Primary halos of liquation-type magmatic deposits proper
Abstract
The liquation type of magmatic deposits proper includes commercial accumulations of disseminated sulfide copper-nickel ores, which occur in rocks of basic-ultrabasic composition (norites, gabbro-norites, olivine diabases, pyroxenites, peridotites). According to modern ideas, the formation of liquation-type deposits occurs by separation of magma into immiscible liquids - silicate and sulfide even before the onset of crystallization. The isolated sulfide secretions merge into droplets and under the influence of high specific gravity sink to the bottom parts of intrusions, where they form accumulations. Deposits of liquation disseminated ores are syngenetic with the host rocks. Consequently, the primary halos of these deposits are also syngenetic. The degree of study of the conditions of formation of deposits of this genetic type is clearly insufficient, so the following ideas about the occurrence of halos of syngenetic disseminated ores and the interpretation of these halos can be satisfactory only insofar as they correspond to the accepted liquation-magmatic hypothesis of formation of the ores themselves.
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