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PGE-Cu-Ni mineralization of mafic-ultramafic massifs of the Khangai Upland, Western Mongolia. / Shapovalova, Maria; Tolstykh, Nadezhda; Shelepaev, Roman et al.
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T1 - PGE-Cu-Ni mineralization of mafic-ultramafic massifs of the Khangai Upland, Western Mongolia
AU - Shapovalova, Maria
AU - Tolstykh, Nadezhda
AU - Shelepaev, Roman
AU - Kalugin, Valery
N1 - Funding Information: Funding: The studies were carried out within the framework of the state assignment of the V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences financed by Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation. The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 19-35-90033. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/11
Y1 - 2020/11
N2 - The mafic-ultramafic massifs with the PGE-Cu-Ni mineralization located in North-Central Mongolia: Oortsog, Dulaan, Mankhan, Yamat, and Nomgon were investigated. For the first time we consider these massifs as a single magmatic association and as fragments of Khangai batholith caused by the action of the plume responsible for the formation Permian Khangai LIP. The massifs fractionated from peridotite to gabbro have a similar typomorphic ore mineralogical and geochemical features, which change depending on the degrees of fractionation of magma and evolution of the sulfide melt. The least fractionated Oortsog massif originated from Ni-rich high- Mg basaltic magma. It is characterized by predominance of pyrrhotite mineralization due to exsolution of monosulfide solid solution (MSS). The most fractionated is the Nomgon massif originated from Cu-rich basaltic magma with bornite-chalcopyrite mineralization, formed as an exsolution of intermediate solid solution (ISS). The rest of the massifs have a medium characteristics between these two. The compositions of sulfides in the studied massifs change in accordance with the increase in sulfur fugacity from peridotite to gabbro: enrichment of pentlandite in Ni and pyrrhotite in S. The composition of PGM changes from Pt minerals in Oortsog massif to Pd minerals in Nomgon massif in the same direction. These massifs can be considered as potential for the PGE.
AB - The mafic-ultramafic massifs with the PGE-Cu-Ni mineralization located in North-Central Mongolia: Oortsog, Dulaan, Mankhan, Yamat, and Nomgon were investigated. For the first time we consider these massifs as a single magmatic association and as fragments of Khangai batholith caused by the action of the plume responsible for the formation Permian Khangai LIP. The massifs fractionated from peridotite to gabbro have a similar typomorphic ore mineralogical and geochemical features, which change depending on the degrees of fractionation of magma and evolution of the sulfide melt. The least fractionated Oortsog massif originated from Ni-rich high- Mg basaltic magma. It is characterized by predominance of pyrrhotite mineralization due to exsolution of monosulfide solid solution (MSS). The most fractionated is the Nomgon massif originated from Cu-rich basaltic magma with bornite-chalcopyrite mineralization, formed as an exsolution of intermediate solid solution (ISS). The rest of the massifs have a medium characteristics between these two. The compositions of sulfides in the studied massifs change in accordance with the increase in sulfur fugacity from peridotite to gabbro: enrichment of pentlandite in Ni and pyrrhotite in S. The composition of PGM changes from Pt minerals in Oortsog massif to Pd minerals in Nomgon massif in the same direction. These massifs can be considered as potential for the PGE.
KW - Geochemistry
KW - Khangai upland
KW - LIP
KW - Mineralogy
KW - PGE-Cu-Ni
KW - PGMs
KW - Sulfide
KW - MANTLE PLUMES
KW - GROUP MINERALS
KW - geochemistry
KW - SULFIDE MINERALIZATION
KW - mineralogy
KW - ARSENIDE ORES
KW - CONTINENTAL-CRUST
KW - PLATINUM-GROUP ELEMENTS
KW - GIANT BATHOLITHS
KW - PHASE-RELATIONS
KW - sulfide
KW - BATHOLITH FORMATION
KW - ASIAN OROGENIC BELT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85094596482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/min10110942
DO - 10.3390/min10110942
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85094596482
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 26
JO - Minerals
JF - Minerals
SN - 2075-163X
IS - 11
M1 - 942
ER -
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