Iron-Mn-Al Deposits
1. Besi (Fe)
1)
Endapan magmatik
Endapan hidrotermal
Sedimentary-hosted deposit
Endapan rombakan pantai (coastal placer deposits).
Endapan besi magmatik, seperti di Upper Zone dari Busveld
Complex, Afrika Selatan, berasosiasi dengan endapan
kromium, titanium dan platinum dalam bentuk layer dari
magnetit (Fe3O4).
titanomagnetite
Spinel-oxide end-members: Hc
= Hercynite, Spl = spinel, Chr
= chromite, Usp = ulvospinel,
Mag = magnetite; XHc =
100*(1-XSpl-XChr-XUspXMag), XSpl = 100*Mg, XChr =
100*Cr/2, XUsp = 100*Ti,
XMag = 100*Fe+3/2.
2. Mangan (Mn)
andesitic-basaltic metavolcanics.
shales,
3. Aluminium
Endapan bauksit dapat berasal dari berbagai jenis batuan yang kaya
akan mineral pembawa aluminium (Al-bearing minerals):
syenit nefelin (Arkansas, USA)
batugamping (Jamaika),
batu lempung, serpih (Gove, Australia),
batupasir kaolinitik (Brazil, Weipa-Australia) dan
granit (Los Pijiguaos, Venezuela).
References:
Books
1. Ramdohr: Thr Ore minerals and their intergrowths
2. Picot & Johan: Atlas of ore minerals
3. Taylor: Ore textures
4. Evans: Ore geology and industrial minerals
5. Edwards & Atkinson: Ore deposit geology
6. Etc...
Journals on Economic Geology, Ore geochemistry, etc..