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Minor elements in some rocks and minerals of the Rakha mines area, Singhbhum, India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

S. B. Bhattacherjee
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University College of Science, Calcutta—9
A. K. Ghosh
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University College of Science, Calcutta—9
L. Bhattacherjee
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University College of Science, Calcutta—9
Santi Bhattacherjee
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University College of Science, Calcutta—9

Summary

The minor elements present in some rocks and minerals of the Rakha mines area, Singhbhum district, Bihar, India, have been determined by X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy. Geological and geochemical studies in different parts of this shear zone already favour a hydrothermal origin. Some of the minor elements concentrated in the sulphide ores are found in lower concentration in the epidiorite and the chlorite-mica schist; these are, however, present in abundance in the soda-granites that are closely associated in space to the east and west of the Rakha mines area. A genetic link between sulphide ores and soda-granite may be predicted although the sulphides in the Rakha mines area are not directly associated with the soda-granite.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1968

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