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An Overview of Geoenvironmental Implications of Mineral Deposits in Korea (한반도 광상 성인유형에 따른 환경 특성)

  • 최선규;박상준;이평구;김창성
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.37 no.1
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    • pp.1-19
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    • 2004

  • Metallic deposits in Korea have a variety of genetic types such as hydrothermal veins, skarns, hydrothermal replacement and alaskite deposits and so on. Geological, mineralogical and geochemical features including host rock, wall-rock alteration, ore and gangue mineralogy, mineral texture and secondary mineralogy related to weathering process control the environmental signatures of mining areas. The environmental signatures of metallic deposits closed from early 1970s to late 1990s in Korea show complicate geochemistry and mineralogy due to step weathering of primary and secondary minerals such as oxidation-precipitation-remobilization. The potentiality of low pH and high heavy metal Concentration s from acid mine drainage is great in base-metal deposits associated with polymetallic mineralization, breccia-pipe type and Cretaceous hydrothermal Au veins with the amount of pyrite whereas skam, hydrothermal replacement, hydrothermal Cu and Au-Ag vein deposits are in low contamination possibility. The geoenvironmental models reflecting the various geologic features closely relate to disuibution of sulfides and carbonates and their ratios and finally effect on characteristics of environmental signatures such as heavy metal species and their concentrations in acid mine drainage.

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Numerical Responses of Marine Small-loop EM Surveys (해양 소형 루프 전자탐사 적용을 위한 전자기 반응 계산)

  • Choi, Ji-Hyang;Song, Yoon-Ho;Lee, Tae-Jong;Lee, Seong-Kon
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.67-70
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    • 2009

  • 송수신기 일체형인 소형 루프 시스템을 해저 전자탐사 기술의 적용 가능을 확인하는 과정의 시작 단계로 자기 쌍극자 송신원을 이용한 층서구조에서의 전자가 반응을 계산 하였다. 전도성인 해양 환경에서 측정되는 신호의 크기가 작은 한계가 있지만 전자기장 반응 해석을 통행 지하 하부의 정보를 얻을 수 있었다. 기반암 위의 층이 바닷물보다 저항성인 해저 지각인 경우와 전도성인 열수광상인 경우에 따라 반응이 달라짐을 확인하였고, 그 층의 두께에 따라서 변화하는 전자기 반응을 계산하여 탐지 가능한 층의 두께를 예상할 수 있었다. 송수신기가 모두 바다 속에 위치하기 때문에 송수신기의 배치 방법과 송수신기가 해저면에서 떨어지게 될 때 신호의 반응 변화를 파악하였다. 해양 소형 루프 전자탐사의 실제 적용을 위해서 이상의 연구들이 기초가 될 것으로 기대된다.

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Contrasting Styles of Gold and Silver Mineralization in the Central and Southeastern Korea (한국 중부와 동남부지역 금·은광화작용의 성인적 특성)

  • Choi, Seon-Gyu;Choi, Sang-Hoon
    • Economic and Environmental Geology
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    • v.28 no.6
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    • pp.587-597
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    • 1995

  • Two distinct precious-metal mineralizations actively occur at central and southeastern Korea which display consistent relationships among geologic, geochemical and genetic environments. A large number of preciousmetal vein deposits in the central Korea occur in or near Mesozoic granite batholiths elongated in a NE-SW direction. Whereas, gold and/or silver deposits in the southeastern Korea occur within Cretaceous volcanic and sedimentary rocks. However, most of the precious-metal deposits in the southeastern Korea show characteristics of the silver-rich deposits than the gold-rich deposits in the central Korea. Two epochs of main igneous activities are recognized: a) Jurassic Daebo igneous activity between 121 and 183 Ma, and b) Cretaceous Bulgugsa igneous activity between 60 and 110 Ma. Precious-metal mineralization took place between 158 and 71 Ma, coinciding with portions of the two magmatic activities. Contrasts in the style of mineralization, together with radiometric age data and differences in geologic settings reflect the genetically variable natures of hydrothermal activities from middle Jurassic to late Cretaceous time. The compilation and re-evaluation of these data suggest that the genetic types of hydrothermal precious-metal vein deposits in the central and southeastern Korea varied with time. The Jurassic and early Cretaceous mineralizations are characterized by the Au-dominant type, but tend to change to the Au-Ag and/or Ag-dominant types at late Cretaceous. The Jurassic Au-dominant deposits commonly show several characteristics; prominent associations with pegmatites, simple massive vein morphologies, high fmeness values in ore-concentrating parts, and a distinctively simple ore mineralogy such as Fe-rich sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, Au-rich electrum, pyrrhotite and/or pyrite. The Cretaceous precious-metal deposits are generally characterized by some- features such as complex vein morphologies, low to medium fmeness values in the ore concentrates, and abundance of ore minerals including Ag sulfosalts, Ag sulfides, Ag tellurides and native silver. Mineralogical and fluid inclusion studies indicate that the Jurassic Au-dominant deposits in the central area were formed at the high temperature (about $300^{\circ}$ to $500^{\circ}C$) and pressure (about 4 to 5 kbars), whereas mineralizations of the Cretaceous Au-Ag and Ag-dominant deposits were occurred at the low temperature (about $200^{\circ}$ to $350^{\circ}C$) and pressure (<0.5 kbars) from the ore fluids containing more amounts of less-evolved meteoric waters.

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