The garnet placer deposit from SE Spain: Industrial recovery and geochemical features

The only economic deposit of garnets in Spain is located in the Almería province (SE Spain), forming part of the Neogene Volcanic Complex of El Hoyazo. Due to the high quantity and diversity of the almandine garnets, this area is unique. Garnet occurs as isolated euhedral crystals in the volcanic ro...

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Autores: Muñoz-Espadas, M. J., Lunar Hernández, María Del Rosario, Martínez-Frías, J.
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2000
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/107341
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107341
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:553.85(460.358)
Garnets
Textures
Spain
Garnet placer
Geoquímica
Mineralogía (Geología)
2506.11 Mineralogía
2503 Geoquímica
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Resumo:The only economic deposit of garnets in Spain is located in the Almería province (SE Spain), forming part of the Neogene Volcanic Complex of El Hoyazo. Due to the high quantity and diversity of the almandine garnets, this area is unique. Garnet occurs as isolated euhedral crystals in the volcanic rock, as the principal component of metapelitic xenoliths in dacite, and as a terrigenous deposit formed by the erosion of the volcanic dome. In this work, we provide new mineralogical and geochemical data, which should be taken into account during the processing and recovery of the garnet placer.