Beta
152993

HYDROTHERMAL ZIRCON, NB-TA AND REE MINERALIZATION IN RADIOACTIVE PEGMATITE-APLITE DYKES, NORTH RAS MOHMMED AREA, SOUTH SINAI, EGYPT

Article

Last updated: 23 Jan 2023

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

The alkaline pegmatite-aplit dyke system hosted in alkaline granite was identified in the north Ras Mohmmed area, south Sinai, Egypt. It consists of brown-red dykes up to several kilometers long and one meter wide. The system is generally trending NE-SW, E-W, N-S AND NW-SE directions. The dykes are fine to medium-grained rocks with granular texture and are mainly composed of k-feldspar as microperthite, quartz, riebeckite and plagioclase. The dykes have anomalous radioactivity up to 305 ppm U. They are characterized by the presence of hydrothermal zircon (enriched with U, Th and trace elements) which recorded for the first time in Sinai as far as the author is aware, in addition to Th (53 to 735.6 ppm), Nb (91.7 to 5121.9 ppm), Ta (8.5 to 693.5 ppm), Y (81.9 to 1915.8 PPM), Zr (623 to 16950.4 ppm). La (9.8 to 275.6 ppm), Ce (39.3 to 923.7ppm) and ƩREE (143.36 to 2271.49 ppm). Based on scanning electron microscope (SEM) technique studies, some of the previously mentioned elements from its own minerals, such as hydrothermal zircon, columbite mineral group and Tornebohmite-(Ce) minerals.

DOI

10.21608/djs.2007.152993

Authors

First Name

Mahmoud M. A.

Last Name

Gabr

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Nuclear Materials Authority, Egypt P.O. Box. 530

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

31

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

22530

Issue Date

2007-06-01

Receive Date

2021-03-01

Publish Date

2007-06-01

Page Start

84

Page End

99

Print ISSN

1012-5965

Online ISSN

2735-5306

Link

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/article_152993.html

Detail API

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=152993

Order

9

Type

Research and Reference

Type Code

1,686

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Delta Journal of Science

Publication Link

https://djs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

-

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023