Petrology of the early Proterozoic platinum-bearing massif of Fedorov Tundra, Kola Peninsula

Abstract

The massif of Fedorov Tundra was formed as part of the Paleoproterozoic (2.5 Ga) Fedorov-Pana platinum-bearing layered complex as a result of consecutive emplacement of two intrusive phases. The emplacement of the first phase resulted in the formation of a large layered intrusive body composed of amphibole gabbro, gabbronorite, norite, pyroxenite, olivine pyroxenite, and harzburgite. The second phase gave birth to a gabbronorite intrusion smaller in volume and enriched in sulfides and PGM. Magmatic breccia has been observed in the contact zone between two phases. The rocks of the massif are referred to the series of normal alkalinity and to the quartz- and olivine-normative groups differing in saturation with silica. Using isoplethic and isobaric joins of the q-fo-fa-di-hd-ab-an-aq phase diagram, the stages of rock formation are considered. The thermodynamic conditions of rock crystallization were determined as T = 1000−800°C and $P_{H_2 O}$ = 1000−2500 bar for the first intrusive phase and T = 1000–900°C and $P_{H_2 O}$ = 800−1000 bar for the second intrusive phase.