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Huang, Wenqing, Pei Ni, Jungui Zhou, et al. "Fluid Inclusion and Titanite U-Pb Age Constraints on the Yuanjiang Ruby Mineralization in the Ailao Shan-Red River Metamorphic Belt, Southwest China." Canadian Mineralogist 60, no. 1 (2022): 3–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.3749/canmin.2100009.
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ABSTRACT The Yuanjiang marble-hosted ruby deposit lies in the central segment of the Ailao Shan metamorphic massif of the Ailao Shan-Red River metamorphic belt. The mineralizing fluid and age were characterized by detailed petrography, Raman spectroscopy, microthermometry, and in situ titanite laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry dating. Some fluid inclusions in the corundum show an interesting morphology with a diaspore crystal fully separating the whole inclusion into two smaller inclusions. This morphological feature can be explained by morphological ripening and subsequent reactions between the trapped H2O and the host corundum during the cooling of the inclusion. Fluid inclusions in the ruby belong to the system CO2–H2S–COS–S8–H2S2–CH4–AlO(OH) with various daughter minerals, including diaspore, gibbsite, and native sulfur (S8). The observed seven-component fluid inclusion composition can be explained by two steps: (1) original fluid inclusion capture during deposit formation with compositions including CO2, H2S, COS, CH4, S8, and H2S2, and (2) post-entrapment fluid inclusion modification, such as diaspore and gibbsite. The presence of hydrous minerals in fluid inclusions strongly supports the idea that water was once present in the initial fluids. In the Yuanjiang deposit, petrographic evidence shows that titanite formed simultaneously with ruby, and U-Pb dating of titanite allows us to conclude that the ruby mineralization formed at 23.4 ± 0.3 Ma, in other words during the Himalayan orogeny.
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Zolensky, Michael E., Robert J. Bodnar, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, et al. "The search for and analysis of direct samples of early Solar System aqueous fluids." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 375, no. 2094 (2017): 20150386. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0386.
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We describe the current state of the search for direct, surviving samples of early, inner Solar System fluids—fluid inclusions in meteorites. Meteoritic aqueous fluid inclusions are not rare, but they are very tiny and their characterization is at the state of the art for most analytical techniques. Meteoritic fluid inclusions offer us a unique opportunity to study early Solar System brines in the laboratory. Inclusion-by-inclusion analyses of the trapped fluids in carefully selected samples will, in the immediate future, provide us detailed information on the evolution of fluids as they interacted with anhydrous solid materials. Thus, real data can replace calculated fluid compositions in thermochemical calculations of the evolution of water and aqueous reactions in comets, asteroids, moons and the terrestrial planets. This article is part of the themed issue ‘The origin, history and role of water in the evolution of the inner Solar System’.
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Van den Kerkhof, Alfons M., and Ulrich F. Hein. "Fluid inclusion petrography." Lithos 55, no. 1-4 (2001): 27–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0024-4937(00)00037-2.
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Brown, Philip E. "Fluid inclusion research." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, no. 10 (1997): 2149–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(97)83227-9.
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Brown, Philip E. "Fluid inclusion research." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, no. 10 (1997): 2149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(97)90192-7.
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Brown, Philip E. "Fluid inclusion research." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, no. 10 (1997): 2149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(97)90193-9.
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Brown, Philip E. "Fluid inclusion research." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, no. 10 (1997): 2149. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7037(97)90194-0.
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FOSTER, R. P. "Fluid inclusion studies." Journal of the Geological Society 145, no. 1 (1988): 137–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/gsjgs.145.1.0137.
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Moritz, Robert P. "Fluid inclusion research." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 52, no. 6 (1988): 1743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(88)90247-5.
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Moritz, Robert P., and Serge R. Chevé. "Fluid-inclusion studies of high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Ashuanipi complex, eastern Superior Province: constraints on the retrograde P–T path and implications for gold metallogeny." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 29, no. 10 (1992): 2309–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e92-180.
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The high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Ashuanipi complex have been the subject of a microthermometric fluid-inclusion study. Four types of fluid inclusions were observed: CO2-rich fluids; low-temperature, high-salinity H2O fluids; CH4 ± N2-rich fluids; and high-temperature, low-salinity H2O fluids. The regionally distributed CO2-rich fluids are the earliest fluids, and their calculated isochores indicate a clockwise post-peak metamorphic P–T–t path for the Ashuanipi complex. The low-temperature, high-salinity aqueous fluid inclusions are also distributed regionally and can be interpreted as late brines, retrograde metamorphic fluids, or the wicked-off aqueous component of H2O–CO2 fluid inclusions. Both CH4 ± N2-rich fluids and the high-temperature, low-salinity aqueous fluid inclusions were found only locally in gold-bearing metamorphosed banded iron formations. Fluid-inclusion microthermometry, arsenopyrite thermometry, and metamorphic petrologic study at Lac Lilois, one of the principal gold showings, suggest that some gold deposition may have occurred during regional post-peak metamorphic exhumation and cooling at P–T conditions near the amphibolite–greenschist transition. However, it is possible that gold deposition began at higher near-peak metamorphic P–T conditions. Another major gold showing, Arsène, is characterized by CH4 ± N2-rich fluid inclusions, tentatively inferred to be either directly related to gold deposition or responsible for secondary gold enrichment. The association of CH4 ± N2-rich fluids with gold occurrences in the Ashuanipi complex is comparable to gold deposits of the Abitibi greenstone belt and of Wales, Finland, and Brazil.
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Allan, M. M. "Validation of LA-ICP-MS fluid inclusion analysis with synthetic fluid inclusions." American Mineralogist 90, no. 11-12 (2005): 1767–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am.2005.1822.
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Rabiei, M., G. Chi, E. G. Potter, et al. "Fluid evolution along the Patterson Lake corridor in the southwestern Athabasca Basin: constraints from fluid inclusions and implications for unconformity-related uranium mineralization." Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 21, no. 3 (2021): geochem2020–029. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/geochem2020-029.
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The Patterson Lake corridor (PLC) in the southwestern margin of the Athabasca Basin hosts several high-grade uranium deposits. These deposits are located in the basement up to 900 m below the unconformity surface, raising questions about their affiliation with typical unconformity-related uranium (URU) deposits elsewhere in the basin. Based on cross-cutting relationships four pre- and three syn- to post-mineralization quartz generations were identified. Fluid inclusion analyses indicate that pre-mineralization fluids have salinities ranging from 0.2 to 27.2 wt% NaCl equiv. (avg. 9.0 wt%), whereas syn-mineralization fluids have salinities ranging from 8.8 to 33.8 wt% NaCl + CaCl2 (avg. 25.4 wt%), with NaCl- and CaCl2-rich varieties. The homogenization temperatures (Th) of fluid inclusions from pre-mineralization quartz range from 80 to 244°C (avg. 147°C), and from syn-mineralization quartz range from 64 to 248°C (avg. 128°C). Fluid boiling is indicated by the co-development of liquid-dominated and vapour-dominated fluid inclusions within individual fluid inclusion assemblages from the syn-mineralization quartz and is related to episodic fluid pressure drops caused by reactivation of basement faults. Our results indicate that composition and P–T conditions of the ore fluids in the PLC are comparable to those of typical URU deposits in the Athabasca Basin, indicating that the uranium deposits in the PLC formed under similar hydrothermal conditions. Episodic reactivation of basement faults was an important driving force to draw uraniferous fluids from the basin and reducing fluids from the basement to the mineralization sites, forming deep basement-hosted deposits.Supplementary material: Table 1, microthermometric results of type-2 and -5 fluid inclusion assembladges and isolated inclusions from the Patterson Lake corridor, and table 2, microthermometric results of type-6 fluid inclusions from the Patterson Lake corridor are available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5510179Thematic collection: This article is part of the Uranium Fluid Pathways collection available at: https://www.lyellcollection.org/cc/uranium-fluid-pathways
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de Alvarenga, C. J. S., M. Cathelineau, and J. Dubessy. "Chronology and orientation of N2–CH4, CO2-H2O, and H2O-rich fluid-inclusion trails in intrametamorphic quartz veins from the Cuiabá gold district, Brazil." Mineralogical Magazine 54, no. 375 (1990): 245–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1990.054.375.10.
