TO CHANGE IMAGE … · lamprophyres, implicate an enriched or metasomatized lithospheric mantle...
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A new look at lamprophyres and sanukitoids and their
relationships to the Black Flag Group and gold prospectivity
Presented by
Hugh Smithies
TO CHANGE IMAGERight click and select “Change
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• Black Flag Group felsic volcanic, volcaniclastic and
clastic rocks + sub-volcanic intrusions
~2.69 – 2.66 Ga
• Au Mineralization ~2.66 – 2.64 Ga
• Compositionally specialized hbl–plag- to plag-
porphyritic felsic intrusions (‘porphyries’)
~ 2.67 – 2.65 Ga
• Lamprophyres ~ 2.67 – 2.64 Ga
Kalgoorlie–Kambalda region of the Eastern Goldfields
Superterrane, eastern Yilgarn Craton
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Nature 1988 v. 332 no 6161
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Lamprophyre – a textural / mineralogical term
• Phenocrysts or megacrysts of biotite and/or hornblende in an otherwise fine-grained or
aphyric mafic to ultramafic groundmass
• From a compositional viewpoint (c.f. magmas with similar MgO) they are:– Hydrous
– Alkali rich (high Na2O and K2O)
– Enriched in LILE (e.g. Sr, Ba), LREE (e.g. La, Ce) and P2O5
• These features implicate an enriched or metasomatized lithospheric mantle source
• In the EGST, lamprophyres are calc-alkaline, not ‘highly’ alkaline, and probably better
referred to as ‘appinites’, and form dykes intruded between c. 2.67 to 2.64 Ga
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Sanukitoids
• Intrusive hornblende-bearing rocks in the compositional range of monzodiorite, diorite and
granodiorite, typically with locally abundant cognate mafic enclaves (multiple intrusions)
• From a compositional viewpoint (c.f. magmas with similar SiO2) they are;– Rich in MgO, Cr, Ni
– Hydrous
– Alkali rich (high Na2O and K2O)
– Enriched in LILE (e.g. Sr, Ba), LREE (e.g. La, Ce) and P2O5
• These features make them very distinctive amongst Archean granite suites and, like
lamprophyres, implicate an enriched or metasomatized lithospheric mantle source
• In the EGST, sanukitoids form a large proportion of what Champion and Cassidy and
others refer to as the mafic granites, intruded between c. 2.67 to 2.65 Ga – along shears
Sanukitoids
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The ‘porphyries’ – very
common in DDH in the
Kalgoorlie–Kambalda
region
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The ‘porphyries’ – very
common in DDH in the
Kalgoorlie–Kambalda
region
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC ----------? Are they genetically related ----------
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sanukitoidslamprophyres
Early perspective – sanukitoids as primitive as regionally occurring lamrophyres
and hence cannot be related. Thus the high-Mg# of sanukitoids must indicate
direct derivation of these felsic rocks from the mantle (lithosphere)
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Samples from
CD16056
sanukitoids
lamprophyres
Can show the same for
samples from the nearby
Kambalda DDH LD7006
For GEOLOGICALLY RELATABLE groups of lamprophyres and sanukitoids,
the lamprophyres are clearly potential parental magmas to the sanukitoids.
So the sanukitoids we see are NOT direct melts of lithospheric mantle, they are
the products of fractional crystallisation from primitive lamprophyre-like melts.
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC (melting of lithospheric mantle)Hornblende(–apatite) fractionation
EGST lamprophyres are probably genetically related to the sanukitoids (including
the ‘porphyries’ that intrude the Kalgoorlie Group)……perhaps unsurprising!!
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC (melting of lithospheric mantle)Hornblende(–apatite) fractionation
EGST lamprophyres are probably genetically related to the sanukitoids (including
the ‘porphyries’ that intrude the Kalgoorlie Group)……perhaps unsurprising!!
Compositional evolution within the sanukitoid series occurs within the crust !
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC (melting of lithospheric mantle)Hornblende(–apatite) fractionation
Black Flag Group ???
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BFG volcanic and sub-volcanic rocks are:
• the eruptive or near eruptive equivalents of sanukitoid
• NOT TTG-like or ‘adakitic’ magmas
• distinct from typical Archean felsic suites of the EGST
• NOT derived through melting mafic crust
• derived through fractionation (in the crust) of lithospheric
mantle melts.
We are looking at the highest level in a huge
(crustal-scale), long-lived sanukitoid magmatic
system.
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC (melting of lithospheric mantle)Hornblende(–apatite) fractionation
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Sanukitoid
FELSIC
Calc-alkaline lamprophyre
MAFIC (melting of lithospheric mantle)Hornblende(–apatite) fractionation
Black Flag Group = sanukitoid – a massive, crustal-scale,
multi-phased, sanukitoid magmatic system.
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So what is, or why is there, this clear and
significant relationship between these
magmas and Au mineralization
?
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Simple
Lamprophyres, sanukitoids
and Au mineralization all like
to hang around big cracks!
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Journal of Petrology, 2010
Parental magmas
• 7 wt% dissolved H2O
• Up to 950ºC
• fO2 ~ NNO+0.5 to 2.5
The primary mineralogy and geochemistry
shows us that even the most primitive
sanukitoids are amongst the most volatile-
rich Archean magmas that we know of.
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1) Explicitly implicate close proximity to a translithospheric crack, that has tapped volatile-
rich mantle
2) Primitive magmas derived from the mantle but sanukitoid/BFG series represents
fractionation in the crust
• Very wet and oxidized primitive magmas
fractionating to the dacitic (and even
rhyolitic) compositions of the BFG
reduce in volume but give off a large
amount of volatiles.
• Even if primitive magmas (i.e.
lamprophyres in dykes!!) don’t carry Au,
there is the huge potential for net
transfer of metals towards the surface in
a series of punctuated and overlapping
magmatic/hyrothermal events.
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>90% High-Ca granites
>90% ‘Mafic granites’
>90% Low-Ca and HFSE granites
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>90% High-Ca granites
>90% ‘Mafic granites’
>90% Low-Ca and HFSE granites
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>90% High-Ca granites
>90% “Mafic granites”
>90% Low-Ca and HFSE granites
Fractionated sanukitoids?
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