Abstract
The contents and ratios of helium and argon isotopes were studied in rocks of the Lovozero Massif and related rare-metal (loparite) deposits. The gases were extracted by melting (from whole-rock and mineral samples) and crushing (mainly from fluid inclusions) methods. The wide variations in the He and Ar isotopic compositions can be explained by the fact that the trapped fluid represents a mixture of variable proportions of mantle, crustal, and atmogenic components and radiogenic in situ produced gas. The obtained gas-geochemical data reflect the complex evolution of the considered ore-magmatic system and the similar trends of melt evolution and complementary fluid phase in the magmatic chamber, in general, in three-rock (urtite-foyaite-lujavrite) units and, in each individual layers, the relative closeness of the system during magmatic crystallization and initial epimagmatic processes. It was also found that the earliest magmatic mineral was loparite and that ore units and mineralization could be partially transformed during a comparatively late postmagmatic stage. An important role of paleometeoric waters in the low-temperature mineral formation was shown.
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