及雄黄等伴生矿物,而黄铜矿中矿物种类较为单一。综合矿区地质特征、矿体分布特征、矿物组合类型认为,矿区中辉铜矿、孔雀石、蓝铜矿等组合类型为含银矿物的主要载体。     

白云鄂博矿床钍富集过程及空间分布规律

白云鄂博矿床为一特大型Fe-REE多金属矿床,同时伴生有巨量的钍资源。然而,目前开发利用的矿种主要是铁和稀土资源,钍资源利用率几乎为零。查明矿床中钍资源的赋存状态和分布规律及揭示钍资源的富集过程及机制是今后钍资源开发利用的重要基础。本文依托近些年的系统采样及分析测试成果,对白云鄂博主、东、西矿区570个样品进行了详细的矿物学观察和全岩化学分析,在不同类型矿石中识别出以硅钍石为主的独立含钍矿物,硅钍石除少量呈现被稀土矿物包裹现象外,通常以细脉状穿插于稀土矿物内部,显示其明显滞后富集的特点。矿区Th O_-2平均品位达0.0322%,高出地壳钍克拉克值(9.6×10^-6)30多倍,各种矿石类型中Th O₂含量具有明显的差别,在云母型、闪石型、霓石型和萤石型矿石中具有高含量Th O₂,而白云石型矿石中Th O₂含量较低,指示矿区钍矿化主要形成于碱性热液交代和萤石化阶段。此外矿区随深度增加钍矿化作用加强,显示出矿床具有良好的钍资源成矿潜力。     

福建武夷山上西坑钼矿矿石学特征

福建武夷山上西坑钼矿为中温热液型钼矿.文章根据野外考察,在岩相学的基础上,进行了矿相学及辉钼矿矿石矿物学的系统研究,得出上西坑钼矿矿石自然类型主要为构造角砾岩型、石英脉型.矿石构造主要有角砾状构造、浸染状构造、细脉状构造.矿石结构以细-中细粒鳞片结构为主,局部呈现厚板状、带状分布;矿石矿物辉钼矿铅灰色,多色性明显,2H多型,矿物成分中杂质含量较低,Re含量为1.479 ～34.35μg/g,显示其矿源为壳幔混合源;Re作为伴生矿产,具一定的综合利用价值.     

Metacolloid pyrite-pitchblende veinlets of high-grade hydrothermal ores at the Dalmatovskoe uranium deposit,Transural Region,Russia: New data on the mineralogy,geochemistry, age,and uranium sources

Micro to nano-scale structures of pockets of solidified uranium oxide gel were found for the first time and deciphered ontogenetically during electron-microscopic mineralogical study of four samples of high-grade uranium ores from the Dalmatovskoe deposit. Mineralogical-geochemical features of paragenesis and structural features are reported for unique hydrothermal veinlets consisting of variably crystallized gelpyrite and subveinlets of gel-pitchblende of several generations. Mineralogical features indicate repeated opening of veinlets during hydrothermal ore formation and provide insight into physical and chemical features of non-solidified gel, its mobility, and aggressive behavior during metasomatism. It was proposed that the veinlets are genetically related to the main hydrothermal sources and possibly to the endogenous uranium occurrence, which was formed owing to opening of main fault marked by paleoriver bed. The find of such veinlets is considered as evidence for repeated influx of hydrothermal uranium in the uranium ores of the sedimentary-epigenetic deposit simultaneously with accumulation and transformation of sediments, which made it possible to ascribe this deposit to the hydrothermal-sedimentary type. The depth of core sampling of high-grade ores corresponds to the “ore zone” of the Dalmatovskoe Deposit, near the Paleozoic basement. For this reason, the entire “zone” was ascribed to the specific endogenous metasomatic epihydrothermal occurrences, possibly, of elision nature, with approximate temperature of ore formation of 150–250°C.     

