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Age of granitic activity associated with copper–molybdenum mineralization at Malanjkhand, Central India

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The Malanjkhand copper–molybdenum deposit in the Bhandara Craton, Central India, is hosted by a granite complex which consists of regionally dominant “grey granitoid” and “pink granitoid” confined to the mineralized zone. New SHRIMP RG data on zircons from both granite types are inferred to have crystallized during the same magmatic pulse at ca 2.48 Ga. The discrepancy between zircon age and earlier obtained Rb–Sr whole-rock age is attributed to modification of the Rb–Sr system by hydrothermal overprint. Similarity in petrographic features and chemical affinity in combination with identical age strongly indicate that the pink granite is the hydrothermally altered variety (microclinization and silicification) of the grey granite. The spatially associated, main Cu–Mo mineralization event at Malankhand appears to be broadly contemporaneous with and genetically related to the emplacement of the host granitoids at about 2.48 Ga.

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Acknowledgments

The authors acknowledge the cooperation and encouragement received from the personnel of Malanjkhand Copper Project, at Malanjkhand. MKP and KCM acknowledge support from the Department of Geology and Geophysics, IIT, Kharagpur and the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, respectively, for fieldwork. BRB gratefully acknowledges Joe Wooden and Anders Meibom for assistance with the SHRIMP RG, Allan Patchen for assistance with the UTK electron microprobe, the University of Tennessee Science Alliance Center of Excellence for funding, and Profs. Robert Hatcher Jr and Calvin Miller for their encouragement with regard to the time commitment for this project. RKN acknowledges financial support from the Institute in the form of a Research Fellowship. We are thankful to Prof. Bernd Lehmann for his comments and suggestions for improvement of the quality of the manuscript.

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  1. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 721302, India

    Mruganka K. Panigrahi & Rajesh K. Naik

  2. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996-1410, USA

    Brendan R. Bream & Kula C. Misra

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Panigrahi, M.K., Bream, B.R., Misra, K.C. et al. Age of granitic activity associated with copper–molybdenum mineralization at Malanjkhand, Central India. Miner Deposita 39, 670–677 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00126-004-0441-0

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