• Geosciences Journal
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.881-889
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• 2018

The Geodo skarn deposit is located in the Taebaeksan Basin, central eastern Korean Peninsula. The geology of the deposit consists of Cambrian to Ordovician calcareous sedimentary rocks and the Cretaceous Eopyeong granitoids. The skarns at Geodo occur around the Eopyeong granitoids, which consist, from early to late, of magnetite-bearing equigranular quartz monzodiorite, granodiorite, and dykes. These dykes emanated randomly from equigranular granodiorite and some of dykes spatially accompany skarns. Skarn Fe mineralization, referred as Prospect I and II in this study, is newly discovered beyond previously known skarns adjacent to the quartz monzodiorite. These discoveries show a vertical and lateral variation of skarn facies, grading from massive reddish-brown garnet-quartz in a lower and proximal zone to banded in an upper and distal zone, reflecting changes in lithofacies of the host rocks. Skarn veins in distal locations are parallel to sedimentary laminae, suggesting that lithologic control is important although proximal skarn has totally obliterated primary structures, due to intense retrograde alteration. Skarns at Geodo are systematically zoned relative to the causative dykes. Skarn zonation comprises proximal garnet, distal pyroxene, and vesuvianite (only in Prospect I) at the contact between skarn and marble. Retrograde alteration is intensely developed adjacent to the contact with dykes and occurs as modification of the pre-existing assemblages and progressive destruction such as brecciation of the prograde assemblages. The retrograde alteration assemblages consist predominantly of epidote, K-feldspar, amphibole, chlorite, and calcite. Most of the magnetite (the main ore mineral), replaces calc-silicate minerals such as garnet in the lower proximal exoskarn, whereas it occurs massive in distal pyroxene and amphibole in the upper and distal exoskarn. The emanation of dykes from the equigranular granodiorite has provided channelways for ascent of skarn-forming fluids from a deep source, whereas the style and nature of skarns suggest that originally structurally-controlled skarn-forming fluids may migrate long distances laterally to produce skarn in calcareous sedimentary rocks.

• 한국광물학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.119-128
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• 1991

In the southern limb of the Hambaek geosyncline belt, large-scaled skarn deposits are developed in the Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Chosun Supergroup. They are the Sangdong tungsten deposit, Geodo iron-copper deposit, Yeonhwa I and II lead-zinc deposits, and Ulchin zinc-lead deposit, all of which are associated with various skarn minerals. Though different occurrences and paragenesis are found in different deposits, most skarn deposits always have skarns of garnet (andradite-grossular series) and clinopyroxene(heden-bergite-diopside series). Andradite and hedenbergite are Fe-dominant members, but show different oxidation states, that is, Fe3+ for andradite and Fe2+ for hedenbergite. According to iron chemistry and log([Fe/Al]gd/[Fe/Mg]cpx) derived from equilibrium reactions, the diopside-andradite and hedenbergite-grossular pairs suggest the oxidized state (dian type) and reduced state (hegro type), respectively. Among skarn deposits developed in the Hambaek geosynline, it can be classified that the Geodo and Yeonhwa I skarns are of dian type, while the Sangdong, Yeonhwa II, and Ulchin deposits are of hegro type. This classification is not applicable to all kinds of skarn deposits, but may be applicable to such deposits as are more controlled by oxygen fugacity than composition of skarn fluid.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.289-300
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• 2009

태백산 광화대 중부에 위치한 거도광산은 최근 수 십년간 휴광상태이지만, 1963년부터 철과 동을 개발하였던 지역이다. 거도광산 지역은 장산규암, 묘봉층, 풍촌층, 화절층, 동점층 및 두무골층과 후기에 이를 관입한 백악기 어평화강 암체로 구성되어 있다. 거도 스카른을 형성시킨 어평화강암체의 조성은 상대적으로 산화된($Fe_2O_3/FeO=0.3{\sim}1.1$) 자철석계열의 석영몬조섬록암과 화강섬록암으로, 이들의 관입은 묘봉층, 풍촌층 및 화절층 내에 스카른 광화작용을 발달시켰다. 근지 외성 스카른은 어평화강암체 인근의 철이 부화된 안드라다이트(andradite) 석류석($Ad_{44-95}Gr_{1-53}$)이 우세한 지역에서 점차 멀어지면서 철이 결핍된 투휘석($Hd_{10-100}Di_{0-89}$)이 우세한 지역의 순으로 대상분포를 보인다. 이러한 석류석과 휘석의 다른 분포 특성은 모암의 조성 및 물/암석비 등의 차이에 기인된 것으로, 전체 스카른 시스템의 산화정도를 평가하는 중요한 요소이다. 거도광산의 금은 주로 근지의 적갈색 내지 갈색의 석류석이 우세한 스카른에서 산출되며, 성인적으로 함 비스무스-텔루륨 광물들과 밀접한 공생관계를 가진다. 거도광산의 금광작용과 관련된 관입암의 화학조성, 스카른대의 분포와 금의 산출특성 등은 산화형 스카른 금광상의 환경을 지시하며, 높은 석류석/휘석비를 갖는 스카른대가 탐사대상이 된다. 그러나 연구지역의 수평적 대상분포 외에 수직적 대상분포 특성에 대한 정밀탐사가 요구된다. 이는 거도광산 스카른대의 3차원적 이해를 가능하게 하며, 보다 체계적 탐사 및 구체적 개발 방안을 제시하는 중요한 기반을 제공할 것이다.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.223-234
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• 1988

A large number of gold and/or silver-bearing quartz veins occur in or near Mesozoic granite batholith elongated in a NE-SW direction within the Chungcheong Province. Precambrian schists and gneisses, and Jurassic and Cretaceous granitic rocks serve as hosts for gold and/or silver deposits. On the basis of Ag/Au total production and ore grade ratio, 15 mines may be divided into three major groups: gold-dominant deposits, gold-silver deposits, and silver-dominant deposits. The chemical composition of electrum from skarn deposit (Geodo mine), alaskite-type deposit (Geumjeong mine) and 15 vein deposits was summarized. It was found that the Au content of electrum for vein deposits ranging from 5.2 to 86.5 is lower than that for skarn and alaskite deposits. Among 15 vein deposits, the composition of electrum associated with pyrrhotite is relatively high and has a narrow range of 40.8 to 86.5 atomic % Au, but the Au content of electrum with pyrite is in range of 5.2 to 82.8 atomic %, and is clearly lower than that with pyrrhotite. The grouping of ages for these mines indicates that gold and/or silver mineralizations occurred during two periods in the Mesozoic. Daebo igneous activities are restricted to gold mineralization in the range of 158 to 133 Ma, whereas Bulgugsa igneous activities are related to gold and/or silver mineralization ranging from 108 to 71 Ma. Generally speaking, Jurassic gold-dominant veins have many common characteristics; notably prominent association with pegmatites, simply massive vein morphology, high fineness in the ore concentrates, rarity of silver minerals, and a distinctively simple mineralogy, including sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and/or pyrite. Although individual deposits exhibit widely differing diversity, Cretaceous gold-silver and silver-dominant veins are characterized by features such as complex vein, low to medium fineness in the ore concentrates and abundance of silver minerals including Ag sulfosalts, Ag sulfides, Ag tellurides and native silver.