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Wolframoixiolite in Lithium–Fluorine Granites of the Arga–Ynnakh–Khaya Pluton, Yakutia

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A complex of accessory W-bearing tantalo-niobates (columbite-(Fe), columbite-(Mn), tantalite-(Mn), microlite group minerals, and Ta-bearing rutile) involving “wolframoixiolite” has been found for the first time in Li–F granite and ongonite of the Arga–Ynnakh–Khaya Pluton in East Yakutia. The rocks that contain wolframoixiolite, as well as the composition and typical features of the mineral, are described: its high Fe concentration, the leading mineral-forming role of niobium, widely variable W and Ta contents, and paragenesis with W-bearing columbite-(Mn), Ta–Nb ferberite, lepidolite, and topaz. Wolframoixiolite from the Arga–Ynnakh–Khaya Pluton is formed by polymorphic transition of columbite-(Fe) at the late stage of Li–F granite crystallization. A review of accessory mineralization in rare-metal Li–F granites of Eurasia, taking the new finding into account, indicates that wolframoixiolite is a typical accessory phase in Li–F granites and may indicate rare-metal granite magmatism accompanied with tin–rare-metal mineralization.

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  1. The Kester Complex has been abolished from the Q-53 sheet of the State Geological Map 1000/3 and removed from the Verkhoyansk–Kolyma legend on the grounds that rare-metal granites are considered metasomatic (State …, 2016) This is contrary to the fundamentals of modern granite petrology (publications by L.V. Tauson, V.I. Kovalenko, M.I. Kuzmin, S.M. Beskin, and V.V. Yarmolyuk), the current Petrographic Codex (2009), and the data of geologists who studied the Arga–Ynnakh–Khaya pluton (Chaikovsky and Flerova (1971), Romanova (1976), Boyarshinova and Orlov (1984), Shur et al. (1988), and Trunilina (2019).

  2. The microlite group minerals were found for the first time in the district. Ta-bearing rutile was studied from albitite.

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Alekseev, V.I., Marin, Y.B. & Galankina, O.L. Wolframoixiolite in Lithium–Fluorine Granites of the Arga–Ynnakh–Khaya Pluton, Yakutia. Geol. Ore Deposits 62, 629–637 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701520070028

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