Mineralogy and geochemistry of banded iron formation and iron ores from eastern India with implications on their genesis |
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| Authors: | Subrata Roy A S Venkatesh |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 6009, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The geological complexities of banded iron formation (BIF) and associated iron ores of Jilling-Langalata iron ore deposits,
Singhbhum-North Orissa Craton, belonging to Iron Ore Group (IOG) eastern India have been studied in detail along with the
geochemical evaluation of different iron ores. The geochemical and mineralogical characterization suggests that the massive,
hard laminated, soft laminated ore and blue dust had a genetic lineage from BIFs aided with certain input from hydrothermal
activity. The PAAS normalized REE pattern of Jilling BIF striking positive Eu anomaly, resembling those of modern hydrothermal
solutions from mid-oceanic ridge (MOR). Major part of the iron could have been added to the bottom sea water by hydrothermal
solutions derived from hydrothermally active anoxic marine environments. The ubiquitous presence of intercalated tuffaceous
shales indicates the volcanic signature in BIF.
Mineralogical studies reveal that magnetite was the principal iron oxide mineral, whose depositional history is preserved
in BHJ, where it remains in the form of martite and the platy hematite is mainly the product of martite. The different types
of iron ores are intricately related with the BHJ. Removal of silica from BIF and successive precipitation of iron by hydrothermal
fluids of possible meteoric origin resulted in the formation of martite-goethite ore. The hard laminated ore has been formed
in the second phase of supergene processes, where the deep burial upgrades the hydrous iron oxides to hematite. The massive
ore is syngenetic in origin with BHJ. Soft laminated ores and biscuity ores were formed where further precipitation of iron
was partial or absent. |
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