• 자원환경지질
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.277-290
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• 1998

The purpose of this research is to investigate the dispersion pattern of gold during skarnization and genesis of gold mineralization in the Sangdong skarn deposits. The Sangdong scheelite orebodies are embedded in the Cambrian Pungchon Limestone and limestone interbedded in the Myobong Slate of the Cambrian age. The tungsten deposits are classified as the Hangingwall Orebody, the Main Orebody and the Footwall Orebody as their stratigraphic locations. Recently, the Sangdong granite of the Cretaceous age (85 Ma) were found by underground exploratory drillings below the orebodies. In geochemisty, the W, Mo, Bi and F concentrations in the granite are significantly higher than those in the Cretaceous granitoids in southern Korea. Highest gold contents are associated with quartz-hornblende skarn in the Main Orebody and pyroxene-hornblende skarn in the Hangingwall Orebody. Also Au contents are closely related to Bi contents. This could be inferred that Au skarns formed from solutions under reduced environment at a temperature of $270^{\circ}C$. According to the multiple regression analysis, the variation of Au contents in the Main Orebody can be explained (87.5%) by Ag, As, Bi, Sb, Pb, Cu. Judging from the mineralogical, chemical and isotope studies, the genetic model of the deposits can be suggested as follows. The primitive Sangdong magma was enriched in W, Mo, Au, Bi and volatiles (metal-carriers such as $H_2O$, $CO_2$ and F). During the upward movement of hydrothermal ore solution, the temperature was decreased, and W deposits were formed at limestone (in the Myobong Slate and Pungchon Limestone). In addition, meteoric water influx gave rise to the retrogressive alterations and maximum solubility of gold, and consequently higher grade of Au mineralization was deposited.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.181-195
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• 1979

The Nambu orebodies of the Okbang tungsten mine are hosted in the Precambrian amphibolite and Weonnam formation. These orebodies can be classified into two types; The scheelite-bearing ore vein occurring in the amphibolite (the Nambu 1, 2 adits) and tungsten-bearing quartz vein along the contact between the amphibolite and the Weonnam formation (the Young-ho, -1, -2, -3 levels). The scheelite-bearing ore vein in the amphilbolite is discontinuous, narrow, and highly irregular in geometry, occurring only within the amphibolite with which of the vein is graduational. Based on these feature of the mode of occurrence, the origin of this ore type might be attributed to a potential segregation of tungsten ore fluid in situ from hornblenditic basic magma of the host rock. Tungsten-bearing quartz vein, however, is considered to have deposited along the N30-60E trending fractures as a later hypothermal vein after the hornblendite was emplaced. The principal ore mineral is scheelite with minor amount of wolframite, and the gangue minerals are quartz, and small amounts of fluorite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and calcite. Fluid inclusion study of minerals from the Nambu orebody reveals that the fluids in fluorite of the scheelite-bearning ore vein attained a temperature range of $208{\sim}256^{\circ}C$ and those in quartz from the tungsten-bearing quartz vein a temperature range of $220{\sim}357^{\circ}C$. The real