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AMERICAN MINERALOGIST
Volume 91, Issue 5-6, Pages 953-956Publisher
MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.2138/am.2006.2192
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trace elements; XAS (XANES); igneous petrology; new technique
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The redox conditions prevailing during the formation of vanadiferous titanomagnetites from three layered intrusions (Bushveld; Koillismaa; Skaergaard) have been estimated from the valence state of vanadium using synchrotron X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy (XANES). Using a high energy-resolution X-ray emission spectrometer, we show that vanadium occurs mostly as V3+, with minor V4+. The most concentrated samples (up to 2.4 Wt% V2O3) contain approximately 10% of vanadium as V4+. Both V3+ and V4+ occur in the octahedral site of the spinel structure. Considering the low magnetite/melt V4+ partition coefficients, this suggests that vanadium ores crystallized under specific oxidizing conditions.
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