Revista Principia (Dec 2018)

Mapeamento Geológico do Pegmatito Alto do Urubu, município de Picuí (PB), Faixa Seridó, Província Pegmatítica da Borborema

  • Raissa Yohana Oliveira Santos,
  • Vinicius Anselmo Carvalho Lisboa,
  • José Ramilson Santos Oliveira,
  • Tiago Sales Costa Barros,
  • Thales José Cordeiro Santos,
  • Paulo Sales Costa Barros

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18265/1517-03062015v1n43p222-233
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 43
pp. 222 – 233

Abstract

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The Alto do Urubu Pegmatite is located in the municipality of Picuí, northern of Paraíba, in Borborema Pegmatitic Province (PPB), the area that has the greatest concentration of pegmatites in the Brazilian Northeast, corresponding to the eastern part of the Seridó Belt. PPB is known worldwide for the abundance of pegmatites, with some incidence of mineralized bodies. In the region we studied, 42 outcrops were described, in each of them the main textures and mineralogical aspects of rock were described. The geological mapping made it possible to observe the predominance of the rocks of the Seridó Formation. Schists and pegmatites intruded in the form of dikes and sills are very common in the place. The schists of the region present a dark, grayish coloration, fine to medium granulation, and are composed mainly of quartz, biotite, muscovite and granade porphiroblasts, in some cases, there are cordierite centimeter nodules. It is possible to observe in these rocks foliation Sn and Sn+1, as well as crenulations. The studied pegmatite has an elongated shape, it is about 106 meters long and 18 meters wide and N-S direction, in agreement with the foliation of the schist. It shows a well defined mineral zoning, namely: i) border zone (zone I); ii) zone III and iii) quartz core. Zone I corresponds to the outermost part of the body, measuring about 30 cm in width and consisting essentially of muscovite. Zone III is composed of quartz, feldspar and mica and it is where the majority of the minerals of economic interest (especially tantalite and beryl) are concentrated, in a smaller quantity there is the occurrence of arrojadita and espersatita. In the innermost part of the pegmatite, there is the quartz nucleus, composed of milky and rosacea quartz. The observed mineral zoning enables us to classify it as a heterogeneous pegmatite type.

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