Deep and crustal factors of thorium-uranium mineralization of the Golovanevskaya zone of Ukrainian Shield
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https://doi.org/10.24028/gzh.v43i5.244053Keywords:
thorium, uranium, mineralization stages, sources of uranium and thoriumAbstract
The article discusses the features of the deep and crustal structure of the Golovanevskaya zone, the geochronological sequence of the main stages of its formation. The characteristic of thorium-uranium ore occurrences and deposits is given; and the main stages of their formation. The stages of successive concentrations of uranium and thorium in connection with the processes of sedimentation, volcanism, metamorphism, ultrametamorphism, and tectonic-magmatic activation are determined.
The concentration of uranium and thorium was multi-stage and increased with each subsequent geological process. The deep and crustal sources of uranium and thorium, their ratio in the pre-ore main ore-generating stages of deposit formation are considered. It is shown that the formation of deposits became possible in the Proterozoic when neutral and alkaline water-potassium fluids replaced the deep acidic Archean fluids, and the formation of thorium-uranium rock complexes became possible in the crust. The totality of the data obtained is the basis for classifying the thorium-uranium mineralization as the metamorphogenic type.
The presence in the Golovanevskaya zone of Lozovatsky, Yuzhny, Kalinovsky deposits, and numerous thorium-uranium ore occurrences determine this zone as promising for developing the thorium-uranium raw material base of the nuclear energy of Ukraine. Thorium-uranium mineralization is also genetically typical for the Kryvyi Rih-Inguletskaya, Orekhovo-Pavlograd interblock suture zones; detailed research is needed to determine their prospects.
The confinement of thorium-uranium mineralization specifically to interblock zones is due to a combination of the following main regional features: the presence of Neoarchean thorium-uranium-bearing rock complexes; their metamorphism under conditions of granulite facies; intense ultrametamorphism; development of deep fluid-conducting faults; deep level of the erosional section, in which the products of the rare-metal and pyrite stages of thorium-uranium mineralization were exposed.
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