In this presentation questions are raised about a melt-restite unmixing model proposed by Barton and Sidle (1994) for the myrmekite-bearing Waldoboro granite complex along the southeastern coast of Maine (USA). This complex consists mostly of granite/granodiorite gneiss and granite, but smaller masses of quartz diorite, aplite, pegmatite, leucogranite, tourmaline granite, and granite porphyry o...

The high mobility of boron during fluid-rock interaction makes it an effective tracer for the sources magmatic and metamorphic fluids, as recorded in minerals such tourmaline muscovite. Although advances have been made quantifying fractionation isotopes among different phases, isotope complex silicate melts remains poorly understood. Here, we propose appropriate models BO3 BO4 units covering a ...

The giant Gejiu Sn–Cu polymetallic ore deposit is one of the largest Sn producers in world, and related time space to highly evolved S type granitic intrusion. mineralization processes can be divided into four stages: (I) skarnization; (II) greisenization; (III) cassiterite–sulfid; (IV) cassiterite–tourmaline–quartz. Five types fluid inclusions were recognized using optical petrography, microth...

Cu- and Mn-bearing tourmalines from Brazil and Mozambique were characterised chemically (EMPA and LA-ICP-MS) and by X-ray single-crystal structure refinement. All these samples are rich in Al, Li and F (fluor-elbaite) and contain significant amounts of CuO (up to ~1.8 wt%) and MnO (up to ~3.5 wt%). Structurally investigated samples show a pronounced positive correlation between the distan...