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Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Minerals from the Jinwon Gold-silver Deposit, Republic of Korea

진원 금-은 광상에서 산출되는 광물들의 산출상태 및 화학조성

  • Yoo, Bong Chul (Mineral Resources Technology Research Department, Convergence Research Center for Development Of Mineral Resources, Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
  • 유봉철 (한국지질자원연구원 DMR융합연구단 광물자원기술연구팀)
  • Received : 2016.11.09
  • Accepted : 2017.01.02
  • Published : 2016.12.28
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Abstract

Jinwon Au-Ag deposit is located in the Uijin gun which is southeast 300 km from Seoul. The deposit area consists of mainly Precambrian Hongjesa granite, which occurs as porphyroblastic texture, medium grain and composed of quartz, feldspar and mica. This deposit consists of four parallel hydrothermal quartz veins that fill NE oriented fractures in Precambrian Hongjesa granite. The grade of quartz veins contain from 3.0 to 21.4 g/t (average 6.4 g/t) gold and from 5.0 to 252.0 g/t (average 117.9 g/t) silver, respectively. They vary from 0.2 m to 0.6 m (average 0.3 m) in thickness and extend to about 200 m in strike length. Quartz veins occur as massive, network, cavity, breccia, crustiform, comb and zonal textures. Wallrock alteration has silicification, sericitization, pyritization and argillitization. The mineralogy of the quartz veins consists of quartz, arsenopyrite, cassiterite, pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, electrum, tetrahedrite, canfieldite, argentite, Ag-Sb-S mineral, Mn-Fe-O mineral, Pb-O mineral and Pb-P-Cl-O mineral(chloro-pyromorphite). Chemical compositions of minerals from this deposit are as followed; Fe/Fe+Mg of sericite is from 0.32 to 0.71, As content of arsenopyrite ranges from 27.91 to 30.33 atomic %, FeS content of sphalerite range from 9.77 to 16.76 mole %, Ag content of electrum is from 29.42 to 37.41 atomic % and Ag content of tetrahedrite range from 32.17 to 36.53 wt.%, respectively. Baased on mineralogy and chemical compositions of minerals from Jinwon Au-Ag deposit, deposition of minerals was caused by a change in temperature, oxygen fugacity($fO_2$) and sulfur fugacity($fS_2$) from the near neutral hydrothermal fluid evolved by reaction with wallrock.

진원 금-은 광상은 경상북도 울진군 북면 사계리에 위치한다. 광상일대의 주변지질은 주로 선캠브리아기의 홍제사화 강암이 넓게 분포되며 이 홍제사화강암은 반상변정조직에 중립질이며 주로 석영, 장석류 및 운모류로 구성된다. 이 광상은 홍제사화강암내에 발달된 NE방향의 단열을 따라 충진한 4개조의 평행한 열수성 맥상 석영맥들로 구성된다. 이들 석영맥의 품위는 3.0~21.4 g/t (평균 6.4 g/t) Au, 5.0~252.0 g/t (평균 117.9 g/t) Ag이며 맥폭은 0.2~0.6 m (평균 0.3 m)로 팽축이 심한 편이고 연장성은 약 200 m 정도이다. 석영맥은 주로 괴상, network, 정동, breccia, crustiform, comb 및 zonal 조직 등이 관찰된다. 모암변질작용은 규화작용, 견운모화작용, 황철석화작용 및 점토화작용 등이 관찰된다. 산출광물은 석영, 견운모, 유비철석, 석석, 황철석, 섬아연석, 황동석, 방연석, 에렉트럼, 함은사면동석, 칸필다이트(canfieldite), 휘은석, Ag-Sb-S계 광물, Mn-Fe-O계 광물, Pb-O계 광물 및 Pb-P-Cl-O계 광물(chloro-pyromorphite) 등이다. 이들 광물들의 화학조성을 살펴보면, 견운모는 0.32~0.71 Fe/Fe+Mg, 유비철석는 27.91~30.33 atomic % As, 섬아연석는 9.77~16.76 mole % FeS, 에렉트럼은 29.42~37.41 atomic % Ag 및 함은사면동석은 32.17~36.53 wt.% Ag 값을 갖는다. 이 광상의 산출광물과 화학조성을 토대로, 진원 금-은 광상은 열수용액에 의한 모암과의 반응에 의한 약산성상태에서 열수용액의 온도, 산소분압($fO_2$) 및 유황분압($fS_2$)의 변화에 의해 광물들이 침전한 것으로 사료된다.

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