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AbstractThe upper Proterozoic Cuiabá group of Mato Grosso, Brazil, is composed of low-grade clastic meta-sediments which have been folded by several successive tectonic events. Three generations of quartz veins are associated with the structural evolution of this area. The first veins are deformed by the main tectonic phases and show a complex deformational patterns. The second set is parallel to the cleavage and was formed syntectonically during the main folding phase, whilst the last quartz veins are related to a later stage of deformation. A systematic study of fluid inclusions in relation with a statistical study of microstructural markers (fluid inclusion trails, opened microcracks) was carried out on quartz veins from three localities. On the basis of microthermometric studies and Raman spectrometry analysis, four differents types of fluids have been distinguished, each trapped in specific fluid inclusion trails: (i) CO2-rich liquids and vapours (Lc, Vc) at Casa de Pedra, (ii) Lc and Vc inclusions with variable amounts of CO2, CH4, N2 in the vapour phase at BR-70, (iii) CH2-N2-rich vapours (Vn-m), and (iv) aqueous inclusions (L) with variable salinities representing the last fluid generations at all localities.At Casa de Pedra and BR-70, most fluids are observed within the three generations of quartz veins, indicating an important fluid circulation associated with the last phase of brittle deformation. Fluid inclusions of type (iii) and (iv) are oriented along several well defined directions. The study shows the importance of integrated microstructural and fluid-inclusion studies for understanding the geometry and chronology of fluid circulation.
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Velojić, Miloš, Rade Jelenković, and Vladica Cvetković. "Fluid Evolution of the Čukaru Peki Cu-Au Porphyry System (East Serbia) inferred from a fluid inclusion study." Geologia Croatica 73, no. 3 (2020): 197–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.4154/gc.2020.14.
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Čukaru Peki is a recently discovered copper-gold deposit in the Bor metallogenic zone in east Serbia. Three types of mineralization can be distinguished in this ore deposit: porphyry, high-sulphidation, and transitional epithermal type. This research was focused on fluid inclusion analysis of genetically different veins from the porphyry and the transitional zones of Čukaru Peki with an aim of better understanding the fluid evolution and mineralization processes in this system. Seven types of veins were identified in the porphyry zone of Čukaru Peki and four of these veins contained transparent minerals which were suitable for fluid inclusion analysis. Eight types of inclusion assemblages were distinguished in these veins: type 1 – primary inclusions with homogenization temperatures above 550°C and high salinity, type 2a- scattered polyphase inclusions two salt crystals, type 2b-polyphase inclusions with two salt crystals in crystal growth zones, type 3- brine inclusions with one salt crystal in crystal growth zones, type 4- vapour-rich inclusions, type 5- primary inclusions in anhydrite, and types 6 and 7- secondary low-temperature inclusions This research suggests that saline fluids (30-40% wt.% NaCl eq.) were the most important ones for the formation of porphyry-type mineralization and that the mineralization was formed at temperatures between 350 and 450°C and pressures between 100 and 500 bars. The epithermal stage was characterized by cooler low-salinity fluids with temperatures between 150-350°C, and salinity between 0 and 7 wt.% NaCl eq.
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Mueller, Mathias, Benjamin F. Walter, Peter K. Swart, et al. "A tale of three fluids: Fluid-inclusion and carbonate clumped-isotope paleothermometry reveals complex dolomitization and dedolomitization history of the Latemar platform." Journal of Sedimentary Research 92, no. 12 (2022): 1141–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2022.047.
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Abstract This work focuses on an exceptionally complex natural laboratory, the Triassic Latemar isolated platform in the Dolomite Mountains of northern Italy. It explores spatial and temporal gradients in processes and products related to contact metamorphism, dolomitization, and the dedolomitization of marine limestones. Rock samples were studied using dual fluid-inclusion thermometry and clumped-isotope thermometry. Independent of the spatial position at Latemar, Δ47 clumped-isotope and fluid-inclusion data provide contrasting paleotemperature estimates. An apparent lack of systematic patterns in fluid-inclusion data (homogenization temperature, salinity, density) results from analyses of micrometer-sized growth zones within a single crystal. The composition of the individual fluid inclusions represents a “snapshot” of fluid mixing with variable endmember elemental ratios. The bulk crush-leach data and slopes in Caexcessversus Nadeficit diagrams indicate different water–rock interactions and fluid signatures with evaporation sequences and crystalline rocks. The presence of three fluid types (crystalline basement brine, halite-dissolution brine, seawater) in all carbonates suggests that all fluids coexisted during contact metamorphism and dolomitization of Latemar carbonates. Non-equilibrium processes overruled thermodynamic controls on the precipitation of diagenetic phases. Fluid mixing resulted in the precipitation of two complex carbonate successions. The Δ47 data represent bulk temperatures, averaging the mixing ratio of fluids with different temperatures and their respective volume. Fluid-inclusions record patterns of remarkable complexity and shed light on the complexity of a multi-fluid system. Data shown here provide answers to the controversial interpretation of dolomitizing fluid temperature in the Latemar and exemplify the strengths of multi-proxy paleotemperature studies.
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Barr, Hazel. "Preliminary fluid inclusion studies in a high-grade blueschist terrain, Syros, Greece." Mineralogical Magazine 54, no. 375 (1990): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1990.054.375.03.
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AbstractPreliminary fluid inclusion measurements have been made on quartz (whole rocks and segregations) and garnet from a blueschist terrain. Although further measurements are required, the fluids apparently associated with the blueschist event are aqueous with no thermometrically detectable CO2, a feature which is consistent with mineral-fluid equilibria studies. The salinity of the fluid inclusions is highly variable, from almost pure H2O to halite saturation, and a mechanism involving hydration reactions, such as proposed by Crawford et al. (1979), is suggested. Fluid inclusions associated with the greenschist overprint, which has affected the terrain, are also aqueous in nature.
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Du, Jun, Honglun Chang, and Hongwei Liu. "Progresses in Fluid Inclusion Synthesis in Quartz." Geofluids 2022 (July 19, 2022): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/1900411.
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High-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP) fluids are one of the most extensive participants in geological events. The representative in situ sampling of the HTHP fluids, which is an essential prerequisite for precisely characterizing the HTHP fluids (including compositional and volumetric properties), has been a vital challenge. The technique of fluid inclusion synthesis (FIS) in quartz is one of the only options. It has experienced an almost 40-year development since the standard fracture healing method was invented. Considerable advances in our understanding of physicochemical properties of geological fluids and their roles in many geological processes have been achieved by the use of the FIS techniques. A set of methodologies for fluid inclusion synthesis have been established. Great progresses have also been made, which includes the various pretreatment FIS techniques, the in situ fracturing FIS technique closely associated with the HTHP apparatus, the in situ fracturing refilled FIS technique for large fluid inclusion synthesis at controlled time under unfavorable conditions, and the novel fluid inclusion synthesis by fused silica capillary. Such great many progresses of the quartz FIS techniques have been scattered in the geochemists’ individual research work, and systematic collection and objective evaluation are missing. Consequently, we synthesize existing research, describe and identify the basic operations, discuss the methodological issues like pros and cons, and highlight the problems and prospects of the quartz FIS techniques. Furthermore, it is suggested that in situ and (or) large volume fluid inclusion synthesis will be an important future direction in view of the growing applications of the FIS techniques in combination with microanalytical techniques, especially the Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). Our review would provide technical guidance to those who wish to investigate HTHP fluids and be beneficial to the future development and applications of the FIS techniques.
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Asha Manjari, K. G. "Fluid Inclusion Studies in Charnockites from Yercaud Area, Tamil Nadu." Journal Geological Society of India 41, no. 1 (1993): 60–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.17491/jgsi/1993/410106.
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Abstract Massive charnockites from the Yercaud area in Tamil Nadu show petrographic evidence for post-metamorphic deformation. Fluid inclusion studies indicate a change in densities from 1.06 - 1.03 g/cm3 in the early carbonic inclusions to 1.17 - 0.90g/cm3 in the late carbonic inclusions. The wide range of density variations within each generation of fluids suggest that the syn-metamorphic fluids captured within inclusions could have been preferentially leaked out during post-metamorphic deformation.
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Pan, Jun-Yi, Pei Ni, and Ru-Cheng Wang. "Comparison of fluid processes in coexisting wolframite and quartz from a giant vein-type tungsten deposit, South China: Insights from detailed petrography and LA-ICP-MS analysis of fluid inclusions." American Mineralogist 104, no. 8 (2019): 1092–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/am-2019-6958.
