Partitioning of platinum group elements in the Fe-O-S system to 11 GPa and their fractionation in the mantle and meteorites

Details Partitioning of platinum group elements in the Fe-O-S system to 11 GPa and their fractionation in the mantle and meteorites Partitioning of platinum group elements in the Fe-O-S system to 11 GPa and their fractionation in the mantle and meteorites

Dec 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991jgr....9621949f&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 96, Issue B13, p. 21949-21958

Physics

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Geochemistry: Composition Of The Core, Geochemistry: Composition Of The Mantle, Mineralogy And Petrology: Experimental Mineralogy And Petrology, Mineralogy And Petrology: Minor And Trace Element Composition, Mineral Physics: High-Pressure Behavior

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The partitioning of minor amounts of platinum group elements (PGE: Ru, Rh, Pd, Os, Ir, Pt) in the Fe-O-S system has been investigated to 11 GPa. The marked fractionation of Pt from Pd in the presence of coexisting alloy and sulfide liquid, reported earlier for the Fe-Ni-S system at low pressure, is extended to high pressure. The experiments were carried out at 1000°-1375°C and 4.5-11 GPa with graphite capsules using 18-mm octahedral pressure cells in a uniaxial split-sphere multianvil apparatus. Oxygen fugacities correspond to wustite stability. Phases present included sulfide liquid (close to M3S2 stoichiometry), FeS (trolite, pyrrhotite, HPP), alloys (PtFe, PtFeIr, OsIr, FePtIrOs, OsFeIr), and wustite. Partition coefficients for OsIr alloy/Fe1-xS at 1200°C, 11 GPa are Os (1400), Ir (160), Pt (32), Ru (0.6 ), Rh (0.2), and Pd (0.04) and for FePtOs alloy/liquid at 1100°C, 8.5 GPa are Os (120), Ir (82), Pt (20), Ru (5.0), Rh (1.6), and Pd (0.1). Geochemical processes which involve separation of a metal-rich phase from sulfide therefore would rsult in fractionation of PGE, with Os, Ir, and Pt concentrated in the former phase and Pd in the latter. These results are further support for the presence of a discrete metal-sulfide liquid during the primary differentiation of planetary material and preclude an explanation for the fractionation of PGE in chromitites and mafic crustal rocks based on equilibrium partitioning between refractory alloys in residual assemblages and immiscible sulfide liquid in silicate melts.

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