Affiliation:
1. Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
2. Bretten, Germany, D75015
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The Halo-Shakiso emeralds were discovered near the town of Shakiso in southern Ethiopia in 2016. They are gem quality, Cr-dominant emeralds hosted within ultramafic rocks and associated with Cambrian pegmatite intrusions of the Adola Belt. Aqueous-carbonic primary fluid inclusions hosted within emerald have a composition of approximately 3.0 wt.% NaCl eq. and an XCO2 of 0.06, with minor amounts of N2, CH4, and H2S. Stable isotope thermometry of contemporaneous quartz and emerald yields temperatures in the range of 420 to 470 °C. Combined stable isotope and fluid inclusion data are consistent with emerald precipitation at pressures ranging from 2.0 to 3.0 kbar, corresponding to depths of 5.9 to 8.9 km. Additionally, emerald channel water δD and calculated δ18O isotope values are consistent with an igneous origin for the fluids responsible for emerald precipitation; these fluids are also responsible for the metasomatization of the host rocks in and near the pegmatite, forming the phlogopite schist that is host to the Halo-Shakiso emeralds. The isotopic signatures, combined with the occurrence of adjacent pegmatites, support the classification of the Halo-Shakiso emerald deposit as a Tectonic-Magmatic-Related emerald deposit.
Publisher
Mineralogical Association of Canada
Subject
Geochemistry and Petrology
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