Caracterização hidrotermal do prospecto Rio Vermelho : nova mineralização tipo IOCG na província Carajás (PA)

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Author	Pozocco, Ezequiel
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	The Rio Vermelho prospect is located in the eastern sector of the Carajás Mineral Province, near to the contact with the metassediments of the Araguaia Fold Belt. The mineralization is located in a horse splay zone of the Carajás Fault, near to the Cristalino IOCG deposit (Huhn et al. 1999). The ore is hosted by archean deformed granitoids affected by multi-stages hydrothermal alteration controlled by a NNW-SSE structures. Geological surface and subsurface survey and detailed petrography coupled with mineral chemistry analyzes allowed the identification of different hydrothermal stages. The hydrothermal alteration starts with a sodic system with albite and quartz substituting the original feldspars. The sodic alteration is preserved in distal areas. Potassification, represented by the crystallization of microcline together with quartz, overprints the albite paragenesis and occurs proximal to the ore zone. Chloritization occurs in two different moments, preand syn-mineralization. The pre-mineralization is characterized by lamellar chlorite associated with epidote and quartz. The syn-mineralization is marked by fibro-radial chlorite, enriched in Fe-Al and Mn, and associated with iron oxide and copper sulfides filling veins and breccias. Before the mineralization stage, silicification marks the beginning of the brecciacion phase producing quartz veins. The copper mineralization stage, with ore filling breccias dominated by chalcopyrite with subordinate bornite, occurs associated with iron oxides, with abundant hematite and subordinate magnetite. Sericitization with epidote and carbonate is a post-mineralization process and characterizes the last hydrothermal alteration phase. The hydrothermalism starting with sodic phases and ending with sericite marks a temperature ranging from 600 to 250°C. The transition from high temperature sodic and potassic alteration to low temperature in the ore zone in a ductil-ruptil environment, suggest an input of oxidized meteoric water. The hematite derived from magnetite transformation indicates extremely oxidized fluids and suggests a depositional temperature < 350° during the ore formation. The hydrothermal characteristics of the copper mineralization of the Rio Vermelho Prospect suggest a shallow IOCG type dominated by hematite. Its regional position at the borders of the Araguaia Fold Belt, but not affected by the Neoproterozoic processes, opens a new area for exploration in the easternmost part of the Carajás Domain.
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