Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210101569

量化贵金属地球化学行为的实验。该项目旨在测量贵金属的高温地球化学性质，包括金、银和铂族元素。需要这些测量来量化硅酸盐熔体和金属或硫化物之间贵金属的分配，这将使它们独特的地球化学特性能够应用于当前关于地球如何形成、地幔随时间的组成、地球与月球的关系以及岩浆系统形成铜金矿床的演化的假设的测试。由于新开发的实验和分析方法，这些测量变得可行，避免了困扰以前尝试的问题。

Experiments to quantify the geochemical behaviour of the precious metals. This project aims to measure the high-temperature geochemical properties of the precious metals, which include gold, silver and the platinum group elements. The measurements are needed to quantify the partitioning of the precious metals between silicate melts and metal or sulfide, which would enable their distinctive geochemical properties to be applied to the testing of current hypotheses on how Earth formed, the composition of Earth's mantle through time, the relationship of Earth to the Moon, and the evolution of magmatic systems to form copper-gold deposits. The measurements have become feasible due to newly developed experimental and analytical methods, which avoid the problems that have bedevilled previous attempts.