期刊
CHEMICAL GEOLOGY
卷 444, 期 -, 页码 1-15出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.09.032
关键词
Multiple sulfur isotopes; SIMS; In situ; Sulfide minerals; Ore genesis
资金
- Minerals Research Institute of Western Australia
- Science and Industry Endowment Fund
- Geological Survey of Western Australia [M436]
- Australian Research Council [LP120100668, FT140100321]
- ARC Centre for Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems [CE11E0070]
- European Commission
- FQRNT through the GEOTOP research centre
- [FT110100241]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [M436] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Australian Research Council [FT110100241, FT140100321] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
With growing interest in the application of in situ multiple sulfur isotope analysis to a variety of mineral systems, we report here the development of a suite of sulfur isotope standards for distribution relevant to magmatic, magmatic-hydrothermal, and hydrothermal ore systems. These materials include Sierra pyrite (FeS2), Nifty-b chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), Alexo pyrrhotite (Fe(1-x)S), and VMSO pentlandite ((Fe,Ni)(9)S-8) that have been chemically characterized by electron microprobe analysis, isotopically characterized for delta S-33, delta S-34, and delta S-36 by fluorination gas-source mass spectrometry, and tested for homogeneity at the micro-scale by secondary ion mass spectrometry. Beam-sample interaction as a function of crystallographic orientation is determined to have no effect on delta S-34 and Delta S-33 isotopic measurements of pentlandite. These new findings provided the basis for a case study on the genesis of the Long-Victor nickel-sulfide deposit located in the world class Kambalda nickel camp in the southern Kalgoorlie Terrane of Western Australia. Results demonstrate that precise multiple sulfur isotope analyses from magmatic pentlandite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite can better constrain genetic models related to ore-forming processes. Data indicate that pentlandite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are in isotopic equilibrium and display similar Delta S-33 values +0.2%a. This isotopic equilibrium unequivocally fingerprints the isotopic signature of the magmatic assemblage. The three sulfide phases show slightly variable delta S-34 values (delta S-34(chalcopynte) = 2.9 +/- 0.3 parts per thousand, delta S-34(pentlandite) = 3.1 +/- 0.2 parts per thousand, and delta S-34(pyrdiorite) = 3.9 +/- 0.5 parts per thousand), which are indicative of natural fractionation. Careful in situ multiple sulfur isotope analysis of multiple sulfide phases is able to capture the subtle isotopic variability of the magmatic sulfide assemblage, which may help resolve the nature of the ore-forming process. Hence, this SIMS-based approach discriminates the magmatic sulfur isotope signature from that recorded in metamorphic and alteration-related sulfides, which may not be resolved during bulk rock fluorination analysis. The results indicate that, unlike the giant dunite-hosted komatiite systems that thermo-mechanically assimilated volcanogenic massive sulfides proximal to vents and display negative Delta S-33 values, the Kambalda ores formed in relatively distal environments assimilating abyssal sulfidic shales. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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