formation temperatures can be somewhat higher than filling temperatures, if pressure correction is made. Chemical analysis of 8 amphibolitc samples on major and some trace elements indicate that the amphibolite is igneous origin. On a Niggli diagram (al-alk)versus c, the analytical values are plotted on an igneous field, and on a Niggli diagram mg versus c they follow a karroo igneous trend line. According to the Ba, Cr, and Ni versus Niggli mg plots suggested by Leake (1964), Okbang amphibolite fall outside a pelitic field and compare favorably with his plots form ortho-amphibolites. Analitical values of $MoO_3$ of 8 samples of scheelite minerals from the Nambu orebody indicate that the tungsten-bearing quartz vein (type n) of Nambu orebody shows a range from 1. 69% to 4.38% which is higher than 0.94%~3.25% $MoO_3$ for the scheelite-bearing ore vein (type I). This fact indicates that the type II was deposited in a lower $fO_2/higher$ $fO_2$ environment and under lower temperature than the type I. Analysis of major components $WO_3$, MnO, and FeO of 6 samples of wolframite from the type II veins revealed that they contain 73.35~76.2% $WO_3$, 7.94~11.63% MnO, and 10.53~14.82% FeO. MnO/FeO ratios of wolframite shows the range of 0.85~1.17 which suggests a slightly higher temperature type of deposits than other major tungsten deposits in the country.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.25-56
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• 1975

Most fluorite deposits of South Korea are distributed in three metallogenic zones namly as: Hwacheon, Hwangangni and Geumsan metallogenic zones. Fluorite deposits of each zone show The characteristic features owing to the geological setting, the structural patterns and their forming processes. deposits of the Hwacheon metallogenic zone are wholly fissure filling hydrothermal veins emThe bedded in shear fractures of the granite gneiss or schists of Precambrian age or in the cooling fractures of the granite and acidic hypabyssal rocks which are assumed to be a differentiated sister rock of the granite. Localization of most fluorite veins of the region is structurally controlled by NW and EW fracture systems and genetically related to the granite intrusion which ascertained as motivating rock of the fluorite mineralization. Fluorites are in most cases accompanied by quartz, chalcedony mainly and rarely agate, calcite, barite and sulphide base metals in some localities. The deposits of the Hwangangni metallogenic zone were formed at the last stage of hydrothermal polymineralization of W, Mo, Cu, Pb, Zn. The majority of the fluorite ore bodies were originated from replacement in limestone beds of Great Limestone Series or in calcareous interbeds of metasediments, whereas some cavity-filling ore bodies were embedded in phyllites and schists of the Ockcheon system and along the fissures in the replaced beds which were originated by volume decrease. The localization of fluorite deposits in this region is genetically related to the Moongyong granite which has been dated as middle Cretaceous, and controlled structurally by the $N20^{\circ}{\sim}50^{\circ}W$ extension fracture system or axial planes of folds, and by faults of NE direction that acted as paths of ore solution. The deposits of the Geumsan metallogenic zone are seemed to be formed through the similar process as that of Hwangangni metallogenic zone, but characteristic distinctions are in that they are more prevailing fracture filling