The First Report of Rosasite Mineral in Qaleh- Zari Copper Mine, East of Iran (Based on SEM and AAS Analysis)

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Author	Kaveh, Nastaran Shojaei Tajbakhsh, Saharnaz
Copyright Year	2019
Abstract	The Rosasite group is a family of rare secondary minerals occurring in oxidized zones in Cu-Zn ore deposits. This group includes seven minerals (zincrosasite, for instance) that are formed by a chemical reaction between Zn bearing solutions and Cu minerals. The Qaleh-Zari mine, which is a well-known copper mine in Eastern Iran, is located in South Khorasan province. This mine is a polymetallic deposit of Copper, Zinc, Iron and Lead sulfides, carbonates and oxides. Limitedly, there is a mineral which appears in globular and compact mammillary to botryoidal crusts on hemimorphite in oxidation zones. The analyses conducted in this study determined that this mineral belongs to the rosasite group. Up to now, the presence of rosasite group minerals and mineralogical studies on them have never been reported in this deposit. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy (AAS), and other mineralogical results suggested that the blue mammillary mineral is zincrosasite with Zn= 9.1 % and Cu=3.42%.
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