FRACTIONAL STRUCTURE AND MINERALOGICAL FEATURES OF PSEPHYTIC DEPOSITS – POTENTIAL RESERVOIRS OF DIAMOND IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF THE UKRAINIAN SHIELD. Part 2. USIVSKA AREA

Authors

  • Ye. Slyvko
  • N. Razumeieva
  • O. Bura

Keywords:

diamond, paragenetic minerals-satellites, alkaline-ultrabasic rocks, terrigenous rocks, granulometric analysis, typomorphic features of minerals, Ovrutska elevation.

Abstract

Geologists of Zhytomyrska Geological Exploration Expedition have allocated the Usivska area (48 m2) in the headstream of the rivers Chervonka and Kovanka (the watershed part of the Ovrutska elevation). The area was designed to prospect the rocks of alkaline-ultrabasic composition. The reason for this are: (1) high contrast stray fluxes of pyrope (20–30 times greater than background); (2) a number of local low-magnetic anomalies of isometric and slightly elongated form; (3) presence of dykes of “post-Ovruch” age. Within the area, prospecting drilling was conducted and the series of prospecting holes was excavated with the sampling of lumps of rocks and large-volume samples. On the basis of comprehensive studies of rocks granulometric composition, their lithological peculiarities, composition of heavy fractions and typomorphic features of paragenetic diamond satellites it has been determined that in our case we are dealing with a material of non-diamond-bearing facies, which, in addition, has undergone a long transit route and repeated redeposition. Two different sizes mineral associations have been clearly identified for some lithological varieties of the rocks: coarse-grained staurolite–ilmenite–garnet and finer tourmaline–topaz–ilmenite–staurolite. Presented material indicates the arrival of individual clastogenic minerals from sources that had been located at different distances from the site of minerals burial. We did not find mineralogical signs of igneous sources of alkaline-ultrabasic composition, and rare grains of pyroxene, found in sedimentary deposits, are quite comparable to pyroxenes form the crystalline basement rocks.

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2024-01-22

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Slyvko, Y., Razumeieva, N., & Bura, O. (2024). FRACTIONAL STRUCTURE AND MINERALOGICAL FEATURES OF PSEPHYTIC DEPOSITS – POTENTIAL RESERVOIRS OF DIAMOND IN THE NORTH-WESTERN PART OF THE UKRAINIAN SHIELD. Part 2. USIVSKA AREA. Mineralogical Collection, 2(67), 38–47. Retrieved from https://journals.lnu.lviv.ua/index.php/mineralogy/article/view/269