Mineralogy and geochemistry of Cu-Ni±Co±Ag±Bi polymetallic ores from the Hintermühlergang vein in the Chełmiec deposit, Sudetes Mountains, Poland

• Autorzy: Muszyński Kacper , Pršek Jaroslav , Mederski Sławomir , Drzymała Aneta

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.7306/gq.1708

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Chełmiec is a hydrothermal vein-type carbonate-sulphide deposit in the Kaczawa Mountains, where polymetallic Cu-Ni±Co±Ag±Bi mineralization occurs. Samples, collected from an old dump of the Hintermühlergang vein, were studied by reflected light microscopy and electron microprobe. Two mineral parageneses, Ni-Co±Bi and Cu-Zn-Pb±Sb±Ag, associated with two stages of precipitation, were discovered in samples from the Chełmiec deposit. The first stage is associated with quartz, and is represented by pyrite, arsenopyrite, gersdorffite, cobaltite, bismuth minerals (native Bi, bismuthinite, and matildite), pyrrhotite, marcasite and chalcopyrite. The second stage associated with siderite and quartz is represented by sulphides (sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite), tetrahedrite group minerals [tetrahedrite-(Fe), tetrahedrite-(Zn), tennantite-(Zn), and argentotetrahedrite-(Fe)], gersdorffite and bournonite. Two generations of sulpharsenides were discovered in the samples studied. The first is represented by massive gersdorffite-cobaltite aggregates, the second generation occurs as tiny zoned gersdorffite crystals. Sulpharsenides are characterized locally by presence of high amounts of As (up to 1.55 apfu). Silver in the Chełmiec ores is hosted mainly in tetrahedrite group minerals [from 0.07 to 2.07 apfu in tetrahedrite – (Zn) and -(Fe), and from 4.37 to 4.90 apfu in argentotetrahedrite-(Fe)], less in matildite. In the Sudetes, the presence of massive sulpharsenides is rare, whereas freibergite is much more common.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Chełmiec; Sudety; gersdorffite-cobaltite; sulfarsenides; tetrahedrite group minerals

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Geological Quarterly
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 67, No. 3
• Strony: art. no. 38
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 44 poz., rys., wykr.

Twórcy

autor

Muszyński Kacper

• AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3059-4594

autor

Pršek Jaroslav

• AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4331-8273

autor

Mederski Sławomir

• AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7325-9932

autor

Drzymała Aneta

• AGH University of Science and Technology, al. A. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland

