Clay mineralogy and LA-ICP-MS dating of supergene U-Cu nontronite-bearing mineralization at nabburg-wölsendorf, southeastern Germany

Canadian Mineralogist

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-511

  Dill, Harald G ^a   Kaufhold, Stephan ^a   Weber, Berthold ^b   Gerdes, Axel ^c  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^b Bürgermeister Knorr Sir 8 ^*  (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluorite vein; LA ICP MS; Nabburg W lsendorf; Nontronite; Pliocene; Supergene alteration; Uranocircite

Indexed keywords

FLUORITE VEIN; LA-ICP-MS; NONTRONITES; PLIOCENE; SUPERGENE; URANOCIRCITE;

ABLATION; BARIUM; CALCIUM; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FLUORSPAR; GOLD DEPOSITS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; KAOLINITE; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MICA; MINERAL RESOURCES; MINERALOGY; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICATE MINERALS; SOIL MECHANICS; SPECTROMETRY; SULFIDE MINERALS; SULFUR; URANIUM; WEATHERING;

MINERALS;

BASE METAL; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CRYSTALLIZATION; FLUORITE; IGNEOUS ROCK; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; KAOLINITE; MINERAL DEPOSIT; MINERALIZATION; NONTRONITE; SMECTITE; SUPERGENE PROCESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; URANINITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

GERMANY;

