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Contribution to the study of ore minerals in some igneous rocks from Assynt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

E. F. Stumpfl
E. F. Stumpfl*
Affiliation:
University College, London, W.C. L.
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Summary

The parageneses of opaque minerals in three Assynt rocks are described. A biotite-diorite dyke-rock of Lewisian age is characterized by a primary igneous assemblage of Fe-Ti oxides, pyrrhotine, and pentlandite. Effects of metamorphism are recognized, particularly in the oxidation of ilmenite in a Lewisian epidiorite dyke-rock. Cromaltite contains a primary assemblage of oxide minerals together with a later hydrothermal sulphide assemblage. Evidence from the opaque minerals cannot be reconciled with a theory of limestone assimilation. The correlation of the distribution of Co, Ni, and Cu in the rocks with the opaque minerals present is considered.

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Research Article
Information
Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 253 , June 1961 , pp. 767 - 777
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1961

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