碎屑重矿物分析对库车坳陷白垩—第三纪物源变化的指示

碎屑沉积是山脉隆升和盆地沉积的直接记录，包括碎屑重矿物研究在内的碎屑沉积物的分析是开展盆山耦合研究的必要手段。对库车坳陷白垩系—第三系砂岩中重矿物含量特征进行了系统的研究，并应用电子探针技术分析碎屑石榴石和钛铁矿的化学组成，研究表明库车坳陷白垩—第三系源区主要由沉积岩、变质岩和酸性火山岩组成。白垩系砂岩中的石榴石来自西南天山蓝片岩和低级变质岩的比例较大，而第三系砂岩中的石榴石中富铁铝榴石组分，多来自高级变质岩。白垩系砂岩中的钛铁矿多来自变质岩，上第三系砂岩中来自火成岩的钛铁矿比例增加。由此可以认为南天山的大规模隆升和剥蚀发生在第三纪以来，由于它的隆升遮挡了南天山北缘古生代增生杂岩体对库车坳陷的物质贡献，并且随着剥蚀的加深，高级变质岩和火成岩的出露越来越多。     

X射线荧光光谱熔融制样法测定钛铁矿中主次量组分

采用熔融玻璃片法制样，X射线荧光光谱法测定钛铁矿中Fe、Ti、Si、Al、Ca、Mg、Mn、P、S、V和Cr等11种主次量组分。探讨了熔融钛铁矿的有效熔剂，认为Li2B4O7和Li2CO3混合熔剂效果好。方法用于钒钛磁铁矿等国家一级标准物质的测定，结果与标准值相符，对主、次量组分方法精密度（RSD，n=10）为0．20％～9．10％。     

陕南凤凰岭南缘变质镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩矿物学特征——对Fe-Ti 成矿作用的指示

陕南凤凰岭南缘变质镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩为富含Fe、Ti等有用元素的含矿岩体。利用岩石地球化学方法、偏光显微镜和电子探针技术对该区镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩的岩石学、地球化学和矿物学特征进行了研究,并对Fe-Ti氧化物的形成、富集进行了初步探讨,对成岩、成矿作用具有一定的参考意义。结果表明,成矿镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩与非成矿镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩为不同岩浆源区、同期岩浆作用的产物,镁铁质—超镁铁质侵入岩类的Fe-Ti矿化作用与初始岩浆的源岩之间具有密切关系。Fe-Ti氧化物主要以钛铁矿和榍石的形式存在,局部见少量金红石。化学成分上,钛铁矿具富锰贫镁特征,本区Fe-Ti氧化物的形成和富集过程经历了岩浆结晶分异阶段和热液蚀变阶段。     

The significance of Mn‐rich ilmenite and the determination of P–T paths from zoned garnet in metasedimentary rocks from the western Cape Breton Highlands,Nova Scotia

The Jumping Brook Metamorphic Suite in the western Cape Breton Highlands of Nova Scotia is part of an inverted Barrovian sequence that formed during a Late Silurian–Early Devonian promontory–promontory collision in the Canadian Appalachians. In this study, systematic discrepancies between geochemical observations and thermodynamic model predictions led to the discovery of a systematic relationship linking the style of garnet core isopleth intersection (GCII) to the pyrophanite (MnTiO₃) component of co‐existing ilmenite. Samples that yielded tight GCIIs at or near the garnet‐in curve were found to contain ilmenite with negligible pyrophanite components, whereas samples yielding GCIIs far removed (up to 105°C) from the garnet‐in curve were found to contain ilmenite with significant pyrophanite and/or ecandrewsite (ZnTiO₃) components. Based on petrographic and geochemical observations, Mn(±Zn)‐rich ilmenite are interpreted to have sequestered Mn throughout prograde metamorphism due to sluggish intracrystalline diffusion. The amount of reactive Mn input into the thermodynamic models from whole‐rock analyses were, in some cases, overestimated, resulting in garnet‐in curve topologies that extend to erroneously low P–T conditions. Modifications to the whole‐rock chemistry that account for Mn sequestration into ilmenite, however, yielded robust model results. Our results show that, in addition to uncertainties in thermodynamic data sets and phenomenon related to reaction kinetics, Mn‐rich ilmenite may superimpose additional complexities related to the interpretation of predicted equilibria involving garnet. Numerical simulations of garnet crystallization were used to infer P–T paths of metamorphism for one sample from the garnet zone (Mn corrected) and two samples from the staurolite zone (Mn uncorrected) of the inverted sequence. Model results are remarkably similar among the three samples and indicate that garnet crystallization occurred along relatively steep (31–37°C/km) clockwise P–T paths. The peak conditions of garnet crystallization and metamorphism (560–590°C, 7.4–8.0 kbar) are interpreted to have been attained approximately simultaneously, such that the paths are characterized by tight prograde‐to‐retrograde transitions. The hairpin nature of the P–T paths is interpreted to represent the onset of thrust‐related exhumation and isograd inversion along ductile shear zones, consistent with available field and geochronological constraints.     

氩气热处理对天然金红石可见光响应的影响

利用高温管式炉对天然含钒、铁金红石在氩气气氛下进行了500～1000℃的热处理改性.粉晶X射线衍射分析表明:随着热处理温度的升高,金红石晶胞发生不同程度的膨胀;加热到900℃以上时,样品中出现钛铁矿物相.通过测试热处理前后样品的紫外-可见漫反射吸收光谱发现,氩气热处理能明显提升天然金红石在可见光区的吸收强度.和空气气氛加热相比,氩气气氛热处理更有利于提高其可见光响应.     

