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四川力马河镁铁-超镁铁质岩体的地球化学特征及成岩成矿分析 总被引:7,自引:3,他引:4
四川会理力马河镍矿是峨眉山大火成岩省最重要的岩浆硫化物矿床之一,成矿岩体为一小型锾铁-超镁铁岩侵入体,由含斜长石的超镁铁岩(包括舍长辉石橄榄岩和斜长橄榄辉石岩)和辉长岩类的镬铁质岩组成.矿床富含硫化物,成矿元素组合为铜、镍,铂族元素含量很低,没有铂族元素的工业富集,是蛾眉山大火成岩省中富铜镍贫铂族元素的代表性岩浆硫化物矿床.本文对力马河镍矿成矿岩体的镁铁、超镁铁岩及矿床中各种硫化物矿石进行了主量元素、微量元素及铂族元素含量分析.分析结果表明,力马河岩体的镁铁、超镁铁岩属拉斑玄武岩成因系列,岩石特征微量元素比值大致与高钛的峨眉山玄武岩相当、与低钛的峨眉山玄武岩有明显区分,但估计原始岩浆强不相容微量元素绝对含量大大低于高钛玄武岩,因此,其成矿岩体不是与一般的低钛或高钛峨眉山玄武岩(不包括苦橄岩在内)直接对应的深成相.岩体超镁铁岩及矿石铂族元素组成特征表现为无钌亏损的型式,钯/铱比值较小、在5左右,也显著不同于一般的峨眉山玄武岩,而类似于峨眉山大火成岩省苦橄岩的铂族元素组成.运用岩石地球化学研究方法计算,原始岩浆为苦橄质成分MgO含量约17%、SiO2含量约48%.估计原始岩浆形成于130公里左右的深度,由类似于洋岛玄武岩岩浆源区成分的地幔经19%左右的部分熔融形成.超镁铁岩及硫化物矿石铂族元素含量一般在10-9~10-8暑级,铂族元素相对铜镍强烈亏损,铜/钯比值高于原始地幔10~100倍,铜镍铂族元素组成的原始地幔标准化曲线呈铂族元素显著亏损的"U"型.模式分析说明,导致铂族元素亏损的原因是岩浆成矿演化过程中多阶段硫化物熔离作用造成的,早期熔离出来的硫化物被丢失并造成岩浆中铂族元素亏损,其铂族元素亏损后的岩浆(第)二次硫化物熔离富集形成铂族元素亏损的矿石. 相似文献
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新疆哈密白石泉含铜镍镁铁-超镁铁质岩体铂族元素特征 总被引:11,自引:1,他引:11
新疆哈密白石泉镁铁-超镁铁质岩体的铂族元素研究表明,岩体的铂族元素总含量较低,原始地幔标准化模式具镁铁质岩石的特征,并具Pt 正异常,且铂族元素的分异主要受结晶分异作用的影响.岩体的Cu/Pd、Se/S、Ti/Pd值表明其发生过硫化物的熔离作用.Pd/Ir、Ni/Cu特征表明了岩体系高镁玄武岩岩浆的产物.铂族元素特征揭示了白石泉岩体硫化物的熔离作用是由原始岩浆结晶分异导致的,岩体的形成是原始岩浆发生橄榄石等的结晶,导致硫化物的熔离作用后,其残余岩浆演化的结果. 相似文献
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核桃树富铂岩浆硫化物矿床位于四川会理县小关河地区,是峨眉山大火成岩省中含较高铂族元素含量的岩浆硫化物矿床之一。本文通过对核桃树岩体及部分硫化物矿石主量元素、微量元素及铂族元素的系统分析,讨论了该岩体的岩浆源区及母岩浆性质、地幔部分熔融程度,并探讨了其成因机制。研究认为,核桃树含矿岩体属拉斑玄武岩成因系列,具有与峨眉山玄武岩相似的微量元素组成特征,是峨眉山大火成岩省构造-岩浆活动的产物;铂族元素的原始地幔标准化配分型式与金宝山铂钯矿相似,没有PGE相对于Ni和Cu的明显亏损,Pt和Pd相对Os、Ir、Ru和Rh富集,为PPGE富集的左倾型式,Pd/Ir=1.5~13.1,低于一般大陆拉斑玄武岩,与原始地幔接近。通过岩石地球化学及模拟分析表明,成矿母岩浆MgO约为11.93%、SiO_2约为49.88%、FeOT约为13.71%、TiO_2约为2.61%,为高Mg拉斑玄武质岩浆,是由类似于洋岛玄武岩岩浆源区成分的地幔经过较高程度(约20.17%)的部分熔融形成的苦橄质岩浆演化而来。与小关河地区主要的几类岩浆硫化物矿床的镍铜铂族元素组成及硫化物熔离模式对比分析发现,核桃树高的PGE含量和低的Cu/Pd比值说明了该矿床的硫化物是从PGE不亏损的玄武质岩浆中熔离出来的,类似金宝山矿床。成岩成矿机制分析认为,部分熔融形成的苦橄质岩浆在上升的过程中,发生了以橄榄石(约12.7%)为代表的镁铁质矿物堆积,并形成残余髙镁玄武质岩浆;部分残余髙镁玄武质岩浆向浅部运移过程中,由于温度降低、混染等因素的影响,导致岩浆S饱和,触发硫化物熔离作用的发生(R值为2000~50000),熔离出硫化物熔体与岩浆通道内晶出的橄榄石构成含矿"晶粥",在构造挤压作用下,在浅部岩浆房中由于重力影响发生堆积作用形成具有较富PGE的含矿岩体,R值较大变化正好与PGE含量较大变化相对应。 相似文献
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新疆哈密黄山东铜镍硫化物矿床成岩成矿作用 总被引:6,自引:1,他引:6
黄山东铜镍硫化物矿床赋存于橄榄岩、苏长岩、辉长岩和闪长岩组成的镁铁-超镁铁质杂岩体中,赋矿岩体包含至少4套岩石组合。不同类型岩石微量元素和稀土元素原始地幔标准化配分模式指示,该矿床明显亏损Nb、Ta、Zr、Hf等高场强元素和Cr元素,富集Sr及大离子亲石元素;(La/Yb)N=1.08~2.70,δEu=0.50~2.57;含矿岩石Cu/Pd比值和Ti/Pd比值大于原始地幔值,表明不同类型岩石是高镁玄武质岩浆在深部分异结晶演化的产物。根据橄榄石和全岩化学组成可估算出母岩浆MgO含量约为12%。成矿岩浆深部演化过程中,富硅的地壳混染组分和外来流体的加入可能促成了岩浆中的硫饱和;深部熔离的不混溶硫化物珠滴被上升岩浆携带,富集在橄榄岩和苏长岩的底部。 相似文献
