Reduced CO2 Fluid as an Agent of Ore-Forming Processes: A Case Study of Dolomite-Replacement Skarns at the Yoko-Dovyren Massif
- Autores: Simakin A.1,2, Kislov E.3, Salova T.1, Shaposhnikova O.1, Nekrasov A.1
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Afiliações:
- Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy (IEM), Russian Academy of Sciences
- Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IFZ), Russian Academy of Sciences
- Geological Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Edição: Volume 27, Nº 1 (2019)
- Páginas: 1-16
- Seção: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0869-5911/article/view/177654
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S086959111901003X
- ID: 177654
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The paper presents newly obtained geochemical data on outer-contact rocks and carbonate-replacement skarns of the Yoko-Dovyren layered ultramafic–mafic intrusion in the northern Baikal area. The rocks initially contained CO2-rich fluid with a high oxygen fugacity (up to NNO + 3–4), which was generated by the partial decomposition of dolomite and by reactions between SiO2 and carbonates. The skarn blue diopside is enriched in Pt (up to 0.2 ppm) and V (300 ppm), and the wollastonite zone of the skarns contains elevated Re concentrations (up to 0.4 ppm). The REE pattern of the contact-zone quartzite is identical to the REE patterns of phlogopite-bearing lherzolites from the lower contact part of the Yoko-Dovyren massif. These geochemical features of the rocks of the intrusion may be explained by the transfer and redeposition of material by reduced H2O–CO2 fluid. According to thermodynamic calculations, a reaction between H2O–CO2 fluid and high-Mg olivine at a subsolidus temperature of T = 950ºC and pressure P = 2 kbar should result in a decrease in the oxygen fugacity to QFM – 2 and, hence, generate much CO. According to the calculations, a low oxygen fugacity (close to QFM + 0.7) can also be maintained by pyrrhotite oxidation with H2O and CO2 fluid components under cumulus P–T parameters. As a result of these reactions, the fluid should enrich in Pt extracted from magmatic sulfides, and this Pt can be redeposited in rocks, including those composing the skarn zones.
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A. Simakin
Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy (IEM), Russian Academy of Sciences; Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth (IFZ), Russian Academy of Sciences
Autor responsável pela correspondência
Email: simakin@iem.ac.ru
Rússia, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432 ; Moscow, 123242
E. Kislov
Geological Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: simakin@iem.ac.ru
Rússia, Ulan-Ude, Buryat Republic, 670042
T. Salova
Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy (IEM), Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: simakin@iem.ac.ru
Rússia, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432
O. Shaposhnikova
Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy (IEM), Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: simakin@iem.ac.ru
Rússia, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432
A. Nekrasov
Korzhinskii Institute of Experimental Mineralogy (IEM), Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: simakin@iem.ac.ru
Rússia, Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast, 142432