EID: 77956489843     PISSN: 00084476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3749/canmin.48.3.497     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. BAYERISCHES STAATSMINISTERIUM F0R WIRTSCHAFT UND VERKEHR (1987): Rohstoffprogramm filr Bayern. Bayerisches Geologisches Landesamt, München, Germany.
2. BENDER KOCH, C, MøRUP, S., MADSEN, M.B. &VISTISEN, L. (1995): Iron-containing weathering products of basalt in a cold, dry climate. Chem. Geol. 122, 109-119.
3. CARL, C. &DILL, H.G. (1984): U-Pb Datierungen an Pech-blenden aus dem Nabburg-Wölsendorfer Fluβspat-Revier (Deutschland). Geol. Jahrb. D 63, 59-76.
4. CARL, C, DILL, H.G., KREUZER H. &WENDT, I. (1985): U/Pb-und K/Ar-Datierungen des Uranvorkommens Höhenstein/ Oberpfalz. Geol. Rundschau 74, 483-504.
5. DEKOV, V.M., KAMENOV, G.D., STUMMEYER, J., THIRY, M., SAVELLI, C, SHANKS, W.C., FORTIN, D., KUZMANN, E. &VÉRTES, A. (2007): Hydrothermal nontronite formation at Eolo Seamount (Aeolian volcanic arc, Tyrrhenian Sea). Chem. Geol. 245,103-119.
6. DILL, H.G. (1985): Die Vererzung am Westrand der Böh-mischen Masse. Metallogenese in einer ensialischen Orogenzone. Geol. Jahrb. D 73, 3-461.
7. DILL, H.G., GAUERT, C, HOLLER, G. &MARCWG, V. (1992): Hydrothermal alteration and mineralization of basalts from the spreading zone of the East Pacific Rise (7°S-23°S). Geol. Rundschau 81, 717-728.
8. DILL, H.G., GERDES, A. &WEBER, B. (2010): Age and mineralogy of supergene uranium minerals - tools to unravel geomorphological and palaeohydrological processes in granitic terrains (Bohemian Massif, SE Germany). Geomorphology 117, 44-65.
9. DILL, H.G., SACHSENHOFER, R.F., GRECULA, P., SASVÁRI, T., PALINKAŠ, L. A., BOROJEVIĆ-ŠOŠTARIĆ, S., STRMIĆ-PALINKAŠ, S., PROCHASKA, W., GARUTI, G., ZACCARINI, R, ARBOUILLE, D. &SCHULZ, H.-M. (2008): Fossil fuels, ore and industrial minerals. In The Geology of Central Europe. 2. Mesozoic and Cenozoic (T. McCann, ed.). The Geological Society of London, London, U.K. (1341-1449).
10. DILL, H.G., SIEGFANZ, G. &MARCHIG, V. (1994): Mineralogy and chemistry of metalliferous muds forming the top stratum of a massive sulfide - metalliferous sediment sequence from East Pacific Rise 18°S: its origin and implications concerning the formation of ochrous sediments in Cyprus-type deposits. Marine Georesources and Geotechnology 12, 159-180.
11. DOHRMANN, R. (2006): Cation exchange capacity methodology. I. An efficient model for the detection of incorrect cation exchange capacity and exchangeable cation results. Appl. Clay Sci. 34, 31-37.
12. DONG, HAILIANG, JAISI, D.P., KIM, JINWOOK &ZHANG, GENGXIN (2009): Microbe-clay mineral interactions. Am. Mineral. 94, 1505-1519.
13. DONO, HAILIANG, KOSTKA, J.E. &KIM, JINWOOK (2003): Microscopic evidence for microbial dissolution of smectite. Clays Clay Minerals 51, 502-512.
14. DRECHSLER, F. (1924): Zur Mineralführung und Chemie der Oberpfälzer Fluβ spatgänge in 17. Bericht für das Jahr 1924 des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins Regensburg e.V., Regensburg 1925, 1-46.
15. FERNÁNDEZ-CALIANI, J.C., CRESPO, E., RODAS, M., BARRENE-CHEA, J̌.F. &LUQUE, F.J. (2004): Formation of nontronite from oxidative dissolution of pyrite disseminated in Precambrian felsic metavolcanics of the southern Iberian Massif (Spain). Clays Clay Minerals 52, 106-114.
16. GERDES, A. &ZEH.A. (2006): Combined U-Pb and Hf isotope LA-(MC-)ICP-MS analyses of detrital zircons: comparison with SHRIMP and new constraints for the provenance and age of an Armorican metasediment in central Germany. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 249, 47-61.
17. GLASBY, G.P., IIZASA, K., YUASA, M. &UsUI, A. (2000): Submarine hydrothermal mineralization on the Izu-Bonin Arc, south of Japan: an overview. Marine Georesources and Geotechnology 18, 141-176.
18. HÉKINIAN, R., HOFFERT, M., LARQUÉ, P., CHEMINÉE, J.-L., STOFFERS, P. &BIDEAU, D. (1993): Hydrothermal Fe and Si oxyhydroxide deposits from South Pacific intraplate volcanoes and East Pacific Rise axial and off-axial regions. Econ. Geol. 88, 2099-2121.
19. HONNOREZ, J., VON HERZEN, R.P, BARRETT, T.J., BECKER, K., BENDER, M.L., BORELLA, P.E., HUBBERTEN, H.-W., JONES, S.C., KARATO, S., LAVERNE, C, LEVI, S., MIGDISOV, A.A., MOORBY, S.A. &SCHRADER, E.L. (1981): Hydrothermal mounds and young ocean crust of the Galapagos: preliminary deep sea drilling results, Leg 70. Geol. Soc. Am., Bull. 92,457-472.
20. HORN, P., KOHLER, H. &MÜLLER-SOHNIUS, D. (1983): Rb-Sr-Isotopen-Geochemie hydrothermaler Quarze des Bayerischen Pfahls und eines Fluβ-Schwerspatganges von Nabburg-Wölsendorf. Chem. Geol. 58, 254-272.
