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    Micro- A nd nano-scale textural and compositional zonation in plagioclase at the Black Mountain porphyry Cu deposit: Implications for magmatic processes

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    Cao, Mingjian
    Evans, Noreen
    Reddy, Steven
    Fougerouse, Denis
    Hollings, P.
    Saxey, David
    McInnes, Brent
    Cooke, D.R.
    McDonald, B.J.
    Qin, K.
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Cao, M. and Evans, N.J. and Reddy, S.M. and Fougerouse, D. and Hollings, P. and Saxey, D.W. and McInnes, B.I.A. et al. 2019. Micro- A nd nano-scale textural and compositional zonation in plagioclase at the Black Mountain porphyry Cu deposit: Implications for magmatic processes. American Mineralogist. 104 (3): pp. 391-402.
    Source Title
    American Mineralogist
    DOI
    10.2138/am-2019-6609
    ISSN
    0003-004X
    Faculty
    Faculty of Science and Engineering
    School
    John de Laeter Centre (JdLC)
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79367
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    Abstract

    Textural and compositional microscale (10-100 μm) and nanoscale (10-100 nm) zoning in a plagioclase phenocryst from a fresh, syn-mineralization diorite porphyry (Black Mountain porphyry Cu-Au deposit, Philippines) was characterized for major and trace elements using electron microprobe, laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry, and atom probe tomography. The complex plagioclase crystal (3.0 × 5.4 mm) has a patchy andesine core (An41-48 mol%), eroded bytownite mantle (An71-80 mol%), and oscillatory andesine rim (An39-51 mol%). Microscale variations with a periodic width of 50 to 200 μm were noted for most major and trace elements (Si, Ca, Al, Na, K, Fe, Mg, Ti, Sr, Ba, Pb, La, Ce, and Pr) with a ΔAn amplitude of 4-12 mol% in both the core and rim. The mantle has a distinct elemental composition, indicating the addition of hotter mafic magma to the andesitic magma. Atom probe tomography shows an absence of nanoscale variations in the andesine rim but alternating nanoscale (25-30 nm) Al-rich, Ca-rich, and Si-rich, Na-rich zones with a Ca/(Ca+Na)at% amplitude of ~10 in the bytownite mantle. The restricted variations in physiochemical parameters (H2O-rich, T = 865 to 895 °C, P = 5.3 to 6.2 kbar; fO2 = NNO+0.6 to NNO+1.1 recorded by co-precipitated amphibole) suggest microscale oscillatory zoning was likely controlled by internal crystal growth mechanisms, and not by periodic variations in physiochemical conditions. However, the uniform diffusion timescale for CaAl-NaSi interdiffusion in the mantle is far shorter than the crystallization timescale of the grain from mantle to rim, suggesting nanoscale zonation in the bytownite mantle formed by exsolution after crystallization. The occurrence of micro-scale zoning in plagioclase indicates a minimum cooling rate of 0.0005 °C/yr during crystallization, assuming an initial temperature of 880 °C, the width of 50 μm, and NaSi-CaAl interdiffusion under hydrous conditions. Assuming a formation temperature of ~675 °C for the nanoscale exsolution texture as constrained by zircon crystallization temperatures, the retention of nanoscale zoning (~28 nm) requires a minimum cooling rate of 0.26 °C/yr. Given that this is significantly faster cooling than would occur in a magma chamber, this texture likely records the post-crystallization emplacement history.

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