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Abstract Granite-related wolframite-quartz veins are the world's most important tungsten mineralization and production resource. Recent progress in revealing their hydrothermal processes has been greatly facilitated by the use of infrared microscopy and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analysis of both quartz- and wolframite-hosted fluid inclusions. However, owing to the paucity of detailed petrography, previous fluid inclusion studies on coexisting wolframite and quartz are associated with a certain degree of ambiguity. To better understand the fluid processes forming these two minerals, free-grown crystals of intergrown wolframite and quartz from the giant Yaogangxian W deposit in South China were studied using integrated in situ analytical methods including cathodoluminescence (CL) imaging, infrared microthermometry, Raman microspectroscopy, and fluid inclusion LA-ICP-MS analysis. Detailed crystal-scale petrography with critical help from CL imaging shows repetition of quartz, wolframite, and muscovite in the depositional sequence, which comprises a paragenesis far more complex than previous comparable studies. The reconstruction of fluid history in coexisting wolframite and quartz recognizes at least four successive fluid inclusion generations, two of which were entrapped concurrently with wolframite deposition. Fluctuations of fluid temperature and salinity during precipitation of coexisting wolframite and quartz are reflected by our microthermometry results, according to which wolframite-hosted fluid inclusions do not display higher homogenization temperature or salinity than those in quartz. However, LA-ICP-MS analysis shows that both primary fluid inclusions in wolframite and quartz-hosted fluid inclusions associated intimately with wolframite deposition are characterized by strong enrichment in Sr and depletion in B and As compared to quartz-hosted fluid inclusions that are not associated with wolframite deposition. The chemical similarity between the two fluid inclusion generations associated with wolframite deposition implies episodic tungsten mineralization derived from fluids exhibiting distinct chemical signatures. Multiple chemical criteria including incompatible elements and Br/Cl ratios of fluid inclusions in both minerals suggest a magmatic-sourced fluid with the possible addition of sedimentary and meteoric water. Combined with microthermometry and Raman results, fluid chemical evolution in terms of B, As, S, Sr, W, Mn, Fe, and carbonic volatiles collectively imply fluid phase separation and mixing with sedimentary fluid may have played important roles in wolframite deposition, whereas fluid cooling and addition of Fe and Mn do not appear to be the major driving factor. This study also shows that fluid inclusions in both wolframite and coexisting quartz may contain a substantial amount of carbonic volatiles (CO2 ± CH4) and H3BO3. Ignoring the occurrence of these components can result in significant overestimation of apparent salinity and miscalculation of LA-ICP-MS elemental concentrations. We suggest that these effects should be considered critically to avoid misinterpretation of fluid inclusion data, especially for granite-related tungsten-tin deposits.
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Lajoie, Marie-Ève, Stephen J. Piercey, James Conliffe, and Daniel Layton-Matthews. "Geology, mineralogy, S and Sr isotope geochemistry, and fluid inclusion analysis of barite associated with the Lemarchant Zn–Pb–Cu–Ag–Au-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Newfoundland, Canada." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 57, no. 1 (2020): 133–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0161.
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Barite in the approximately 513 Ma Lemarchant volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit, Newfoundland, consists of granular and bladed barite intimately associated with mineralization. Regardless of type, the composition of barite is homogeneous at bulk rock and mineral scale containing predominantly Ba, S, and Sr, with minor Ca and Na. The barite has homogeneous sulphur isotope compositions (δ34Smean = 27‰), similar to Cambrian seawater sulphate (25–35‰) and Sr isotope compositions (87Sr/86Sr = 0.706905 to 0.707485). These results are consistent with barite having formed from fluid–fluid mixing between Cambrian seawater and VMS-related hydrothermal fluids. The 87Sr/86Sr values in the barite are lower than mid-Cambrian seawater, which suggests that some of the Sr was derived from the underlying Neoproterozoic basement. Fluid inclusions in bladed barite are low-salinity, CO2-rich inclusions with homogenization temperatures between 245°–250 °C, and average salinity of 1.2 wt.% NaCl equivalent. Estimated minimum trapping pressures of between 1.7 to 2.0 kbars were calculated from aqueous–carbonic fluid inclusion assemblages. The fluid inclusion results reflect regional metamorphic reequilibration during younger Silurian regional metamorphism, rather than primary fluid signatures, despite the preservation of primary barite and fluid inclusion textures. These results illustrate that barite in VMS deposits records the physicochemical processes associated with VMS formation and the sources of fluids in ancient VMS deposits, as well as seawater sulphate and basement isotopic compositions. The results herein are not only relevant for the Lemarchant deposit but also for other barite-rich VMS deposits globally.
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Thomas, L. J., R. S. Harmon, and G. J. H. Oliver. "Stable isotope compositions of alteration fluids in low-grade Lower Palaeozoic rocks, English Lake District." Mineralogical Magazine 49, no. 352 (1985): 425–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1985.049.352.13.
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AbstractA combination of hydrogen and oxygen isotope analyses and fluid inclusion studies has defined the composition of fluids involved in the metamorphism of Lower Palaeozoic rocks in the English Lake District. Three fluid fields have been defined from secondary phases: 1, syn-burial metamorphic D-enriched fluids from epidote and chlorite at a temperature between 250 and 350°C; D-depleted fluid measured from groundmass and quartz inclusions; 3, a mixed magmatic-meteoric fluid with an intermediate H-isotopic composition estimated from W/R granite data and calculated from illite.
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Cui, Kai, Yunwei Qu, Yuling Xie, Kejun Yang, and Zhaoqiang Huang. "Ore Genesis of the Langcun Porphyry W-Mo Deposit, South China: Constraints from Fluid Inclusion and H-O-S Isotopics." Minerals 15, no. 2 (2025): 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/min15020109.
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The Langcun W-Mo deposit, located in the Zhejiang Province of South China, is a medium-sized porphyry deposit. The ore bodies mainly occur in aplite, granite porphyry, and the contact zone with hornfels of the Nanhua System. Four stages of mineralization are recognized in the Langcun deposit, including the quartz–K-feldspar stage (stage I), quartz–sericite–molybdenite stage (stage II), quartz–chlorite–pyrite stage (stage III), and calcite stage (stage IV). Stages I and II are the main ore-forming stages for wolframite and molybdenite. The petrographic and microthermometric results show that four types of fluid inclusions exist in the Langcun W-Mo deposit, including two-phase liquid-rich fluid inclusions (type LV), three-phase CO2-rich fluid inclusions (type LC), pure CO2 fluid inclusions (type C), vapor H2O inclusions (type V), and multi-phase inclusions with daughter minerals (type LDV). In stage I, the fluid inclusion assemblage is LDV + LV + V, and the LDV and LV fluid inclusions have similar homogenization temperatures (281–387 °C), indicating a boiling fluid inclusions association. In stage II, the fluid inclusion assemblage is LC + C, indicating immiscibility between CO2 and aqueous fluids. The homogenization temperatures of type LC are in the range of 228–342 °C, and the salinities are in the range of 2.77–5.14 wt.% NaCl equiv. The fluid inclusions in stages III and IV are type LV, with homogenization temperatures in the ranges of 224–275 °C and 200–225 °C, respectively, and salinities in the ranges of 1.74 to 4.96 wt.% NaCl equiv and 1.06 to 3.39 wt.% NaCl equiv, respectively. Hydrogen and oxygen isotopic results indicate that the ore-forming fluids mainly come from magmatic water in the early stage and may have received an input of meteoric water in the late stage, which results in the decrease in the temperature and salinity of ore-forming fluid. Early W-Mo precipitation was induced by CO2 escape because of decompression, and fluid mixing resulted in Mo precipitation in the later stage.
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Konnerup-Madsen, Jens. "A reconnaissance study of fluid inclusions in fracture-filling quartz and calcite from the Lopra-1/1A well, Faroe Islands." Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) Bulletin 9 (May 31, 2006): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.34194/geusb.v9.4864.
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Fracture-filling calcite and quartz from the Lopra-1/1A well (at 2380 m and 3543 m depth) contains both aqueous low-salinity fluid inclusions and hydrocarbon-dominated fluid inclusions. Microthermometry indicates that the aqueous fluids contain 0.2 to 1.4 equivalent weight% NaCl and occasionally contain traces of hydrocarbons. Homogenisation to liquid occurred between 90°C and 150°C. Modelling based on these fluid inclusion observations indicates that during burial the basaltic section was subjected to temperatures of 160°C and 170°C, occasional pressures of 600–700 bars and the simultaneous percolation of aqueous and hydrocarbon fluids. These fluid conditions may also be relevant to the formation of zeolite observed in the Lopra-1/1A well.
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Mao, Wei, Ziqi Jiang, Thomas Ulrich, Hong Zhong, and Linbo Shang. "Improvements in the Quantification of End-Member Vapor Compositions in Fluid Inclusion Boiling Assemblages and Implications for Metal Transport by Low-Density Fluids." Economic Geology 119, no. 3 (2024): 573–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.5059.
