@misc{10481/66978,
year = {2020},
month = {8},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/66978},
abstract = {Magmatic systems play a crucial role in enriching the crust with volatiles and elements that
reside primarily within the Earth’s mantle, including economically important metals like nickel,
copper and platinum-group elements. However, transport of these metals within silicate
magmas primarily occurs within dense sulfide liquids, which tend to coalesce, settle and not
be efficiently transported in ascending magmas. Here we show textural observations, backed
up with carbon and oxygen isotope data, which indicate an intimate association between
mantle-derived carbonates and sulfides in some mafic-ultramafic magmatic systems
emplaced at the base of the continental crust. We propose that carbon, as a buoyant
supercritical CO2 fluid, might be a covert agent aiding and promoting the physical transport of
sulfides across the mantle-crust transition. This may be a common but cryptic mechanism
that facilitates cycling of volatiles and metals from the mantle to the lower-to-mid continental
crust, which leaves little footprint behind by the time magmas reach the Earth’s surface.},
organization = {NERC Minerals Security of Supply (SOS) 

NE/M010848/1},
organization = {Australian Research Council

CE11E0070},
organization = {Consolidated Nickel Mines},
organization = {University of Leicester},
publisher = {Nature Research},
title = {Fluxing of mantle carbon as a physical agent for metallogenic fertilization of the crust},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-18157-6},
author = {Blanks, Daryl E. and González Jiménez, José María},
}