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Troll Et Al. NCOMMS-18-08734C 210119 This is an Open Access document downloaded from ORCA, Cardiff University's institutional repository: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/119344/ This is the author’s version of a work that was submitted to / accepted for publication. Citation for final published version: Troll, V, Weis, F, Jonsson, E, Andersson, U, Majidi, S, Hogdahl, K, Harris, C, Millet, Marc-Alban, Chinnasamy, Sakthi, Kooijman, E and Nilsson, K 2019. Global Fe-O isotope correlation reveals magmatic origin of Kiruna-type apatite-iron-oxide ores. Nature Communications 10 , 1712. 10.1038/s41467-019-09244-4 file Publishers page: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09244-4 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019- 09244-4> Please note: Changes made as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing, formatting and page numbers may not be reflected in this version. For the definitive version of this publication, please refer to the published source. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite this paper. This version is being made available in accordance with publisher policies. See http://orca.cf.ac.uk/policies.html for usage policies. Copyright and moral rights for publications made available in ORCA are retained by the copyright holders. 1 Global Fe-O isotope correlation reveals magmatic origin of Kiruna-type 2 apatite-iron-oxide ores 3 1 1,2 1,3 1,4 5 4 Valentin R. Troll , Franz Weis , Erik Jonsson , Ulf B. Andersson , Seyed Afshin Majidi , Karin 1,6 7 8 1,9 2 5 Högdahl , Chris Harris , Marc-Alban Millet , Sakthi Saravanan Chinnasamy , Ellen Kooijman , 3, 10 6 Katarina P. Nilsson 7 8 1Section for Mineralogy, Petrology and Tectonics, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 9 75236 Uppsala, Sweden 10 2Swedish Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Geosciences, Frescativägen 40, 114 18 Stockholm, Sweden; 11 3Department of Mineral Resources, Geological Survey of Sweden, Villavägen 18, Box 670, 75128 Uppsala, Sweden 12 4Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB, Research & Development, FK9, 981 86 Kiruna, Sweden 13 5Geological Survey of Iran, Meraj St, Azadi Sq, 138783-5841 Tehran, Iran 14 6Geology and Mineralogy, Åbo Akademi University, Domkyrkotorget 1, 20500 Turku, Finland 15 7Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, Republic of South Africa 16 8School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, United Kingdom 17 9National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, NIT Rourkela, 769008 18 Odisha, India 19 10 Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, Division for Business, Mäster Samuelsgatan 70, 10333 Stockholm, 20 Sweden 21 Corresponding author: [email protected] 22 23 Two sentence summary 24 The origin of giant Kiruna-type iron ores has been debated for nearly 100 years. This study employs 25 extensive stable isotope data from Kiruna-type ores worldwide and magmatic and hydrothermal 26 reference materials to show that iconic Kiruna-type ores originate primarily from ortho-magmatic 27 processes. 28 29 Summary paragraph 30 Kiruna-type apatite-iron-oxide ores are key iron sources for modern industry, yet their origin 31 remains controversial. Diverse ore-forming processes have been discussed, comprising low- 32 temperature hydrothermal processes versus a high-temperature origin from magma or magmatic 33 fluids. We present an extensive set of new and combined iron and oxygen isotope data from 34 magnetite of Kiruna-type ores from Sweden, Chile and Iran, and compare them with new global 35 reference data from layered intrusions, active volcanic provinces, and established low-temperature Troll et al. NCOMMS-18-08734B 1 36 and hydrothermal iron ores. We show that approximately 80 % of the magnetite from the 56 18 37 investigated Kiruna-type ores exhibit δ Fe and δ O ratios that overlap with the volcanic and 38 plutonic reference materials (> 800 °C), whereas ~20 %, mainly vein-hosted and disseminated 39 magnetite, match the low-temperature reference samples (≤ 400 °C). Thus, Kiruna-type ores are 40 dominantly magmatic in origin, but may contain late-stage hydrothermal magnetite populations that 41 can locally overprint primary high-temperature magmatic signatures. 42 43 Keywords: Kiruna-type apatite-iron-oxide ores, magmatic vs. hydrothermal origin, magnetite. 