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Mineralogy and genetic considerations of the metamorphosed As-rich manganese ore mineralisation at the Diely occurrence near Poráč, Northern Gemeric Unit, Western Carpathians, Slovakia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 November 2024

Pavol Myšľan*
Affiliation:
Earth Science Institute v.v.i., Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, P.O. 106, 840 05, Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15, Bratislava, Slovakia
Martin Števko
Affiliation:
Earth Science Institute v.v.i., Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, P.O. 106, 840 05, Bratislava, Slovakia Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
Tomáš Mikuš
Affiliation:
Earth Science Institute v.v.i., Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ďumbierska 1, 974 11, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Luboš Vrtiška
Affiliation:
Department of Mineralogy and Petrology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, 193 00 Prague 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic
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Corresponding author: Pavol Myšľan; Email: pavol.myslan@savba.sk

Abstract

The Diely occurrence of metamorphosed As-rich manganese mineralisation is located in the Spišsko-gemerské rudohorie Mountains near the Poráč village and comprises Early Palaeozoic metamorphic rocks of the Gemeric Unit in the Western Carpathian region. Mineralisation is situated in the narrow tectonically delineated belt of Rakovec Group rocks consisting of mafic metavolcanic material generated during the back-arc submarine volcanic activity of the Early Ordovician–Silurian period. The Mn mineralisation is hosted in siliceous laminated lenses (metacherts) embedded in metabasalts and its tuffs. Manganese ore consists of quartz, braunite, rhodonite, nambulite, rhodochrosite, kutnohorite, OH-bearing garnets with dominant andradite composition, hematite, aegirine, aegirine–augite, ferri-ghoseite, ferri-winchite, baryte and pyrophanite. The mineralisation is cross-cut by a system of narrow younger veins composed dominantly of As-enriched minerals of the pyrosmalite group (schallerite, mcgillite and friedelite), tiragalloite, manganberzeliite, brandtite, sarkinite and svabite, associated with hematite, rhodochrosite, kutnohorite, baryte and quartz. Formation of manganese mineralisation at the Diely occurrence was caused by migration of seawater into the basaltic oceanic crust where increasing temperatures and acidity generated hydrothermal fluids enriched in manganese. The Mn-bearing hydrothermal fluids were enriched in Li, providing an additional substituent in the mineralisation. Following initial stages, the subsequent Variscan and Alpine tectonometamorphic events resulted in formation of three main mineralisation stages distinguishable by paragenetic relations and the mineral composition. Based on metamorphic association and amphibole geobarometric calculations, the peak metamorphic conditions reached was upper greenschist facies. The Diely occurrence near Poráč represents a unique metamorphosed manganese mineralisation with abundant arsenates and arsenosilicates previously unknown in the Western Carpathian region.

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