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Abstract Under conditions typically found in the Earth’s crust, there is a large pressure-temperature-composition range in the H2O-NaCl system where fluids may separate into a low-salinity vapor end member and a high-salinity liquid end member. However, heterogeneous trapping is common during the formation of fluid inclusions in an immiscible fluid system, violating the fundamental assumption of homogeneous entrapment for fluid inclusion microthermometry. This has profound consequences on the composition of these fluid phases and consequently on the formation of ore deposits from hydrothermal systems. At the same time, minor mixture of the high-salinity liquid phase with the low-salinity vapor phase cannot be distinguished from the end-member vapor-rich fluid inclusions by their bubble sizes. Precise determination of the salinities of vapor-rich fluid inclusions using microthermometry is deterred by the very small proportion of the liquid phase and the limitation of the analytical precision. All this will lead to erroneous compositional data from fluid inclusion analysis. We have quantitively calculated the variations of fluid inclusion properties caused by heterogeneous entrapment during phase separation in the H2O-NaCl system and showed that the salinity, and thereby the element contents and element/Na ratios of the vapor-rich fluid inclusions, is significantly changed in heterogeneously trapped fluid inclusions. The addition of 1 vol % of the high-salinity end member to the low-salinity end member results in a salinity change from 0.99 to 4.4 wt % NaCl equiv at the phase separation condition of 800 bar and 750°C. This will have a significant impact when it comes to determining the concentration of elements transported as chlorine complexes and typically leads to an overestimation of the mass transport capability by the vapor phase. Therefore, every effort should be taken during microthermometry to find and measure the least affected vapor-rich fluid inclusions. Our numerical calculations and synthetic fluid inclusions reveal that there is a linear relationship between the salinity and element contents for fluid inclusions at different extents of heterogeneous entrapment. Therefore, linear correction to the measured lowest vapor salinity can obtain a good approximation of the element contents in the end-member vapor phase.
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Krenn, Kurt, and Le Thi Thu Huong. "Fluid characteristics from shallow magmatic environments: A contribution to danburite bearing Luc Yen pegmatites, northern Vietnam." VIETNAM JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES 41, no. 1 (2019): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15625/0866-7187/41/1/13541.
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Danburite as a member of the Luc Yen pegmatite mineral assemblage has been studied using fluid inclusion microthermometry and Raman spectroscopy. Data characterize well-preserved fluid inclusions which originate from primary large tubular inclusions as result of necking down. Same modifications underwent a second inclusion generation that evolved during healing of a later crack. Both generations of fluid inclusions show the same chemistry (H2O-CO2) characterizing 3-phase inclusions with additional solids (calcite, sassolite and danburite). Inclusions consist of pure CO2 and H2O with additional NaCl ± KCl comprising a salinity of about 4.5 mass%. Internal fluid inclusion pressures as well as bulk inclusion densities have been calculated using the fermi diad split method of pure CO2 at clathrate melting temperatures of the system and total homogenization temperatures, respectively. Mean internal pressures of ca. 4.5 MPa as well as a bulk density around 0.60 g/cm3 represent a low-dense fluid with XH2O~0.86 and XCO2~0.14 in composition that was present during formation of danburite. Data characterize danburite as a late stage crystallization member of the pegmatite in a shallow magmatic environment.ReferencesAnovitz L.M. and Grew, E.S., 1996. Mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry of boron: An introduction. In L.M. Anovitz and E.S. Grew, Eds., Boron: Mineralogy, Petrology, and Geochemistry, Reviews in Mineralogy, Vol. 33, Mineralogical Society of America, Washington DC, USA, 1–40.Bakker, R.J., 1997. Clathrates: computer programs to calculate fluid inclusion V–X properties using clathrate melting temperatures. Computer & Geosciences, 23, 1-18.Bakker R.J., Diamond L.W., 2000. Determination of the composition and molar volume of H2O–CO2 fluid inclusions by microthermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 1753-1764.Bodnar R.J., 1993. Revised equation and table for determining the freezing point depression of H2O-NaCl solutions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 57, 683-684.Chauviré B., Rondeau B., Fritsch E., Ressigeac P., Devidal J.-L., 2015. Blue spinel from the Luc Yen District of Vietnam. Gems & Gemology, 51, 1, 2–17.Diamond L., 2003. Glossary: Terms and symbols used in fluid inclusion studies, In: Samson, I., Anderson, A., Marshall, D. (Eds.), Fluid Inclusions: Analysis and Interpretation. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Series, 32, 365-374.Duan Z., Møller N., Weare J.H., 1996. A general equation of state for supercritical fluid mixtures and molecular dynamics simulation of mixture PVTX properties. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 1209-1216.Davis D.W., Lowenstein T.K., Spencer R.J., 1990. Melting behavior of fluid inclusions in laboratory-grown halite crystals in the systems NaCl-H2O, NaCl-KCl-H2O, NaCl-MgC12-H2O, and NaCl-CaCl2-H2O. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 54, 591-601.Fall A., Tattrich B., Bodnar R.J., 2011. Combined microthermometric and Raman spectroscopic technique to determine the salinity of H2O-CO2-NaCl fluid inclusions based on clathrate melting. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 951-964.Garnier V., Ohnenstetter D., Giuliani G., Maluski H., Deloule E., Phan Trong T., Pham Van L., Hoang Quang V., 2005. Age and significance of ruby bearing marble from the Red River shear zone, northern Vietnam. Canadian Mineralogist, 43(4), 1315-1329.Goldstein R.H., Reynolds T.J., 1994. Systematics of fluid inclusions in diagenetic minerals. SEPM Short Course, 31.Kurshakova L.D., 1982. Temperature regime and geochemical conditions of formation of danburite. International Geology Review 24, 3, 367–371.Roedder E. 1984. Fluid Inclusions. Reviews in Mineralogy, 12, 646.Tattitch B.C., Candela P.A., Piccoli P.M., Bodnar R.J., 2015. Copper partitioning between felsic melt and H2O-CO2 bearing saline fluids. Geochim.
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Zhu, Ruijing, Rongxi Li, Xiaoli Wu, et al. "The Accumulation Characteristics of the Paleozoic Reservoir in the Central-Southern Ordos Basin Recorded by Organic Inclusions." Geofluids 2021 (September 16, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/9365364.
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The Permian tight clastic reservoir and Ordovician carbonate reservoir were developed in the central-southern Ordos Basin. This study investigated the fluid inclusion petrography, diagenetic fluid characteristics, formation process of natural gas reservoir, source rock characteristics, and reservoir accumulation characteristics of these Paleozoic strata by petrographic observations, scanning electron microscope imaging, fluid inclusion homogenization temperature, salinity, laser Raman spectrum, and gas chromatograph analyses. The results have suggested two phases of fluid inclusions in both the Permian sandstone and the Ordovician Majiagou Formation dolomite reservoirs, and the fluid inclusions recorded the history from the early thermal evolution of hydrocarbon generation to the formation, migration, and accumulation of natural gas. The early-phase inclusions show weak yellow fluorescence and recorded the early formation of liquid hydrocarbons, while the late-phase inclusions are nonfluorescent natural gas inclusions distributed in the late tectonic fractures and recorded the late accumulation of natural gas. The brine systems of the Permian and Ordovician fluid inclusions are, respectively, dominated by CaCl2-H2O and MgCl2-NaCl-H2O. The diagenetic fluids were in the ranges of medium-low temperature and moderate-low salinity. The natural gas hydrocarbon source rocks in the Ordos Basin include both the Permian coal-bearing rocks and the Ordovician carbonates. The process of the early-phase liquid hydrocarbon formation and migration into the reservoir corresponded to 220 Ma (Late Triassic). The late large-scale migration and accumulation of natural gas occurred at 100 Ma (early Late Cretaceous), which was close to the inclusion Rb/Sr isochron age of 89.18 Ma, indicating that the natural gas accumulation was related to the Yanshanian tectonic movement.
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Oo, Kha Yay, Wayan Warmada, Anastasia Dewi Titisari, and Koichiro Watanabe. "Ore Forming Fluid of Epithermal Quartz Veins at Cisuru Prospect, Papandayan District, West Java, Indonesia." Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment, and Technology 4, no. 3 (2019): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/jgeet.2019.4.3.2279.
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The Cisuru area is located in Talegong Sub-district, Garut Regency, West Java, Indonesia which is belongs to the central part of Southern Mountain Slope. The aim of this research is to understand the nature and characteristic of fluid inclusion from quartz veins (especially drill core samples) in the study area. Rock units in the area are characterized by Tertiary volcanic rocks and volcaniclastic sequence which is mainly composed of andesite, andesitic breccia, volcanic breccia, lapilli tuff, dacite and related to the intrusion of diorite. The Cisuru epithermal mineralization is dominantly hosted by andesite, dacite, breccia and lapilli tuff, and would probably be controlled by both permeable rocks and NS and NE-SW trending strike-slip faults. The mineralization is shown as void filling and replacement within the silica zone, veinlets along with the open space/fractures and dissemination. Fluid inclusion from quartz veins was studied to know nature, characteristics and origin of hydrothermal fluids. Microthermometric measurements of fluid inclusions were realized by using a Linkam THMSG 600 combined freezing and heating stages. Homogenization temperature and final ice melting temperature were measured for primary two-phase inclusion from quartz veins. Base on the study of the fluid inclusion, the value of homogenization temperature (Th) range from 200 ºC to 395 °C and ice melting temperature range from -0.1 to - 4.5 where salinity range from 0.2 to 7.2 wt. % NaCl equivalent. Fluid inclusion petrography and microthermometric measurement data exhibit that fluid mixing, dilution and boiling were main processes during the hydrothermal evolution. The formation temperature of each quartz vein is 260 ºC to 290 ºC and also their formation depth is estimated between 560m to 925m respectively. Combination of fluid inclusions petrography, microthermometric measurement, and estimate paleo depth from Cisuru area were suggested under the epithermal environment.