Preliminary analysis on roles of metal–organic compounds in the formation of invisible gold

The paper comprises new analytical data on the nature and occurrence of gold in solid pyrobitumen, closely associated with the main gold-bearing sulfide arsenic ores of the Bakyrchik gold deposit (Kazakhstan), related to post-collisional magmatic-hydrothermal origin. Gold mineralization of the deposit occurs mainly in the form of an “invisible” type of gold in the structures of arsenian pyrite and arsenopyrite, and the form of gold-organic compounds of pyrobitumen in carbonaceous-terrigenous sequences of Carboniferous formation. Microscopic and electron microscopic analysis, Raman and FT-Infrared analysis, mineralogical and three-step sequential extraction analysis (NH₂OH·HCl, H₂O_2, HNO₃ + HCl) has been carried out using 9 ore samples (from 3 different types of ores) for a comprehensive study of pyrobitumen and sulfide arsenic ores focusing mainly on organic matter. The sequentially extracted precious metal content of pyrobitumen reaches up to 7 ppm gold and other metals like Ag 4 ppm, Pt 31 ppb, and Pd 26 ppb, forming metal–organic compounds, while arsenic sulfide minerals incorporate 11 ppm gold, 39 ppm Ag, 0.49 ppm Pt. The enrichment of gold associating with organic matter and sulfide ore minerals was confirmed in this study. Organic matter was active in the migration of gold and the capture of gold by pyrobitumen. Moreover, the reductive organic matter agent released gold, most likely for the sulfide arsenic ore minerals. Pyrobitumen was a decisive factor in the concentration, transportation, and preservation of gold in the deposit.

     

Mineralogy of accompanying elements in the ores of the Kordonnoe skarn scheelite-sulfide deposit in Primorsky Krai

Ores of the Kordonnoe skarn scheelite-sulfide deposit located in the Malinovsky ore cluster in Primorsky Krai were examined in core samples. The mineralogical study revealed that two types of sulfide ores characterizing the tungsten and tin-polymetallic mineralizations are accompanied by two different sulfosalt associations: Pb-Bi and Ag-Pb-Bi, respectively. Rare minerals (goongarrite, wittite, lillianite, vikingite, and others) are briefly described and their typomorphic features are characterized. The problems of the ore genesis are discussed and the mineralization of the deposit is compared with that of the reference objects of the region.     

Deposition and remobilization of uranium in the North Baikal region: Evidence from the U-Pb isotopic systems of uranium ores

Based on the study of local volumes of minerals, including their microsampling and subsequent analysis of Pb/Pb and U/Pb isotope ratios with the classic methods of isotopic dilution and thermoionization mass spectrometry (TIMS), U-Pb and Pb-Pb isotopic datings of minerals were carried out in uranium ores from deposits in the Akitkan and Nechera-Nichatka ore districts (North Baikal region). Reliable evidence in favor of the Middle Devonian (384 ± 8 Ma) remobilization of Paleoproterozoic primary uranium concentrations and the redeposition of uranium as pitchblende 2 has been obtained for the first time for ores of the Akitkan district. The Paleoproterozoic (1832 ± 13 Ma) age of uraninite mineralization and the timing of the latest (377 ± 5 Ma) transformation of uranium ores at the Chepok deposit (Nechera-Nichatka district) are substantiated.     

The outlook for the discovery of new types of economic uranium deposits in the Kodar-Udokan zone of the Transbaikal territory in Russia

On the basis of detailed fieldwork and analytical procedures (microprobe, X-ray diffraction, chemical analysis, etc.), ores and altered wall-rock rocks of the Khadatkanda and Etyrko deposits in the Kodar-Udokan mineragenic zone were studied. Economic concentrations of gold and some other accompanying metals have been established in ore of the Khadatkanda uranium deposit in the Syul’ban uranium district. REE-U lodes with brannerite-uraninite have been found at the Etyrko Fe-Ti-V deposit related to the Chinei layered pluton in the Udokan mining district. The outlook for the discovery of new types of economic uranium deposits is substantiated with respect to the known hydrothermal uranium ore objects and nontraditional setting related to the layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions.     

