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Bramram Pb-Zn Deposit Study, Morocco

This document summarizes a conference paper about the mineralogy and fluid inclusion study of the Bramram Pb-Zn deposit in Central Jebilet, Morocco. The deposit contains quartz-carbonate veins hosting sphalerite and galena deposits formed from multiple hydrothermal stages. Fluid inclusion analysis found the early stage fluid to be an aqueous-carbonic brine with 7-15% NaCl and 240-309°C temperatures. The later ore-forming fluid hosting galena had higher salinity of 19-24% NaCl and lower temperatures of 70-113°C. These brines closely match those observed at other nearby Pb-Zn deposits, suggesting they derived from the same mineralizing fluid from Tri

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Bramram Pb-Zn Deposit Study, Morocco

This document summarizes a conference paper about the mineralogy and fluid inclusion study of the Bramram Pb-Zn deposit in Central Jebilet, Morocco. The deposit contains quartz-carbonate veins hosting sphalerite and galena deposits formed from multiple hydrothermal stages. Fluid inclusion analysis found the early stage fluid to be an aqueous-carbonic brine with 7-15% NaCl and 240-309°C temperatures. The later ore-forming fluid hosting galena had higher salinity of 19-24% NaCl and lower temperatures of 70-113°C. These brines closely match those observed at other nearby Pb-Zn deposits, suggesting they derived from the same mineralizing fluid from Tri

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The Bramram Pb-Zn deposit, Central Jebilet, Morocco: mineralogy and fluid
inclusion study.

Conference Paper · August 2017

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Goldschmidt2017 Abstract

The Bramram Pb-Zn deposit,


Central Jebilet, Morocco:
mineralogy and fluid inclusion study.
F. NSHIMIYIMANA1*, S. ESSARRAJ1, M. HIBTI1,
1
GEORESSOURCES-URAC 42, Faculté des Sciences et
Techniques, Université Cadi Ayyad, BP. 549, Morocco
(*nfelix2020@yahoo.com)

The Bramram Pb-Zn deposit is located around 12km in the


North of Marrakesh city, Morocco. The mineralized veins
mainly striking E-W are filled by quartz-carbonates and
hosted in the Sarhlef schist (Huvelin, 1977). Several
hydrothermal stages of mineral deposition have been
recognized:
(i) early zoned quartz (QI) is associated with minor amount of
pyrite and followed by feathery quartz (QII), then siderite;
(ii) ore stage started by the deposition of geodic quartz (QIII),
calcite-dolomite, sphalerite, then galena.
Fluid inclusion study has been carried out in QI and QIII, QII
does not contain fluid inclusions. In QI, fluid inclusions are
two-phase aqueous-carbonic, water dominated. Salinity
ranges from 7 to 15 wt % NaCl equiv. and Th from 240° to
309°C (mode around 290°C).
Fluid associated with galena has been studied in fluid
inclusion planes crosscutting QIII and fluid inclusions close
to galena crystals. It is a brine with salinity ranging from 19
to slighlty >24 wt % NaCl equiv. and Th from 70° to 113°C
(mode around 90°C).
The mineralizing brine at Bramram Pb-Zn deposit shows
similarities with those from the Sarhlef and the Bir N’Has Pb-
Zn deposits (19 to 23 wt % NaCl equiv. and Th from 80° to
200°C, mode: 110°C) located in the Central Jebilet few
kilometers north of Bramram (Nshimiyimana et al., 2016).
For all these Pb-Zn deposits, ores correspond to quartz-
carbonate veins that show E-W general orientation and likely
have resulted from the circulation of the same base metal
mineralizing brine. This brine seems to have its source in the
Moroccan Atlasic basins coeval with the pre-Atlasic to
Atlasic extension (Triasic). This extension is synchronous
with the Central Atlantic Ocean opening (Huvelin, 1977).
[1] Huvelin P. (1977): Notes Mém. Serv. Géol. Maroc, No
232bis. [2] Nshimiyimana F. and al. (2016): 26th
Goldschmidt conf., 26/06-02/07/2016, Yokohama-Japan.

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