Journal article
The origin of a new pargasite-schist hosted ruby deposit from Paranesti, Northern Greece
KK Wang, IT Graham, A Lay, SJ Harris, DR Cohen, P Voudouris, E Belousova, G Giuliani, AE Fallick, A Greig
Canadian Mineralogist | MINERALOGICAL ASSOC CANADA | Published : 2017
Abstract
Gem-quality (cabochon) ruby-bearing occurrences (here termed PAR-1 and PAR-5) located near Paranesti, north eastern Greece have been systematically studied for the first time in this paper. Tectonically, the occurrences are located within the Nestos Shear Zone (NSZ). The NSZ separates two distinct geological units. The Rhodope Terrane is a heterogeneous unit of gneisses, mafic, ultramafic, and meta-sedimentary rocks in the hanging wall. The footwall Pangaion-Pirin Complex consists of marbles and acid gneisses of a Mesozoic carbonate platform on pre-Mesozoic continental basement. In this paper, a range of petrographic and geochemical techniques were used to determine (1) any similarities and ..
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Awarded by Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank Joanne Wilde from UNSW for the assistance with petrographic sample preparation and Dr. Karen Privat from the Electron Microscopy Unit (EMU) of the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre (UNSW) for the assistance in EMPA analyses. Funding for this project came from UNSW Faculty of Science Research Grant to Ian Graham (and co-investigators) and Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) grants AINGRA07061 and AINGRA08025. Funding for some of the analytical equipment used in this project was provided through UNSW MREII Grants and Australian Research Council (ARC) Large Infrastructure and Equipment Funds (LIEF) grant LE0989067. The analytical data were obtained using instrumentation funded by DEST Systemic Infrastructure Grants, ARC LIEF, NCRIS/AuScope, industry partners, and Macquarie University. This is contribution 982 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (http://www.ccfs.mq.edu.au) and 1161 in the GEMOC Key Centre (http://gemoc.mq.edu.au). The authors would also like to acknowledge the XRF Facility within the Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre at the University of New South Wales, and the Q-ICP-MS unit in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia for their analytical support. We would also like to thank David Turner and Julien Berger for their reviews, and the Editor Lee Groat for his comments, all of which greatly improved the final manuscript.