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以红旗岭铜镍硫化物矿床茶尖矿区1号和9号岩体为研究对象,进行了岩石化学特征分析、微量元素分析和稀土元素(REE)分析,重点研究了其铂族元素(PGE)地球化学特征。REE分析结果表明,岩石富集轻稀土元素,且有微弱的铕负异常。PGE富集在硫化物含量高的岩石中,与硫化物含量呈正相关关系。岩石中PGE分异明显,富集Rh、Pt和Pd。推测该区的基性-超基性岩形成于硫不饱和玄武质岩浆的演化,岩浆有地壳物质混染的特征,其成矿物质来源于上地幔,主要成矿机制为深部熔离-贯入作用。 相似文献
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白马寨I号岩体是哀牢山—金沙江构造带白马寨Cu-Ni矿区内最大的一个含矿基性—超基性岩体,从中心向边缘依次由含矿橄榄岩、矿化辉石岩和辉长岩3个相带组成环状体。从中心相到边缘相,岩石中SiO2、TiO2、Al2O3、CaO、Na2O和K2O含量逐渐增加,TFe、MgO含量降低;稀土元素中w(∑REE)、w(LREE)/w(HREE)逐渐增加,δEu由负异常到正异常演变;微量元素具有大离子亲石元素和高场强元素逐渐增加、强亲岩浆元素逐渐降低的演变特征。铂族元素配分模式为Pt-Pd型,w(Pt)/w(Pd)比值为0.32~0.68,介于富硫化物拉斑玄武岩(0.38)和原始上地幔(1.36)之间,以及稀土元素配分模式、微量元素蛛网图和铂族元素配分模式中不同岩石配分曲线的相似性揭示3个相带不同岩石之间的高度一致性,展示基性—超基性岩形成于玄武质岩浆演化、熔离及岩浆一次性侵入、分异成岩成矿的特征。矿区内地层层序稳定,岩体与沉积岩之间的侵入接触关系及w(Zr)-w(Y)-w(Nb)图解说明白马寨岩体形成于陆内环境。岩体的低Ti含量、Th强烈正异常和含矿橄榄岩负Eu异常,以及w(Th)/w(Ta)比值、w(Th)/w(Nb)比值和w(Pd)/w(Pt)比值及Ir族元素配分曲线明显不同于峨眉山玄武岩和典型的地幔柱玄武岩,而与大陆裂谷玄武岩非常相近,说明白马寨I号岩体形成于大陆裂谷环境。 相似文献
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《新疆地质》2019,(4)
白鑫滩铜镍硫化物矿床位于东天山镁铁-超镁铁质岩带西段,受大草滩深大断裂控制,岩体由辉长岩、橄榄辉石岩、辉石橄榄岩组成。白鑫滩岩体的铂族元素(PGE)含量相对较低,其中IPGE(Os、Ir、Ru)与PPGE(Ru、Pt、Pd)含量相近,PPGE略高于IPGE。岩石∑PGE含量3.82×10~(-9)~5.36×10~(-9),平均4.53×10~(-9)。岩石具相似的原始地幔标准化分布型式,PPGE和IPGE之间分异很弱。通过铂族元素源区示踪分析认为,形成白鑫滩岩体的母岩浆为Mg O含量较高的PGE不亏损的拉斑玄武质岩浆,上升过程中遭地壳物质混染及橄榄石等矿物的分离结晶作用,引起该矿床硫饱和并发生硫化物熔离作用而成矿,深部岩浆通道仍具较好的找矿空间。 相似文献
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冷水箐铜镍硫化物矿床的铂族元素地球化学特征 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
采用镍铳试金预处理中子活化分析方法,测定了冷水箐铜镍硫化物矿床的矿石和含矿围岩的铂族元素含量,探讨了岩浆演化和熔离作用过程中铂族元素的地球化学行为和贵金属配合型式。结果表明,冷水箐矿床的铂族元素配分型式与玄武岩浆有关的铜镍硫化物矿床相似,而明显不同于与科马提岩浆有关的铜镍硫化物矿床。认为冷水箐岩体镁铁-超镁铁岩的原始岩浆为玄武岩浆。 相似文献
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新疆北山地区两个含铜镍镁铁—超镁铁质岩体铂族元素地球化学研究 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
对北山地区坡一和罗东含铜镍的镁铁-超镁铁质岩体铂族元素研究表明,两个岩体的铂族元素(PGE)总量较低,PPGE较IPGE富集,原始地幔标准化模式呈正斜率,均较原始地幔亏损,具Ir和Rh的弱负异常。较低的Pd/Ir比值表明岩石主要受岩浆作用控制,后期热液作用影响不明显。两个岩体的原生岩浆均为MgO 含量较高的PGE不亏损的拉斑玄武质岩浆,较高的Cu/Pd、Ti/Pd比值表明岩浆在演化过程中发生了硫化物的熔离。罗东岩体早期矿物相(橄榄石、铬铁矿)的分离结晶作用对岩浆中的硫达到饱和具有重要的贡献,而坡一岩体该作用对硫化物熔离的贡献不明显。坡一和罗东岩体的R值表明两岩体均具有达到中型Ni矿床的潜力。 相似文献
