Silicocarbonatitic Melt Inclusions in Fluorapatite from the Yates Prospect, Otter Lake, QuÉbec: Evidence of Marble Anatexis in the Central Metasedimentary Belt of the Grenville Province

• Published in: The Canadian Mineralogist
• Main Authors: Schumann, Dirk, Martin, Robert F., Fuchs, Sebastian, de Fourestier, Jeffrey
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mineralogical Association of Canada (MAC) 2019
• Subjects: Rigolet
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47818/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/47818/1/Schumann.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.1900015

We have investigated a locality very well known to mineral collectors, the Yates U-Th prospect near Otter Lake, Québec. There, dikes of orange to pink calcite enclose euhedral prisms of fluorapatite, locally aligned. Early investigators pointed out the importance of micro-inclusions in the prisms. W...