Abstract The upper mantle is heterogeneous in Fe isotope compositions, but the origin of heterogeneity needs understanding. Recent studies on oceanic basalts demonstrate that results from low‐degree melt metasomatism. However, whether this hypothesis global significance testing continental settings. Here we present an isotopic study intraplate alkali China, which are shown to have derived conta...

Brownfield areas are important targets of exploration; however, the extensive drilling present in these has not fully exploited their prospective potential. The appropriate use drill hole cores can play an role deep exploration. We a case study iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) Furnas Southeast deposit, located Carajás Mineral Province, Brazil. This deposit disseminated chalcopyrite, bornite and go...

Five main apatite deposits from the Moroccan Central High-Atlas —including Anemzi, Tirrhist-Inouzane, Tassent, Ait-Daoud-Toumliline and Tasraft— have been investigated through integrated field, petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical studies. The ore occurs as veins, few mm to several cm thick, spatially associated with syenite-quartz monzonite (dominant) monzodiorite-gabbrodiorite bodies empl...

Experimental approaches attempt to determine the routes by which crustal carbonatite magmas can be derived from C02-bearing peridotite at high pressures. The intimate association of kimberlite and carbonatite on a small scale il· lustrates links in the processes. Carbonation of peridotite by C02 can cause the generation of near-solidus carbonatitic liquid from mantle peridotite at depths greate...