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PHASE SEPARATION IN (Fe,Co)1−xS MONOSULFIDE SOLID-SOLUTION BELOW 450°C, WITH CONSEQUENCES FOR COEXISTING PYRRHOTITE AND PENTLANDITE IN MAGMATIC SULFIDE DEPOSITS
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| Author | Farrell, Shannon P. Fleet, Michael E. |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Phase relations for (Fe,Co) 1‐xS coexisting with cobalt pentlandite have been studied up to 450 °C using sealed silica glass tube experiments. The (Fe,Co) monosulfide solid-solution with the NiAs-type structure (Fe,Co- mss) unmixes abruptly below 425°C, to coexisting Fe-rich (Fe,Co-mss1; 1C structure) and Co-rich (Fe,Co- mss2; 3C structure) phases. For bulk compositions with 52.0 at.% S, the equilibrium Fe,Co-mss1 solvus is located at about 0.83 molar Fe/(Fe + Co) at 400 °C and progressively diverges toward the Fe1‐xS end-member composition with decrease in temperature to 0.98 molar Fe/(Fe + Co) at 105 °C. At 400°C, the equilibrium Fe,Co-mss2 solvus is at about 0.37 molar Fe/(Fe + Co) and does not appear to vary significantly with decrease in temperature. There is a metastable solvus within the equilibrium miscibility-gap, with a critical temperature at 425 °C between 0.45 and 0.50 molar Fe/(Fe + Co), as indicated by single-phase products that persist even with prolonged annealing. A narrow field of spontaneous phase-separation is centered at 0.75 molar Fe/(Fe + Co), and results in satellite reflections of h0l NiAs-type subcell reflections in products quenched from a high temperature (800 °C). The miscibility gap in Fe,Co-mss is similar to the phase separation of mss in the system Fe‐Ni‐S. However, phase separation occurs at a slightly higher temperature in Fe,Co-mss (between 425 and 400°C) than in mss (between 400 and 300°C), and is initially discontinuous. |
| Starting Page | 33 |
| Ending Page | 46 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2113/gscanmin.40.1.33 |
| Volume Number | 40 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://rruff.info/doclib/cm/vol40/CM40_33.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.2113/gscanmin.40.1.33 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |