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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2018.51.6.521

Origin of Fluorine Contained in Rocks within the Eulwangsan, Yongyudo  

Lee, Jong-Hwan (Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science (RINS), Gyeongsang National University(GNU))
Jeong, Jong-Ok (Centralized Scientific Instrumentation Facility (CSIF), Gyeongsang National University(GNU))
Kim, Kun-Ki (Geochang Granite Research Center)
Lee, Sang-Woo (Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science (RINS), Gyeongsang National University(GNU))
Kim, Soon-Oh (Department of Geology and Research Institute of Natural Science (RINS), Gyeongsang National University(GNU))
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.51, no.6, 2018 , pp. 521-529 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was conducted to investigate the natural origin of fluorine contained in the rocks within the Eulwangsan area via petrological and mineralogical analyses. The main geology of the Yongyudo Eulwangsan area is Triassic biotite granite. Biotite granite and mylonite are the major rock types containing fluorine at high levels (up to 1,700 and 2,400 mg/kg for biotite granite and mylonite, respectively). In the case of the biotite granite, a high concentration of fluorine can be contributed to fluorite, and the results of microscopic analyses show that the fluorite was observed as small veinlets filling cleavages and micro-fractures within alkali-feldspars and plagioclases, or observed together with quartz in ore veins, indicating the secondary formation of fluorite by hydrothermal fluids. In mylonite, on the other hand, a high fluorine concentration is attributable to sericite. Microscopic analyses revealed that the boundary between sericite and surrounding quartz was not clear, the sericite occurred filling the micro-fractures of quartz and encapsulating small quartz cataclasts. These results indicate that the sericite was also formed as a result of hydrothermal alteration. Consequently, it is speculated that the high fluorine level in the rocks of the Eulwangsan area of Yongyudo is of natural origin due to hydrothermal processes.
Keywords
Yongyudo Eulwangsan; fluorine; origin; fluorite; sericite;
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