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红包山-碱泉一带镁铁-超镁铁质岩体位于东天山卡瓦布拉克地区,岩体呈脉状或透镜状产出,出露面积约8km2。岩石类型主要为纯橄榄岩、橄榄岩、单辉橄榄岩等。地球化学数据表明,该区岩体具高Mg#的特征,属镁质超基性岩。岩石稀土元素为平缓右倾型配分模式,稀土元素总量(0.96×10-6~10.02×10-6)较低,轻重稀土元素组间分馏较强((La/Yb)N=2.14~4.08),δEu变化于0.63~1.08,可能与斜长石的结晶有关。微量元素蛛网图表明,岩石具富集大离子亲石元素Rb、Sr和高场强元素U、Pb及LREE,而亏损高场强元素Nb(Ta)、Hf、Ti的特征。主微量元素等地球化学相关图解说明,红包山-碱泉一带岩体原生岩浆为幔源的钙碱性玄武质岩浆,成岩作用以岩浆结晶分异为主导,并受到壳源物质的同化混染作用。 相似文献
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The Qingkuangshan Ni-Cu-PGE deposit, located in the Xiaoguanhe region of Huili County, Sichuan Province, is one of several Ni-Cu-PGE deposits in the Emeishan Large Igneous Province (ELIP). The ore-bearing intrusion is a mafic-ultramafic body. This paper reports major elements, trace elements and platinum-group elements in different types of rocks and sulfide-mineralized samples in the intrusion. These data are used to evaluate the source mantle characteristics, the degree of mantle partial melting, the composition of parental magma and the ore-forming processes. The results show that Qingkuangshan intrusion is part of the ELIP. The rocks have trace element ratios similar to the coeval Emeishan basalts. The primitive mantle-normalized patterns of Ni-Cu-PGE have positive slopes, and the ratios of Pd/Ir are lower than 22. The PGE compositions of sulfide ores and associated rocks are characterized by Ru depletion. The PGE contents in bulk sulfides are slightly depleted relative to Ni and Cu, which is similar to the Yangliuping Ni-Cu-PGE deposit. The composition of the parental magma for the intrusion is estimated to contain about 14.65 wt% MgO, 48.66 wt% SiO2 and 15.48 wt% FeOt, and the degree of mantle partial melting is estimated to be about 20%. In comparison with other typical Ni-Cu-PGE deposits in the ELIP, the Qingkuangshan Ni-Cu-PGE deposit has lower PGE contents than the Jinbaoshan PGE deposit, but has higher PGE contents than the Limahe and Baimazhai Ni-Cu deposit, and has similar PGE contents to the Yangliuping Ni-Cu-PGE deposit. The moderate PGE depletions in the bulk sulfide of the Qingkuanghan deposit suggest that the parental magma of the host intrusion may have undergone minor sulfide segregation at depth. The mixing calculations suggests that an average of 10% crustal contamination in the magma, which may have been the main cause of sulfide saturation in the magma. We propose that sulfide segregation from a moderately PGE depleted