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Baldorj, Baatartsogt, Thomas Wagner, and Gregor Markl. "A fluid inclusion and stable-isotope study of hydrothermal vein mineralization, Schwarzwald district, Germany." Геологийн асуудлууд 16 (February 23, 2023): 5–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.22353/.v16i1.2258.
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A combined fluid inclusion and stable isotope study has been carried out on over 180 individual samples from 89 post-Variscan hydrothermal veins (Pb-Zn-Cu-bearing fluorite-barite-quartz veins, Co-Ni-Ag-Bi-U-bearing barite-fluorite-quartz veins and barren barite-fluorite-quartz veins) from the Schwarzwald district, Germany. The salinities of fluid inclusions in post-Variscan primary fluorite, calcite, barite and quartz are in the range of 22–25 wt.% equivalent (eqv.) NaCl, and the eutectic temperatures range between –57 and –45°C, indicating the presence of H2O-NaCl-CaCl2 fluids. Homogenization temperatures vary from 130 to 180°C. A low-salinity fluid (0 to 15 wt.% eqv. NaCl) was observed in some late stage fluorite, calcite and quartz samples, which were trapped similar temperature, range of high salinity fluids.
 Raman microprobe analyses show that the only detectable volatile in the vapour is CO2. Almost all δ18O (n=86) measurements of quartz from the fluorite-bearing post-Variscan veins range between +11.1 and +20.9 ‰. The calculated δ18OH2O values are between –11.0 and +4.4 ‰, using known quartz-water fractionation and fluid inclusion homogenization temperatures. The δ18OH2O values of directly extracted fluid inclusion water of fluorites range from –11.6 to +1.1 ‰, very consistent with the calculated values. The δD values of fluid inclusion water in calcites (extracted from primary and late calcite samples) lie in a narrower range between –26 and –15 ‰. The extracted fluid inclusion water from quartz samples has significantly more variable δD values between –63 and +9 ‰. The δ13C and δ18O values of fluid inclusion gas (CO2) range between –21.4 and –6.7 ‰ and between –16.3 to –7.1 ‰, respectively.
 Calculations for fluorite-barite-quartz veins combining oxygen isotope equilibria with microthermometric data result in quartz precipitation temperatures of 120–170°C at pressures between 0.3 to 0.5 kbar. The δ18OH2O and δD data, particularly the observed wide range in hydrogen isotopic compositions, indicate that the hydrothermal mineralization formed through large-scale mixing of a basement-derived saline NaCl-CaCl2 brine with meteoric water.
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Chi, Guoxiang, Larryn W. Diamond, Huanzhang Lu, Jianqing Lai, and Haixia Chu. "Common Problems and Pitfalls in Fluid Inclusion Study: A Review and Discussion." Minerals 11, no. 1 (2020): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min11010007.
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The study of fluid inclusions is important for understanding various geologic processes involving geofluids. However, there are a number of problems that are frequently encountered in the study of fluid inclusions, especially by beginners, and many of these problems are critical for the validity of the fluid inclusion data and their interpretations. This paper discusses some of the most common problems and/or pitfalls, including those related to fluid inclusion petrography, metastability, fluid phase relationships, fluid temperature and pressure calculation and interpretation, bulk fluid inclusion analysis, and data presentation. A total of 16 problems, many of which have been discussed in the literature, are described and analyzed systematically. The causes of the problems, their potential impact on data quality and interpretation, as well as possible remediation or alleviation, are discussed.
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Thankan, Silpa, V. Nandakumar, and S. Shivapriya. "Raman Spectroscopic Technique to Distinguish Constituents of Hydrocarbon-Bearing Fluid Inclusions of Kerala-Konkan Basin, Western offshore, India." Journal of Geosciences Research 8, no. 1 (2023): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.56153/g19088-022-0096-21.
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Fluid inclusion studies have a great diversity of applications in exploration geology and are necessary tools in the determination of palaeotemperature and nature of fluids associated with the rocks in a basin. Using various fluid inclusion techniques such as petrography, microthermometry and Laser Raman Spectroscopy of fluid inclusions with Hydrocarbon fluid inclusions (HCFIs) help us to understand the generation potential of the basin. The representative micron sized fluid inclusions that intruded into the different geological formations of the KK-4C-A1well drilled by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in Kerala-Konkan Basin, India has been selected for this study. Petrographic analyses confirm the presence of HCFIs with the help of Ultraviolet (UV) light. Raman spectra of HCFIs identified in different formations were examined. The temperature of homogenization (Th) obtained through microthermometric analysis of the fluid inclusions indicate the palaeotemperature of the sedimentary rock units. Coeval-aqueous inclusions associated to HCFIs show Th within the oil window range 60-140oC, indicating a temperature favourable for oil generation in Kerala-Konkan Basin (K-K Basin).Characterisation of hydrocarbon bearing fluid inclusions were carried out using Raman spectroscopy. HCFIs were observed in the annealed micro-cracks of Cannanore (Early Miocene), Calicut (Early Oligocene) formation (Type I) and Kasaragod (Palaeocene to Early Eocene) Formation (Type II), might get trapped along the micro-fracture by re-healing process. Laser Raman study could decipher hydrocarbon species such as Alkanes, SO2, COS, H2S, etc. Keywords: Hydrocarbon Fluid Inclusions, Oil Window Temperature, Raman Spectroscopy, Kerala-Konkan Basin
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Oo, Toe Naing, Agung Harijoko, and Lucas Donny Setijadji. "Fluid Inclusion Study of Epithermal Quartz Veins from the Kyaukmyet Prospect, Monywa Copper-Gold Ore Field, Central Myanmar." Journal of Geoscience, Engineering, Environment, and Technology 6, no. 4 (2021): 248–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.25299/jgeet.2021.6.4.7726.
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The Kyaukmyet prospect is located near the main ore bodies of the Kyisintaung and Sabetaung high-sulfidation Cu-Au deposits, Monywa copper-gold ore field, central Myanmar. Lithologic units in the research area are of mainly rhyolite lava, lapilli tuff and silicified sandstone, mudstone and siltstone units of Magyigon Formation which hosted to be polymetallic mineralization. Our field study recorded that epithermal quartz veins are hosted largely in rhyolite lava and lapilli tuff units. Those quartz veins show crustiform, banded (colloform), lattice bladed texture and comb quartz. The main objectives of the present research in which fluid inclusion studies were considered to conduct the nature, characteristics and hydrothermal fluids evolution from the epithermal quartz veins. In this research, there are three main types of fluid inclusions are classified according to their phase relationship (1) two-phase liquid-rich inclusions, (2) the coexisting liquid-rich and vapor-rich inclusions, and (3) only vapor-rich inclusions. Microthermometric measurements of fluid inclusions yielded homogenization temperatures (Th) of 148–282 °C and final ice-melting temperature (Tm) of -0.2°C to -1.4°C . The value of (Tm) are equal to the salinities reaching up 0.35 to 2.07 wt % NaCl equiv. respectively. Estimation formation temperature of the quartz veins provide 190°C and 210°C and paleo-depth of formation are estimated to be between 130m and 210m. Petrography of fluid inclusion and microthermometric data suggest that fluid boiling as well as mixing processes were likely to be happened during the hydrothermal fluid evolution at the Kyaukmyet prospect. According to the characteristics of many parameters including petrography of fluid inclusion, microthermometric data, paleo-depth, evidence of quartz vein textures and types of hydrothermal alteration from the Kyaukmyet prospect allows to interpret these data to be the low-sulfidation epithermal system.
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Chai, Peng, Hong-rui Zhang, Zeng-qian Hou, Zhi-yu Zhang, and Lei-lei Dong. "Ore geology, fluid inclusion, and stable isotope constraints on the origin of the Damoqujia gold deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, China." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 57, no. 12 (2020): 1428–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0247.