veins and large number of the deposits are localized in roof-pendants or xenolithes of limestone in granites and porphyries. Igneous rocks that presumably motivated the mineraltzation are middle Cretaceous Geumsan granite and porphyries. Metallogenic epoch of the fluorite mineralization of South Korea are puesumably limited in early-middle Cretaceous. Studies of the fluid inclusions in fluorites of the region reveal that the homogenization temperature of the fluorite deposits are as follows: Hwacheon metallogenic zone : $95^{\circ}C{\sim}165^{\circ}C$; Hwangangni metallogenic zone : $97^{\circ}C{\sim}235^{\circ}C$; Geumsan metallogenic zone : $93^{\circ}C{\sim}236^{\circ}C$. Judging from the above results, the deposits of the Hwancheon region were formed at the epithermal stage, and those in the Hwangangni and Geumsan regions, were deposited at epithermal stage preceded by mesothermal mineralization of small scale in which some sulphide minerals were deposited. The analytical data of minor elements in the fluorites reveal that ore solutions of Hwangangni metallogenic zone seemed to be emanated in more acidic stage of magma differentiation than Hwacheon metallogenic zone did.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.345-361
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• 1994

Lens shaped titanomagnetite ore bodies in the Soyeonpyeong iron mine are embedded in amphibolites, which were intruded into Precambrian metasediments such as garnet-mica schist, marble, mica schist, and quartz schist. Mineral chemistry, K-Ar dating and hydrogen and oxygen stable isotopic analysis for the amphibolites and titanomagnetite ores were conducted to interpret petrogenesis of amphibolite and ore genesis of titanomagnetite iron ore deposits. Amphibolites of igneous origin have unusually high content of $TiO_2$, ranging from 0.94 to 6.39 wt.% with an average value of 4.05 wt.%. REE patterns of the different lithology of the amphibolite show the similar trend with an enrichment of LREE. Amphiboles of amphibolites are consist mainly of calcic amphiboles such as ferro-hornblende, tschermakite, ferroan pargasite, and ferroan pargasitic hornblende. K-Ar ages of hornblende from amphibolite and gneissic amphibolite were determined as $440.04{\pm}6.39Ma$ and $351.03{\pm}5.21Ma$, respectively. This indicates two metamorphic events of Paleozoic age in the Korean peninsula which are correlated with Altin orogeny in China. The titanomagnetite mineralization seems to have occurred before Cambrian age based on occurrence of orebodies and ages of host amphibolites. The Soyeonpyeong iron ores are composed mainly of titanomagnetite, ilmenite, and secondary minerals such as ilmenite and hercynite exsolved in titanomagnetite. The temperature and the oxygen fugacity estimated by the titanomagnetite-ilmenite geothermometer are $500{\sim}600^{\circ}C$ (ave. $550^{\circ}C$) and about $2{\pm}10^{-23}bar$, respectively. Hornblendes from ores and amphibolites which responsible for magnetite ore mineralization, have a relatively homogeneous isotopic composition ranging from +0.8 to +3.9 ‰ in ${\delta}^{18}O$ and from -87.8 to -113.3 ‰ in ${\delta}D$. The calculated oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions of the fluids which were in equilibrium with hornblende at $550^{\circ}C$, range from 2.8 to 5.9‰ in ${\delta}^{18}O_{H2O}$ and from -60.41 to -81.31 ‰ in ${\delta}D_{H2O}$. The ${\delta}^{18}O_{H2O}$ value of magnetite ore fluids are in between +6.4 to + 7.9 ‰. All of these values fall in the range of primary magmatic water. A slight oxygen shift means that $^{18}O$-depleted meteoric water be acted with basic fluids during immiscible processes between silicate and titaniferous oxide melt. Mineral chemistry, isotopic compositions, and occurences of amphibolites and orebodies, suggest that the titanomagnetite melt be separated immisciblely from the titaniferous basic magma.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.465-475
