Pegmatitos do complexo alcalino de Peixe - Goiás

Abstract

In the region of the Almas River, northern State of Goiás, occurs a gneissoid alkalime complex formed by nepheline-syenite, syenite, quartz-syenite and granite. This complex is the core of a brachyanticlyne whose major axis has more than 30 km along th.e submeridian direction and whose flanks are composed of schists and quartzites of Serra da Mesa, group (1.1 - 1.2 b.y. old, Uruaçuano cycle). Posttectonic pegmatoid granites and several pegmatites are associated with that complex. These pegmatites are zoned and the majority shows both mineralogical and textural internai zonning. Mineralogical, petrological and geochemical studies compled with field observations showed that there are two distinct pegmatite generations: syenitic pegmatites consisting of plagioclase, K-feldspar, biotite, and zircon; and granitic pegmatites composed of K-feldspar, plagioclase, quartz, biotite muscovite, amphibole, garnet and beryl. The analysis of these data indicated that these bodies are genetically related to the magmatic events that generated both the alkaline rocks and the pegmatoid granite at different periods of time. The granitic magmatism was developed in the posttectonic phase of the Uruaçuano cycle. In this region there are disseminated primary zircon and corindon deposits associated with the alkaline rocks as well as secondary (alluvial and colluvial) deposits of these mineral derived from the primary bodies by weathering and residual concentration processes.