The Sericite Deposits in Kimhae area are large(approximately 0.1 billion tons), but because of their low grade, part of deposits are excavated for loft priced ceramic uses.
The sangdong sericite deposits occurs in rhyolitic tuff of late Cretaceous ag...
The Sericite Deposits in Kimhae area are large(approximately 0.1 billion tons), but because of their low grade, part of deposits are excavated for loft priced ceramic uses.
The sangdong sericite deposits occurs in rhyolitic tuff of late Cretaceous age and considered to have been formed by the hydrothermal alteration.
The purpose of the research is, to stimulate the developement of the deposits as a substitute of tale, and to find the ore genesis by means of geochemical and mineralogical techniques.
Element mobility characteristics can be applied to find the genesis of ore body from hydrothermally altered host rocks by chemical analysis of rock and cre samples and by comparing the mobile and immobile elements of each samples(Mcpherson and other, 1989).
It has also been proved to be useful to study clay and rock forming minerals to find the clay mineral deposits genesis(Moon H.S and Other, 1989).
Therefore, current research attempted to use both methodological approach. The current reserch will accumulate the information of the sericite deposits both in geochemical and mineralogical characteristics and those information will also be applied to the exploration of mineral deposits that may be hosted in the volcanics of the Kyong Sang-basin.