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Multi-Stage Evolution of Gold-Bearing Hydrothermal Quartz Veins at the Mokrsko Gold Deposit (Czech Republic) Based on Cathodoluminescence, Spectroscopic, and Trace Elements Analyses

WERTICH, Vojtěch, Jaromír LEICHMANN, Dosbaba MAREK and Götze JENS

Basic information

Original name

Multi-Stage Evolution of Gold-Bearing Hydrothermal Quartz Veins at the Mokrsko Gold Deposit (Czech Republic) Based on Cathodoluminescence, Spectroscopic, and Trace Elements Analyses

Authors

WERTICH, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jaromír LEICHMANN (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dosbaba MAREK (203 Czech Republic) and Götze JENS (276 Germany)

Edition

Minerals, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2018, 2075-163X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10505 Geology

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 2.250

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00103388

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000443257900025

Keywords in English

hydrothermal quartz; gold deposit; cathodoluminescence (CL); trace elements; titanium; germanium; intrusion-related

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 2/5/2019 14:51, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová

Abstract

V originále

We performed a detailed analysis of hydrothermal quartz at the Mokrsko gold deposit (Cˇ elina, Mokrsko-East, and Mokrsko-West deposits). Twenty-one samples were studied by scanning electron microscopy cathodoluminescence (CL) imagining, CL emission spectra and trace elements were measured on six selected samples. Four quartz growth generations Q1 to Q4 were described. Homogeneous early blue CL Q1 with initial emission spectra at 380 and 500 nm was observed at the Cˇ elina deposit with typical titanium concentrations in the range of 20–50 ppm. Hydrothermal quartz at Mokrsko-West, which also includes early Q1, late subhedral faces of yellow CL Q2, and microfissures of greenish CL Q3 (both 570 nm), is characterized by titanium depletion. The titanium concentration is comparable to previous studies of crystallization temperatures proving titanium concentration in quartz as a good geothermal indicator. Q4, developed in microfissures only at Cˇ elina, has no visual CL effect. Mokrsko-West is specific in comparison to Mokrsko-East and Cˇ elina by germanium enrichments in hydrothermal quartz (up to 17 ppm) and the presence of fluorite. Tectonic (sheeted veinlets system, regional tectonic setting) and geochemical (germanium in quartz, the presence of fluorite) characteristics of the quartz veins link the late mineralization stages at the Mokrsko-West deposit to the temporally related Blatná intrusive suite.

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