METAMORPHIC-HYDROTHERMAL REE MINERALS IN THE BACUCH MAGNETITE DEPOSIT, WESTERN CARPATHIANS, SLOVAKIA: (Sr,S)-RICH MONAZITE-(Ce) AND Nd-DOMINANT HINGGANITE
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Abstract
Accessory REE minerals occur in a small metamorphic magnetite ore deposit at Bacuch, Veporic Superunit, central Slovakia. We distinguish two populations of monazite. Monazite I forms subhedral to euhedral crystals associated with magnetite. It contains ≤12 wt.% ThO2, ≤2.7% UO2, ≤0.85% SO3, with low Ca and Sr contents. Compared to the common monazite-(Ce) I, monazite-(Nd) I (≤26.1% Nd2O3) occasionally occurs with an atomic ratio Nd:Ce up to 1.17. Monazite II is present as irregular aggregates with hingganite in younger hydrothermal quartz – albite – chlorite veinlets, or as rim zones on monazite I. Monazite II is depleted in Th and U and has an unusually high content of S (≤11.3% SO3, 0.31 apfu S) and Sr (≤8.7% SrO, 0.18 apfu Sr). This composition indicates a (Ca,Sr)S(REE,Y)−1P−1 substitution as a dominant mechanism of Sr and S entry into the monazite structure. Some monazite II crystals display an elevated Eu content (≤1.2% Eu2O3). Xenotime-(Y) forms subhedral crystals, in association with monazite-(Ce) I, magnetite, pyrite transformed to goethite (?) and quartz. Gadolinite-group minerals at Bacuch are represented by hingganite with an atomic value of X □/ X (□ + Fe) in the range 0.51–0.72. Neodymium is locally the most abundant REE (17.8–18.7% Nd, ~0.56 apfu ), and an Nd-dominant member of the gadolinite group was identified. The composition of hingganite-(Y) was also determined. The principal mechanism of substitution in hingganite is Fe2+O2□−1(OH)−2. Primary monazite I and xenotime are most likely products of regional metamorphism, together with magnetite mineralization. On the contrary, Sr- and S-rich monazite II and hingganite originated during a younger (Alpine) metamorphic-hydrothermal overprint in a fluid-rich regime.
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| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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