Open system Re-Os isotope behavior in platinum-group minerals during laterization?Show others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Minerals, E-ISSN 2075-163X, Vol. 11, no 10, article id 1083
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Abstract [en]
In this short communication, we present preliminary data on the Re-Os isotopic systematics of platinum-group minerals (PGM) recovered from different horizons in the Falcondo Ni-laterite in the Dominican Republic. The results show differences in the Os-isotope composition in different populations of PGM: (i) pre-lateritic PGM yield 187 Os/188 Os varying from 0.11973 ± 0.00134 to 0.12215 ± 0.00005 (2σ uncertainty) whereas (ii) lateritic PGM are more radiogenic in terms of 187 Os/188 Os (from 0.12390 ± 0.00001 to 0.12645 ± 0.00005; 2σ uncertainty). We suggest that these differences reflect the opening of the Re-Os system in individual grains of PGM during lateritic weathering. The implications of these results are twofold as they will help to (1) elucidate the small-scale mobility of noble metals in the supergene setting and therefore the possible formation of PGM at these very low temperatures, (2) better refine the Os-isotopic datasets of PGM that are currently being used for defining dynamic models of core–mantle separation, crustal generation, and fundamental plate-tectonic processes such as the opening of oceans.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2021. Vol. 11, no 10, article id 1083
Keywords [en]
Re-Os isotopes, platinum-group minerals, Ni laterite, Dominican Republic
National Category
Geochemistry
Research subject
Applied Geochemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-87444DOI: 10.3390/min11101083ISI: 000712847400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85116125573OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-87444DiVA, id: diva2:1601880
Note
Validerad;2021;Nivå 2;2021-10-11 (beamah);
Forskningsfinansiärer: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (PID2019-105625RB-C21; RTI2018–099157–A–I00); Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-2015-17596); ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution and Metallogeny of Continents; ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems; Centre of Advanced Mining and Metallurgy
2021-10-112021-10-112024-01-17Bibliographically approved