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The Damoqujia gold deposit within the Zhaoping Fault Zone on Jiaodong Peninsula in eastern China is hosted primarily by Mesozoic granitoids and contains >60 t of gold, making it an important gold producer. Three mineralization stages are distinguished (early, middle, and late): (K-feldspar)–sericite–quartz–pyrite, quartz – gold – polymetallic sulfides, and quartz–carbonate. Gold deposition occurred mainly in the middle stage. The primary fluid inclusions of three stages are mainly homogenized at temperatures of 236–389, 191–346, and 104–251 °C, with salinities of 2.96–11.33, 1.39–17.28, and 0.53–11.48 wt.% NaCl equivalent, respectively. Fluid inclusion studies indicate that the metallogenic system evolved from CO2-rich mesothermal homogeneous fluids to CO2-poor aqueous fluids due to inputs of meteoric waters. The gold was carried as a bisulfide complex in the ore-forming fluids. Precipitation of gold was caused by a combination of fluid immiscibility and water–rock interaction. Studies of the fluid inclusion characteristics (medium temperature, CO2-rich, and low salinity H2O–CO2–NaCl homogeneous system), hydrogen and oxygen isotopes ([Formula: see text] = –1.0‰ to 7.6‰, δD = –109‰ to –77‰), sulfur values ([Formula: see text] = 4.5‰ to 8.5‰), and regional geological events show that the ore-forming fluids reservoir was likely metamorphic in origin. Based on the immiscibility of fluid inclusion assemblages, the estimated depth and pressure of trapping are 8.3–10.2 km and 83–276 MPa, respectively, corresponding to the depth and pressure of mineralization.
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Bodnar, Robert J., and Maria Luce Frezzotti. "Microscale Chemistry: Raman Analysis of Fluid and Melt Inclusions." Elements 16, no. 2 (2020): 93–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.2138/gselements.16.2.93.
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Raman spectroscopy is a commonly applied nondestructive analytical technique for characterizing fluid and melt inclusions. The exceptional spatial resolution (~1 µm) and excellent spectral resolution (≤1 cm−1) permits the characterization of micrometer-scale phases and allows quantitative analyses based on Raman spectral features. Data provided by Raman analysis of fluid and melt inclusions has significantly advanced our understanding of complex geologic processes, including preeruptive volatile contents of magmas, the nature of fluids in the deep crust and upper mantle, the generation and evolution of methane-bearing fluids in unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. Anticipated future advances include the development of Raman mass spectroscopy and the use of Raman to monitor reaction progress in synthetic and natural fluid inclusion microreactors.
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Srikantappa, C., and L. Venugopal. "Fluid Inclusions in Migmatites from Hunsur, Karnataka." Journal Geological Society of India 49, no. 5 (1997): 503–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17491/jgsi/1997/490504.
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Abstract Fluid inclusion studies in migmatites around Hunsur document the presence of a) CO2-CH4, CO2 and CO2-H2O inclusions in paleosome, b) predominantly CO2 inclusions in leucosome and c) CO2 and low salinity aqueous inclusions in late pink granite. Chronological studies of CO2 inclusions in quartz grains from migmatites and their densities corresponding to Th maxima plus mineral P-T data for the regional metamorphism indicate that they are syn-migmatitic fluids. An internal origin of CO2 inclusions during the process of migmatization is envisaged.
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Azmy, Karem, and Nigel J. F. Blamey. "Source of diagenetic fluids from fluid-inclusion gas ratios." Chemical Geology 347 (June 2013): 246–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.04.011.
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Nehlig, Pierre. "Salinity of oceanic hydrothermal fluids: a fluid inclusion study." Earth and Planetary Science Letters 102, no. 3-4 (1991): 310–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0012-821x(91)90026-e.
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Cathelineau, M., M. Lespinasse, A. M. Bastoul, C. Bernard, and J. Leroy. "Fluid migration during contact metamorphism: the use of oriented fluid inclusion trails for a time/space reconstruction." Mineralogical Magazine 54, no. 375 (1990): 169–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.1990.054.375.04.
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AbstractMicrothermometric characteristics of metamorphic to hydrothermal fluids and microfracturing were studied in a contact zone between metamorphic series and peraluminous granites, located in the southern part of the Mont Lozère pluton (Massif Central, France). Four major stages of fluid production or migration have been recognized: (1) N2-CH4 (±CO2)-rich fluids related to the metamorphism of the C-bearing shales, occurring as fluid inclusion along the quartz grain boundaries; (2) CO2-CH4-H2O vapours or liquids, with homogenization temperatures of 400 ± 20 and 350 ± 50°C respectively, related to the first hydrothermal stage produced by the late peraluminuous intrusions; (3) aqueous fluids having low salinities and Th in the range 150–330°C; (4) low-temperature aqueous fluids.It is shown that the percolation of hydrothermal fluids occurs through a dense set of microfissures on a microscopic scale. The different stages of fluid percolation have been investigated by relating the deformational events to the observed fracturing. The nature of the hydrothermal fluid has been deduced by studying the trails of fluid inclusions. Analysis of the relationships of the fluid inclusion trails (F.I.T.) with structures associated with plastic deformation show that their propagation is independent of the intracrystalline anisotropies. Combined studies of their orientation in space and their microthermometric characteristics show that: (1) according to the direction, several generations of fluids are distinguished within each sample on the basis of their physical-chemical characteristics; they correspond to different stages of the hydrothermal activity and to different directions of micro-crack opening; (2) in bulk isotropic media (granite), fluid inclusion trails are essentially mode I cracks which can be used as excellent markers of paleostress fields; however, in bulk anisotropic media (quartz lenses in mica schists) the migration directions of the fluids are mostly dependent on the local reorientations of the stress fields.The study of the contact zone between granites and a metamorphic series submitted to local abnormal heat flows shows that fluid characteristics are significantly different in the two environments. Migration of carbonic fluids from mica schists towards granites occurred but is relatively limited, whilst aqueous fluids mixed in variable amounts with carbonic fluids in the metamorphic zone.
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Wieser, Penny E., and Charlotte DeVitre. "DiadFit: An open-source Python3 tool for peak fitting of Raman data from silicate melts and CO2 fluids." Volcanica 7, no. 1 (2024): 335–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30909/vol.07.01.335359.
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We present DiadFit—an open-source Python3 tool for efficient processing of Raman spectroscopy data collected from fluid inclusions, melt inclusions and silicate melts. DiadFit is optimized to fit the characteristic peaks from CO2 fluids (Fermi diads, hot bands, 13C), gas species such as SO2, N2, solid precipitates (e.g. carbonates), and Ne emission lines with easily tweakable background positions and peak shapes. DiadFit's peak fitting functions are used as part of a number of workflows optimized for quantification of CO2 in melt inclusion vapour bubbles and fluid inclusions. DiadFit can also convert between temperature, pressure and density using various CO2 and CO2-H2O equations of state (EOS), allowing calculation of fluid inclusion pressures (and depths in the crust), conversion of homogenization temperatures from microthermometry to CO2 density, and propagation of uncertainties associated with EOS calculations using Monte Carlo methods. There are also functions to quantify the area ratio of the silicate vs. H2O region of spectra collected on silicate glasses to determine H2O contents in glasses and melt inclusions. Documentation and worked examples are available (https://bit.ly/DiadFitRTD, https://bit.ly/DiadFitYouTube).
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SATISH-KUMAR, M., and M. SANTOSH. "A petrological and fluid inclusion study of calc-silicate–charnockite associations from southern Kerala, India: implications for CO2 influx." Geological Magazine 135, no. 1 (1998): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756897008145.
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Recent discovery of wollastonite-bearing calc-silicate assemblages adjacent to gneiss–charnockite horizons in the supracrustal terrain of the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India, provides an opportunity to evaluate the carbonic fluid infiltration model proposed for charnockite formation. Petrological and fluid inclusion studies across these horizons in three representative localities are presented in this study. The calc-silicate assemblages define peak metamorphic conditions of ∼800°C at 5 kbar and define a low aCO2. Adjacent charnockite assemblages developed through dehydration involving the breakdown of garnet, biotite and quartz to produce orthopyroxene under low aH2O conditions. Retrograde reactions preserved in the calc-silicate rocks, such as scapolite–quartz symplectites, and the partial breakdown of wollastonite previously has been attributed to a near isothermal decompression during which infiltration of CO2-rich fluids occurred. Fluid inclusion studies indicate that the earliest generation of fluids preserved in the calc-silicate assemblages are aqueous (with salinity ∼8 wt% NaCl equivalent), consistent with mineral phase equilibria defining low aCO2. The estimation of NaCl content in brines coexisting with scapolite, based on the Cl content of the scapolite, indicates the presence of up to 20 wt % NaCl during the formation of scapolite consistent with the saline primary fluid inclusions. Primary carbonic inclusions occur within the retrogressed calcite+quartz assemblage after wollastonite, and are considered to represent the post-peak metamorphic carbonic fluid infiltration event, synchronous with the development of charnockites in the adjacent gneisses. These inclusions have identical characteristics to those in the charnockites. We envisage that the Kerala Khondalite Belt fluid regime was largely internally buffered during the prograde path, and that CO2 infiltration post-dated peak metamorphism. Influx of CO2 was mostly structurally controlled, and occurred along a near-isothermal uplift path. Graphite-bearing pegmatitic dykes with abundant CO2-rich inclusions in these localities attest to the transfer of carbonic fluids through magmatic conduits.
