SHRIMP-zircon U-Pb dating of the Ni-Cu-PGE mineralized Aguablanca gabbro and Santa Olalla granodiorite: Confirmation of an Early Carboniferous metallogenic epoch in the Variscan Massif of the Iberian Peninsula

Ore Geology Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-353

  Ordonez Casado B ^a   Martin Izard, A ^a   Garcia Nieto J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b Rio Narcea Gold Mines SA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ni Cu PGE deposit; Ossa Morena Zone; SHRIMP dating; Spain; Variscan Orogen

Indexed keywords

NI-CU-PGE DEPOSIT; OSSA MORENA ZONE; SHRIMP DATING; SPAIN; VARISCAN OROGEN;

COPPER; COPPER COMPOUNDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IRON ORES; LEAD ALLOYS; MINERALOGY; NICKEL; NICKEL ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; SULFIDE MINERALS;

ZIRCON;

CARBONIFEROUS; GABBRO; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANODIORITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METALLOGENESIS; MINERALIZATION; ORE DEPOSIT; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 53349163705     PISSN: 01691368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Azor A., González Lodeiro F., and Simancas J.F. Tectonic evolution of the boundary between the Central Iberian and Ossa-Morena zones (Variscan belt, southwest Spain). Tectonics 13 (1994) 45-61
2. Bachiller N., Galindo C., Darbyshire D.P.F., and Casquet C. Geocronología Rb-Sr de los leucogranitos del complejo plutónico de Burguillos del Cerro (Badajoz). Geogaceta 21 (1997) 29-30
3. Bard J.P. Signification tectonique des métatholeites d'affinité abyssale de la ceinture métamorphique de basse pression d'Aracena (Huelva, Espagne). Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 19 7 (1977) 385-393
4. Blatrix P., and Burg J.P. 40Ar/39Ar dates from Sierra Morena (Southern Spain): Variscan metamorphism and Cadomian orogeny. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie Monatshefte (1981) 470-478
5. Brun J.P., and Burg J.P. Combined thrusting and wrenching in the Ibero-Armorican arc: a corner effect during continental collision. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 61 (1982) 319-332
6. Carbonell R., Simancas F., Juhlin C., Pous J., Pérez Estaún A., Gonzalez Lodeiro F., Muñoz G., Heise W., and Ayarza P. Geophysical evidence of a mantle-derived intrusion in SW Iberia. Geophysical Research Letters 31 (2004) L11601-L11604
7. Casquet C., Galindo C., Darbyshire D.P.F., Noble S.R., and Tornos F. Fe-U-REE mineralization at Mina Monchi, Burguillos del Cerro, SW Spain. Age and isotope (U-Pb, Rb-Sr and Sm-Nd) constraints on the evolution of the ores. GAC-MAC-APGGQ, Quebec '98 Conference Abstracts vol. 23 (1998) A-28
8. Casquet C., Galindo C., Tornos F., and Velasco F. The Aguablanca Cu-Ni ore deposit (Extremadura, Spain), a case of synorogenic orthomagmatic mineralization: isotope composition of magmas (Sr, Nd) and ore (S). Ore Geology Reviews 18 (2001) 237-250
9. Castro A., Fernandez C., El Hmidi H., El Biad M., Diaz M., Rosa J., and Stuart F. Age constraints to the relationships between magmatism, metamorphism and tectonism in the Aracena metamorphic belt, southern Spain. Geologische Rundschau 88 (1999) 26-37
10. Compston W., Williams I.S., and Meyer C. U-Pb geochronology of zircons from lunar breccia 73217 using a sensitive high mass-resolution ion microprobe. Journal of Geophysical Research B89 (1984) 525-534
11. Crespo Blanc A., and Orozco M. The Southern Iberian Shear Zone: a major boundary in the Hercynian folded belt. Tectonophysics 148 (1988) 221-227
12. Crowley Q.G., Floyd P.A., Winchester J.A., Franke W., and Holland J.G. Early Palaeozoic rift-related magmatism in Variscan Europe: fragmentation of the Armorican Terrane Assemblage. Terra Nova 12 (2000) 171-180
