Extreme fractionation and magmatic-hydrothermal transition in the formation of the Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite, Eastern Desert, Egypt

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作者
Zoheir, Basem [1 ,2 ]
Lehmann, Bernd [3 ]
Emam, Ashraf [4 ]
Radwan, Abdelhady [4 ]
Zhang, Rongqing [5 ]
Bain, Wyatt M. [6 ]
Steele-MacInnis, Matthew [6 ]
Nolte, Nicole [7 ]
机构
[1] Benha Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Geol, Banha 13518, Egypt
[2] Univ Kiel, Inst Geosci, Ludewig Meyn Str 10, D-24118 Kiel, Germany
[3] Tech Univ Clausthal, Mineral Resources, D-38678 Clausthal Zellerfeld, Germany
[4] Aswan Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Geol, Aswan 81528, Egypt
[5] Nanjing Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Nanjing 210093, Peoples R China
[6] Univ Alberta, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada
[7] Geosci Ctr, Dept Isotope Geol, D-337077 Gottingen, Germany
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite; Egypt; Elemental and isotopic data; Extreme fractionation; Magmatic-hydrothermal transition; A-TYPE GRANITES; COLUMBITE-TANTALITE MINERALS; LA-ICP-MS; FLUID INCLUSIONS; TRACE-ELEMENTS; BEARING LEUKOGRANITE; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; TA MINERALIZATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; TIN;
D O I
10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105329
中图分类号
P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];
学科分类号
0708 ; 070902 ;
摘要
The Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite in the Central Eastern Desert of Egypt is a peraluminous alkali-feldspar leucogranite stock with minimummelt composition of albite-rich haplogranite and is characterized by economic resources of columbite group minerals (CGM) and cassiterite. The bulk-rock trace element composition is characterized by very low Sr, Ba, REE+Y, Zr, Ti, Ni, Cr concentrations, elevated Li and F, and very high Sn, Ta and Ga. The non-chondritic, low Y/Ho ratios and extremely low Nb/Ta and Zr/Hf ratios of the Abu Dabbab granite are consistent with highly evolved peraluminous granites. The chondrite-normalized REE patterns with significant tetrad effects (TE1,3 similar to 1.6-2.6) and strongly negative Eu anomalies are indicative of the magmatic to hydrothermal transition. Heterogeneous Sm-147/Nd-144 (0.20411-0.51923) and Nd-143/Nd-144 (0.512968-0.514056) values of the bulk-rock reflect a disturbed Sm-Nd isotope system. Nevertheless, the initial epsilon Nd values calculated for a wide range of Neoproterozoic ages (500-700 Ma) are consistently positive, suggesting a juvenile source. Laser ablation ICP-MS analyses of the CGM, cassiterite, wolframite and Mn-ilmenite show elevated rare metal concentrations and complex REE tetrad patterns, reflecting fluid-melt interactions. The metasomatic fluids associated with the Abu Dabbab rare-metal granite were primarily low-salinity (<6 wt.% NaCl eq.), high-density (similar to 0.8-0.9 g/cm(3)), CO2-rich aqueous fluids with up to similar to 50 mol% CO2(+CH4). The minimum entrapment conditions of carbonic-aqueous inclusions are calculated as 2-3 kbar and 350-360 degrees C, whereas aqueous inclusions in the granite and crosscutting quartz veins most likely correspond to lower-pressure conditions and fluid phase separation by decompression. The extreme level of fractionation and complex tetrad effects of the bulk-rock and ore minerals coupled with criteria indicating the magmatic-hydrothermal transition are in accord with regional seismic tomography and heat flow data. A much larger, unexposed parental granite system, from which the exposed Abu Dabbab rare-metal tip has fractionated, must be present at depth. The interaction between extreme fractionation and fluid-melt interaction at shallow crustal levels gave rise to economic-grade Ta-Nb-Sn +/- W mineralization in the granite body and associated quartz veins. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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