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Article Dans Une Revue Mineralium Deposita Année : 2024

Peritectic orthopyroxene entrainment during partial melting of garnet peridotite produced the Bushveld Complex chromite deposits

Tahnee Otto
Gary Stevens
Jean-François Moyen
Matthew Mayne
John Clemens

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Abstract One of the largest chromium deposits on Earth occurs in the Rustenburg Layered Suite (RLS) of the Bushveld Complex as laterally continuous chromitite layers. None of the hypotheses proposed for the origin of the chromitites can explain both the abundance of Cr in the RLS and the unusual enrichment in Cr and V over Ni, relative to typical depleted mantle values. This study investigates the possibility that the layering and chromitite formation are consequences of the entrainment of source components into the magmas that formed the RLS. Thermodynamic modelling results reveal a wedge-shaped domain in pressure-temperature space in the subcratonic mantle within which Cr-bearing orthopyroxene forms as a peritectic product of incongruent melting. Entrainment of this orthopyroxene produces magmas that crystallise peritectic olivine and chromite on ascent, due to the consumption of orthopyroxene by melt. The chromite- and olivine-bearing magmas intrude as sills and can produce chromite and dunite layers by density separation. This model, which interprets the RLS Sr-isotopic composition to reflect prior mantle metasomatism by crustal fluids (ideally ancient and of low volume), readily explains the formation of chromitite layers from relatively thin sills, as well as the very high ratios of Cr and V to other compatible elements relative to typical mantle compositions. The special circumstances required to produce the RLS chromitites do not relate to some oddity of repetitive crustal assimilation or magma compositions that allow chromite-only saturation. Rather, they relate to speed of melting and magma extraction which enabled peritectic orthopyroxene entrainment to the magmas.
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Tahnee Otto, Gary Stevens, Jean-François Moyen, Matthew Mayne, John Clemens. Peritectic orthopyroxene entrainment during partial melting of garnet peridotite produced the Bushveld Complex chromite deposits. Mineralium Deposita, 2024, ⟨10.1007/s00126-024-01277-0⟩. ⟨hal-04586953⟩
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