Vein Mineralogy and Hydrothermal Gold Mineralization at the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect in the Wabo Deposit, Mandalay Region, Central Myanmar — Oak Academic Publishing
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Vein Mineralogy and Hydrothermal Gold Mineralization at the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect in the Wabo Deposit, Mandalay Region, Central Myanmar
Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Department of Geology, University of Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar
1 Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
2 Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
3 Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
4 Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
5 Department of Geology, University of Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar
The Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect is a part of the Wabo deposit which is situated along Mogok Metamorphic Belt (MMB) in Central Myanmar. Gold bearing veins are hosted in the banded garnet-biotite gneiss, calc-silicate, marble and granitoid of the Wabo area. The granitic rocks intruded into banded garnet-biotite gneiss. The MMB was intensely deformed and it is a highly fractured metamorphic terrain in which metamorphic facies ranges from amphibolite to granulite facies. Gold mineralization at the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect in the Wabo deposit occurred in the forms of gold-quartz veins. The quartz veins are a few centimeters in width. The color of the quartz vein at the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect is commonly smoky and milky. The quartz vein exhibits chalcedonic, saccharoidal and granular textures. Three mineralizations were indicated. Stage I is the thin layered crustiform chalcedonic quartz. Stage II is chalcedonic quartz vein and stage III is Ankerite-quartz-sericite vein. Stage II and stage III are gold rich hydrothermal stages, and Ankerite-quartz-sericite veins were formed with a small amount of sericites in the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect. The Ankerite-quartz-sericite veinlets range from a centimeter up to three centimeter in width within the stage II chalcedonic quartz vein. Textures of mineralized quartz vein samples were petrographically examined. The textures include a feathery texture that is most closely associated with electrum in both stage II chalcedonic quartz veins and stage III Ankerite-quartz-sericite veins. Ankerite varies in color from pink, white to buff. Among them, pink color is more common in the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect. Ankerite in the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect exhibits rhombohedral idiomorphic, which exhibits growth patterns. Ore minerals of the veins are electrum, pyrite, galena, and trace amount of very fine-grained chalcopyrite. On the basis of textures of the chalcedonic quartz veins, the Kyaw Soe Thu Prospect is ascribed to be a low-sulfidation epithermal deposit.
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