13. 39Ar mineral age constraints. Tectonophysics 216 (1992) 339-364
14. 39Ar mineral age constraints for the tectonothermal evolution of a Variscan Suture in SW Iberia. Tectonophysics 222 (1993) 177-194
15. 39Ar mineral age constraints. Tectonophysics 231 (1994) 195-213
16. 39Ar mineral age constraints on the emplacement of the Burguillos del Cerro Igneous Complex (Ossa Morena Zone, SW Spain). Boletín Geológico y Minero 106 (1995) 203-214
17. Dalziel I.W.D. Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic geography and tectonics: review, hypothesis, environmental speculation. Geological Society of America Bulletin 109 (1997) 16-42
18. Gómez Pugnaire M.T., Azor A., Fernández-Soler J.M., and López Sánchez-Vizcaíno V. The amphibolites from the Ossa-Morena/Central Iberian Variscan suture (Southwestern Iberian Massif): geochemistry and tectonic interpretation. Lithos 68 (2003) 23-42
19. Lunar R., Ortega L., Sierra J., García Palomero F., Moreno T., and Prichard H. Ni-Cu (PGM) mineralization associated with mafic and ultramafic rocks: the recently discovered Aguablanca ore deposit, SW Spain. In: Papunen H. (Ed). Mineral Deposits - Research and Exploration - Where do they meet? (1997), Balkema, Rotterdam 463-466
20. Martínez Poyatos, D., 1997. Estructura del borde meridional de la Zona Centroibérica y su relación con el contacto entre las zonas Centroibérica y de Ossa-Morena. Ph.D. thesis, Universidad Granada, Spain, 222 pp.
21. Martin-Izard A., Sigüenza-Vega D., Maldonado C., and Terron T. Geology and mineralogy of the Rio Malo area, a new Ni Cu mineralization in Central Spain. In: Eliopoulos D.G., et al. (Ed). Mineral Exploration and Sustainable Development (2003), Millpress, Rotterdam 615-618
22. Martin-Izard A., Fuertes Fuente M., and Cepedal A. Reacciones de asimilación de rocas pelíticas en el proceso de formación de las mineralizaciones de Ni-Cu de Argallón, Cortegana y Olivenza (Ossa Morena). Macla 6 (2006) 297-300
23. Matte P. Tectonics and plate tectonics model for the Variscan Belt of Europe. Tectonophysics 126 (1986) 329-374
24. Matte P. The Variscan collage and orogeny (480-290 Ma) and the tectonic definition of the Armorica microplate: a review. Terra Nova 13 (2001) 122-128
25. McKerrow W.S., Mac Niocaill C., Ahlberg P.E., Clayton G., Cleal C.J., and Eagar G. The Late Palaeozoic relations between Gondwana and Laurussia. In: Franke W., Wolker H., and Tanner D. (Eds). Orogenic Processes: Quantification and Modelling in the Variscan Belt. Geological Society Special Publication vol. 179 (2000) 9-20
26. Montero P., Salman K., Bea F., Azor A., Exposito I., González Lodeiro F., Martinez Poyatos D., and Simancas F. New data on the geochronology of the Ossa Morena Zone, Iberian Massif. Basement Tectonics 15 (2000) 136-138
27. Ochsner, A., 1993. U-Pb geochronology of the Upper Proterozoic-Lower Paleozoic geodynamic evolution in the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberia): constraints on timing of the Cadomian orogeny. PhD thesis, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 249 pp.
28. Ordóñez-Casado, B., 1999. Geochronological studies of the Pre-Mesozoic basement of the Iberian Massif: the Ossa Morena Zone and the Allochthonous Complexes within the Central Iberian zone. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Zürich, Switzerland, 235 pp.
29. Ordóñez-Casado B., Gebauer D., and Eguíluz L. SHRIMP age-constraints for the calc-alkaline volcanism in the Olivenza-Monesterio Antiform (Ossa Morena, SW Spain). Mineralogical Magazine 62A-2 (1998) 1112-1113
30. Ortega L., Lunar R., Garcia-Palomero F., Moreno T., Martin-Estevez J.R., Prichard H.M., and Fisher P.C. The Aguablanca Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, Southwestern Iberia: magmatic ore-forming processes and retrograde evolution. Canadian Mineralogist 42 (2004) 325-350
