Palladium, platinum, and rhodium contents of rocks near the lower margin of the Stillwater complex, Montana
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Abstract
SPalladium, platinum, and rhodium concentrations are reported for rocks belonging to the Peridotite zone of the Ultramafic series and the Basal series of the late Archcan Stillwater Complex, a suite of Stillwater-associated sills and dikes, and the metamorphic rocks lying within the contact aureole of the complex. Mean values do not exceed 20 ppb for any rock unit and the tenth percentile rarely exceeds 200 ppb. The concentration of Pd is greater than Pt for most rock groups; both of these elements have higher concentrations than Rh.A large part of the variability in the data appears to be related to rock types containing different proportions of sulfide. It is also notable that sulfur does not correlate with the platinum-group element concentrations for many lithologies, and when it does, it commonly is not a useful predictor of platinum-group element content. Further, calculated values of R, the mass ratio of silicate liquid which has equilibrated with sulfide liquid, are low (1 to 320). Analysis of this information suggests that the immiscible sulfide liquids, from which the sulfides formed, did not completely equilibrate with the silicate liquids with respect to their platinum-group element contents and that the silicate liquids were characterized by different concentrations and ratios of platinum-group elements.
Publication type | Article |
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Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Title | Palladium, platinum, and rhodium contents of rocks near the lower margin of the Stillwater complex, Montana |
Series title | Economic Geology |
DOI | 10.2113/gsecongeo.81.5.1169 |
Volume | 81 |
Issue | 5 |
Year Published | 1986 |
Language | English |
Publisher | Society of Economic Geologists |
Description | 10 p. |
First page | 1169 |
Last page | 1178 |
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