庐枞盆地龙桥铁矿床中菱铁矿的地质特征和成因意义

龙桥铁矿床是庐枞火山岩盆地中的一个大型的铁矿床,多年来对其矿床成因的认识存在较大的争论.文章在野外地质研究工作的基础上,通过对矿床中菱铁矿的岩矿分析鉴定和电子探针测试,确定了矿床纹层状矿石中的菱铁矿为沉积成因.通过对菱铁矿的产出特征分析,并结合龙桥铁矿床的部分地质地球化学研究成果,认为在该矿床形成过程中,早期沉积形成了纹层状的菱铁矿层,在燕山期的岩浆热事件中,部分沉积菱铁矿被交代形成了磁铁矿和具有残余骸晶结构等一系列矿石交代组构特征的矿物.纹层状矿石既具有沉积特征,也具有热液改造特征,证实了矿床的形成存在早期(三叠纪)的沉积成矿(菱铁矿)作用和晚期(燕山期)的热液成矿(磁铁矿)作用.菱铁矿的研究为进一步确定龙桥铁矿床的成因提供了新的佐证.     

Peculiarities of Ore Formation at the Teploe Ag–Au Deposit,Northeast Russia

The mineralogical–geochemical and thermobarogeochemical features of the Teploe Ag–Au epithermal deposit are considered. The dissolution and redeposition of ore minerals are a result of thermal metamorphism. The redistribution of Ag leads to the formation of lenaite and exsolution structures in minerals of the Cu–Ag–S system; abundant stromeyerite, jalpaite, and mckinstryite compose a significant amount of ores. The atypical physicochemical parameters of the formation of ores include high (for epithermal mineralization) temperatures and low salinity and density of the fluid typical of a dry vapor. The results of fluid inclusion study ascribe the Teploe deposit to an intermediate class of epithermal deposits.     

甘肃天水李子金矿床物质组分及金银赋存状态研究

甘肃天水李子金矿具有斑岩型和韧性剪切带型两种类型的金矿床。本文在详细野外工作的基础上,采用光薄片鉴定、人工重砂分析、化学成分分析、化学物相分析、电子探针波谱分析等技术方法,查明了矿床主要具有蚀变岩型和石英脉型两种金矿石类型,其中韧性剪切带型金矿矿石类型主要为石英脉型,斑岩型金矿矿石类型主要为斑岩型-蚀变岩型;韧性剪切带...     

Mineralogy,geochemistry and origin of Mn in the high-Mn iron ores,Bahariya Oasis,Egypt

Although Mn is one of the major impurities in the economic iron ores from the Bahariya Oasis, information on its modes of occurrence and origin is lacking in previous studies. High-Mn iron ores from El Gedida and Ghorabi–Nasser iron mines were subjected to detailed mineralogical, geochemical, and petrographic investigations using X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared absorption spectrometry (IR), Raman spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence (XRF), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) to clarify the modes of occurrence of Mn in these deposits and its origin. The results showed that the MnO₂ contents range between 0.03 and 13.9 wt.%. Three mineralogical types have been identified for the Mn in the high-Mn iron ores, including: (1) inclusions within the hematite and goethite and/or Mn accumulated on their active surfaces, (2) coarse-grained and crystalline pyrolusite, and (3) fine-grained cement-like Mn oxide and hydroxide minerals (bixbyite, cryptomelane, aurorite, romanechite, manjiroite, and pyrochroite) between the Fe-bearing minerals. The Mn carbonate mineral (rhodochrosite) was detected only in the Ghorabi–Nasser high-Mn iron ores. Since IR patterns of low-Mn and high-Mn samples are almost the same, a combination of XRD analysis using non-filtered Fe-Kα radiations and Raman spectroscopy could be the best way to identify and distinguish between different Mn minerals.Assuming that both Fe and Mn were derived from the same source, the occurrence of high-Mn iron ores at the base of the stratigraphic section of the deposits overlain by the low-Mn iron ores indicated a supergene origin of the studied ores by descending solutions. The predominance of Mn oxide and hydroxide minerals in botryoidal shapes supports this interpretation. The small grain size of Mn-bearing minerals as well as the features of microbial fossils such as spherical, elliptical, and filamentous shapes of the Fe-bearing minerals suggested a microbial origin of studied iron ores.Variations in the distribution and mineralogy types of Mn in the iron ores of the Bahariya Oasis demanded detailed mineralogical and petrographic characterizations of the deposits before the beneficiation of high-Mn iron ores from the Bahariya Oasis as feedstock for the ironmaking industries in Egypt by magnetizing reduction. High Mn contents, especially in the Ghorabi–Nasser iron ore and occurrence of Mn as inclusions and/or accumulated on the surface of the Fe-bearing minerals would suggest a possible utilization of the high-Mn iron ores to produce ferromanganese alloys.     