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Lopez-Elorza, Maialen, Maria Belén Muñoz-García, Laura González-Acebrón, and Javier Martín-Chivelet. "Fluid-inclusion petrography in calcite stalagmites: Implications for entrapment processes." Journal of Sedimentary Research 91, no. 11 (2021): 1206–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2021.016.
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ABSTRACT Fluids trapped in speleothems have an enormous potential in frontier fields of paleoclimate and paleohydrological research. This potential is, however, hampered by diverse scientific and technical limitations, among which the lack of a systematic methodology for genetically characterizing fluid inclusions is a major one, as these can have different origins, and thus, the trapped fluid (usually water), different meanings. In this work, we propose a systematic petrological classification of fluid inclusions, based on: 1) the temporal relation between fluid inclusions and the host calcite, 2) the spatial relation between fluid inclusions and the “crystallites” and crystals aggregates, and 3) the phases (water, air) trapped inside fluid inclusions. The first criterion allows dividing fluid inclusions in two main categories: primary and secondary, whose identification is critical in any research based on trapped fluids. The other two criteria allow the definition of eight types of primary and four types of secondary fluid inclusions. Primary fluid inclusions contain the drip water that fed stalagmites at the time of crystal growth, and can be intercrystalline, i.e., located between adjacent crystallites, or intracrystalline, i.e., with the fluid trapped within crystallites. We differentiate six main types among the intercrystalline fluid inclusions (elongate, thorn-shaped, down-arrow, interbranch, macro-elongate, and bucket) and other two among intracrystalline inclusions (pyriform and boudin). In primary inclusions, water is the main phase, while gas is much less abundant. The presence of gas could be related to slow drip rates or degassing in the cave, but also to later leakage due to changes in temperature and humidity often occurring during inadequate handling of speleothem samples. Secondary fluid inclusions were clearly related to younger water inlet through stratigraphic disruptions or unconformities. They are formed after water infiltration, but sealed before the renewed crystal growth. We differentiate four main types of secondary inclusions: interconnected, rounded, triangular, and vertical fluid inclusions. The identification of primary and secondary fluid inclusions in speleothems is a key for interpretation in paleoclimate studies. Integration of petrological results allow establishment of three different genetic scenarios for the formation of fluid inclusions, whose identification can be relevant because of their predictive character.
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Frezzotti, Maria Luce, and Alfons M. van den Kerkhof. "New results in fluid and melt inclusion research — XVIII European current research on fluid inclusions." Chemical Geology 237, no. 3-4 (2007): 233–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.08.016.
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Kesler, Stephen E. "Fluid Inclusion research, volume 20." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53, no. 7 (1989): 1711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0016-7037(89)90257-3.
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Haynes, Frederick M. "Fluid-inclusion evidence of basinal brines in Archean basement, Thunder Bay Pb–Zn–Ba district, Ontario, Canada." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25, no. 11 (1988): 1884–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e88-177.
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Fluid inclusions from three quartz–galena–sphalerite–barite–calcite veins in the Thunder Bay district of western Ontario contain liquid + vapor ± halite and homogenize by vapor disappearance or halite dissolution at temperatures of 90–200 °C. Cyclically frozen, liquid + vapor (type I) inclusions undergo four melting events upon gradual warming (initial melting at −55 to −46 °C; ice disappearance at −30.2 to −25.4 °C; inversion of hydrohalite to halite at −8.0 to 0.7 °C; and halite melting at 14.0 to 56.3 °C. Liquid + vapor + halite (type II) inclusions behave similarly but have higher Tm ice (−27.2 to −21.7 °C) and Tm halite (105–203 °C). Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive analysis of fluid-inclusion-derived decrepitates indicate that the solutes consist of NaCl > CaCl2 [Formula: see text] KCl and are consistent with the low-temperature phase observations in that they define two distinct populations based on CaCl2/(CaCl2 + NaCl) ratios.The temperatures and compositional trends defined by the inclusion results are similar to those documented for basinal brines and from fluid inclusions in Mississippi Valley type ore deposits. The Thunder Bay veins cross the basal unconformity of the Middle Proterozoic Sibley basin and extend into Archean basement granites, such that the fluid inclusions results provide direct evidence that basinal waters infiltrated basement rock in western Ontario. The inclusion fluids and associated mineralization are thought to result either from dewatering of the Sibley basin during Keweenaw age rifting or from the introduction of exotic Paleozoic basinal waters when the Michigan basin extended over the region.
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Kravchishina, Marina D., Vsevolod Yu Prokofiev, Olga M. Dara, et al. "Fluid Inclusion Studies of Barite Disseminated in Hydrothermal Sediments of the Mohns Ridge." Minerals 13, no. 9 (2023): 1117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min13091117.
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This article discusses the results of a fluid inclusion studies in barite collected at the Jan Mayen vent field area (Troll Wall and Perle and Bruse) and Loki’s Castle vent field on the Mohns Ridge segment of the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Three mafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits were examined within the active vent fields that adequately correspond to the geological settings of ultraslow-spreading ridges and P–T conditions. Hydrothermal sediments were investigated to determine the temperature and salinity of the fluids responsible for barite precipitation. The hydrothermal origin of the barite was confirmed by its morphology. Fluid inclusions are two-phase and homogenize into the liquid phase on heating at temperatures below 287 °C. The salt concentration in fluids trapped in inclusions is 2.6–4.4 wt.% NaCl eq. The crystallization temperatures varied from 276 °C to 119 °C and from 307 °C to 223 °C for the Jan Mayen and Loki’s Castle vent fields, respectively. The data obtained allowed us to confirm evidence of fluid phase separation in the hydrothermal systems and to expand our knowledge of the temperature and salinity of mineral fluids previously known from recent direct measurements during the cruises within the G.O. Sars research vessel. The fluid inclusions data obtained from barites emphasize the fluid features characteristic of volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits, the similarities and differences among the studied hydrothermal sites and allow comparisons with similar products from other active hydrothermal systems.
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Makoundi, Charles, Khin Zaw, and Zakaria Endut. "Fluid Inclusion Study of the Penjom, Tersang, and Selinsing Orogenic Gold Deposits, Peninsular Malaysia." Minerals 10, no. 2 (2020): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min10020111.
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Ore-forming fluids in the auriferous district of the Central gold belt in Peninsular Malaysia were studied for their temperature, salinity, and relationship to the surrounding geology. Microthermometric analysis carried out showed homogenisation temperatures range from 210 to 348 °C (Tersang), between 194 and 348 °C (Selinsing), and from 221 to 346 °C (Penjom). Salinities range from 2.41 to 8.95 wt % NaCl equiv (Tersang), between 1.23 and 9.98 wt % NaCl equiv (Selinsing), and from 4.34 to 9.34 wt % NaCl equiv (Penjom). Laser Raman studies indicated that at the Tersang gold deposit, most inclusions are either pure or nearly pure CO2-rich (87–100 mol %), except for one inclusion, which contains CH4 gas (13 mol %). In addition, at Selinsing, most inclusions are CO2-rich (100 mol %). However, an inclusion was found containing CO2 (90 mol %), with minor N2 and CH4. Additionally, at the Penjom gold deposit, most fluid inclusions are CO2-rich (91–100 mol %), whereas one fluid inclusion is N2-rich (100 mol %) and another one has minor N2 and CH4. At a basin scale, homogenisation temperatures against salinity suggests an isothermal mixing of fluids. Most fluids are CO2-rich and are interpreted to be of metamorphic origin. The evidence further indicates involvement of magmatic fluids that is supported by the association of sandstone and carbonaceous black shales with magmatic rocks, such as rhyolite, rhyolite-dacite, and trachyte-andesite at the Tersang and Penjom orogenic gold deposits.
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Liu, Yazhou, Liqiang Yang, Sirui Wang, et al. "Origin and Evolution of Ore-Forming Fluid and Gold-Deposition Processes at the Sanshandao Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China." Minerals 9, no. 3 (2019): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/min9030189.
