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PETROGRAPHY
SAMPLE

(MINING COMPANY)

RC-57 / 339

CLASSIFICATION

Tonalite

COMPOSITION
Main Minerals

Accessories

Traces

Plagioclase (pg): Well developed subhedral crystals,

diffusely twinned and zoned,
microfractured; selective
sericitisation; local carbonation and slight argillic
alteration.

Biotite (bio): Replacement

relics in pseudomorphs of
laminated crystals; interstitial; strongly chloritised;
inclusions of zircon with
radioactive halos as well
as apatite and opaques
oriented along cleavage
planes.

Opaques: Finely disseminated crystals of euhedral

to anhedral shapes

Quartz (qz): Anhedral and

intersticial, partly microfractured.

m
i
c

Orthoclase: Subhedral,
interstitial, perthitic; partly
argillic alteration.

e
p

Apatite
Zircon
Rutile
Epidote
Titanite
Iron oxides

n
e

TEXTURE Holocrystalline, hypidiomorphic

Distinct sericitisation;
moderate chloritisation;
slight carbonation and argillic
alteration.
Alteration Minerals
Sericite
Chlorite (cl)
Clay
Calcite (ca)
Epidote
Iron oxides

pg
ca

qz
qz
cl

bio + cl

MINERALOGIA APLICADA

500 microns

LEHNE & ASOCIADOS

ALTERATION