| Abstract: | The distribution of platinum-group elements (PGE) within chromite deposits from an ophiolite is determined and their geochemistry compared with chromitites from ophiolites and from stratiform layered complexes elsewhere in the world. The Guleman area chromitites are lenses of layered massive to disseminated chromite in dunite or sheared harzburgite along and near the dunite-harzburgite contact. PGE were analysed by a fire assay/spectrographic method. The analyses, in ppb, varied narrowly near the detection limits; only Ir was mostly detected (24-27 ppb) . The data plot as independent, slight variations of individual PGE with crude and irregular spatial distributions, oriented with respect to the land surface. Based on studies elsewhere, the PGE reside mostly in laurite, erlichmanite and Os/Ir alloys included within or interstitial to chromite. Average values for each PGE were normalized with respect to average chondrite concentrations for these elements. All patterns for ophiolite-chromitites (5) show depletion of these elements relative to chondrite average concentrations, with greater depletion in Pt and Pd than in Ir and Ru, to produce patterns with negative slopes. Chromitites from differentiated stratiform complexes (2) yield patterns with positive slopes. -G.J.N. |
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| Citation Author: | Page, N. J.; Engin, T.; Singer, D. A.; Haffty, J. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Distribution of platinum-group elements in the Bati Kef chromite deposit, Guleman-Elazig area, eastern Turkey.; 1984; Article; Journal; Economic Geology; Page, N. J.; Engin, T.; Singer, D. A.; Haffty, J. |
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| Citation Volume: | 79 |
| Citation Year: | 1984 |
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| Text: | Distribution of platinum-group elements in the Bati Kef chromite deposit, Guleman-Elazig area, eastern Turkey.; 1984; Article; Journal; Economic Geology; Page, N. J.; Engin, T.; Singer, D. A.; Haffty, J. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1984 00:00 -0600 |
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