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Economic Geology; September 2001; v. 96; no. 6; p. 1469-1476; DOI: 10.2113/96.6.1469
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MINERALOGY, AGE, AND FLUID GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE RILA EMERALD DEPOSIT, BULGARIA

Pavel Alexandrov{dagger},*, Gaston Giuliani and Jean-Louis Zimmermann**

Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques-CNRS, BP 20, 54501 Vandoeuvre Cedex, France

{dagger} Corresponding author: email, pavel{at}geol.queensu.ca

Gem-quality emerald is found within granitic pegmatites cutting talc schists in the western Rhodopa massif in southwestern Bulgaria. The 40Ar/39Ar data for phlogopite from emerald-bearing phlogopite schist yield a plateau age of 34.2 ± 0.4 Ma, which indicates the emplacement of the pegmatite during late Alpine orogenesis. Emerald crystals form within the metasomatic zone near the contacts between altered pegmatite and talc schists. Oxygen and hydrogen isotope analyses of emerald ({delta}l8O = 9.4{per thousand}, {delta}D = -29.8 to -32.7{per thousand}), combined with fluid inclusion study, indicate that a single stage of a homogeneous fluid (in the system H2O-CO2-NaCl) of metamorphic origin produced the pegmatite-talc schists hydrothermal alteration at temperatures between 300° and 400°C.




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