21. IOANNOU, S.E. &SPOONER, E.T.C. (2000): Miocene epithermal Au-Ag vein mineralization, Dixie claims, Midas District, north-central Nevada; characteristics and controls. Explor. Mining Geol. 9,233-252.
22. ISRADE-ALCÁNTARA, I., ROBLES-CAMACHO, J. &MANUEL DOMÍNGUEZ, J. (2008): Beidellite-nontronite clays in Neogene sediments from Cuitzeo-Charo lacustrine basin Michoacán, México. Geological setting and paleoenvironmental implications. J. Bol. Soc. Geol. Mexicana 60, 159-171.
23. JACKSON, S.E., PEARSON, N.J., GRIFFIN, W.L. &BELOUSOVA, E.A. (2004): The application of laser ablation - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry to in situ U-Pb zircon geochronology. Chem. Geol. 211,47-69.
24. JASMUND, K. &LAGALY, G. (1993): Tonminerale und Tone - Struktur, Eigenschaften, Anwendungen und Einsatz in Industrie und Umwelt. Steinkopff-Verlag, Darmstadt, Germany.
25. KAUFHOLD, S. (2006): Comparison of methods for the determination of the layer charge density (LCD) of montmorillonites. Appl. Clay Sci. 34, 14-21.
26. KIM, JINWOOK, FURUKAWA, Y., DAULTON, T.L., LAVOIE, D. &NEWELL, S.W. (2003): Characterization of microbially Fe(III)-reduced nontronite: environmental cell-transmission electron microscopy study. Clays Clay Minerals 51, 382-389.
27. KÖSTER, H.M. (1977): Die Berechnung kristallchemischer Strukturformeln von 2:1-Schichtsilikaten unter Berücksi-chtigung der gemessenen Zwischenschichtladungen und Kationenumtauschkapazitäten, sowie die Darstellung der Ladungsverteilung in der Struktur mittels Dreieckskoordi-naten. Clay Minerals 12,45-54.
28. KÖSTER, H.M. (1980): Kaolin deposits of eastern Bavaria and the Rheinische Schiefergebirge (Rhenish Slate Mountains). Geol. Jahrb. D 39, 7-23.
29. LEIPZIGER, K. (1986): Untersuchungen zur Raumschqffung der Fluoritmineralisation im Wölsendorfer Fluβispatrevier. Ph.D. thesis, University Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
30. LIPPOLT, H.J., MERTZ, D.F. &ZIEHR, H. (1985): The late Permian Rb-Sr age of a K feldspar from Wölsendorf mineralization (Oberpfalz, FR Germany). Neues Jahrb. Mineral., Monatsh., 74-83.
31. Louis, H. (1984): Zur Reliefentwicklung der Oberpfalz. Relief, Boden, Paläoklima 3, 1-66.
32. LUDWIG, K.R. (2001): Users manual for IsOPLOT/ex rev. 2.49: a geochronological toolkit for Microsoft excel. Berkeley Geochronology Center, Spec Publ. la, 1-56.
33. MADEJOVÁ, J., KEČKÉŠ, J., PÁLKOVÁ, H. &KOMADEL, P. (2002): Identification of components in smectite/kaolinite mixtures. Clay Minerals 37, 377-388.
34. MEIER, L.P. &KAHR, G. (1999): Determination of the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of clay minerals using the complexes of copper (II) ion with triethylenetetramine and tretraethylenepentamine. Clays Clay Minerals 47, 386-388.
35. PETRUK, W., FARRELL, D.M., LAUFER, E.E., TREMBLAY, R.J. &MANNING, P.G. (1977): Nontronite and ferruginous opal from the Peace River iron deposit in Alberta, Canada. Can. Mineral. 15, 14-21.
36. PRIEHÄUSSER, M. (1908). Die Fluβspatgänge der Oberpfalz. Z. prakt. Geol. 16, 265-269.
37. SCHNEIDERHÖHN, P. (1965): Nontronit vom Hohen Hagen und Chloropal vom Meenser Steinberg bei Göttingen. Mineral. Petrol. 10, 385-399.
38. SEVERMANN, S., MILLS, R.A., PALMER, M.R. &FALLICK, A.E. (2004): The origin of clay minerals in active and relict hydrothermal deposits Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68, 73-88.
39. SIEBEL, W., THIEL, M. &CHEN, F. (2006): Zircon geochronology and compositional record of late- to post-kinematic granitoids associated with the Bavarian Pfahl zone (Bavarian Forest). Mineral. Petrol. 86,45-62.
40. So CHIL-SUP, SEONG-TAEK YUN &SHELTON, K.L. (1995): Mesothermal gold vein mineralization of the Samdong mine, Youngdong mining district. Republic of Korea. Mineral. Deposita 30, 384-396.
41. TEUSCHER, E.O. &WEINELT, W. (1972): Die Metallogenese im Raum Spessart - Fichtelgebirge-Oberpfälzer Wald-Bayerischer Wald. Geologica Bavarica 65, 5-73.
42. VAU, H., MARTIN, R.F., AMARANTIDIS, G. &MORTEANI, O. (1993): Smectite-group minerals in deep-sea sediments: monomineralic solid-solutions or multiphase mixtures? Am. Mineral. 78, 1217-1229.
43. VAN DER MAREL, H.W. &BEUTELSPACHER, H. (1976): Atlas of Infrared Spectroscopy of Clay Minerals and their Admixtures. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
44. VILLINGER, E. (1998): Zur Flussgeschichte von Rhein und Donau in Südwestdeutschland. Jahrbuch Mitteilungen Oberrheinischer Geologischer Verein NF 80, 361-398.
45. ZÖBELEIN, H.K. (1991): Urmain, Urnaab, Urdonau und ihre Gebiete, bezogen auf das weitere Ries-Gebiet. (Bestand-saufnahme und Diskussion neuerer Literatur). Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen Reihe A: Geologie und Paläontologie 19, 129-194.