2023-01-022023-01-022022-12-15SANTOS, Pabllo Henrique Costa dos. Evolução supergênica do depósito cuprífero Alvo 118 - Província Mineral de Carajás. Orientador: Marcondes Lima da Costa. 2022. 145 f. Tese (Doutorado em Geologia e Geoquímica) - Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2022. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br:8080/jspui/handle/2011/15106. Acesso em:.https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/15106The Carajás Mineral Province is home to one of the most extensive cupriferous belts in the world, where hypogene mineralizations were partially transformed into gossans, later lateritized and/or truncated during landscape evolution. These covers represent an information source for mineral exploration and, in some cases, can be mined together with parental hypogene mineralizations. The plateaus of the South American Surface host complete and lateritized gossans, while the surrounding denuded areas, typical of the Velhas Surface, exhibit incomplete or immature gossans, with the Alvo 118 deposit as an example. In this orebody, the hypogene mineralization was converted into an immature gossan located at depth, while the host rocks were weathered near the surface, forming a mineralized saprolite. The gossan comprises an oxidation zone, which includes goethite, malachite, pseudomalachite, cuprite, tenorite, native copper, ramsbeckite, chrysocolla, and libethenite, with relics of a secondary sulfide zone, represented by chalcocite. These minerals are distributed in the goethite, malachite, cuprite, and libethenite zones, with their mineral successions reflecting the transition of mineralizing solutions from acidic to slightly alkaline conditions and an increase in oxidation potential. This environment was established from the interaction of acid solutions, derived from chalcopyrite dissolution, with the gangue minerals (calcite and apatite) and the host rocks, granodiorites and, secondarily, chloritites, which acted in buffering the system, favoring the formation of new copper-bearing minerals. The strong correlations of CuO with Ag, Te, Pb, Se, Bi, Au, In, Y, U, and Sn in the hypogene mineralization reflect the inclusions of petzite, altaite, galena, uraninite, cassiterite, and stannite in chalcopyrite. In the gossan, Ag, Te, Pb, Se, and Bi remained associated and were incorporated into neoformed copper minerals. On the other hand, Au, In, Y, U, and Sn exhibit greater affinity with iron oxyhydroxides, as well as Zn, As, Be, Ga, Mo and Ni. The δ65Cu values reinforce that the investigated gossan is immature and was not intensely affected by leaching processes. The main mineral phases identified in the saprolite are kaolinite (predominant), associated with chlorite, smectite, vermiculite, quartz, and iron oxyhydroxides. Iron oxyhydroxides are strongly correlated with Ga, Sc, Sn, V, Mn, Co, and Cr, partly derived from the weathering of parent rocks. Additionally, Mössbauer spectroscopy data point to the important role of ferrihydrite and goethite as copper-bearing phases. There is no evidence of copper incorporation by clay minerals. The δ56Fe values indicate a little contribution of primary mineralization to the Fe content of the saprolite, which is more influenced by chlorite weathering. The association Al2O3, Hf, Zr, Th, TiO2, Ce, La, Ba, and Sr represents the geochemical signature of the host rocks, which influence the chemical composition of the three types of mineralization. On the other hand, the association In, Y, Te, Pb, Bi, and Se comprise the main pathfinder elements of the hypogene mineralization. Detailed knowledge of the supergene mineral and geochemical fractionation makes the Alvo 118 deposit a reference guide for investigating immature gossans and mineralized saprolites in denuded areas of the Carajás Mineral Province or equivalent terrains.Acesso AbertoAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazilhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/MineralogiaGeoquímicaIntemperismoCobreMineralogyGeochemistryWeatheringCopperTeseCNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIASMINERALOGIA E GEOQUÍMICAGEOQUÍMICA E PETROLOGIA