Artículo
The Li-Bearing Pegmatites from the Pampean Pegmatite Province, Argentina: Metallogenesis and Resources
Galliski, Miguel Angel
; Marquez Zavalia, Maria Florencia
; Roda Robles, Encarnación; Quadt, Albrecht von


Fecha de publicación:
07/2022
Editorial:
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Revista:
Minerals
ISSN:
2075-163X
Idioma:
Inglés
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Artículo publicado
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Resumen
The Li-bearing pegmatites of the Pampean Pegmatite Province (PPP) occur in a rare-element pegmatite belt developed mainly in the Lower Paleozoic age on the southwestern margin of Gondwana. The pegmatites show Li, Rb, Nb ≤ Ta, Be, P, B, Bi enrichment, and belong to the Li-Cs-Ta (LCT) petrogenetic family, Rare-Element-Li (REL-Li) subclass; most of them are of complex type and spodumene subtype, some are of albite-spodumene type, and a few of petalite subtype. The origin of the pegmatites is attributed predominantly to fractionation of fertile S-type granitic melts produced by either fluid-absent or fluid-assisted anatexis of a thick pile of Gondwana-derived turbiditic sediments. Most of the pegmatites are orogenic (530–440 Ma) and developed during two overlapped collisional orogenies (Pampean and Famatinian); a few are postorogenic (~370 Ma), related to crustal contaminated A-type granites. The pegmatites were likely intruded in the hinterland, preferably in medium-grade metamorphic rocks with PT conditions ~200–500 MPa and 400–650◦ C, where they are concentrated in districts and groups. Known combined resources add up 200,000 t of spodumene, with variable grades between 5 and 8 wt.% Li2 O. The potential for future findings and enlargement of the resources is high, since no systematic exploration program has yet been developed.
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Articulos de INST. ARG. DE NIVOLOGIA, GLACIOLOGIA Y CS. AMBIENT
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Galliski, Miguel Angel; Marquez Zavalia, Maria Florencia; Roda Robles, Encarnación; Quadt, Albrecht von; The Li-Bearing Pegmatites from the Pampean Pegmatite Province, Argentina: Metallogenesis and Resources; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Minerals; 12; 7; 7-2022; 1-16
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