Concentrations of platinum-group elements (PGE), Re and Au in arsenian pyrite and millerite from Mo–Ni–PGE-Au black shales (Zunyi region, Guizhou Province, south China): results from LA-ICPMS study

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/eurjmin/article/29/4/623/521351/concentrations-of-platinum-group-elements-pge-re" target="_blank" >https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/eurjmin/article/29/4/623/521351/concentrations-of-platinum-group-elements-pge-re</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2640" target="_blank" >10.1127/ejm/2017/0029-2640</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Concentrations of platinum-group elements (PGE), Re and Au in arsenian pyrite and millerite from Mo–Ni–PGE-Au black shales (Zunyi region, Guizhou Province, south China): results from LA-ICPMS study

Original language description

Lower Cambrian Mo–Ni sulfidic black shales from the Huangjiawan mine (Guizhou Province, south China) have anomalous platinum-group elements (PGE) concentrations (up to ~1 ppm in total). We used LA-ICPMS method to study distribution of PGE in pyrite and Ni-sulfide (millerite) and FE-SEM/EDS for determination of As in pyrite. Sulfide concentrate was produced by innovative hydroseparation techniques from one representative sample which contained 162 ppb Pt, 309 ppb Pd, 12.2 ppb Ru, 11.3 ppb Rh, 1.5 ppb Ir, 11212 ppb Re and 343 ppb Au. Mineralogical analysis showed that pyrite forms ~12 vol. percent, which corresponds to its calculated weight proportion of ~18.4 percent of all mineral phases in mineralized black shale. We found that pyrite (144 analyses) contains on average 0.10 ppm Pt, 0.11 ppm Re and 1.40 ppm Au (Ru, Rh, Pd, Os and Ir were below detection limit). It also contains from ~0.5 to ~1.8 wt. percent As and can be therefore classified as arsenian pyrite. Millerite (77 analyses) showed PGE, Re and Au values below detection limit. We suggest that pyrite represents a dominant Au carrier, containing between 64 and 83 percent Au of the total Au mineralized rock budget. Conversely, pyrite does not bear any significant amount of Re and Pt, contributing up to ~0.2 percent and ~12.5 percent to their whole rock budgets, respectively. Time resolved LA-ICPMS spectra in pyrite indicate that Pt, Re and Au behave as typical lattice-bound elements with only Re locally forming micro-inclusions. Arsenic is inhomogenously distributed in pyrite and Au/As ratio (much lower than 0.02) is in support of gold to be structurally bound in solid solution.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10504 - Mineralogy

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-15390S" target="_blank" >GA13-15390S: Re-Os geochronology of ore mineralizations from the Bohemian Massif with possible metallogenic implications</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Mineralogy

ISSN

0935-1221

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

29

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

623-633

UT code for WoS article

000426885400009

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85031301670