Rocky Mountain (53rd) and South-Central (35th) Sections, GSA, Joint Annual Meeting (April 29–May 2, 2001)

Paper No. 0
Presentation Time: 4:30 PM

THE STUDY OF FUILD INCLUSIONS OF THE IMITER SILVER DEPOSIT (SAGHRO ORIENTAL, ANTI-ATLAS, MOROCCO)


FARAZDAQ, Hayat, Geology, Univ Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences Sémlalia, Laboratoire de Géologie Appliquée, BP S15, Marrakech, Morocco, BOUTALEB, Mohammed, Geology, ONAREP, Ministère d'Enérgie et Mines, Direction de la Géologie, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco and MOUTTAQUI, Abdellah, Bureau de Recherches et de Participations et Minières (B. R. P. M.), Rabat, Morocco, kénitri@webtv.net

The microthermometric study of the Imiter silver deposit (Saghro oriental, Anti-Atlas, Morocco) shows the existence of tow geotherms. The precocious geotherm F1 is characterized by the circulation of aqua-carbonic fluid of high temperature (>300°C) and a of a weak salinity. This fluid becomes more and more aqueous with decreasing temperature and then undegroes a dilution phenomena. It could probably belong to the structural-metamorphic hydrothermal remobilization stage of the lower PII sandstone series host rock with a preconcentration of silver. The late hydrothermal geotherm F2 is characterized by the circulation of aqueous fluid of a moderate temperature (T=180°C) and a higher salinity (Na, K, Mg, Fe…). It reveals a leaking of the different lower PII and/or upper PII magmatic bodies, and it is the potential responsible of the Imiter silverous mineralisation. A geothermic model was proposed: the Imiter silverous fluids are plugged by the variations of water/rock ratio in the PII metamorphic shales. A comparison was determined with the Zgounder deposit, located at the West of Imiter deposit, because of the similarity between the two deposits.