31. Pin C., Liñan E., Pascual E., Donaire T., and Valenzuela E. Late Proterozoic crustal growth in Ossa Morena: Nd isotope and trace element evidence from the Sierra de Córdoba volcanics. XV Reunión de Geología del Oeste Peninsular (1999) 215-218
32. Piña R., Lunar R., Ortega L., Gervilla F., Alapieti T., and Martínez C. Petrology and geochemistry of mafic-ultramafic fragments from the Aguablanca (SW Spain) Ni-Cu ore breccia: implications for the genesis of the deposit. Economic Geology 101 (2006) 865-881
33. Romeo I., Lunar R., Capote R., Quesada C., Dunning G.R., Piña R., and Ortega L. U/Pb age constraints on Variscan Magmatism and Nie CuePGE metallogeny in the Ossa-Morena Zone (SW Iberia). Journal of the Geological Society of London 163 (2006) 837-846
34. Romeo I., Capote R., Tejero R., Lunar R., and Quesada C. Magma emplacement in transpression: The Santa Olalla Igneous Complex (Ossa-Morena Zone, SW Iberia). Journal of Structural Geology 28 (2006) 1821-1834
35. Sanchez-Carretero R., Eguiluz L., Pascual E., and Carracedo M. Ossa Morena Zone: igneous rocks. In: Dallmeyer R.D., and Martinez E. (Eds). Pre-Mesozoic Geology of Iberia (1990), Springer, Berlin 292-313
36. Schäfer H.J., Gebauer D., Nägler T.H., and Eguíluz L. Conventional and ion-microprobe U-Pb dating of detrital zircons of the Tentudía Group (Serie Negra, SW Spain): implications for zircon systematics, stratigraphy, tectonics and the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 113 (1993) 289-299
37. Simancas J.F., Martínez Poyatos D., Expósito I., Azor A., and González Lodeiro F. The structure of a major suture zone in the SW Iberian Massif: the Ossa-Morena/Central Iberian contact. Tectonophysics 332 (2001) 295-308
38. Simancas J.F., Expósito Ramos I., Martínez Poyatos D., Azor A., and González Lodeiro F. Opposite subduction polarities connected by transform faults in the Iberian Massif and west-European Variscides. In: Martínez Catalán J.R., Hatcher R., Arenas R., and Díaz García F. (Eds). Variscan-Appalachian Dynamics: The Building of the Late Paleozoic Basement. Special Paper of Geological Society of America vol. 364 (2002) 253-262
39. Simancas J.F., Carbonell R., Gonzalez Lodeiro F., Perez Estaun A., Juhlin C., Ayarza P., Kashubin A., Azor A., Martínez Poyatos D., Ruiz Almodovar G., Pascual E., Saez R., and Expósito I. Crustal structure of the transpressional Variscan orogen of SW Iberia: SW Iberia deep seismic reflection profile (IBERSEIS). Tectonics 22 (2003) 1962-1974
40. Tait J.A.V., Bachtadse W., Franke H., and Soffel C. Geodynamic evolution of the European Variscan fold belt: Paleomagnetic and geological constraints. Geologische Rundschau 86 (1997) 585-598
41. Tera F., and Wasserburg G. U-Th-Pb systematics in three Apollo 14 basalts and the problem of initial Pb in lunar rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 14 (1972) 281-304
42. Tornos F., Galindo C., Casquet C., Rodríguez Pevida L., Martínez C., Martínez E., Velasco F., and Iriondo A. The Aguablanca Ni-(Cu) sulfide deposit, SW Spain: geologic and geochemical controls and the relationship with a midcrustal layered mafic complex. Mineralium Deposita 41 (2006) 737-769
43. Velasco F., and Amigó J.M. Mineralogy and origin of the skarn from Cala (Huelva, Spain). Economic Geology 76 (1981) 719-727
44. Walraven F., Armstrong R.A., and Kruger F.J. A chronostratigraphic framework for the north-central Kaapvaal craton, the Buschveld Complex and the Vredefort structure. Tectonophysics 171 (1988) 23-48
45. Williams I.S. U-Th-Pb Geochronology by ion microprobe. In: McKibben M.A., Shanks III W.C., and Ridley W.I. (Eds). Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes. Reviews in Economic Geology vol. 7 (1998) 1-35