Bibliografia

• 1. Baranowski, Z., 1998. Metamorphosed flysch deposits in the northen Kaczawa Mts (Rzeszówek-Jakuszowa Unit) (in Polish with English summary). Geologia Sudetica, 10: 120-146.
• 2. Baranowski, Z., Haydukiewicz, A., Kryza, R., Lorenc, S., Muszyński, A., Urbanek, Z., 1998. The lithology and origin of the metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Chełmiec Unit (Kaczawa Mts, Sudetes, SW Poland) (in Polish with English summary). Geologia Sudetica, 31: 33-59.
• 3. Biagioni, C., George, L.L., Cook, N.J., Makovicky, E., Moëlo, Y., Pasero, M., Sejkora, J., Stanley, C.J., Welch, M.D., Bosi, F., 2020. The tetrahedrite group: Nomenclature and classification. American Mineralogist, 105: 109-122. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2020-7128
• 4. Burisch, M., Gerdes, A., Walter, B.F., Neumann, U., Fettel, M., Markl, G., 2017. Methane and the origin of five-element veins: Mineralogy, age, fluid inclusion chemistry and ore forming processes in the Odenwald, SW Germany. Ore Geology Reviews, 81: 42-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.10.033
• 5. Chovan, M., Ozdin, D., 2003. Chemical composition of Ni, Co and Fe sulphoarsenides and arsenides in the hydrothermal siderite veins in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia). Acta Mineralogica Petrographica, 1: 19.
• 6. Dziekoński, T., 1972. Ore mining and metallurgy in the Lower Silesia from the XIIIth to the half of the XXth century (in Polish with English summary). Wydawnictwo PAN: 203-281.
• 7. Fanlo, I., Subías, I., Gervilla, F., Paniagua, A., Garcia, B., 2004. The composition of Co-Ni-Fe sulfarsenides, diarsenides and triarsenides from the San Juan De Plan deposit, Central Pyrenees, Spain. Canadian Mineralogist, 42: 1221-1240. https://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.42.4.1221
• 8. Fanlo, I., Subías, I., Gervilla, F., Manuel, J., 2006. Textures and compositional variability in gersdorffite from the Crescencia Ni-(Co-U) showing, Central Pyrenees, Spain: primary deposition or reequilibration? Canadian Mineralogist, 44: 1513-1528. https://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.44.6.1513
• 9. Fojt, B., Dolnícek, Z., Kopa, D., Sulovský, P., Škoda, R., 2005. Paragenesis of the hypogene associations from the uranium deposit at Zálesí near Javorník in Rychlebské hory Mts., Czech Republic (in Czech with English summary). Časopis Slezského zemského Muzea Opava (A), 54: 223-280.
• 10. Gołębiowska, B., Pieczka, A., Parafiniuk, J., 2012. Substitution of Bi for Sb and As in minerals of the tetrahedrite series from Rędziny, Lower Silesia, south western Poland. Canadian Mineralogist, 50: 267-279. https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.50.2.267
• 11. Jerzmański, J., 1965. Geology of the north eastern part of the Kaczawa Mts and their eastern extent (in Polish with English summary). Biuletyn Instytutu Geologicznego, 185: 109-193.
• 12. Kiefer, S., Majzlan, J., Chovan, M., Števko, M., 2017. Mineral compositions and phase relations of the complex sulfarsenides and arsenides from Dobšiná (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Ore Geology Reviews, 89: 894-908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.07.026
• 13. Kozioł, M., 2018. Characteristics of uranium mineralization in the Dziećmorowice area (in Polish with English summary). M.Sc. Thesis, AGH.
• 14. Kryza, R., Mazur, S., Oberc-Dziedzic, T., 2004. The Sudetic geological mosaic: insights into the root of the Variscan orogen. Przegląd Geologiczny, 52: 761-773. https://doi.org/10.1127/njma/170/1995/59
• 15. Madziarz, M., 2009a. Mines “Czarnów”, ”Miedzianka” and “Stara Góra” in time of uranium and other metallic ore prospecting in forthieth and fiftieth of 20th century (in Polish with English summary). Dzieje górnictwa - element europejskiego dziedzictwa kultury, 2: 166-193.
• 16. Madziarz, M., 2009b. Recognition formerly exploited polymetallicore deposits as results of prospecting and min ing works after World War II in Sudety Mts (in Polish with English summary). Prace Naukowe Instytutu Górnictwa Politechniki Wrocławskiej. Studia i Materiały, 128: 141-167.
• 17. Madziarz, M., Sztuk, H., 2006. Exploration of the polymetallic ledge in Dziećmorowice-Kozice (Sowie Mts, Lower Silesia, Poland), (In Polish with English summary). Prace Naukowe Instytutu Górnictwa Politechniki Wrocławskiej, 117: 203-209.
• 18. Markl, G., Burisch, M., Neumann, U., 2016. Natural fracking and the genesis of five-element veins. Mineralium Deposita, 51: 703-712. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-016-0662-z
• 19. Mauro, D., Biagioni, C., Zaccarini, F., 2021. New data on gersdorffite and associated minerals from the Peloritani Mountains (Sicily, Italy). European Journal of Mineralogy, 33: 717-726. https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-717-2021
• 20. Mederski, S., Pršek, J., Niemasz, Ż., 2020. Geochemistry of tetrahedrite group minerals and associated silver paragenesis in the Boguszów baryte deposit, Poland. Geological Quarterly, 64: 958-968. https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.1562
