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Application of a Selective Phase Extraction Procedure to Samples from the Adamello Contact Aureole (Italy)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

T. E. Payne ,
G. R. Lumpkin ,
P. J. McGlinn  and
K. P. Hart
T. E. Payne
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, PMB1, Menai, 2234, Australia
G. R. Lumpkin
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, PMB1, Menai, 2234, Australia
P. J. McGlinn
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, PMB1, Menai, 2234, Australia
K. P. Hart
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, PMB1, Menai, 2234, Australia
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Abstract

Hydrothermal veins, rich in Ti, Zr, rare earth elements (REE’s), and actinides, occur in the pure dolomitic marbles of the Adamello contact metamorphic aureole. A selective phase extraction using 9M HC1 was applied to samples from within and near these veins to chemically separate acid-soluble phases from residual phases, and to study the associations of U, Th, and REE’s with these phases. The samples were from the phlogopite, titanian clinohumite, and forsterite vein zones, and from the country rock. The effects of the extraction were studied by SEM/EDS and by chemical analysis. Isotopes of U and Th were analysed by alpha-spectrometry.

The chemical data and SEM/EDS results indicated that dolomite, calcite, apatite, and much of the pyrrhotite were dissolved by the 9M HC1, whereas spinel, phlogopite, titanite, chal copy rite, and zirconolite were among the acid-resistant phases. In all vein samples, the REE-patterns of acid-soluble phases were consistent with the dissolution of REE-rich apatite. In samples from the phlogopite zone, the majority of U, Th, and REE’s were in residual phases, and the REE pattern of the residue was similar to that of REE-rich titanite. In the titanian clinohumite zone, a substantial proportion of these elements were in acid-soluble phases, and the REE pattern of the residual phases resembled that of zirconolite. Clinohumite was partially dissolved by the HC1 treatment. The sample from the forsterite zone contained substantial amounts of REE's in acid-soluble phases, whereas Th and U were mostly in residual phases. The dolomite (country rock) samples contained small amounts of an acid-resistant, uranium-rich phase which, while only comprising about 0.2% of the mass, accounted for 40–60% of the uranium present.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 353: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XVIII , 1994 , 1259
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1995

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