A review of mineral associations and paragenetic groups of secondary minerals of the Jachymov (Joachimsthal) ore district
A review of mineral associations and paragenetic groups of secondary minerals of the Jachymov (Joachimsthal) ore district
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Jachymov (Joachimsthal) 矿区次生矿物的矿物组合和共生群综述
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1997
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J. Hloušek
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P. Ondruš;F. Veselovský;J. Hloušek
Introduction b) eulytite bismutite kettnerite beyerite pucherite namibite In the course of work on the project supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic Study of secondary minerals in the Jachymov ore district [299] we have described and in many cases closer characterised 207 secondary mineral species and discovered 30 new natural phases. A complete sequence of these two paragenesis is rare. The first paragenesis can be considered in two parts, including the following groups of minerals: walpurgite metatorbernite limonite and bismite bismutite kettnerite eulytite bismutoferrite beyerite. The primary mineral in this case is native bismuth, occurring rarely as isolated grains to 3 mm, as remains of skeletal bismuth crystals in quartz of the Geister vein. The native bismuth was pseudomorphed by bismite, preisingerite, and bismutite in a microcrystalline mixture. These aggregates are dark grey in colour and have a greasy to adamantine lustre. Bismutite also occurs isolated in whitish earthy fill of vugs after crystals of native Bi or as a dusty coating. Other younger minerals of this paragenesis occur in vugs or along fractures of quartz veinlets. In view of this complexity, it proved necessary to characterise minerals not only on the basis of chemical compositions but also in the framework of paragenetic groups. Eight distinct paragenetic groups were defined and discussed in connection with conditions of formation of the secondary minerals. Mineralogical observations or reported descriptions of sampling sites surroundings provided information on mineral paragenesis. As this information was sometimes incomplete, it was not possible to characterise the paragenetic position of all minerals. The names of the individual paragenesis were chosen with the aim to obtain a designation for a particular paragenesis, which would be sufficiently distinct from other parageneses. Walpurgite occurs with metatorbernite. The scarce eulytite forms minute yellowish and translucent smooth and lustrous spheres, deposited on walls of the vugs. Earthy to powdery bismutoferrite of grey-yellow colour, and limonite are the youngest minerals of this paragenesis. In this study, paragenesis is understood as a common occurrence of minerals which formed at the same time, or in a sequence, during a single mineralization process. The term association is used to denote a common occurrence of minerals without genetic relations. Since all the minerals described formed during weathering processes, it is possible to understand the term association as indicating generally looser relations of jointly occurring minerals, in comparison to a paragenesis. Native bismuth served as the primary mineral also for a second paragenesis. Its remains up to 0.5 mm long are disseminated in massive eulytite, which was possibly in part also a primary mineral. This eulytite is dark grey, with a waxy lustre. It locally fills veinlets up to 2 cm wide and forms spherical aggregates up to 1 cm across, with a rough surface. A part of eulytite is altered to a massive grey-brown mixture of bismutite and kettnerite. These aggregates, as well as eulytite, are coated by a thin layer of yellow, powdery bismutite. Beyerite in tetragonal tablets of the order of 100 μm in size is deposited on, or intergrown with, bismutite. The paragenesis of secondary minerals of bismuth