Overview
- Presents the first comparative study on LCT pegmatites within the Yilgarn Craton
- Offers radiogenic isotope data on LCT pegmatites within the Yilgarn Craton
- Integrates evolution of LCT pegmatites into the geological history of the Yilgarn Craton
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in World Mineral Deposits (BRIEFSWMD)
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Lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites are important resources for rare metals. For Cs, only the LCT pegmatites with the zeolite group mineral pollucite at Bikita (Zimbabwe Craton) and Tanco (Superior Province Craton) are of commercial importance. Common characteristics of world-class LCT pegmatite deposits include their Meso- to Neoarchean age and geological setting within greenstone belt lithologies on Archean Cratons.
This study presents the first coherent and comparative scientific investigation of five major LCT pegmatite systems from the Yilgarn, Pilbara and Zimbabwe Craton. For the evaluation of their Cs potential and of the genetic concepts of pollucite formation, the pegmatites from Wodgina, Londonderry, Mount Deans and Cattlin Creek were compared to the Bikita pollucite mineralization.
The integration of the new data (e.g., geochronological and radiogenic isotope data) into the complex geological framework: 1) enhances our knowledge of the formation ofLCT pegmatite systems, and 2) will contribute to the further exploration of additional world-class LCT pegmatite deposits, which 3) may host massive pollucite mineralisations.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia
Book Subtitle: Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations
Authors: Thomas Dittrich, Thomas Seifert, Bernhard Schulz, Steffen Hagemann, Axel Gerdes, Jörg Pfänder
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in World Mineral Deposits
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10943-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10942-4Published: 21 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-10943-1Published: 13 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-7857
Series E-ISSN: 2509-7865
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 125
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 57 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geology, Mineralogy, Geochemistry