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Ore petrology of the V-Ti magnetite (lodestone) layers of the Kurihundi area of Sargur schist belt,Dharwar craton
Authors:H. V. Vidyashankar  S. Govindaiah
Affiliation:(1) Department of Studies in Geology, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri, Mysore, 570 006, India
Abstract:The V-Ti magnetite layers (lodestone) occur within the layered gabbro-anorthosites-ultramafic rocks emplaced into the migmatitic gneisses close to the high grade Archeaen Sargur supracrustal rocks in the Kurihundi area. The ore petrographic studies of the lodestone reveal the presence of primary Ti-magnetite, ilmenite, ulvospinel, pleonaste, hematite and pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and secondary Ti-maghemite, martite and goethite as well as secondary covellite. These layers contain Ti-magnetite (60%) and ilmenite (30%) with silicates (<5%) exhibiting granular mosaic texture with well-defined triple junctions and are classified as adcumulus rocks. The grain-boundary relationships in the ores indicate considerable postcumulus growth and readjustment due to combined effects of sintering and adcumulus growth. Intergrowth textures (ulvospinel, ilmenite and pleonaste in Ti-magnetite and hematite in ilmenite) reflects exsolution features crystallized from solid-solutions compositions under different conditions of oxygen fugacities. Larger bodies of pleonaste and ilmenite in Ti-magnetite become lensoid or rounded in outline and these morphological modifications took place during the regional upper amphibolite to lower granulite facies metamorphism at 2.6 Ga ago. The lodestone contains high TiO2 (20 to 22.59 wt%), with V2O5 (0.85 to 1.15%) and Fe2O3 t (72.03 to 74.25%). Ti-magnetite shows alteration to Ti-maghemite, martite and goethite due to low temperature oxidation and hydration during weathering.
Keywords:V-Ti magnetite  Sargur schist belt  Microintergrowths  Amphibolite-granulite facies metamorphism  Kurihundi  Dharwar craton  Karnataka
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