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    STUDIA GEOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2003  
         
  Article:   MINERALOGY OF A “SACRED MONSTER”: THE DITRĂU ALKALINE MASSIF, EAST CARPATHIANS (ROMANIA).

Authors:  PAULINA HÂRTOPANU, GHEORGHE UDUBAÅžA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Unique in the whole area of the Carpathians, the Ditrău alkaline massif (DAM) displays both a great variety of contrasting lithologies and a big number of mineral species. Rocks from ultrabasite to high alkaline types, as well as granites, contact metamorphic assemblages, porphyry-style ores (Aurora), veins with sulphides, oxides and various REE minerals are known to be concentrated on a relatively small area, of only about 100 sq.km. Due to contrasting host lithologies and various mineral forming processes the mineralogy of DAM is very complex. Nearly all the mineral classes have here representatives, including rare and very rare mineral species such as zirconosilicates, radioactive carbonates, sapphirine, Bi-sulphosalts, nearly all the species of the pyrochlore and perovskite groups etc, some of them forming single occurrences in Romania, e.g. hemusite, sederholmite, tungstenite, mosesite, senaite, srilankite, minrecordite, rosenbuschite, eudyalite, lovozerite, hiortdahlite, donpeacorite, sadanagaite, vishnevite, loparite etc. (Hirtopanu, 1998). The total number of mineral species is about 250 thus reaching the status of a “sacred monster” (Udubaşa, 1994). Nevertheless, there are both very frequent minerals such as nepheline, cancrinite, sodalite, various feldspars (including Ba-feldspars), amphiboles (K-pargasite, sadanagaite, magnesiosadanagaite, eckermannite, nyböite, ferrinyböite, richterite, Li-fluorarfvedsonite, Li-fluorkataphorite, Li-ferrieckermannite, etc.) and very rare or “minor minerals” such as isocubanite, ferromolybdite, strüverite, wöhlerite, zirkelite, betafite, yttrobetafite, willemseite, huttonite, cheralite, astrophyllite, aenigmatite, durangite etc. (Hirtopanu, 1998). ...  
         
     
         
         
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