This paper describes native gold in ore-bearing breccias with realgar-orpiment cement from the Vorontsovskoe deposit (Northern Urals, Russia). Particular attention is paid to morphological features of and its relation other minerals. The latter include both common (orpiment, barite, pyrite, prehnite, realgar) rare species (Tl Hg sulfosalts, such as boscardinite, dalnegroite, écrinsite, gillulyi...

Secondary minerals occur within the tholeiitic basalts of Salsette Island in greater Mumbai region, as well other localities Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP). However, secondary show remarkable differences with respect to their mineral speciation and precipitation sequence, which are both due unique geological environment. The region is built up by subgroup, represents youngest sequence DVP. It f...

Small-scale assimilation of limestone during the intrusion of an olivine basalt feeder dyke into an Eocene argillaceous, siliceous biomicrite in the Tokatoka area has resulted in the incorporation of large amounts of calcium into the parent magma. Initial effects of assimilation have caused partial resorption of the earlyformed igneous mineralogy and the precipitation of calcic, iron-rich clino...

Introduction: Hydrated minerals preserve a record of past aqueous conditions on Mars. Recently, phyllosilicates, hydrated sulphates, hydrated silica have been detected in surface rocks by near-infrared spectrometers on orbiting spacecraft [1-4]. At the kilometer-scale resolution of the OMEGA instrument, phyllosilicate exposures are widespread and number in the dozens [5,6], while early discover...

Five main apatite deposits from the Moroccan Central High-Atlas —including Anemzi, Tirrhist-Inouzane, Tassent, Ait-Daoud-Toumliline and Tasraft— have been investigated through integrated field, petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical studies. The ore occurs as veins, few mm to several cm thick, spatially associated with syenite-quartz monzonite (dominant) monzodiorite-gabbrodiorite bodies empl...