Abstract
Four types of pegmatites comprise the zoned pegmatite field in the eastern sector of the Albera Massif. Type I is represented by barren pegmatites with graphic textures; type II comprises transitional varieties with Li-Fe-Mn phosphates, Be (chrysoberyl) and scarce Nb-Ta and U oxide minerals; type III consists of pegmatites with significant zones of replacement containing Li-Fe-Mn phosphates, beryl and more abundant Nb-Ta oxide minerals; and type IV, muscovite-quartz-albite pegmatites are highly mineralized with Be, Nb-Ta and HREE. REE mineralization is strongly related to abundance of graphite in the late pegmatite units and in the host-rock. The individual pegmatite types are distributed within four subparallel zones concentric around anatectic muscovite-biotite leucogranites, with type I within the granites or close to the contact, and type IV pegmatites in the outermost areas. The zoning from type I to type IV could relate to fractionation processes which generated the pegmatites and is characterized by an enrichment of Mn, Ta, Na, Li, P, Be and REE. According to the pegmatite distribution and their fractionation trends, we propose an origin by differentiation of a granitic melt.
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