O deposito de oxido de ferro-cobre-ouro bacaba, provincia mineral de Carajas, PA : geocronologia U-Pb das rochas hospedeiras / Iron oxide-Cu-Au bacaba deposit, Carajas mineral province (PA), Brazil : U-Pb geocronology of the host rocks

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2010

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The Bacaba iron oxide–copper–gold deposit, situated in the Itacaiúnas Shear Belt, Carajás Mineral Province (Brazil), represents a satellite prospect of the world-class Sossego deposit, and might also represent a distal and deeper portion of the same or related hydrothermal system. The Bacaba deposit is located along a WNW–ESE-striking shear zone that defines the contact of the basement represented by the Xingu Complex (ca. 3.0 Ga) and the metavolcanosedimentary Itacaiúnas Supergroup (ca. 2.76 Ga). The main host rocks at Bacaba deposit comprise the Serra Dourada Granite, the Bacaba Tonalite and croscutting gabbro, which were intensely affected by sodic (albite-scapolite), potassic, chloritic and hydrolytic hydrothermal alterations. The U–Pb LA–ICP–MS data for zircon from sodic altered sample of the Serra Dourada Granite yielded an 2858 ± 30 Ma (MSWD = 9.7) age. Three samples from the Bacaba Tonalite, including one with potassic alteration and two with potassic alteration and Cu–Au mineralization rendered the 2997.2 ± 4.7 Ma (MSWD = 1.15), 2993.1 ± 7.1 Ma (MSWD = 1.1) and 3004.7 ± 7.8 Ma (MSWD = 2.1) ages, respectively. The 2.86 and ca. 3.0 Ga ages are interpreted as the igneous crystallization of the Serra Dourada Granite and the Bacaba Tonalite, respectively. The internal structures and external morphologies of zircon crystal from both rocks, observed in cathodoluminescence and backscattered electron images, attested the occurrence of zircon recrystallization, which could be related to hydrothermalism and/or deformation/metamorphism episodes that took place in the Carajás Mineral Province. However, the disturbing event (s) could not be dated due to the absence of the total resetting of the U–Pb system and hydrothermal crystallization of zircon. The 2.86 Ga Serra Dourada Granite and the ca. 3.0 Ga Bacaba Tonalite are the oldest granitic rocks so far recognized in the Itacaiúnas Shear Belt. The presence of such old rocks implies in the existence of an important magmatism before the Carajás Basin (Itacaiúnas Supergroup) deposition, and in a more complex evolutionary history for the Itacaiúnas Shear Belt. The petrographical and geochronological similarities of these felsic intrusions with granitic and tonalitic rock suites recognized in the Rio Maria granite-greenstone terrane, southern part of the Carajás Mineral Province, implies in a more widespread ca. 3.0 and 2.86 Ga magmatism in the province. The Serra Dourada Granite and the Bacaba Tonalite are interpreted not to be responsible for the genesis of the Bacaba deposit. This is likely because the Sossego and other deposits interpreted as part of the same hydrothermal system are hosted by younger ca. 2.76 Ga metavolcano-sedimentary units. On this context, the iron oxide-copper-gold deposit in the southern sector of the Itacaiúnas Shear Belt could be mainly controlled by important crustal discontinuities, such as the WNW–ESEstriking regional shear zone, rather than be associated with a particular rock type. These results expand the potentiality of occurrence of iron oxide–copper–gold deposits for the Mesoarchean basement rocks underlying the Carajás Basin, particularly those crosscut by Neoarchean shear zones.

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minas e recursos minerais - carajas serra dos (pa) serra dos (pa) depositos de oxido de fe-cu-au - carajas cratons iron oxide-cu-au deposits mines and mineral resources geocronologia geocronology

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