Strontium Isotope Composition of Rocks and Ores of the Porozhinsk Deposit (Yenisei Ridge, Krasnoyarsk Region)

Abstract

Wide variations of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr (0.70825‒0.70924) have been established at the Porozhinsk deposit in manganese ores and carbonates ascribed to the Pod’’emsk Formation. These data, together with variations in the carbon (δ¹³C = –14.6…2.0‰, PDB) and oxygen (δ¹⁸О = 19.4…28.3‰, SMOW) isotope composition indicate different conditions of the formation of the studied rocks. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values in the studied dolomites of the Porozhinsk deposit are much higher than those of carbonate rocks (dolomites, limestones) of the Pod’’emsk Formation from the Chapa River section. The position of the ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr values of dolomites from the Porozhinsk deposit on the secular ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr variation curve for Late Proterozoic ocean (Kuznetsov et al., 2014) suggests that the carbonate rocks attributed to the Pod’’emsk Formation at the Porozhinsk deposit have younger age than carbonates of the Pod’’emsk Formation from the Chapa River section. The Mn/Sr values usually taken as a criterion for the degree of secondary alteration of carbonates (in interpreting ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr variations and discussing the suitability of the material for chemostratigraphic constructions) are not suitable for rocks formed in manganese ore sedimentation basins.