magma took place prior to magma emplacement at Qingkuangshan, that small amounts of immiscible sulfide droplets and olivine and chromite crystals were suspended in the ascending magma, and that the suspended materials settled down when the magma passed trough the Qingkuangshan conduit. The Qingkuangshan sulfide-bearing intrusion is interpreted to a feeder of Emeishan flood basalts in the region. 相似文献
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新疆黄山铜镍硫化物矿床成矿岩浆作用过程 总被引:10,自引:0,他引:10
黄山铜镍硫化物矿床镁铁.超镁铁质岩体岩相发育良好,主要包括橄榄岩、辉石岩、辉长岩和闪长岩,橄榄岩中部分橄榄石包含有硫化物珠滴。对该岩体不同岩相进行了主元素、微量元素、铂族元素和单矿物的分析,结果表明,不同类型岩石的化学组成受橄榄石、辉石和斜长石结晶分异作用的控制。微量元素和稀土元素具有相似的分布模式,(La/Yb)N介于1.14—3.65之间,明显亏损Nb和Ta,富集Sr。含矿岩石Cu/Pd和Ti/Pd比值大于原生地幔岩浆。上述结果揭示黄山镁铁-超镁铁质岩体不同岩性的岩石具有不同的主元素和微量元素特征,但母岩浆来自同一源区。根据橄榄石的F0值和全岩的主要氧化物组成估算出母岩浆为高镁(MgO约为15%)玄武岩岩浆,在岩浆作用过程中地壳富硅组分的混染是导致硫化物熔离的主要机制。 相似文献
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通过对喀拉通克、黄山东、金川和白马寨4个铜镍矿床亲铜元素特征进行比较,结果发现所有矿床具有相似的左倾原始地幔标准化配分模式和铂族元素明显亏损的共同特点;其亲铜元素质量分数却明显不同,铂族元素质量分数最高的金川铜镍矿床以Ni为主,喀拉通克矿床则表现为Cu占优势;矿床的初始岩浆为铂族元素不亏损的玄武质岩浆,应是地幔岩石较高程度部分熔融的产物;少量硫化物预先熔离是造成中国铜镍矿床成矿母岩浆亏损铂族元素和w(Cu)/w(Pd)远大于原始地幔(w(Cu)/w(Pd))的控制因素;不同程度(量)的硫化物熔离导致母岩浆中亲铜元素质量分数不同,R值低不是主要原因;早期发生硫饱和可能是铜镍矿床成矿的必要条件,成矿的关键可能在于新鲜岩浆的不断补给;少量硫化物预先熔离结合不含矿岩石亏损铂族元素,暗示这些矿区深部具有找矿潜力。 相似文献
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喀拉通克铜镍矿床铂族元素地球化学特征及其成矿作用意义 总被引:9,自引:7,他引:9
喀拉通克铜镍矿床位于准噶尔板块北缘,矿区主要矿体赋存于Y1-Y3号岩体中。矿石构造类型为致密块状和浸染状两大类,其中前者与后者呈贯入接触,不同浸染状类型之间为过渡关系。岩石和矿石的PGE总量偏低,且以PPGE为主,IPGE含量较低。整体上岩石中的PGE含量显示随基性程度降低而变小。矿石中的PGE含量随硫化物含量增加增大,显示PGE主要分布于硫化物熔离形成的物相中。100%硫化物计算后,矿石PGE含量平均仅为573×10-9。各岩体中浸染状矿石PGE组成并无明显差异;岩石和矿石具有相似的PGE分配模式,均属于Pt-Pd配分型。岩石Ni/Cu-Pd/Ir关系以及岩石地球化学资料显示,形成喀拉通克岩体的初始岩浆为MgO含量较高的玄武质岩浆,属于PGE不亏损的岩浆。基于PGE不亏损的大陆拉斑玄武岩初始岩浆推算,喀拉通克矿床母岩浆明显亏损PGE,而深部硫化物熔离可能是导致母岩浆PGE亏损的主要原因。岩石和矿石Pd/Pt比值总体特征,岩石Cr与Ni、Ir、Ru和Rh相关性,以及硫同位素和岩石学资料分析表明,初始岩浆在地壳深部发生的橄榄石、铬铁矿等矿物的分离结晶作用,可能是促使硫过饱和与深部熔离的主要因素。IPGE与PPGE分异特征及其相关分析,结合矿床宏观地质特征,推断该矿床浸染状矿的成矿作用经历了初始岩浆(PGE不亏损)→橄榄石等矿物分离结晶→硫化物深部熔离→成矿母岩浆(PGE亏损)→上侵并结晶分异的成矿过程。块状矿则可能是这一过程中PGE亏损的成矿母岩浆相对滞后熔离形成的硫化物熔体贯入的结果。 相似文献
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位于华北板块西缘赋存于超镁铁质岩中的金川矿床,是目前世界第三大镍硫化物矿床.金川铜镍硫化物矿床的原生岩浆问题一直存在着较大的争议,前人通过研究金川铜镍硫化物矿体中的堆晶橄榄岩中橄榄石的成分,从而推导原生岩浆的成分.而作者通过对金川铜镍硫化物矿体内部的基性岩脉深入研究,从另一个角度探究金川铜镍硫化物矿床的原生岩浆成分.通过对岩脉岩相学、主量元素的研究表明金川铜镍硫化物矿体中的岩脉主要是辉绿岩,因其MgO的含量的不同可以划分为高镁辉绿岩和低镁辉绿岩.辉绿岩脉的主量元素和微量元素显示这两类岩脉发生过分离结晶作用.PGE元素特征显示辉绿岩脉和金川矿床是同一期次产物,Pmelts的模拟演化得出本文中辉绿岩脉的液相线矿物橄榄石的牌号为Fo86,与金川矿床发现最高牌号Fo86一致.同时Ol-CATS-Q相图表明JC100925-5样品形成的源区在3GPa以上.多种因素显示这种高镁的岩浆是金川矿区的原生岩浆. 相似文献