• 21. Mederski, S., Wojsław, M., Pršek, J., Majzan, J., Kiefer, S., Asllani, B., 2021. A geochemical study of gersdorffite from the Trepęa Mineral Belt, Vardar Zone, Kosovo. Journal of Geosciences, 66: 97-115. https://doi.org/10.3190/jgeosci.322
• 22. Mikulski, S., 2005. Geological, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of the Radzimowice Au-As-Cu deposit from the Kaczawa Mountains (Western Sudetes, Poland): an example of the transition of porphyry and epithermal style. Mineralium Deposita, 39: 904-920. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-004-0452-x
• 23. Mikulski, S., 2007. The late Variscan gold mineralization in the Kaczawa Mountains, Western Sudetes. Polish Geological Institute Special Papers, 22: 1-162.
• 24. Mochnacka, K., Oberc-Dziedzic, T., Mayer, W., Pieczka, A., Góralski, M., 2009. New insights into the mineralization of the Czarnów ore deposit (West Sudetes, Poland). Geologia Sudetica, 41: 43-56.
• 25. Mochnacka, K., Oberc-Dziedzic, T., Mayer, W., Pieczka, A., 2012. Ore mineralization in the Miedzianka area (Karkonosze-Izera Massif, the Sudetes, Poland): new information. Mineralogia, 43: 155-178. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10002-012-0005-3
• 26. Muszer, A., Szuszkiewicz, A., Łoboś, K., 2006. New occurrence of clausthalite (PbSe) in the Sudetes (SW Poland), Mineralogia Polonica, 37: 123-132. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10002-007-0010-0
• 27. Ondruš, P., Veselovský, F., Gabašová, A., Drábek, M., Dobeš, P., Malý, K., Hloušek, J., Sejkora, J., 2003. Ore-forming processes and mineral parageneses of the Jáchymov ore district. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48: 157-192.
• 28. Paulo, A., 1970a. Nickel and bismuth minerals in ore veins in the environs of Chełmiec (Kaczawa Mts, Lower Silesia) (in Polish with English summary). Prace Mineralogiczne, 24: 61-77.
• 29. Paulo, A., 1970b. On the formation of retgersite from Chełmiec. Mineralogia Polonica, 1: 37-45.
• 30. Paulo, A., 1973. The baryte deposit in Stanisławów against the background of the metallogenesis of the Kaczawa Mountains (in Polish with English summary). Prace Instytutu Geologicznego, 76: 7-61.
• 31. Paulo, A., Salamon, W., 1974a. A note on freibergite, pyrargyrite and bournonite from Grudno, Lower Silesia (in Polish with English summary). Mineralogia Polonica, 5: 83-86.
• 32. Paulo, A., Salamon, W., 1974b. Contribution to the knowledge of the polymetallic deposit in Stara Góra (in Polish with English summary). Geological Quarterly, 18 (2): 266-278.
• 33. Paulo, A., 1994. Geology of barite veins in the Polish Sudetes. Metallogeny of Collisional Orogens (eds. R. Seltman, H. Kämpf and P. Möller): 383-390. Czech Geological Survey, Prague.
• 34. Petrascheck, W.E., 1933. Die Erzlagerstätten des Schlesischen Gebirges. Archiv für Lagerstättenforschung, 59: 5-53.
• 35. Piestrzyński, A., Mochnacka, K., 2003. Discussion on the sulphide mineralization related to the tin-bearing zones of the Kamienica schists belt (Western Sudety Mountains, SW Poland) (in Polish with English summary). Sudety Zachodnie - od wendu do czwartorzędu (eds. W. Ciężkowski, J. Wojewoda and A. Żelaźniewicz): 169-182. WIND, Wrocław.
• 36. Piestrzyński, A., Mochnacka, K., Mayer, W., Kucha, H., 1992. Native gold (electrum), Fe-Co-Ni arsenides and suphoarsenides in the mica schists from Przecznica, the Kamienica Range, SW Poland. Mineralogia Polonica, 23: 27-43.
• 37. Pietrzela, A., 2019. Reassessment of Sn-Co mineralization in mica schists of the Krobica-Gierczyn area (SW Poland). Life with Ore Deposits on Earth - 15th SGA Biennial Meeting 2019, 4: 1454-1457.
• 38. Pršek, J., Mederski, S., Kowalczyk, D., 2019. Ag-Sb-Pb-Cd mineral paragenesis in the barite veins: Example from the Sowie Mountains, Poland. In: Life with Ore Deposits on Earth. 15th Biennial SGA Meeting, 27-30 August 2019, Glasgow, 1: 455-458.
• 39. Pršek, J., Mederski, S., Kozioł, M., 2021. Ni-Co mineralization from Dziećmorowice U mine, Sudety Mountains, Poland: mineralogy and chemical composition of Ni-Co-Fe arsenides and sulfarsenides. Acta Mineralogica Petrographica, 11.
• 40. Sack, R.O., Fredericks, R., Hardy, L.S., Ebel, D.S., 2005. Origin of high-Ag fahlores from the Galena mine, Wallace, Idaho, USA. American Mineralogist, 90: 1000-1007. https://doi.org/10.2138/am.2005.1651
• 41. Scharrer, M., Kreissl, S., Markl, G., 2019. The mineralogical variability of hydrothermal native element-arsenide (five-element) associations and the role of physicochemical and kinetic factors concerning sulfur and arsenic. Ore Geology Reviews, 113: 103025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103025
• 42. Siuda, R., 2012. Silver minerals from Friederike Juliane Mine at Ciechanowice (Sudety Mts, Poland) (in Polish with English summary). Biuletyn Państwowego Instytutu Geologicznego, 448: 315-324.
• 43. Topa, D., Makovicky, E., Paar, W.H., 2002. Composition ranges and exsolution pairs for the members of the bismuthinite-aikinite series from Felbertal, Austria. Canadian Mineralogist, 40: 849-869. https://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.40.3.849
• 44. Wajsprych, B., 1974. Tectonics of the Chełmiec Unit (North-western part of Kaczawa Mts) (in Polish with English summary). Geologia Sudetica, 9: 101-123.