%0 Journal Article
%T Geochemistry and electron spin resonance of hydrothermal dickite (Nowa Ruda, Lower Silesia, Poland): vanadium and chromium
%A Pavle I. Premovi
%A Justyna Ciesielczuk
%A Gra yna Bzowska
%A Milo  G.  or evi
%J Geologica Carpathica
%@ 1336-8052
%D 2012
%I 
%R 10.2478/v10096-012-0020-8
%X Geochemical analyses for trace V and Cr have been done on a representative sample of a typical hydrothermal dickite/kaolinite filling vein at Nowa Ruda. The mineralogy of the sample is comparatively simple, dickite being the principal component (ca. 91 % of the total sample). Geochemical fractionation and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) indicate that most (> 90 % of total metal) of the V and Cr reside in the dickite. Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) shows that most (> 70 %) of the V in the dickite structure is in the form of vanadyl (VO2+) ions. A high concentration of Cr3+ is also detected in this structure by ESR. The combination of geochemical and spectroscopic tools applied to VO2+ and Cr3+ allow one to specify the Eh (> 0.4 V, highly oxidizing) and pH (¡Ü4.0, highly acidic) of the solution during the formation of dickite from the Nowa Ruda Basin. Substantial proportions of the V and Cr (as well as VO2+ and Cr3+) in the dickite structure were probably contained in an original hydrothermal acid water. We suggest that hot hydrothermal waters leached the surrounding varieties of gabbroids enriched in V and Cr for the dickite-forming solution. The results of this work have shown V and Cr are potentially reliable indicators for geochemical characterization of the physicochemical conditions of their formation. The bulk-rock V/Cr ratio in hydrothermal dickites and kaolinites from Nowa Ruda, Sonoma (California, USA), Cigar Lake (Saskatchewan, Canada) and Tesli  (Bosnia and Hercegovina) is also briefly explored here as a potential tracer of redox state during their formation.
%K electron spin resonance
%K kaolinite
%K dickite
%K chromium
%K vanadium
%U http://versita.metapress.com/content/a32472072736wn5m/?p=5664d4fc2f5d40658fc2f22ae0df147f&pi=5