Supergene processes and uranium ore formation in the Ronneburg ore field,Germany |
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Authors: | A V Bolonin I F Gradovsky |
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Institution: | 1.Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia;2.Russian State Geological Prospecting University,Moscow,Russia |
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Abstract: | The Ordovician-Lower Carboniferous sequence of slightly metamorphosed gray carbonate-terrigenous rocks contains the Silurian
black cherty shales enriched in carbon (6–9%), pyrite (6–7%), and uranium (∼30 ppm). The uranium ore is localized at the pinch-out
of areal and linear zones of the Early Permian supergene (exogenic) oxidation of rocks expressed in reddening (hematitization).
U, As, Sb, Cu, Ni, Mo, and Ag have been removed from the oxidized black shales and concentrated in the cementation zone in
form of pitchblende and sulfides in wall-rock disseminations and veinlets largely hosted in carbonate-bearing rocks. In the
Late Permian, during deposition of the upper Rotliegende and Zechstein, the fractures in the basement were filled with carbonates
and sulfates; uranium was partly redeposited along with enrichment in Pb and Zn. Mesozoic and Cenozoic supergene processes
altered uranium ore insignificantly. |
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