Gem-quality transparent diaspore (zultanite) in bauxite deposits of the İlbir Mountains, Menderes Massif, SW Turkey

Several m-thick, karst-unconformity-type metabauxite horizons in the İlbir Mountains of SW Turkey host open-space mineralization of gem-quality diaspore (trademarked as zultanite), associated with muscovite, hematite, ilmenite, chloritoid, and younger calcite. The hydrothermal-metamorphogenic minera...

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Published in:Mineralium deposita 2010-02, Vol.45 (2), p.201-205
Main Authors: Hatipoğlu, Murat, Türk, Necdet, Chamberlain, Steven C., Akgün, A. Murat
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calcite
Cretaceous
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Geology
Geophysics
Karst
Metamorphic rocks
Mineral Resources
Mineralization
Mineralogy
Mountains
Paleogene
Plate tectonics
Sedimentation & deposition
Unconformity
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Summary:Several m-thick, karst-unconformity-type metabauxite horizons in the İlbir Mountains of SW Turkey host open-space mineralization of gem-quality diaspore (trademarked as zultanite), associated with muscovite, hematite, ilmenite, chloritoid, and younger calcite. The hydrothermal-metamorphogenic mineralization occurs in fracture zones (veins and open structures) that crosscut the metabauxite horizons, but does not extend into the marble host rocks. The white to dark gray marble sequence (over 2,000 m in thickness) is of Cretaceous depositional age and was affected by Alpine (Paleogene) tectonometamorphism which caused the hydrothermal remobilization of primary bauxite components into crosscutting structures.
ISSN:0026-4598
1432-1866
DOI:10.1007/s00126-009-0262-2