REE composition of an aqueous magmatic fluid: A fluid inclusion study from the Capitan Pluton, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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Abstract The Carnmenellis pluton is a post-orogenic granite of Hercynian age, comprised largely of porphyritic biotite granites which possess LREE enriched patterns with slight negative Eu anomalies. Electron microprobe and ICP spectrometry data are presented for monazite, which occurs as an accessory mineral in all granite types, and it is demonstrated that this mineral is the principal host for LREE in the biotite granites. HREE are strongly partitioned into the accessory minerals xenotime, apatite, and zircon; only Eu substitutes significantly into the essential minerals. The behaviour of the REE during granite differentiation is controlled by the behaviour of the radioactive accessory minerals, which limits the usefulness of these elements in the petrogenetic modelling of granitic rocks.
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Nuweibi area is situated in the Central Eastern Desert, Egypt, covers an area of about 135km2. The field observations and the detailed petrographic study revealed that the mapped area is distinguished into several rock units: serpentinites, metasediments, metagabbros and older granites that intruded by albitized granites. The radiometric analyses revealed that the studied rocks exhibit low radioactive levels except for the albitized granites that can be attains relatively moderate Eu and eTh contents. The radioactivity of Nuweibi albitized granites may be attributed to the dominance of thorite and some thorium bearing minerals as monazite and uranothorite, moreover, very scarcely grains of secondary uranium minerals as uranophane, autunite and chernikovite. Furthermore, zircon was documented as free grains or as inclusions within crystals lattice of cassiterite, garnet and titanite. Meanwhile, REE signatures are prevalence in allanite, chevkinite, fluorite, zircon, monazite, apatite and manganocoltan giving rise as a potential source for the REE in theses minerals. On the other hand, columbite, tantalite, tapiolite, and cassiterite are dominant as a rare-metal mineralization (NB, Ta and Sn).
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The Zhaibei Granite in Jiangxi Province, southern China, hosts an ion-adsorption light rare earth element (LREE) deposit. Recently, heavy REE (HREE) ores have also been reported from weathered crusts of the granitic rocks. In this study, petrological, geochemical, and mineralogical characteristics of the Zhaibei pluton were analysed to establish the genesis of this REE deposit. The pluton contains coarse-grained biotite syenogranite and minor hornblende–biotite–quartz monzonite in its central zone, medium-grained biotite syenogranite in its transitional zone, and fine-grained muscovitic alkali-feldspar granite and porphyritic muscovitic biotite–alkali-feldspar granite together with monzogranite porphyry intrusions in its marginal zone. The REE minerals include titanite, allanite, monazite, bastnasite, and thorite-(Y) in the central zone, allanite, monazite, xenotime, bastnasite, and thorite-(Y) in the transitional zone, and synchysite-(Y), thorite-(Y), and xenotime in the marginal zone. The SiO2 content increases from 62 to 77 wt% from the centre to the margin, whereas the Al2O3, TiO2, MgO, FeO, and CaO contents decrease. In addition, the size of the negative Eu anomaly and HREE content increase, accompanied by decreases in Co, Zr, Hf, Sr, and Ba and increases in Rb, Cs, Nb, and Sn. These observations indicate that the Zhaibei Granite might have been formed by crystallisation differentiation of magma. The granitic pluton was also influenced by reactions with late-magmatic F-, CO2–, and REE-rich fluids that altered magmatic minerals and crystallised as REE-fluorocarbonates and thorite. The hydrothermal REE minerals constitute ∼ 40% of the total REEs in the bedrock and are the major supplier of ion-exchangeable REEs in the ores of the Zhaibei deposit. LREE-rich ores may have been derived from the LREE-rich granitic rocks, which contain bastnasite, titanite, and allanite, whereas HREE-rich ores were sourced mainly from the HREE-rich granites, which contain synchysite-(Y) and thorite-(Y). Furthermore, REE ores with enrichment in both HREEs and LREEs were probably sourced from the monzogranite porphyry bedrock, which contains bastnasite-(Y), bastnasite, allanite, and thorite-(Y).
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