Fluid inclusion study of the Ballinglen W-Sn-sulphide mineralization, SE Ireland |
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| Authors: | C O'Reilly V Gallagher M Feely |
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| Institution: | (1) Dept. of Geology, University College, Galway, Ireland, IE;(2) Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, Haddington Road, Dublin 4, Ireland, IE |
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| Abstract: | Scheelite-mineralized microtonalite sheets occur on the SE margin of the end-Caledonian Leinster Granite in SE Ireland. Scheelite,
polymetallic sulphides and minor cassiterite occur in veins in the microtonalites, disseminated throughout the greisened microtonalite
sheets and in the adjacent wallrocks. Two major mineralized vein types occur in the microtonalite sheets: (1) Scheelite ± arsenopyrite ± pyrrhotite
occur in quartz-fluorite veins, generally without a muscovite selvage; (2) Sphalerite ± chalcopyrite ± pyrite ± galena ± cassiterite ± stannite
occur in quartz + fluorite veins with a coarse muscovite selvage and are often intergrown with the muscovite. Quartz-hosted
fluid inclusions were examined from representative samples of both vein types using petrographic, microthermometric and laser
Raman spectroscopic techniques. Three distinct types of fluid inclusions have been recognized. Primary, vapour rich Type 1
inclusions in quartz from the scheelite-mineralized veins are of H2O-CO2-CH4-N2 ± H2S ± NaCl composition and formed between 360–530 °C. Primary and secondary, liquid-rich Type 2 fluid inclusions in the base
metal sulphide-mineralized veins are of H2O-CH4-N2 ± H2S-NaCl composition and formed between 340–480 °C. They also occur as pseudosecondary and secondary inclusions in scheelite-mineralized
veins. Late dilute, low temperature H2O-NaCl + KCl fluid inclusions may be related to late-Caledonian convection of meteoric waters around the cooling Leinster
Granite batholith.
Received: 4 September 1996 / Accepted: 23 May 1997 |
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