• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The Niederschlag fluorite-(barite) deposit, Erzgebirge/Germany—a fluid inclusion and trace element study
  • Contributor: Haschke, Sebastian [Author]; Gutzmer, Jens [Author]; Wohlgemuth-Ueberwasser, Cora C. [Author]; Kraemer, Dennis [Author]; Burisch, Mathias [Author]; Institut für Mineralogie, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany [Author]; Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Helmholtz Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie, Freiberg, Germany [Author]; German Research Centre for Geosciences, GFZ, Potsdam, Germany [Author]; Department of Physics and Earth Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany [Author]
  • imprint: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021-01-05
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-020-01035-y
  • Keywords: Fluorite ; Rare earth elements ; Microthermometry ; Industrial minerals ; Geochemistry ; Fluid inclusions ; Metallogenesis
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  • Description: The Niederschlag fluorite-barite vein deposit in the Western Erzgebirge, Germany, has been actively mined since 2013. We present the results of a first comprehensive study of the mineralogy, petrography, fluid inclusions, and trace element geochemistry of fluorite related to the Niederschlag deposit. Two different stages of fluorite mineralization are recognized. Stage I fluorite is older, fine-grained, associated with quartz, and forms complex breccia and replacement textures. Conversely, the younger Stage II fluorite is accompanied by barite and often occurs as banded and coarse crystalline open-space infill. Fluid inclusion and REY systematics are distinctly different for these two fluorite stages. Fluid inclusions in fluorite I reveal the presence of a low to medium saline (7–20% eq. w (NaCl+CaCl2)) fluid with homogenization temperatures of 140–180 °C, whereas fluorite II inclusions yield distinctly lower (80–120 °C) homogenization temperatures with at least two high salinity fluids involved (18–27% eq. w (NaCl+CaCl2)). In the absence of geochronological data, the genesis of the earlier generation of fluorite-quartz mineralization remains enigmatic but is tentatively related to Permian magmatism in the Erzgebirge. The younger fluorite-barite mineralization, on the other hand, has similarities to many fluorite-barite-Pb-Zn-Cu vein deposits in Europe that are widely accepted to be related to the Mesozoic opening of the northern Atlantic Ocean. ; European Social Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100004895
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)