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A suite of samples was collected from 3 pegmatite localities in
the Grenville province.
Details of the sample locations are in:
U-, Mo-, and REE-bearing pegmatites and skarns and veins in
the central metasedimentary belt, Grenville province, Ontario.
BY: David R. Lentz, Field trip
A9 guidebook, May 1991. (Geological Assoc. Canada)
At 2 of the 3 locations sampled in this region, CO2
rich fluid inclusions are common in the pegmatite. There are also
significant variations in the decrepitation patters indicating
formation from a range of different fluids across the region and
also within individual mines.
Feldspar samples show much less or even no decrepitation and do
not correlate with nearby quartz samples.
Samples from the Goshen U area showed normal decrepitation for
quartz with no low temperature decrepitation and hence no CO2
rich fluids present.
At the Spain mine the intense low temperature decrepitation
indicates the presence of CO2 rich fluids in the
quartz.
But feldspar lacked any decrepitation and it is not clear why the
2 co-existing minerals contain such different fluid inclusion
populations.