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Chusi Li Mingjie Zhang Piaoer Fu Zhuangzhi Qian Peiqing Hu Edward M. Ripley 《Mineralium Deposita》2012,47(1-2):51-67
The Permian Kalatongke Ni–Cu deposits in the Central Asian Orogenic Belt are among the most important Ni–Cu deposits in northern Xinjiang, western China. The deposits are hosted by three small mafic intrusions comprising mainly norite and diorite. Its tectonic context, petrogenesis, and ore genesis have been highly contested. In this paper, we present a new model involving slab window magmatism for the Kalatongke intrusions. The origin of the associated sulfide ores is explained in the context of this new model. Minor amounts of olivine in the intrusions have Fo contents varying between 71 and 81.5?mol%, which are similar to the predicted values for olivine crystallizing from coeval basalts in the region. Analytic modeling based on major element concentrations suggests that the parental magma of the Kalatongke intrusions and the coeval basalts represent fractionated liquids produced by ~15% of olivine crystallization from a primary magma, itself produced by 7–8% partial melting of depleted mantle peridotite. Positive ε Nd values (+4 to +10) and significant negative Nb anomalies for both intrusive and extrusive rocks can be explained by the mixing of magma derived from depleted mantle with 6–18% of a partial melt derived from the lower part of a juvenile arc crust with a composition similar to coeval A-type granites in the region, plus up to 10% contamination with the upper continental crust. Our model suggests that a slab window was created due to slab break-off during a transition from oceanic subduction to arc–arc or arc–continent collision in the region in the Early Permian. Decompression melting in the upwelling oceanic asthenosphere produced the primary magma. When this magma ascended to pond in the lower parts of a juvenile arc crust, it underwent olivine crystallization and at the same time triggered partial melting of the arc crust. Mixing between these two magmas followed by contamination with the upper crust after the magma ascended to higher crustal levels