%0 Journal Article
%A Lunar Hernández, María Del Rosario
%A Martínez-Frías, J.
%A Benito, R.
%A Wolf, D.
%T Los granates como guía de exploración y materia prima: el ejemplo del Hoyazo de Níjar en el cinturón metalogenético del SE Ibérico
%T Garnets as a guide to exploration and as raw material: the case of El Hoyazo de Nijar in the SE Iberian metallogenetic belt
%D 1997
%@ 0213-683X
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121471
%X A review of the garnet-rich volcanic Complex of El Hoyazo (SE Spain) is given, including new data about the petrology and geochemistry of the volcanic area, and suggesting a methodological proposal for evaluating the use of garnets as a guide to mineral deposit exploration. This is significant as the Neogene volcanic regi n of SE Spain hosts a wide variety of mineral deposits making up a metallogenetic belt from Cartagena to Cabo de Gata: Pb-Zn (± Ag,Sb) (Mazarron, Sierra Almagrera), Sb-Hg-Ba (±Au) (Valle del Azogue), Fe-Mn-Ba-Ag (Las Herrerías), native Au (Rodalquilar). The current exploitation of the garnets as industrial raw material is also described.
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