The Paleoproterozoic Fedorov–Pana Layered PGE complex of the northeastern Baltic Shield, Arctic Region: New U–Pb (baddeleyite) and Sm–Nd (sulfide) data

Abstract

For the first time zircons have been extracted from gabbro–norite of a lower layered horizon of the West Pana Massif in the Pt–Pd Kievei deposit of the Fedorov–Pana Layered Complex. Those zircons have been used for U–Pb dating along with Sm–Nd age determination on sulfide minerals. The obtained new isotopic data are a U–Pb zircon age of 2500 ± 4 Ma, while the Sm–Nd (mineral and whole-rock) isochron yielded 2483 ± 86 Ma. These results correspond to the first phase of the Pt–Pd reef complex formation in the Layered Complex. The Pt–Pd reef formation has been dated by U–Pb baddeleyite and zircon analyses in the East Pana Massif to 2464 ± 12 Ma. The 2485–2464 Ma time span corresponds to the second phase of the Pt–Pd reef formation in the Fedorov–Pana ore cluster.