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Volcanic Massive Sulfide Complexes of the Magnitogorsk Paleoisland Arc Megazone in the Southern Urals: Models of Ore-Magmatic System and Geodynamic Reconstructions

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Plate-tectonic paleogeodynamic setting of volcanic massive sulfide-bearing complexes of the Magnitogorsk island-arc megazone was reonstructed based on petrological-geochemical study and available geophysical data. The correlation between La/Yb ratio, Th, Yb, TiO2, and Zr concentrations in the basalts of ore regions, and ore volumes (Cu + Zn, in kt) in volcanic massive sulfide deposits was established. This indicates that the ore compositions and volumes in the ore-magmatic systems depend on the melting degree of suprasubduction mantle wedge. It was concluded that supraduction asthenospheric diapirs participated in the genesis of massive sulfide-bearing complexes. The obtained information can be used to predict new areas promising for massive sulfide mineralization.

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  1. f ' = FeO + Fe2O3 + MgO + TiO2

  2. al' = Al2O3/(FeO + Fe2O3 + MgO).

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Kosarev, A.M., Puchkov, V.N., Seravkin, I.B. et al. Volcanic Massive Sulfide Complexes of the Magnitogorsk Paleoisland Arc Megazone in the Southern Urals: Models of Ore-Magmatic System and Geodynamic Reconstructions. Petrology 30, 82–106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869591122010052

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