PRZEJAWY MINERALIZACJI KRUSZCOWEJ W SKAŁACH NAWIERCONYCH OTWORAMI TROJANOWICE 2 I CIANOWICE 2

Abstract

THE ORE MINERALIZATION OCCURENCES IN THE ROCKS DRILLED BY THE TROJANOWICE 2 AND CIANOWICE 2 BOREHOLES

Abstract. Ore mineralization in Ediacaran rocks from the Cianowice 2 borehole is very poor, but despite that, the mineral association is quite variable and represented by framboidal pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite, galena-clausthalite, tennantite-tetrahedrite, covellite, chalcocite, wittichenite, marcasite, sphalerite, anglesite and two rare earth elements minerals (calcioancylite-(Ce), bastnäsite). The mineralisation is of low temperature and hydrothermal nature. Cambrian sediments in the Trojanowice 2 borehole contain only traces of mineralization. The poor assemblage of ore minerals is represented by pyrite (mainly framboids) and chalcopyrite. Most of this mineralization is probably epigenetic in origin. In the younger sediments drilled by both boreholes (Lower and Mid-Devonian, Lower and Mid-Jurassic) iron sulphides (pyrite and marcasite) predominate, and locally secondary goethite and limonite can be found. In all the clastic sediments titanium oxides and titanite are common. In the Trojanowice 2 borehole in the Upper Jurassic carbonates contain thin tectonic breccias with pyrite and marcasite in the cement as well as fine-grained pyrite impregnation in the hosting rocks.