Mineralogy of Platinum-Group Elements and Gold in the Ophiolite-Related Placer of the River Bolshoy Khailyk, Western Sayans, Russia : сборник научных трудов

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2018

Идентификатор DOI: 10.3390/min8060247

Ключевые слова: platinum-group elements, gold, platinum-group minerals, placer deposits, ophiolite complexes, western Sayans, Russia

Аннотация: We describe assemblages of platinum-group minerals (PGM) and associated PGE-Au phases found in alluvium along the River Bolshoy Khailyk, in the western Sayans, Russia. The river drains the Aktovrakskiy ophiolitic complex, part of the Kurtushibinskiy belt, as does the Zolotaya River similar to 15 km away, the site of other placer deПоказать полностьюposits. Three groups of alloy minerals are described: (1) Os-Ir-Ru compositions, which predominate, (2) Pt-Fe compositions of a Pt3Fe stoichiometry, and (3) Pt-Au-Cu alloys, which likely crystallized in the sequence from Au-(Cu)-bearing platinum, Pt(Au,Cu), Pt(Cu,Au), and PtAuCu2, to PtAu4Cu5. The general trends of crystallization of PGM appear to be: [Os-Ir-Ru alloys] -> Pt3Fe-type alloy (with inclusions of Ru-dominant alloy formed by exsolution or via replacement of the host Pt-Fe phase) -> Pt-Au-Cu alloys. We infer that Rh and Co mutually substitute for Fe, not Ni, and are incorporated into the pentlandite structure via a coupled mechanism of substitution: [Rh3+ + Co3+ + rectangle -> 3Fe(2+)]. Many of the Os-Ir-Ru and Pt-Fe grains have porous, fractured or altered rims that contain secondary PGE sulfide, arsenide, sulfarsenide, sulfoantimonide, gold, Pt-Ir-Ni-rich alloys, and rarer phases like Cu-rich bowieite and a Se-rich sulfarsenide of Pt. The accompanying pyroxene, chromian spinel and serpentine are highly magnesian, consistent with a primitive ultramafic source-rock. Whereas the alloy phases indicate a highly reducing environment, late assemblages indicate an oxygenated local environment leading to Fe-bearing Ru-Os oxide (zoned) and seleniferous accessory phases.

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Издание

Журнал: MINERALS

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 8, Is. 6

Номера страниц: 247

ISSN журнала: 2075163X

Место издания: BASEL

Издатель: MDPI

Персоны

  • Barkov Andrei Y. (Cherepovets State Univ, Res Lab Ind & Ore Mineral, 5 Lunacharsky Ave, Cherepovets 162600, Russia)
  • Shvedov Gennadiy (Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Min Geol & Geotechnol, 95 Ave Prospekt Gazety Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy, Krasnoyarsk 660025, Russia)
  • Silyanov Sergey A. (Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Min Geol & Geotechnol, 95 Ave Prospekt Gazety Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy, Krasnoyarsk 660025, Russia)
  • Martin Robert F. (McGill Univ, Dept Earth & Planetary Sci, 3450 Univ St, Montreal, PQ H3A 0E8, Canada)

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