• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.50 no.1
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• pp.35-44
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• 2017

The Hadong-Sancheong Proterozoic anorthosite complex occurs in the southwestern region of the Ryongnam massif. The geology of the area mainly consists of metamorphic rocks of the Jirisan metamorphic complex as basement rocks, charnockite, and the Hadong-Sancheong anorthosite, which are intruded by the Mesozoic igneous rocks. Hadong-Sancheong anorthosite complex is divided into the Sancheong anorthosite and the Hadong anorthosite which occur at north-southern and south area of the Jurassic syenite, respectively. The Hadong Fe-Ti-bearing dike-like ore bodies developed intermittently in the Hadong anorthosite with north-south direction and extend about 14 km. The Hadong Fe-Ti-bearing ore bodies consist mainly of magnetite and ilmenite with rutile, titanite, and minor amounts of sulfides(pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite). The Hadong Fe-Ti-bearing ore bodies show a paragenetic sequence of magnetite-ilmenite ${\rightarrow}$ magnetite-ilmenite-pyrrhotite ${\rightarrow}$ ilmenite-pyrrhotite-rutile-titanite(and/or pyrite) ${\rightarrow}$ sulfides. Equilibrium thermodynamic interpretation of the mineral paragenesis and assemblages indicate that early Fe-Ti-bearing ore mineralization in the ore bodies occurs at about $700^{\circ}C$ which corresponds to oxygen fugacity of about $10^{-11.8}{\sim}10^{-17.2}$ atm with the decrease tendency of sulfur fugacity to about $10^0$ atm as equilibrium of $Fe_3O_4-FeS$. The change of ore mineral assemblages from Fe-Ti-bearing minerals to sulfides in late ore mineralization of the ore bodies indicates that oxygen fugacity would have slightly decreased to ${\geq}10^{-20.2}$ atm and increased sulfur fugacity to ${\geq}10^0$ atm.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.115-135
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• 2011

Fe-Ti ore bodies and mafic granulite occur in the Sancheong anorthosites, south Korea. In order to determine their petrogenetic relationship and to classify the Fe-Ti ore bodies, we have synthetically analyzed characteristics in the field, such as distribution and occurrence, and petrologic features through detailed outcrop sketches. The ore bodies are divided into the regular vein dike- and irregular veinlet swarm types, according to their characteristics of contact with the anorthosites and internal structures. The former shows the tabularly intrusive contact and the pervasively ductile-sheared interior, while the latter, the irregularly tortuous contact and the almost intact interior. Most of the ore bodies are cross-cutting the foliation of the anorthosites and possess abundant anorthositic xenoliths, indicating their intrusion after the formation of foliation in the anorthosites. The mafic granulite, also bearing abundant anorthositic xenoliths, shows interior foliations nearly parallel to intrusion contact, and has abundant ilmenites approximately the same as those of the Fe-Ti ore bodies in chemical composition. And its intrusion into adjacent anorthosites is observed and the intrusion is finally changed into an irregular veinlet swarm type ore body. It is, thus, interpreted that the granulite in the study area was the host material of Fe-Ti ore bodies.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.209-217
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• 2013

Fe-Ti ore bodies occur in the western part of the Sancheong anorthosites around Banggok-ri, Sancheong, Korea. Within ore bodies, a several centimetric size of anorthositic breccia are enclaved by ore-bearing mafic part and deformed strongly as a sigmoidal form by ductile shearing. The ore bodies have a general N-S trending foliations with westward dipping directions. The foliation developed in the ore bodies cut the foliation in anorthosites. The stretching lineations are well developed in the foliated plane of the ore bodies, showing ENE-trending with gentle plunging angle to the ESE direction. The sigmoidal patterns of anorthositic breccia in the ore bodies indicates the top-to-the-eastnortheastward shearing. Thus, in this study area the relationship between the geometric pattern and the ductile deformation is an important fact to understand the Sancheong Fe-Ti mineralized zone, Korea.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.197-205
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• 2014

Study area (Jikjeon-ri) is located in south end of the Hadong anorthositic rocks. And along the south-western boundary, diorite intruded the Hadong anorthosite. Ilmenite ore bodies are extended in both anorthosite and diorite. And their occurrence in the diorite are not studied yet. While no particular textures are found in the ilmenite within the anorthosite, the ilmenite within the diorite shows characteristic exsolution texture, that is, ilmenite phases are separated into rutile and Fe-oxide and the ilmenite and Fe-oxide. MnO composition in ilmenite ratios are 2.14~3.74wt%, it has higher composition in diorite than that in anorthosite. The plagioclase composition display andesine ($An_{28.7-42.9}$) in the diorite and labradorite ($An_{57.1-72.8}$) in the anorthosite in composition. The exsolution of ilmenite has been developed during the cooling of partly melted ilmenite into rutile and Fe-oxides which is related to the intrusion of the diorite.