Potassic alteration in French hydrothermal uranium deposits |
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| Authors: | M Cathelineau |
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| Institution: | 1. Centre de Recherches sur la Géologie de l'Uranium, Vandoeuvre, France
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| Abstract: | A comprehensive study of alteration minerals, especially clays, developed around or within French hydrothermal uranium ore bodies (Vendée and Margeride), generally associated with leucogranitic rocks, using optical examinations, classical methods of clay mineralogy and electron microprobe determinations, demonstrates the general feature of potassic minerals as products of reaction between ore forming fluids and host rocks. Six stages of alteration follow the typical metallogenic sequence established for numerous deposits: early stages and uranium stages 1) 2) 3) with phengites, illite, mixed layered illite and K-montmorillonites; 4), early reworking of pitchblende 1 to pitchblende 2 with complex zoning around ores: illite, illite-K-montmorillonites; 5) then to coffinite-smectites; 6) sooty pitchblende, during supergene weathering, with smectites and kaolinite. Potassic metasomatism by fluids in desequillibrium with the minerals of the granitic host rocks, essentially albite, explains the complex alterations in K-smectites, mixed layered minerals and adularia. Variety of alteration products in each alteration zone indicate incomplete reactions of the solids and chemical potential gradients on a small scale. |
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