2016_june Booklet A Part C Q78 📚 Economic Geology
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Question 78

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'Second boiling' in magmatic-hydrothermal ore systems refers to volatile exsolution driven by crystallization (not by heating), triggered as crystal fractionation concentrates volatiles in the residual melt until saturation.
As a magma crystallizes anhydrous minerals, the remaining melt becomes progressively enriched in water and other volatiles (since these are excluded from the crystallizing phases)....

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