Mineral chemistry and genetic implications of garnet from the São João del Rei Pegmatitic Province, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- 1 January 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by FapUNIFESP (SciELO) in Brazilian Journal of Geology
Abstract
The pegmatites of the Sao Joao del Rei Pegmatitic Province are related to the Siderian protoliths of the Cassiterita and Resende Costa orthogneisses and to the Ritapolis metagranitoid of Ryacian age. Chemical analysis of garnet from twelve pegmatites reveal two different types of grains, which were found in the same pegmatitic body in six of these samples. One garnet type has almandine-spessartine composition (Sps(11.7-58.8)Alm(36.8-86.5)Prp(0.1-4.1)Grs(0.0-1.4)Adro(0.0-2.6)), grains with orange and pink tones, and scarce mineral inclusions. These garnet grains may have been formed at the magmatic stage of pegmatite crystallization. The composition of these grains plot exclusively on the Alm-Sps axis at the Prp+Grs+Adr+Uvr x Alm x Sps diagram, as expected from garnet crystallized in pegmatites, and an expansion of the field associated to pegmatites is proposed. The second type has a distinct chemical composition (Sps(26.9-84.8)Alm(3.6-40.0)Prp(0.0-10.4)GrS(9.3-45.6)Adr(0.1-3.4)), displaying enrichment in Ca. This Ca-enriched garnet has irregular shaped colourless grains and abundant mineral inclusions. These grains may have been formed by Ca-metasomatism during the late-stage crystallization of the pegmatites.Keywords
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