LITHOSPHERE, 2002, No. 16, p. 125

A raw material important for the fluorite production (now imported in Belarus) may be discovered in the territory of the region if direct evidences of a fluorite mineralization are revealed. This problem is risen in the paper, as in view of a new stratiform cryptocristalline type of mineralization there are prospects of finding fluorite deposits in buried graben-like structures. There are some geological and mineralogical preconditions of revealing fluorite of hydrothermal genesis, in particular, at the junction of the Bragin-Loev and Zhlobin Saddles, where subalkaline effusive and sedimentary formations are widespread and long-lived deep tectonic faults are abundant. Under conditions of a thick sedimentary cover geophysical and geochemical studies are supposed to be used for solving the similar task. Illustrations of neutron-activation logging spectrographic and other analyses for fluorine are presented. The most effective techniques in present-day economic conditions are recommended.

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