The Role of Saturated Hydrocarbon in Enrichment of Cu, Pb, Zn in Kupferschiefer, Southwestern Poland

摘要

In order to clarify the role of organic matter in the enrichment of base metal, 10 samples of the Permian Kupferschiefer from southwestern Poland were analyzed by using microscopic and geochemical methods. The results indicate that the solvent extracts have been depleted in the samples with high Cu, Pb, Zn contents. This depletion occurred preferably in saturated hydrocarbons. Saturated hydrocarbons served as hydrogen donor for thermochemical sulfate reduction (TSR). The GC traces of saturated hydrocarbon show that the depletion occurred mainly in long chain n alkanes.