The Vosges Mountains - an overlooked European Sn-W and Li-Cs-Ta province?

摘要

In the light of the recent 'lithium boom', a screening study for Sn-W and Li-Cs-Ta (LCT) deposits was undertaken, identifying an early 1980s Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres (BRGM) geo-chemical survey with W anomalies of >50 ppm in the Sainte Marie aux Mines area of NE France. These anomalous areas, along with the historic mining of polymetallic veins in the area, led to the investigation of the regional potential for Variscan vein-hosted Sn-W-LCT and Mesozoic-Cenozoic Cu-Pb-Zn-As-Ag-Ni veins in the central Vosges Mountains.