Origin and Evolution of Magmas in the Porphyry Au-mineralized Javorie Volcano (Central Slovakia): Evidence from Thermobarometry, Melt Inclusions and Sulfide Inclusions
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Abstract
Abstract The effect of magmatic sulfide precipitation on the potential of magmatic systems to produce porphyry-type ore deposits is still a matter of debate. In particular, we need to know whether magmatic sulfide precipitation has an impact on the Cu and Au content of the exsolving magmatic volatile phases and, by this way, on the Cu/Au ratio of porphyry deposits. The Javorie volcano is a perfect place to explore these questions. First, it hosts several Au-only porphyry-type mineralized occurrences which have among the lowest Cu/Au ratios reported in the literature. Secondly, the geology of the Javorie volcano and the timing of porphyry Au mineralization are well established. The evolution of the Javorie magmatic system was reconstructed by detailed petrographic studies and laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry analysis of minerals, melt inclusions and sulfide inclusions. The Javorie volcano was formed during the post-subduction magmatic activity affecting the Western Carpathians. It is a typical stratovolcano, composed dominantly of basaltic andesites and andesites which were intruded by several small stocks of dacitic to dioritic composition. According to our thermobarometric data, the volcano was fed by a transcrustal magmatic system in which two levels of magma chambers could be identified. Part of the magma evolved in the lower crust as suggested by the occurrence of magmatic garnet antecrysts in some of the studied rocks. The occurrence of magmatic sulfide inclusions in garnet indicates that sulfide saturation was reached in this lower crustal magma chamber. Most of the rocks crystallized in an upper crustal magma chamber (∼2 ± 1 kbar) that was fed by a basaltic to basaltic andesite magmas. A large variation in temperatures, ranging between 820°C and 1025°C, recorded by the extrusive and intrusive rocks suggest either that the upper crustal magma chamber was thermally zoned, or that the temperature of the whole magma chamber varied dramatically during its lifetime. Magmatic sulfide inclusions are present in all minerals and rocks of the upper crustal magma chamber, independent of their timing relative to porphyry Au mineralization (pre-, syn-, post-ore). These observations suggest that the magmatic system was sulfide saturated during its entire evolution. With very few exceptions, the precipitating sulfides were composed of monosulfide solid solution containing 0·2–9·2 wt % Cu and 0·05–11 ppm Au. The presence of these magmatic sulfides, together with results of a numerical model, suggest that the primitive magma feeding the upper crustal magma chamber contained less than 2·75 wt % H2O and that only a minor part of the magmatic sulfides was fractionated out of the system. Finally, the Cu/Au ratios measured in the magmatic sulfide inclusions and the ones predicted for the exsolved aqueous fluids are 10 to 100 times higher than the Cu/Au ratios of the porphyry deposits. Therefore, the extremely low Cu/Au ratios of the porphyry deposits must have been acquired during the hydrothermal stage.
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