Application de l'étude du magnétisme des roches à la compréhension des gisements : Traçage des paléocirculations (expérimentation et cas des minéralisations de La Florida, Espagne) ; Structuration et histoire de l'altération des amas sulfurés (cas des chapeaux de fer de la Province Pyriteuse Sud Ibérique, Espagne).

摘要

The purpose of this PhD thesis was to use the magnetic properties of rocks (paleomagnetism, anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility (ASM) and various techniques of magnetic mineralogy analysis), supplemented by some traditional methods (petrographic and electronic microscopy, texture goniometry, Raman spectroscopy, shape preferential orientation statistics and cathodoluminescence) to study the formation of metal deposits. This approach was applied to two metallogenic studies: (i) the track of fluid circulation that produced the iron-bearing metasomatism of the carbonates of La Florida mining district (Cantabria, Northern Spain), and the Pb–Zn mineralization deposits (MVT); and (ii) the study of the internal structures of the gossans and the alteration history of the massive sulphides of the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB, Andalusia, Southern Spain). In the first case, we showed experimentally that the fluid circulation produces a shape anisotropy, recorded in the form of a magnetic anisotropy. This property enabled us to define a NE–SW direction of the circulation of the metasomatic fluid in the La Florida district mining. In the second case, the coupling of AMS and paleomagnetism enabled us to define two magnetic fabrics in the primary gossans; (i) a “compaction” fabric in the upper parts of the gossans, associated to an old age, and probably caused by the Late Oligocene Warming Event, and (ii) a “mixture” fabric, more recent, located in the lower parts of the gossans and probably formed during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The “compaction” fabric would reflect an alteration stage more mature than the “mixture” fabric. In addition, the magnetic mineralogical analysis of the gossans and the associated terraces of the CPSI revealed the “curious” occurrence of the pyrrhotite, which was attributed to the sulfato-reducing bacteria activity in some reducing microdomains, disseminated in an environment globally oxidant and highly acid.