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The effect of phosphorus on manganocolumbite and mangaotantalite solubility in peralkaline to peraluminous granitic melts

  • Yong Tang , Hui Zhang EMAIL logo and Bing Rao
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American Mineralogist
From the journal American Mineralogist Volume 101 Issue 2

Abstract

Solubility experiments of Mn-columbite (MnNb2O6) and Mn-tantalite (MnTa2O6) were conducted under water-saturated conditions in synthetic haplogranitic melts containing different amounts of phosphorus at 800 °C and 100 MPa. All experiments were carried out in cold-seal rapid quenching pressure vessels (RQV) with water as a pressure medium. Experimental results show that: (1) the solubilities of MnNb2O6 and MnTa2O6 in peralkaline melts are higher than those in peraluminous melts; (2) phosphorus has strong influence on the solubilities of MnTa2O6 and MnNb2O6 in peralkaline melts, KSpNb and KSpTa decrease from 104.89 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 and 107.62 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 for melts without P2O5 to 16.11 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 and 7.96 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 for melts containing ~4.00 wt% P2O5, respectively; (3) phosphorus has less influence on the solubilities of MnTa2O6 and MnNb2O6 in peraluminous melt, KSpNb decrease from 4.50 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 for melts without P2O5 to 0.73 × 10–4 mol2/kg2, and KSpTa from 3.57 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 to 0.14 × 10–4 mol2/kg2 for melts contaning ~5.00 wt% P2O5. Taking the structural role of phosphorus into account, P decreases the solubility of Mn-columbite and Mn-tantalite via competing for network modifiers.

Keywords: Columbite; tantalite; solubility; phosphorus; melt

Acknowledgments

We sincerely thank Associate Editor David London, reviewer Robert Linnen and another anonymous reviewer for their constructive and helpful reviews. We think Yang Shuiyuan for help with EMPA. The work was financially supported by Chinese National Natural Science Foundation (40903027 and 41373024) and Opening Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Ore Deposit Geochemistry, Institute of Geochemistry, CAS (201307).

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  1. Manuscript handled by David London

Received: 2015-5-17
Accepted: 2015-9-1
Published Online: 2016-2-18
Published in Print: 2016-2-1

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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Keywords for this article
Columbite; tantalite; solubility; phosphorus; melt

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