Wolframoixiolite in lithium-fluoric granites of the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif, Yakutia

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For the first time, lithium-fluoric granites and ongonites of the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif (East Yakutia) have been revealed to contain an accessory complex of tungsten-bearing tantalum-niobates (columbite-(Fe), columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), minerals of microlite group, tantalic rutile) including «wolframoixiolite». These rocks containing wolframoixiolite, their composition and typomorphic features are described: they are highly ferriferous, with major geochemical role of niobium and wide variations of tungsten and tantalum concentrations. Wolframoixiolite occurs there in paragenesis with tungsten-bearing columbite-(Mn), tantalum-niobium ferberite, lepidolite and topaz. Wolframoixiolite of the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif was formed on a late-magmatic stage of lithium-fluoric granites crystallization by polymorphic transformation of columbite-(Fe). The study of accessory mineralization in rare-metal granites of Eurasia allows, taking into account a new find, to draw a conclusion, that wolframoixiolite is typomorphic accessory mineral in lithium-fluoric granites and may be looked as the indicator of rare-metal-granite magmatism with accompanying tin-rare-metal ore mineralization.

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Viktor Ivanovich Alekseev

Saint Petersburg Mining University

Author for correspondence.
Email: wia59@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1512-9347
SPIN-code: 6504-8051
Scopus Author ID: 36760553400
ResearcherId: S-6822-2017

doctor of geol.-mineral. sciences, professor of chair of mineralogy, crystallography and petrography

Russian Federation, 21st Line 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199106

Yury Borisovich Marin

Saint Petersburg Mining University

Email: marin@minsoc.ru

corresponding member of RAS, doctor of geol.-mineral. sciences, professor of chair of mineralogy, crystallography and petrography

Russian Federation, 21st Line 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199106

Olga Leonidovna Galankina

Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: galankinaol@mail.ru

candidate of geol.-mineral. sciences, senior research assistant of laboratory petro- and ore-genezis

Russian Federation, Makarova emb., 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034

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2. Fig. 1. Wolframoixiolite and tungsten columbite in Li-F granites from the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif (transmitted light, without analyzer).

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3. Fig. 2. Wolframoixiolite and tantalum-niobic wolframite in Li-F granites and ongonites from the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif (BSE images).

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4. Fig. 3. Parity of the main cations of accessory wolframoixiolite and wolframite in Li-F granites and ongonites from the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif and from other massifs of the world.

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5. Fig. 4. Parity of cations Nb, W, Ta of accessory wolframoixiolite and wolframite in Li-F granites and ongonites from the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif and from other massifs of the world.

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6. Fig. 5. Composition of accessory wolframoixiolite and wolframite in Li-F granites and ongonites from the Arga-Ynnakh-Khaysky massif and from other massifs of the world.

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