44 iron isotopes, oxygen isotopes 45 46 Statistics and format: 47 Abstract: 149 Words of 150 48 Main Manuscript: 4284 words + 713 for Figure captions 49 Introduction: 481 words 50 Acknowledgements, Author Contributions and Methods: 1021 words 51 References: 70 out of 70 for Nature Communications 52 Figures: 6 plus 2 in Appendix 53 54 55 Apatite-iron oxide ore is by far the biggest source of iron in Europe and one of the main iron 1 56 sources worldwide . In Europe, these magnetite-dominated ores have traditionally been sourced 57 from two principal regions, the Bergslagen ore province in south central Sweden and the Kiruna- 2 58 Malmberget region in northern Sweden (Fig.1) . The apatite-iron oxide ores from these localities 59 are internationally renowned and similar ores elsewhere are usually referred to as being of Kiruna- 3–5 6 60 type . While the Grängesberg and Kiruna deposits are Palaeoproterozoic in age , similar apatite- 61 iron oxide deposits along the American Cordilleras are much younger and range in age from 7–9 62 Jurassic to Neogene, like the Pliocene El Laco deposit in Chile . Together with the occurrences of Troll et al. NCOMMS-18-08734B 2 10– 63 Paleozoic apatite-iron oxide ores in Turkey, Iran, and China, and Triassic examples from Korea 13 64 , apatite-iron oxide ores have repeatedly formed across the globe and throughout geological time. 65 The origin of the Kiruna-type apatite-iron-oxide ores remains ambiguous, however, despite a 66 long history of study and a concurrently intense scientific debate. Several fundamentally different 67 modes of formation have been proposed. Today two broad schools of thought prevail, represented 68 by either direct magmatic formation processes, such as segregation or crystallization, or by 69 hydrothermal replacement processes, including hydrothermal precipitation in the sense of iron- 3,4,14–31 70 oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits . Specifically, the discussion revolves around a direct 71 magmatic origin (ortho-magmatic) from volatile- and Fe-P-rich magmas or high-temperature 1,5,18,31 72 magmatic fluids , versus a purely hydrothermal one, where circulating, metal-rich fluids 73 replace original host rock mineralogy with apatite-iron-oxide mineralization at medium to low 4,19,28–30,32 74 temperature . An ortho-magmatic origin is generally understood to be either formation by 75 direct crystallization from a magma or from high-temperature magmatic fluids (e.g. ≥ 800 °C), or 76 via high-temperature liquid immiscibility and physical separation of an iron oxide-dominated melt 77 from a silicate-dominated magma, where the former may subsequently crystallize as a separate 17,18,33–38 78 body . Hydrothermal processes, in turn, encompass transport and precipitation, including 79 replacement-type reactions, by means of aqueous fluids at more moderate to low temperatures 27,29,30,32 80 (typically ≤ 400 °C) . Both the magmatic and the hydrothermal hypotheses are supported in 81 part by field observations, textural relationships, and mineral chemistry, however, petrological field 82 evidence and chemical trends of major and trace elements have frequently been interpreted in 5,14,16–22,28–32 83 different ways . Moreover, many of previous investigations have focused on one case 84 study only and frequently present a range of various data, with individual data sets often being 85 relatively restricted in respect to data volume. What has so far been missing is a broad and decisive 86 geochemical approach to distinguish between these two rival formation hypotheses on an across- 87 deposit scale. To date no systematic stable isotope study employing several distinct Kiruna–type 88 apatite iron oxide ore deposits is available and, importantly, no systematic comparison with Troll et al. NCOMMS-18-08734B 3 89 accepted magmatic and hydrothermal rock and ore suites has previously been presented in the 90 literature. 91 92 Results 93 94 Scientific rationale and sample selection 95 Here we use the isotopes of iron and oxygen, the two essential elements in magnetite (Fe3O4), on 96 magnetite samples from four major Kiruna-type ore provinces Magnetite is the main iron-bearing 97 component in Kiruna-type deposits and our approach therefore utilizes highly reliable major 98 elements as petrogenetic tracers, as opposed to e.g., traditional minor element approaches that rely 99 on low-concentration constituents in these ores and their host rocks. We present an extensive set of 100 new Fe and O isotope data of magnetite from a suite of world-class Kiruna-type ores from three 101 continents, represented by Sweden, Chile, and Iran and complement these data by a large suite of 102 new comparative data on accepted magmatic and hydrothermal reference samples (54 new Fe-O 103 coupled isotope ratios and another 12 individual ratios, totaling 120 new individual isotope ratios). 104 In addition, the four different regions of Kiruna-type deposits investigated are separated in space 105 and time, as are the extensive suite of volcanic, plutonic and low-temperature reference materials 106 that we employ to define the endmember processes reflected in our ore deposit data (see Fig.1 and 107 Supplementary Table 1). We use these data to address whether Kiruna-type apatite-iron oxide ores 108 form primarily through direct magmatic processes (magma and magmatic fluids) at high 109 temperatures (≥ 800°C), or alternatively, through precipitation from hydrothermal fluids at 110 considerably lower temperatures (≤ 400°C). The comparative aspect of our work is a particular 111 strength and to the best of our knowledge, no other systematic study with such global coverage has 112 been performed to date.
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