formed the parental magma of the Kalatongke intrusions. The parental magma of the Kalatongke intrusions was saturated with sulfide upon arrival primarily due to olivine fractional crystallization and selective assimilation of crustal sulfur. Sulfide mineralization in the Kalatongke intrusions can be explained by accumulation of immiscible sulfide droplets by flow differentiation, gravitational settling, and downward percolation which operated in different parts of the intrusions. Platinum-group element (PGE) depletion in the bulk sulfide ores of the Kalatongke deposits was due to depletion in the parental magma which in turn was likely due to depletion in the primary magma. PGE depletion in the primary magma can be explained by a relatively low degree of partial melting of the mantle and retention of coexisting sulfide liquid in the mantle. 相似文献
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The Kalatongke (also spelt as Karatungk) Ni–Cu–(platinum-group element, PGE) sulfide deposit, containing 33 Mt sulfide ore
with a grade of 0.8 wt.% Ni and 1.3 wt.% Cu, is located in the Eastern Junggar terrane, Northern Xinjiang, NW China. The largest
sulfide ore body, which occupies more than 50 vol.% of the intrusion Y1, is dominantly comprised of disseminated sulfide with
a massive sulfide inner zone. Economic disseminated sulfides also occur at the base of the intrusions Y2 and Y3. The main
host rock types are norite in the lower part and diorite in the upper part of each intrusion. Enrichment in large ion lithophile
elements and depletion in heavy rare earth elements relative to mid-ocean ridge basalt indicate that the mafic intrusions
were produced from magmas derived from a metasomatized garnet lherzolite mantle. The average grades of the disseminated ores
are 0.6 wt.% Ni and 1.1 wt.% Cu, whereas those of the massive ores are 2 wt.% Ni and 8 wt.% Cu. The PGE contents of the disseminated
ores (14–69 ppb Pt and 78–162 ppb Pd) are lower than those of the massive ores (120–505 ppb Pt and 30–827 ppb Pd). However,
on the basis of 100% sulfide, PGE contents of the massive sulfides are lower than those of the disseminated sulfides. Very
high Cu/Pd ratios (>4.5 × 104) indicate that the Kalatongke sulfides segregated from PGE-depleted magma produced by prior sulfide saturation and separation.
