Fluid associated with the Caxias mesothermal gold mineralization, Sao Luis Craton, Northern Brazil: a fluid inclusion study



Título del documento: Fluid associated with the Caxias mesothermal gold mineralization, Sao Luis Craton, Northern Brazil: a fluid inclusion study
Revista: Revista brasileira de geociencias
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000190533
ISSN: 0375-7536
Autors: 1
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Institucions: 1Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais, Belem, Para. Brasil
2Comissao Nacional de Energia Nuclear, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
3Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
4Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Departamento de Fisica, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
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Període: Jun
Volum: 30
Número: 2
Paginació: 322-326
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico
Resumen en inglés The Caxias deposit is situated in the Gurupi Auriferous Province of the Paleoproterozoic São Luís Craton, northern Brazil. It is a lode-type gold mineralization associated with a narrow, steeply dipping, NE-trending, shear zone crosscutting a hydrothermalized microtonalite (northern sector) and schists (southern sector). Fluid inclusion studies on vein quartz crosscutting the microtonalite (northern sector) have identified early carbonic and aqueous-carbonic inclusions and late aqueous inclusions, unrelated to the mineralizing event. The CO2 / H2 O ratio and the other microthermometric properties show a wide range of values, which are interpreted as product of heterogeneous trapping of two (partially) immiscible fluids and to deformation-related post-formational processes. The resulting mineralizing fluid has XCO2 : 6-45 mol %; XN2 : < 2.5 mol %; XH2 O: 55-95 mol %; mean salinity of 4.5 wt % NaCl equiv., and moderate density (0.7-1.0 g/cm3 ). Bulk isochores coupled with chlorite geothermometry constrained the P-T entrapment conditions between 262-307ºC and 1.6-3.7 kb. Log ¦O2 for this P-T-X range was estimated between –29.8 and –34.2. Geological characteristics and fluid properties found in the northern sector of Caxias gold mineralization are similar to those described for metamorphic fluids of mesothermal gold deposits
Disciplines Geociencias
Paraules clau: Geología,
Mineralogía, petrología y geoquímica,
Sao Luis,
Caxias,
Yacimientos,
Oro,
Brasil
Keyword: Earth sciences,
Geology,
Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry,
Sao Luis,
Caxias,
Gold,
Deposits,
Brazil
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