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• 2022

해저열수광상(seafloor massive sulfide deposit, SMS)은 다량의 유용금속을 포함하는 중요한 광물 자원으로서 그 성인적 특성 및 금속 함량 변화는 주로 모암과 마그마로부터 금속과 황을 공급하는 물-암석 상호작용과 마그마성 휘발 성분의 용리에 의해 결정된다. 이러한 금속 공급원들은 지구조환경에 따라 다양한 특성을 보이기 때문에 해저열수광화작용에 대한 이들의 기여는 여전히 불분명하다. 본 논평에서는 중앙해령 및 화산호 지역 SMS 광상의 광물·지구화학적 특성을 검토하여 서로 다른 금속 공급원의 영향을 파악하고 향후 진행되어야 할 성인 연구의 방향성에 대해 논하고자 한다. 연구 결과 황비동석 및 큐바나이트, 방연석, 중정석의 산출은 각각 마그마 영향과 물-암석 상호작용의 기여를 반영하여 금속 공급원 특성 차이에 의한 해저열수광상의 유형 구분을 가능케 한다. 또한, 황철석의 Co, As, Hg 거동 특성 및 섬아연석의 철 함량 변화는 지구조환경에 따른 금속 공급원의 영향을 반영하는 효율적인 경험적 지표가 될 수 있다. 현재까지 연구는 주로 열수 침전에 의한 광체에만 국한되었기 때문에 해저열수광상의 성인적 특성을 포괄적으로 이해하기 위해서는 마그마 기원 황화광물과 황산염광물을 대상으로 한 추가 연구가 필수적이다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.249-262
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• 1997

The Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of two foliated granitic plutons located in the Chonju and Sunchang area were determined in order to reconfirm the intrusion ages of granitoids and to study the sources of granitic magmas. The best defined Rb-Sr isochron for the whole rock samples of the Chonju foliated granite (CFGR) give an age of $284{\pm}12Ma$, suggesting early Permian intrusion age. In contrast, the whole rock Rb-Sr data of the Sunchang foliated granite (SFGR) scatter widely on the isochron diagram with very little variation in the $^{87}Rb/^{86}Sr$ ratios and, therefore, yield no reliable age information. Futhermore they show the concordance of mineral and whole rock Rb-Sr isochron and divide into two linear groups with roughly the same slopes and significantly different $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ ratios, indicating some kind of Rb-Sr distortion in whole rock scale and a difference in source material and/or magmatic evolution between two subsets. The reconstructed isochrons of 243 Ma, which was defined from the proposed data by the omission of one sample point with significantly higher $^{87}Rb/^{86}Sr$ ratio than the others, and 252 Ma, from the combined data of it and some of this study, strongly suggest the possibility that the SFGR was intruded appreciably earlier than had previously been proposed, although the reliability of these ages still questionable owing to high scatter of data points and, therefore, further study is necessary. All mineral isochrons for the investigated granites show the Jurassic to early Cretaceous thermal episode ranging from 160 Ma to 120 Ma Their corresponding initial $^{87}Sr/^{86}Sr$ ratios correlate well with their whole rock data, indicating that the mineral Rb-Sr system of the investigated granites was redistributed by the postmagmatic thermal event during Jurassic to early Cretaceous. The initial ${\varepsilon}Sr$ values for the CFGR (64.27 to 94.81) tend to be significantly lower than those for the SFGR (125.43 to 167.09). Thus it is likely that there is a marked difference in the magma source characteristics between the CFGR and the SFGR, although the possibility