The geochemistry of chromium spinel and platinum group elements (PGE) provides significant information about conditions in the mantle during the emplacement and genesis of ophiolitic complexes. The Elekdaǧ ophiolite is a greenschist to amphibolite facies ophiolite that was emplaced onto the Sakarya Zone, in the central part of the Pontides of northern Turkey. NW-SE trending Elekdaǧ ophiolite hosts small scale chromitite occurrences in serpentinized harzburgite and dunite, and have maximum resource of several thousands t Cr2O3.The chromitites the Elekdaǧ ophiolite can be divided in to "high-Cr" and "high-Al" types. The calculated melt composition of the high-Cr chromitites is 9.4-13.2wt.% Al2O3, 0.2-0.4wt.% TiO2 with FeO/MgO ratios of 0.4-1.9, which are indicative of boninitic compositions. However, the high-Al chromitites have 14.7-17.3wt.% Al2O3 and 0.3-0.8wt.% TiO2 with FeO/MgO ratios of between 0.3 and 0.8, which are consistent with MORB-like tholeiitic affinities. The total PGE content of the chromitites range between 82 and 1466ppb, and the average PGE content of the high-Cr and high-Al chromitites are 267ppb and 195ppb, respectively. The chromitites are characterized by low Pd/Ir ratios of 0.02-0.20 that is characteristic of non-fractionated chromitites. The chondrite normalized PGE pattern of the chromitites resemble those of mantle-derived Cr-rich chromitites in ophiolites of the supra-subduction zone (SSZ) elsewhere.Mineral and bulk rock PGE data for the Elekdaǧ chromitites indicate that high-Cr chromitites formed from Cr-rich and, Al- and Ti-poor boninitic melts, most probably in the fore-arc setting in the deeper part of the mantle. This was succeeded by the mineralization of high-Al chromitites from a differentiated boninitic melt at shallow depths close to the Moho Discontinuity. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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Dönmez, C., Keskin, S., Günay, K., Çolakoǧlu, A. O., Çiftçi, Y., Uysal, I., … Yildirim, N. (2014). Chromite and PGE geochemistry of the elekdaǧ ophiolite (kastamonu, northern turkey): Implications for deep magmatic processes in a supra-subduction zone setting. Ore Geology Reviews, 57, 216–228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2013.09.019
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