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Article Dans Une Revue Lithos Année : 2021

Native copper formation associated with serpentinization in the Cheshmeh-Bid ophiolite massif (Southern Iran)

Alireza Eslami
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Giovanni Grieco
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László Előd Aradi
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Claudio Marchesi
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Alessandro Cavallo
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Alessandra Montanini
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Giulio Borghini
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Ryan Mathur
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Kei Ikehata
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Donald W Davis
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Chun-Hui Li
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Csaba Szabó
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In the Cheshmeh-Bid district of the Khajeh-Jamali ophiolitic massifs (Southern Iran), mantle peridotites are intruded by abundant pyroxenite dykes. A few of these dykes are remarkable for the occurrence of native copper associated with the development of a metasomatic reaction zone. The dykes are progressively reacted, from their margins towards the center, with an amphibole + antigorite selvage, followed by a centimeter-thick clinopyroxene + antigorite assemblage and, finally, by the native copper-bearing zone consisting of clinopyroxene + chlorite + antigorite. Native Cu occurs along cleavages and partially healed fractures in clinopyroxene, and as massive grains intergrown with antigorite. Copper isotope signatures and thermodynamic calculations show that the main driver for reaction zone formation is Cametasomatism. Native copper forms at the expense of chalcocite in the reaction zone. Such a reaction can only occur in reducing conditions, in agreement with the analysis of fluid inclusions composition displaying H2 and CH4. Such fluids presumably originated from the hydration of mantle rocks. The observed reaction zone and native copper mineralization are thus interpreted as the result of Ca-metasomatism during hydrothermal alteration of the oceanic lithosphere. This is consistent with U/Pb dating of titanite, suggesting formation during the Albian when the dykes were exposed on the seafloor in a supra-subduction setting. The source for copper mineralization, as revealed by Cu isotopes, is probably mantle-like.
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Alireza Eslami, Benjamin Malvoisin, Giovanni Grieco, László Előd Aradi, Claudio Marchesi, et al.. Native copper formation associated with serpentinization in the Cheshmeh-Bid ophiolite massif (Southern Iran). Lithos, 2021, 382-383, pp.105953. ⟨10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105953⟩. ⟨hal-03442892⟩
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