FIG. 19. Schematic model showing the history of mineralization at the
southern Roby zone. Magmas formed by a high degree of partial melting in a
depleted mantle source (A1) became enriched in Cu, Pt, and Pd through
fractional crystallization of olivine, chromite, and high-temperature PGM (A2),
segregated sulfide melt that had low Cu/Pd ratios along the conduit and the base
of the magma chamber (A3), and solidified as the early leucocratic
gabbros. A second episode of partial melting in the mantle source produced
another batch of fertile magma. As with the early magma, this magma was enriched
in Cu, Pt, and Pd through fractional crystallization (A2). This magma
incorporated the earlier sulfide melt and intruded forcefully into the partially
crystallized leucocratic rocks (B1), causing brecciation and magma
mingling, and solidified as fertile melanocratic gabbro. Aqueous fluids that
separated from the melanocratic magma percolated through the cumulates,
partially dissolving Pd and concentrating it in the High-Grade ore zone adjacent
to barren East Gabbro (B2).