of an isotopic resetting event giving rise to a high apparent initial ${\varepsilon}Sr$ in the SFGR can not be ruled out. In contrast to ${\varepsilon}Sr$, both batholiths show a highly resticted and negative values of initial ${\varepsilon}Nd$, which is -14.73 to -19.53 with an average $-16.13{\pm}1.47$ in the CFGR and -14.78 to -18.59 with an average $-17.17{\pm}1.01$ in the SFGR. The highly negative initial ${\varepsilon}Nd$ values in the investigated granitoids strongly suggest that large amounts of recycled old continental components have taken part in their evolution. Furthermore, this highly resticted variation in ${\varepsilon}Nd$ is significant because it requires that the old crustal source material, from which the granitoid-producing melts were generated, should have a reasonably uniform Nd isotopic composition and also quit similar age. Calculated T2DM model ages give an average of $1.83{\pm}0.25Ga$ for CFGR and $1.96{\pm}0.19Ga$ for SFGR, suggesting the importance of a mid-Proterozoic episode for the genesis of two foliated granites. Although it is not possible to determine precisely the source rock compositions for the investigated foliatic granites, the Sr-Nd isotopic evidences indicate that midcrustal or less probably, a lower crustal granulitic source could be the most likely candidate.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제48권6호
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• pp.431-449
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• 2015

연구지역은 영남육괴 지리산지구에 분포하는 선캠브리아기 암주상 산청 회장암복합체 (이하, 회장암체)의 서부에 위치한다. 본 논문은 산청 회장암체에 대한 노두별 상세한 야외지질조사를 통하여 산청 회장암체의 암상, 엽리, 산상의 특징을 조사하고, 산청 회장암체의 형성과정과 그 메커니즘을 연구하였다. 산청 회장암체는 괴상형과 엽상형 산청 회장암 (이하, SA), 철-티탄 광체 (이하, FTO), 고철질 백립암 (이하, MG)으로 구분된다. 괴상형 SA를 제외한 산청 회장암체에는 엽리가 발달한다. 엽상형 SA, FTO, MG의 엽리는 SA가 완전히 고결되지 않은 물리적 상태에서 FTO 및 MG 용융체의 유동과 SA 블록들 사이의 상호운동의 결과로 형성된 마그마 엽리이며, 이들은 동원 마그마의 분화작용을 통해 연속적으로 형성되었다. 산청 회장암체는 괴상형 SA (고압 하에서 모 마그마의 1차 분별정출작용)${\rightarrow}$ 엽상형 SA [저압 하에서 모 마그마로부터 1차적으로 분화된 사장석-풍부 결정-용융 혼합체 (회장암질 마그마)의 2차 분별정출작용]${\rightarrow}$ FTO (회장암질 마그마의 2차 분별정출작용의 최종 분화단계에 잔류된 고철질 마그마의 압착여과작용에 의해 완전히 고화되지 않은 SA로 주입)${\rightarrow}$ MG (최종 잔류된 고철질 마그마의 고화작용) 순으로 형성되었다. 이는 산청 회장암체를 구성하는 괴상형과 엽상형 SA, FTO, MG는 성인과 시대를 달리하는 서로 다른 마그마의 분화 및 관입 산물이 아니라 동일시대의 동일기원 마그마로서 다단계 분별정출작용과 다중압력 결정화작용을 통해 형성되었음을 의미한다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.571-588
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• 2014

영남육괴 지리산지구의 산청지역은 선캠브리아기 지리산 변성암복합체와 이를 관입하는 산청 회장암복합체(이하, 회장암체) 그리고 이들을 관입하는 중생대 화성암류 등으로 구성되어 있고, 연구지역은 암주상 산청 회장암체의 서부에 위치한다. 본 연구는 산청 회장암체에 산출하는 산청 회장암(이하, SA)과 철-티탄 광체(이하, FTO)를 중심으로 노두별 상세한 야외지질조사를 수행하였으며, SA와 FTO의 엽리, 전단대, 산상 등으로부터 FTO 엽리의 성인과 이들 사이의 발생적 관계를 새롭게 해석하였다. 지금까지 밝혀진 SA와 FTO 사이의 구조적 특징은 다음과 같다: FTO의 다중 층상구조, SA의 세립화와 관련된 직선상, 혈관상, 요철상, 직각형 블록구조의 파생세맥, 점이적이고 불규칙한 SA 블록과 FTO 사이의 설상 또는 둥근 열편상 잠입 경계면 구조, 연성전단변형이 아닌 유동적 산상의 FTO 엽리와 FTO 엽리면상의 선상배열, SA 내에 발달하는 불연속전단대, SA 블록의 경계면에 평행한 FTO 엽리의 방향성, SA 블록의 경계면을 향한 FTO 엽리의 우세한 발달, 사장석 포획결정과 포획된 SA 블록의 종횡비에 비례하는 FTO 엽리의 우세성, FTO 엽리의 유동 습곡구조. 이러한 구조적 특징으로부터 FTO가 용융체로 존재할 당시에 SA가 완전히 고화되지 않았으며, 부분 고화된 SA의 단열작용은 FTO의 파생세맥과 SA의 세립화를 초래하였음을 알 수 있다. 또한 SA 블록과 FTO 사이에 점이적이고 불규칙한 경계면은 완전히 응결되지 않은 SA 블록와 FTO 용융체 사이의 상호반응에 의해 형성되었으며, FTO 엽리는 마그마 엽리로서 FTO 용융체와 부분 고결된 SA 블록 사이에 상호운동의 결과로 형성되었음을 알 수 있다. 이는 SA와 FTO는 성인과 시대를 달리하는 서로 다른 마그마의 관입관계가 아니라 동일시대의 동일기원 마그마의 다단계 분별정출작용에 의해 형성되었음을 의미하고, FTO는 관입적인 (암)맥상과 같이 규칙적인 산상이 아니라 불규칙한 단열을 따라 주입된 매우 불규칙한 산상을 보인 것으로 해석되며, Fe-Ti 광물자원 탐사 시에 적용될 수 있을 것이다.