A negative correlation between the Cu/Pd ratio and the Pd content in 100% sulfide indicates that the PGE content of the sulfide
is controlled by both the PGE concentrations in the parental silicate magma and the ratio of the amount of silicate to sulfide
magma. The negative correlations between Ir and Pd indicate that the massive sulfides experienced fractionation. 相似文献
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The Limahe Ni–Cu sulfide deposit is hosted by a small mafic–ultramafic intrusion (800 × 200 × 300 m) that is temporally associated
with the voluminous Permian flood basalts in SW China. The objective of this study is to better understand the origin of the
deposit in the context of regional magmatism which is important for the ongoing mineral exploration in the region. The Limahe
intrusion is a multiphase intrusion with an ultramafic unit at the base and a mafic unit at the top. The two rock units have
intrusive contacts and exhibit similar mantle-normalized trace element patterns and Sr–Nd isotopic compositions but significantly
different cumulus mineralogy and major element compositions. The similarities suggest that they are related to a common parental
liquid, whereas the differences point to magma differentiation by olivine crystallization at depth. Sulfide mineralization
is restricted to the ultramafic unit. The abundances of sulfides in the ultramafic unit generally increase towards the basal
contacts with sedimentary footwall. The δ
34S values of sulfide minerals from the Limahe deposit are elevated, ranging from +2.4 to +5.4‰. These values suggest the involvement
of external S with elevated δ
34S values. The mantle-normalized platinum-group element (PGE) patterns of bulk sulfide ores are similar to those of picrites
associated with flood basalts in the region. The abundances of PGE in the sulfide ores, however, are significantly lower than
that of sulfide liquid expected to segregate from undepleted picrite magma. Cr-spinel and olivine are present in the Limahe
ultramafic rocks as well as in the picrites. Mantle-normalized trace element patterns of the Limahe intrusion generally resemble
those of the picrites. However, negative Nb–Ta anomalies, common features of contamination with the lower or middle crust,
are present in the intrusion but absent in the picrites. Sr–Nd isotopes suggest that the Limahe intrusion experienced higher
degrees of contamination with the upper crust than did the picrites. The results of this study permit us to suggest that the
parental magma of the Limahe intrusion was derived from picritic magma by olivine fractionation and contamination in a staging
chamber at mid-crustal levels. Depletion of PGE in the sulfide ores in the Limahe intrusion is likely due to previous sulfide
segregation of the parental magmas in the staging chamber. Sulfide mineralization in the Limahe intrusion is related to second-stage
sulfide segregation after the fractionated magmas acquired external S from pyrite-bearing country rocks during magma ascent
to the Limahe chamber. The abrupt change in mineralogical and chemical compositions between the ultramafic unit and the overlying
unit suggests that at least two separate pulses of magma were involved in the development of the Limahe intrusion. We propose
that the Limahe intrusion was once a wider part of a dynamic conduit that fed magma to the overlying subvolcanic dykes/sills
or lavas. The ultramafic unit formed by the first, relatively more primitive magma, and the mafic unit formed by the second,
relatively more fractionated magma. Immiscible sulfide droplets that segregated from the first magma settled down with olivine
crystals to form the sulfide-bearing, olivine-rich rocks in the base of the intrusion. The overlying residual liquids were
then pushed out of the chamber by the second magma. Critical factors for the formation of an economic Ni–Cu sulfide deposit
in such a small intrusion include the dynamic petrologic processes involved and the availability of external sulfur. The Limahe
deposit reminds us that small, multiphase, mafic–ultramafic intrusions in the region should not be overlooked for the potential
of economic Ni–Cu sulfide deposits. 相似文献