选铁尾矿综合回收利用低品位磷、钛、钴技术工业化应用

丰宁招兵沟低品位磷矿特点为中品位磁铁矿、低品位磷矿等共生。通过对选铁尾矿的研究,确定了常温无碱浮选回收磷矿物、合理的重-磁选联合工艺回收钛铁矿物、浮选工艺回收硫钴矿物的选矿工艺路线,并实现了工业化。     

Differential Alteration of Ilmenite in a Tropical Beach Placer, Southern India: Microscopic and Electron Probe Evidences

Abstract. The study based on microscopic and microprobe techniques reveals that ilmenite of Manavalakurichi deposit has generally reached the alteration phase of 'leached ilmenite'. The XRD and bulk chemical analysis confirm the limited alteration undergone by ilmenite grains. Ilmenite alteration has been found to be a process of continuous leaching of iron from the mineral lattice and hydroxylisation. The enrichment of trace elements with progressive alteration is discussed. Si and Al are enriched by more than 100 fold. The prevalence of reducing environment at present in the deposit indicates that the oxidation of ferrous iron leading to pseudorutile formation would have occurred during transportation of sediments.     

Mineral distribution and provenance of heavy mineral sands (zircon,ilmenite, rutile) deposits from the NW Murray Basin,far western NSW,Australia

Abstract

There is significant economic interest in the Murray Basin of southeastern Australia as it is proving to be a major heavy mineral sands (HMS) province that will be one of Australia’s major source for production of rutile, zircon and ilmenite. The distribution and provenance of HMS resources in the Murray Basin is poorly understood because of its huge size, limited exploration and the complex depositional, structural and weathering mechanisms in their development. In this paper, we focus on the Copi North and Magic deposits some 130–180?km south of Broken Hill, NSW. The heavy mineral assemblages of the Copi North and Magic deposits are very similar, with the main economic minerals being ilmenite, leucoxene, pseudorutile, rutile and zircon. Intensive fracturing and brecciation are identified in many samples and are inferred to have been initially caused by multi-stage deformational processes associated with metamorphism and then further developed through alluvial and eolian transportation. Both deposits are classified as ‘medium sands, symmetrical, mesokurtic and moderately well-sorted’. The majority of economic minerals are of low to medium sphericity and subrounded, along with abundant polished eolian quartz grains. The Copi North deposit has coarser and more poorly sorted sediments with higher HMS grades and magnetics content than the Magic deposit, reflecting a higher energy depositional environment. The main source for the HMS for the Copi North and Magic deposits is largely ascribed to the Broken Hill Block. Previous studies have shown that the Broken Hill orebody underwent substantial sub-aerial weathering over hundreds of millions of years. In addition, the complex metamorphic events experienced by the Broken Hill Block were capable of forming the broad series of minerals identified within the Copi North and Magic deposits. The HMS were believed to have been transported through paleovalleys near the Mulculca Fault in a southeast direction representing a feeder system into the NW Murray Basin. Both deposits feature a relatively linear geometry (roughly parallel to the strike of the paleoshoreline), with high HMS grades, modest tonnages, and coarser sediments when compared to WIM-style offshore deposits. Compared to other strandline HMS deposits of the Murray Basin, they are smaller in size although have similar high grades of 3.7–6.9% THM and similar proportions of the HMS assemblage of ilmenite, leucoxene, rutile and zircon. Deposits of similar size and grade are likely to occur throughout the northern part of the Murray Basin.

1. KEY POINTS

2. Both the Copi North and Magic deposits contain similar mineral assemblages with the provenance of the heavy minerals ascribed to the Broken Hill Block.

3. A relatively high energy inshore environment is inferred for the Copi North deposit while a lower energy environment associated with either a foreshore or backshore environment is inferred for the Magic deposit.

4. Deposits of similar mineralogy, grades and size are likely to occur elsewhere throughout the northern Murray Basin.

     

Placer Deposits of Southern Tamil Nadu Coast, India

Exploration for placer deposits, especially for ilmenites, has been undertaken systematically in the southern coast of Tamil Nadu, India. On the basis of drainage network. Coastal landforms, lithology, and neotectonics, the study area has been grouped into five sectors: Mandapam, Valinokkam, Tuticorin, Manappad, and Kanyakumari. Ilmenites are abundant in Kanyakumari (Max. 53.39 wt%) and Tuticorin (Max. 20.88 wt%) sectors, negligible in Manappad (Max. 0.60 wt%) and Valinokkam (Max. 3.88 wt%) sectors and absent in the Mandapam sector. The abnormal enrichment of ilmenites in the Kanyakumari sector in the absence of any drainage network points to the possibility of a relict source. Literary and scientific evidence corroborates the existence of an Eastern Gondwana land called Lemuria, South of Kanyakumari which was later submerged in the Flandrian transgression. The association of other heavy minerals with ilmenites like overgrown and outgrown zircon supplements the idea of a longer stay of ilmenites in the depositional basin. Ilmenites from these fossil strandlines must have been reworked by the present day coastal processes and deposited in favorable bay-like NE-SW coastal configurations in Kanyakumari-Kuttankuli and Kallar-Vaippar regions under high energy wave conditions. The present study has disclosed the enrichment of ilmenites up to 1 m in depth in the above two zones which can be commercially exploited. The present study also calls for confirming part of the lost continent called Lemuria or Eastern Gondwana by systematic scientific investigations.