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The stability of primary alluaudites in granitic pegmatites: an experimental investigation of the Na2(Mn2−2x Fe1+2x )(PO4)3 system

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In order to assess the geothermometric potential of the Na2(Mn2−2x Fe1+2x )(PO4)3 system (x = 0–1), which represents the compositions of natural weakly oxidized alluaudites, we performed hydrothermal experiments between 400 and 800°C, at 1 kbar, under an oxygen fugacity (f(O2)) controlled by the Ni–NiO (NNO), Fe2O3–Fe3O4 (HM), Cu2O–CuO (CT), and Fe–Fe3O4 (MI) buffers. When f(O2) is controlled by NNO, single-phase alluaudites crystallize at 400 and 500°C, whereas the association alluaudite + marićite appears between 500 and 700°C. The limit between these two fields corresponds to the maximum temperature that can be reached by alluaudites in granitic pegmatites, because marićite has never been observed in these geological environments. Because alluaudites are very sensitive to variations of oxygen fugacity, the field of hagendorfite, Na2MnFe2+Fe3+(PO4)3, has been positioned in the f(O2)–T diagram, and provides a tool that can be used to estimate the oxygen fugacity conditions that prevailed in granitic pegmatites during the crystallization of this phosphate.

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Many thanks are due to J. Wautier, F. Fontan, and P. de Parseval, who performed the electron microprobe analyses, as well as to T. Baller, M. Burchard, and T. Fockenberg, who helped us to use the hydrothermal laboratory of the Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany. FH acknowledges the F.N.R.S. (Belgium) for a position of “Chargé de Recherches” and for grants 1.5.113.05.F and 1.5.098.06.F, as well as the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) for a Fellowship at Bochum, during the 2004–2005 academic year.

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    Frédéric Hatert & André-Mathieu Fransolet

  2. Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Geophysik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    Walter V. Maresch

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Hatert, F., Fransolet, AM. & Maresch, W.V. The stability of primary alluaudites in granitic pegmatites: an experimental investigation of the Na2(Mn2−2x Fe1+2x )(PO4)3 system. Contrib Mineral Petrol 152, 399–419 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-006-0115-2

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