Mineralogical and Fluid Inclusion Evidence for Reworking of Au Mineralization by Ag-Sb-Base Metal-Rich Fluids from the Bytiz Deposit, Pribram Uranium and Base-Metal Ore District, Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=SZsXm1Noau" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=SZsXm1Noau</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min12121539" target="_blank" >10.3390/min12121539</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mineralogical and Fluid Inclusion Evidence for Reworking of Au Mineralization by Ag-Sb-Base Metal-Rich Fluids from the Bytiz Deposit, Pribram Uranium and Base-Metal Ore District, Czech Republic

Original language description

This mineralogical and fluid inclusion study was conducted on an Au-bearing quartz-sulfide vein encountered in the deep parts of the Bytiz deposit in the Pribram uranium and base-metal district, Bohemian Massif, Czech Republic. The samples were taken where the Au-bearing vein is crosscut by the common base-metal Zn-Pb ore vein Bt23C. The early mineralization of the Au-bearing vein is composed mainly of quartz (Q-1 to Q-3), illite-muscovite, Fe-Mg chlorite, arsenopyrite, and Au-Ag alloys, showing a wide range of compositions (4-69 at. % Ag) and a decrease in Au/(Au + Ag) ratios during vein evolution. Younger hydrothermal processes led to the crystallization of nests and veinlets composed of late quartz (Q-4), carbonates (siderite, dolomite-ankerite and calcite), base-metal sulfides (galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and tetrahedrite), a suite of Ag and Bi-tellurides, and acanthite. The input of Sb is manifested by the partial to complete replacement of some gold grains by aurostibite and an unnamed (Ag,Au)-Sb oxide with a composition close to AuSbO3. The fluid inclusion study, combined with chlorite thermometry and arsenopyrite thermometry, showed that the early mineralization crystallized from progressively cooled (from 300 to 400 degrees C down to ca. 180 degrees C), diluted (1.2-7.0 wt. % NaCl eq.) aqueous solutions. The late portion of the mineralization formed from aqueous fluids with highly variable salinity (0.2-23.4 wt. % NaCl eq.) and homogenization temperatures decreasing from ca. 250 degrees C to &lt; 50 degrees C, which compare well with the base-metal mineralization of the vein Bt23C and other base-metal veins of the Pribram ore area. Our study illustrates the nature and intensity of the processes of the reworking of the early gold mineralization mediated by the younger Ag,Sb-rich base-metal fluids, giving rise to Pribram&apos;s typical late-Variscan vein Zn-Pb mineralization.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10505 - Geology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Minerals

ISSN

2075-163X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

38

Pages from-to

1539

UT code for WoS article

000903066700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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