中南地区碎裂蚀变花岗岩型铀矿溶浸试验

简要叙述了溶浸采矿的重要意义,并主要以GX铀矿样为例进行碎裂蚀变花岗岩型铀矿溶浸试验。介绍了中南地区碎裂蚀变花岗岩型铀矿样的矿物组成及性质、铀含量、化学组分、原矿筛析、柱浸和富集过程,以及溶浸采矿的直接成本核算方法与核算结果。该试验结果为本区溶浸采矿的半工业试验提供了基础数据。     

Applied Mineralogical Studies on Iranian Titanium Deposits

Qara-aghaj and Skandian as hard rock titanium deposit and Kahnooj one as a placer deposit were investigated from applied mineralogical point of view. The mineralogical studies were carried out using XRD, XRF, optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and microprobe analysis. These studies indicated that ilmenite and magnetite are main valuable minerals in the studied ores. Pyroxene, olivine and plagioclase are the main gangue minerals in Qara-aghaj ore while chlorite and plagioclase are the major gangue minerals in Skandian ore. Plagioclase, clinopyroxene, amphibole, feldspate and some quartz are the important gangue minerals in kahnooj deposit. In all three ores ilmenite is mainly in the form of ilmenite grains but some lamellae of ilmenite with thickness between 0.1 to 20 μm have been occurred as exsolution textures inside magnetite grains, where the magnetite here can be referred to as ilmenomagnetite. In the hard rock ores some fine ilmenites have been disseminated in silicate minerals. The liberation degree of granular ilmenite was determined 150, 140 and 200 μm for Qara-aghaj, Skandian and Kahnooj, respectively. So, only the granular form of ilmenite is recoverable by physical methods. Some sphene and rutile as titanium containing minerals were observed mainly inside ilmenite phase in kahnooj ore. Some fine rutile was also found inside Skandian ilmenite while there were not any other titanium minerals inside Qara-aghaj ilmenite. Apatite is another valuable mineral which was found only in Qara-aghaj ore. Using SEM and microprobe analysis it was found that there are different amounts of exsolved fine lamellae of hematite inside ilmenite in Qara-aghaj and Kahnooj ores while it was not observed in Sckandian one. The average contents of TiO2 in the lattice of Qara-aghaj, Skandian and Kahnooj ilmenite were determined 51.13, 50.9% and 52.02%, respectively. FeO content of ilmenite lattice for all three samples is clearly lower than the theoretical content. This is due to the substitution of Mg and Mn for some Fe2+ ions in the ilmenite lattice. V2O3 content of magnetite lattice is up to 1%. So, magnetite can be a suitable source for production of vanadium as a by-product in all three deposits.     

柴北缘冷湖砂岩型铀矿铀矿物赋存特征及成因机制

冷湖铀矿床是近年来在柴达木盆地北部新发现的具有工业价值的砂岩型铀矿床,为了研究该地区铀矿物的类型、成分特征、赋存形式及铀成矿作用,本文在野外地质调查的基础上,对下侏罗统小煤沟组相关蚀变矿物进行了矿相学、电子探针、背散射电子成像分析.研究发现,冷湖小煤沟组矿石主要包括杂砂岩型及碳质砂岩型两种,整体发育后生蚀变.铀矿物主要...     

