[article]
Titre : |
Controls on tellurium in base, precious, and telluride minerals in the panormos Bay Ag-Au-Te deposits, Tinos Island, Cyclades, Greece |
Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
Auteurs : |
Stylianos Tombros, Auteur ; Karen St. Seymour, Auteur ; Anthony E. Williams-Jones, Auteur |
Année de publication : |
2011 |
Article en page(s) : |
pp. 1097-1111 |
Note générale : |
Economic Geology |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
Mots-clés : |
Tellurium Minerals Tinos Island Greece |
Index. décimale : |
553 Géologie économique. Minérographie. Minéraux. Formation et gisements de minerais |
Résumé : |
Tellurium-bearing base metal assemblages dominate the eight stages of mineralization in quartz ± calcite ± adularia ± illite epithermal Au-Ag-Te veins at Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Cyclades. Tellurium-bearing sulfides and sulfosalts both preceded and followed the main, telluride-forming event (stage V). The complex stage V telluride assemblage was characterized by a sequence of early Ag-, middle Cu-, and late Au-bearing tellurides. There is textural evidence for epitaxial growth of the tellurides. Phase separation of carbon dioxide would have caused H2Te(g) to partition into a gaseous phase and resulted in pH neutralization. Due to rapid up-vapor transport, tellurium-bearing vapors probably supersaturated, condensed as droplets, and were resorbed into the ore-forming solution. These mechanisms enhanced local Te enrichment in the mineralizing liquid, above equilibrium, of ∑Te as H2Te(g) (i.e., log fH2Te(g) values of −0.5 to −1.5), and resulted in epitaxial growth of stage V tellurides. Epitaxy in the Panormos Bay case can be simulated by the Stranski-Krastanov crystal growth model. For supersaturation ratios with S values of 1 and 4, we predict an overall increase of the nucleation rate of tellurium and subsequent telluride precipitation.
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DEWEY : |
553 |
ISSN : |
0361-0128 |
En ligne : |
http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/content/105/6/1097.abstract |
in Economic geology > Vol. 105 N° 6 (Septembre/Octobre 2010) . - pp. 1097-1111
[article] Controls on tellurium in base, precious, and telluride minerals in the panormos Bay Ag-Au-Te deposits, Tinos Island, Cyclades, Greece [texte imprimé] / Stylianos Tombros, Auteur ; Karen St. Seymour, Auteur ; Anthony E. Williams-Jones, Auteur . - 2011 . - pp. 1097-1111. Economic Geology Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Economic geology > Vol. 105 N° 6 (Septembre/Octobre 2010) . - pp. 1097-1111
Mots-clés : |
Tellurium Minerals Tinos Island Greece |
Index. décimale : |
553 Géologie économique. Minérographie. Minéraux. Formation et gisements de minerais |
Résumé : |
Tellurium-bearing base metal assemblages dominate the eight stages of mineralization in quartz ± calcite ± adularia ± illite epithermal Au-Ag-Te veins at Panormos Bay, Tinos Island, Cyclades. Tellurium-bearing sulfides and sulfosalts both preceded and followed the main, telluride-forming event (stage V). The complex stage V telluride assemblage was characterized by a sequence of early Ag-, middle Cu-, and late Au-bearing tellurides. There is textural evidence for epitaxial growth of the tellurides. Phase separation of carbon dioxide would have caused H2Te(g) to partition into a gaseous phase and resulted in pH neutralization. Due to rapid up-vapor transport, tellurium-bearing vapors probably supersaturated, condensed as droplets, and were resorbed into the ore-forming solution. These mechanisms enhanced local Te enrichment in the mineralizing liquid, above equilibrium, of ∑Te as H2Te(g) (i.e., log fH2Te(g) values of −0.5 to −1.5), and resulted in epitaxial growth of stage V tellurides. Epitaxy in the Panormos Bay case can be simulated by the Stranski-Krastanov crystal growth model. For supersaturation ratios with S values of 1 and 4, we predict an overall increase of the nucleation rate of tellurium and subsequent telluride precipitation.
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DEWEY : |
553 |
ISSN : |
0361-0128 |
En ligne : |
http://econgeol.geoscienceworld.org/content/105/6/1097.abstract |
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