A hydrothermal karst-hosted U-P deposit related to Pangea break-up: Itataia deposit, Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil - a review



Título del documento: A hydrothermal karst-hosted U-P deposit related to Pangea break-up: Itataia deposit, Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil - a review
Revista: Journal of the Geological Survey of Brazil
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000426521
ISSN: 2595-1939
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1
2Servico Geologico do Brasil, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Brasil
3Servico Geologico do Brasil, Fortaleza, Ceara. Brasil
4Universidade de Brasilia, Instituto de Geociencias, Brasilia, Distrito Federal. Brasil
5Universidade Federal do Ceara, Departamento de Geologia, Fortaleza, Ceara. Brasil
Año:
Periodo: Abr
Volumen: 1
Número: 1
Paginación: 43-60
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The Itataia U-P deposit holds the second largest uranium reserve in Brazil. All of the uranium is contained within the microcrystalline structure of fluorapatite, which is the ore mineral of the collophanite bodies. The main lithology that hosts the mineralization is marble, and the collophanite occurs as massive bodies, stockwork vein, breccia, filling vugs in episyenites, and disseminated in host rocks. This review shows that five important episodes in the Northern Borborema Province, leading to the consolidation of the Itataia U-P deposit: i) deposition of a phosphate-rich Neoproterozoic supracrustal quartz-pelite-carbonate sequence, represented by the Itataia Group; ii) building of the Neoproterozoic Tamboril-Santa Quitéria continental magmatic arc, responsible for the partial melting of the phosphate-rich supracrustal sequence; iii) Na-metasomatism related to Neoproterozoic/Cambrian-Ordovician post-collisional to anorogenic granitoids, which generated uranium-rich albitite, as well as barren episyenite bodies; iv) Cretaceous hydrothermal karstic event related to the generalized fracturing of the continental crust caused by the Pangea break-up and making possible the deposition of collophanites in the karstic features and vugs in episyenites; v) reworking of the collophanites with the deposition of breccia in paleokarstic features in the marble
Disciplinas: Geociencias
Palabras clave: Mineralogía, petrología y geoquímica,
Uranio,
Metasomatismo,
Episienita,
Karst,
Colofanita,
Brasil
Keyword: Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry,
Uranium,
Metasomatism,
Episyenite,
Karst,
Collophanite,
Brazil
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