Gadolinium-dominant monazite and xenotime: Selective hydrothermal enrichment of middle REE during low-temperature alteration of uraninite, brannerite, and fluorapatite (the Zimná Voda REE-U-Au quartz vein, Western Carpathians, Slovakia)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F23%3A00132873" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/23:00132873 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8418" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8418</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2022-8418" target="_blank" >10.2138/am-2022-8418</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Gadolinium-dominant monazite and xenotime: Selective hydrothermal enrichment of middle REE during low-temperature alteration of uraninite, brannerite, and fluorapatite (the Zimná Voda REE-U-Au quartz vein, Western Carpathians, Slovakia)
Original language description
A hydrothermal quartz vein with REE-U-Au mineralization in the Zimna Voda (Gemeric Unit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia) is associated with contact metamorphism between Permian granites and host phyllites and metaquartzites. It contains unique REE minerals of the monazite and xenotime groups. Monazite-(Ce), monazite-(Nd), monazite-(Sm), and Gd-dominant monazite ["monazite-(Gd)"], along with xenotime-(Y) to Gd-dominant xenotime ["xenotime-(Gd)"] and Gd-rich hingganite-(Y) show heterogeneous compositions and reflect a strong fractionation trend toward the enrichment of MREE (Sm to Dy), particularly Gd. Here, the gadolinium abundance reported in "monazite-(Gd)" (=23.4 wt% Gd203) and Gd-rich xenotime-(Y) to "xenotime-(Gd)" (<28.7 wt% Gd203) and accompanied by Gd-rich hingganite-(Y) (<15.8 wt% Gd203), is among the highest Gd concentrations ever reported in natural minerals. The Gd-richest compositions show the following formulas: (Gd0.31Sm0.24 Nd0.15Ce0.10La0 .05Dy0.03Y0.03...)0.98P04 ["monazite-(Gd)"], (Gd0.36Y0.32Dy0.13Sm0.08Tb0.05...)0.98 (P0.96As0.04)1.0004 ["xenotime-(Gd)"] and (Y0.71Gd0.43Dy0.23Sm0.22Tb0.06Er0.04Nd0.06...Ca0.06)1.9 6 (o0.87Fe2+0.13)1.00(Be1.82B0.18)2.00(Si1.90As0.10)2.0008(OH1.7000.30)2.00 [hingganite-(Y)]. The MREE-rich monazites, xenotimes, and hingganite-(Y) precipitated in response to the alteration of primary uraninite, brannerite, and fluorapatite by low-temperature hydrothermal fluids of heterogeneous compositions on a microscale. These are responsible for the strong enrichment of individual MREE, especially Gd in the secondary minerals. This is accompanied by the advancing development of the W-type tetrad effect on REE through monazite species. The substantial incorporation of Gd into both REE-selective monazite and xenotime structures that are accompanied by LREE vs. HREE segregation indicates the possibility of differently sized REE3+ miscibility in REEPO4 solid solutions, as well as the stabilization of the Gd-rich orthophosphate structure by substitution of the remaining A-site cations with smaller HREE+Y in the xenotime-type, and/ or larger LREE in the monazite-type structure.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10504 - Mineralogy
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
American Mineralogist
ISSN
0003-004X
e-ISSN
1945-3027
Volume of the periodical
108
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
754-768
UT code for WoS article
000974358600013
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85151796545