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The Early Cretaceous Sanshandao gold deposit, the largest deposit in the Sanshandao-Cangshang goldfield, is located in the northwestern part of the Jiaodong peninsula. It is host to Mesozoic granitoids and is controlled by the north by northeast (NNE) to northeast (NE)-trending Sanshandao-Cangshang fault. Two gold mineralizations were identified in the deposit’s disseminated and stockwork veinlets and quartz–sulfide veins, which are typically enveloped by broad alteration selvages. Based on the cross-cutting relationships and mineralogical and textural characteristics, four stages have been identified for both styles of mineralization: Pyrite–quartz (stage 1), quartz–pyrite (stage 2), quartz–pyrite–base metal–sulfide (stage 3), and quartz–carbonate (stage 4), with gold mainly occurring in stages 2 and 3. Three types of fluid inclusion have been distinguished on the basis of fluid-inclusion assemblages in quartz and calcite from the four stages: Pure CO2 gas (type I), CO2–H2O inclusions (type II), and aqueous inclusions (type III). Early-stage (stage 1) quartz primary inclusions are only type II inclusions, with trapping at 280–400 °C and salinity at 0.35 wt %–10.4 wt % NaCl equivalent. The main mineralizing stages (stages 2 and 3) typically contain primary fluid-inclusion assemblages of all three types, which show similar phase transition temperatures and are trapped between 210 and 320 °C. The late stage (stage 4) quartz and calcite contain only type III aqueous inclusions with trapping temperatures of 150–230 °C. The δ34S values of the hydrothermal sulfides from the main stage range from 7.7‰ to 12.6‰ with an average of 10.15‰. The δ18O values of hydrothermal quartz mainly occur between 9.7‰ and 15.1‰ (mainly 10.7‰–12.5‰, average 12.4‰); calculated fluid δ18O values are from 0.97‰ to 10.79‰ with a median value of 5.5‰. The δDwater values calculated from hydrothermal sericite range from −67‰ to −48‰. Considering the fluid-inclusion compositions, δ18O and δD compositions of ore-forming fluids, and regional geological events, the most likely ultimate potential fluid and metal would have originated from dehydration and desulfidation of the subducting paleo-Pacific slab and the subsequent devolatilization of the enriched mantle wedge. Fluid immiscibility occurred during the main ore-forming stage due to pressure decrease from the early stage (165–200 MPa) to the main stage (90–175 MPa). Followed by the changing physical and chemical conditions, the metallic elements (including Au) in the fluid could no longer exist in the form of complexes and precipitated from the fluid. Water–rock sulfidation and pressure fluctuations, with associated fluid unmixing and other chemical changes, were the two main mechanisms of gold deposition.
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Wang, Yangyang, and Yilin Xiao. "Infrared microthermometry of fluid inclusion in sphalerite: A case study of the Xinqiao deposit in the Middle–Lower Yangtze metallogenic belt." JUSTC 54, no. 5 (2024): 0502. http://dx.doi.org/10.52396/justc-2023-0054.
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Infrared microthermometry allows direct measurement of fluid inclusions hosted in opaque ore minerals and can provide direct constraints on the evolution of ore-forming fluids. This study presents infrared microthermometry of spherite-hosted fluid inclusions from the Xinqiao deposit in the Middle-Lower Yangtze Metallogenic Belt and sheds new light on the ore genesis of the deposit. Considering that infrared light may lead to non-negligible temperature deviations during microthermometry, some tests were first conducted to ensure the accuracy of the microthermometric measurements. The measurement results indicated that using the lowest light intensity of the microscope and inserting an optical filter were effective in minimizing the possible temperature deviations of infrared microthermometry. All sphalerite-hosted fluid inclusions from the Xinqiao deposit were aqueous. They show homogenization temperature ranging from ~200 to 350 °C, but have two separate salinity groups (1.0–10% and 15.1–19.2% NaCl equivalent). The low-salinity group represents sedimentary exhalative (SEDEX)-associated fluids, whereas the high-salinity group results from modification by later magmatic hydrothermal fluids. Combined with published fluid inclusion data, the four-stage fluid evolution of the Xinqiao deposit was depicted. Furthermore, our data suggest that the Xinqiao deposit was formed by two-stage metallogenic events including SEDEX and magmatic-hydrothermal mineralization.
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George, S. C., P. F. Greenwood, G. A. Logan, et al. "COMPARISON OF PALAEO OIL CHARGES WITH CURRENTLY RESERVOIRED HYDROCARBONS USING MOLECULAR AND ISOTOPIC ANALYSES OF OIL-BEARING FLUID INCLUSIONS: JABIRU OIL FIELD, TIMOR SEA." APPEA Journal 37, no. 1 (1997): 490. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj96029.
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Geochemical techniques have been used to compare the composition of oil trapped in fluid inclusions from the Jabiru oil field with currently reservoired oil. The inclusion oil is preferentially enriched in polar compounds, probably due to an adsorption effect during trapping, but this has not affected the hydrocarbon composition of the trapped oil. Source characterisation using biomarker and gasoline range hydrocarbon parameters shows that the fluid inclusion oils have the same source affinity as the current production oil. This is corroborated by the carbon isotopic compositions of high molecuJar weight n-alkanes trapped in oil-bearing fluid inclusions, which are similar to those of the production oil. Both oils have maturities in the peak oil generative window, but aromatic hydrocarbon ratios demonstrate that the fluid inclusion oil is less mature (calculated reflectance [RJ = 0.84 per cent) than the currently reservoired charge (0.92 per cent Rc). Fluid inclusion abundance data and residual oil saturations indicate the Jabiru oil column was previously significantly larger, with subsequent leakage reducing the column to its present size. The geochemical data collected for the fluid inclusion oil suggests that it is representative of early charge to the Jabiru structure. The difference between the fluid inclusion oil and the production oil is thought to reflect continued charging of the trap with progressively more mature oil from the same or similar source rock facies. The change in the molecular composition of the oil in the Jabiru structure probably occurred by dilution of earlier, lower maturity charge with larger volumes of more mature oil.
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El Arbaoui, Amal, Ismaïla N’Diaye, Zaineb Hajjar, et al. "Fluid Origin and Evolution of the Roc Blanc Silver Deposit (Jebilet Massif, Variscan Belt, Morocco): Constraints from Geology and Fluid Inclusions." Geofluids 2022 (December 7, 2022): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3882516.
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The Roc Blanc Pb-Zn-Ag-Au vein deposit is located in the NW of Marrakech, in the Central Jebilet massif. It is spatially related to Bramram-Tabouchennt-Bamega (BTB) granodioritic pluton (ca. 330 Ma) metamorphism aureole. The main veins hosted in black shales are oriented N-S to NNW-SSE. Pb-Zn-Ag-Au ore is associated with quartz, chlorite, sericite, and carbonate gangue minerals. Two major stages of ore deposition were distinguished. The preore stage (stage I) comprises two quartz-mineralised vein generations with Fe, As, Zn, and Cu ores (vg1 and vg2). The main ore stage (stage II) consists mainly on Ag, Au, Pb, Zn, Cu, and Sb ores, which is hosted by carbonaceous vein (vg3) and by two late quartz generations veins (vg4 and vg5 with a geodic quartz). Three types of fluid inclusions have been recognized in silver mineralisation bearing quartz veins according to petrographic investigations, microthermometry, and Raman spectroscopy studies: (i) liquid-rich H2O-N2-CH4±CO2-(salt) fluid inclusions (type 1), (ii) vapour-rich H2O-CO2-CH4-N2-(salt) fluid inclusions (type 2), and (iii) aqueous H2O-(salt) fluid inclusions (type 3). The interpretation of fluid inclusion data shows a mixing of two fluids that are metamorphic and surface to subsurface origin, trapped at boiling state. The first mineralised stage was deposited at 350 ± 20 ° C (this temperature of ore deposition was supported also by chlorite geothermometry) with salinity of 13.7 wt% NaCl equiv., while the deposition of the argentiferous stage, which consists of the main economic mineralisation of the Roc Blanc deposit, occurs during decreasing temperature at 150°C with a salinity of 12.1 wt% NaCl equiv. The all-mineralised ore was deposited at relatively low pressure, below ~1-1.1 kbar. So, fluid dilution and cooling are probably the main factor for silver deposition in the Roc Blanc polymetallic vein deposit. In addition, fluid inclusion studies reveal that the mineralising fluid corresponds to a mixture of metamorphic fluid (H2O-CH4-N2-CO2) with surface to subsurface aqueous gas-free fluids (H2O-salt, meteoric, or brine).
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Marshall, D., V. Pardieu, L. Loughrey, P. Jones, and G. Xue. "Conditions for emerald formation at Davdar, China: fluid inclusion, trace element and stable isotope studies." Mineralogical Magazine 76, no. 1 (2012): 213–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2012.076.1.213.
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AbstractPreliminary geological work on samples from Davdar in China indicate that emerald occurs in quartz veins hosted within upper greenschist grade Permian metasedimentary rocks including quartzite, marble, phyllite and schist. Fluid inclusion studies indicate highly saline fluids ranging from approximately 34 to 41 wt.% NaCl equivalent, with minimal amounts of CO2 estimated at a mole fraction of 0.003. Fluid inclusion, stable isotope and petrographic studies indicate the Davdar emeralds crystallized from highly saline brines in greenschist facies conditions at a temperature of ∼350°C and a pressure of up to 160 MPa. The highly saline fluid inclusions in the emeralds, the trace-element chemistry and stable isotope signatures indicate that the Davdar emeralds have some similarities to the Khaltaro and Swat Valley emerald deposits in Pakistan, but they show the greatest similarity to neighbouring deposits at Panjshir in Afghanistan.