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Castro, A., (2023). Textures and composition of hydrothermal tourmaline in the Chacaltaya-Kellhuani-Milluni district, La Paz, Bolivia [Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú]. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/25758
Castro, A., Textures and composition of hydrothermal tourmaline in the Chacaltaya-Kellhuani-Milluni district, La Paz, Bolivia []. PE: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12404/25758
@misc{renati/537063,
title = "Textures and composition of hydrothermal tourmaline in the Chacaltaya-Kellhuani-Milluni district, La Paz, Bolivia",
author = "Castro Morante, Angela Daniela",
publisher = "Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú",
year = "2023"
}
Minerals of the tourmaline supergroup are useful to decipher the physicochemical conditions of its crystallization and to trace geologic processes associated with the formation of ore deposits. This study presents new results on the petrography and geochemistry of tourmaline from the Triassic Chacaltaya-Kellhuani-Milluni district (western Bolivia), located in the northern segment of the Cordillera Real within the Central Andean tin belt. The study area lies around the Chacaltaya granitic stock about 5 km south of the Huayna-Potosí granite. Here, hydrothermal mineralization is associated with greisen, breccia, and veins. Three main petrographic types of hydrothermal tourmaline are distinguished: i) Tur-1, which is orange in color and occurs as scattered skeletal crystals or pseudomorphic replacement of primary Kfeldspar in the greisenized Chacaltaya granite, as disseminated euhedral to subhedral crystals mostly forming radial aggregates in greisen, and as crystal fragments in tourmaline-cemented breccias; ii) Tur-2, which appears as very fine acicular grains with a dark-green color composing the cement of breccias; and iii) Tur-3, which forms elongated green-brownish subhedral, oscillatory-zoned crystals within veins, and anhedral, very fine-grained crystals in the halos of veins. Both Tur-2 and Tur-3 show textural evidence of co-crystallization with cassiterite in both hydrothermal breccias and veins. The three petrographic types of tourmaline belong to the alkali group and are characterized by Fe-rich compositions, in majority close to the schorl endmember, and partly extending into the compositional fields of foitite and dravite. Overlapping tourmaline compositions suggest a progressive cooling of the ore-forming system from Tur-1 to Tur-3, eventually leading to cassiterite deposition during the crystallization of Tur-2 and Tur-3.
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