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Segovia, M., (2024). Mineralogy of the lithium-rich tuff in The Macusani Volcanic Field, cordillera oriental, southern Peru [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27086
Segovia, M., Mineralogy of the lithium-rich tuff in The Macusani Volcanic Field, cordillera oriental, southern Peru []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/27086
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title = "Mineralogy of the lithium-rich tuff in The Macusani Volcanic Field, cordillera oriental, southern Peru",
author = "Segovia More, Mariana Kelly",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2024"
}
Lithium is a metal with high economic importance and a key raw material to the energetic transition from carbon fuels to renewable energy sources. In this sense, exploring and discovering new lithium deposits is essential to supply the growing demand for this element. A major lithium resource amounting to 0.9 Mt was announced by Macusani Yellowcake – American Lithium in the Falchani Lithium Project, Macusani Volcanic Field, Puno, SE Peru. The resource is hosted by Neogene volcanic tuff and breccia of the Macusani Formation. With Li contents ranging between ~2,000 to 4,000 ppm, the so-called Lithium-rich Tuff hosts the main resource. In this thesis, a general and high-resolution mineralogical characterization of samples from the Lithium-rich Tuff has been performed using X-Ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive Xray spectroscopy (SEM–EDS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The studied samples comprise quartz, plagioclase, K-feldspar, trioctahedral micas (zinnwaldite and lepidolite), kaolinite-subgroup minerals, and smectites (montmorillonite – beidellite), in addition to zeolites (mordenite, and mutinaite) and cristobalite in a few samples. The highest Li contents (3,000-4,200 ppm Li) are found in the central portion of the Lithium-rich Tuff sequence, which is characterized by micas + kaolinite subgroup minerals ± mordenite. In the upper and lower domains of the tuff sequence, Li contents reach values of 2,000 ppm, and the mineralogy is dominated by mica + dioctahedral smectite ± kaolinite ± halloysite. The integration of these data with metallurgical assay results reported by Macusani Yellowcake supports that, in addition to magmatic trioctahedral micas, Li in the Falchani Lithium Project may be in part adsorbed onto and/or occupy interlaminar positions in secondary clay minerals. The occurrence of clays with Li such as hectorite is discarded. These data allow a tentative classification of the Falchani Lithium Project as a ‘mixed’ primary mica– secondary clay volcanogenic deposit.
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