伟晶质岩浆的同化混染与分离结晶(AFC)作用及铀成矿效应:以纳米比亚湖山铀矿为例

纳米比亚湖山铀矿位于达马拉造山带的中央南部地区,工业铀矿物为晶质铀矿,属于伟晶岩型铀矿床。关于不同矿石中铀元素的富集与沉淀机制还存在一定争议。为了揭示伟晶质岩浆演化与铀矿化作用的关系,本文对矿区内不同矿物组成的伟晶岩型矿石开展了岩石和矿物地球化学研究。野外及镜下鉴定结果显示,矿化伟晶岩可以分为“简单类型”矿体和“复杂类型”矿体。前者具有正常的花岗伟晶结构,晶质铀矿均匀分布于造岩矿物之间,矿化程度低到中等;后者表现出非均匀的结构特征,且矿化程度极高,晶质铀矿在成因上与大量黑云母团块有明显的空间联系。地球化学研究表明:在“简单类型”伟晶岩中,铀元素主要通过伟晶质岩浆的分离结晶作用富集;“复杂类型”伟晶质岩浆的演化则明显受控于同化混染作用,其铀矿化为岩浆同化混染与分离结晶(assimilation-fractional crystallization,AFC)作用产物。具体而言,外来基性组分(FeO,MgO,TiO₂,MnO)的混入导致“复杂类型”熔体中矿物的结晶顺序发生改变,长石类矿物的“延后”结晶为黑云母提供了更加有利的结晶空间和条件,促使黑云母以团块状聚集的形式产出。黑云母的大量析出会引发残余岩浆中UF_m^4-m络合物的水解,导致晶质铀矿在团块黑云母内部或周围沉淀。因此,本文有关“简单类型”和“复杂类型”产铀伟晶岩的研究,有效地揭示了岩浆演化过程与铀矿化机制,丰富了伟晶岩型铀矿床理论,为后期勘查开发提供了科学依据。     

西北某钒钛磁铁矿矿石的工艺矿物学研究

西北某矿石属低硫含磷的酸性低品位原生钒钛磁铁矿矿石,通过镜下鉴定、X射线衍射分析和扫描电镜分析等多种手段对原矿的化学成分、矿物组成及含量、矿物的产出形式、矿石的结构构造、主要目的矿物的嵌布粒度等进行了详细的工艺矿物学研究,查明矿石的工艺学特性.研究结果表明,该矿石具浸染状构造和交代构造,其中铁矿物主要是钛磁铁矿和赤铁矿,钛矿物包括钛铁矿、金红石和榍石等.钛磁铁矿和钛铁矿均属不均匀细粒—微细粒嵌布特征,在-400目占95%左右的磨矿细度条件下,通过选矿可获得铁精矿和钛精矿两种产品.     

Origin of uranium and rare earth minerals in bone detritus from rare metal deposits

In order to ascertain the forms in which uranium is present in ores of the Melovoe rare metal sedimentary deposit of uranium and rare earth minerals (South Mangyshlak), we investigated a series of typical ore samples that were collected earlier; both the uranium content and the total content of rare earth metals in them lay within 0.1–0.3%. The study was carried out by analytical electron microscopy using transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, electron microdiffraction, and microprobing. It was ascertained that both uranium and rare earth elements are present in ore mostly associated with biogenic phosphate in the form of natural minerals, such as uraninite, ningyoite, coffinite, autenite, and churchite. Iron hydroxides and graphitized organic matter are present in some samples. It is assumed that the co-occurrence of uranium and rare earth elements, which is nontypical for the sedimentary process, resulted from secondary epigenetic processes and alternation of reducing and oxidizing environmental conditions.