Partitioning of F between aqueous fluids and albite granite melt and its petrogenetic and metallogenetic significance

The fluid/melt partitioning experiments on fluorine were carried out in the system albite-H₂O-HF atP = 100 MPa, 770°C ≤T≤800°C: and wt = 2% −6% conditions. The concentrations of fluorine in quenched glasses (melt) were determined by electron microprobe and those of fluorine in the coexisting aqueous fluid were calculated by the method of mass balance. The result shows that the fluorine was concentrated in granitic melt relative to the coexisting fluid. The partition coefficient D_F(wt _F ^F1 /wt _F ^Mt ) ranges from 0.35 to 0.89. It increases with increasing fluorine content in the system. This means that there is not just one single value of partition coefficient for fluorine in the granitic melt-fluid system. The partitioning behavior of fluorine in this system depends critically on fluorine and proton (H⁺) concentrations. Our data suggest that F-rich granitic melts exist in nature and that fluorine may not be an important complexing agent of metal elements in F-bearing fluids. The project was financially supported by both the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 49603048) and the State Key Laboratory of Mineral Deposit Research, Nanjing University.