At the end of 2021, we studied zinc sulfide grains from one of the Pai-Khoi deposits, Polar Urals, RF, using the LA-ICP-MS method. The content of more than 20 chemical elements in more than 70 grains of sphalerite with an admixture of wurtzite from different deposit zones was studied, and their distribution patterns were revealed. An unusual micro impurity of vanadium was found, associated with submicron ingrowths of the rare mineral sulvanite and many valuable patterns related to the distribution of Ga, Ge, In and some other metals. Using a new geothermometer and the fluid inclusion method, the formation temperature of this deposit was determined. A draft of the article was written, including new data. A plan for further research has been drawn up.
In 2022, with the help of colleagues from the Czech Republic, we managed to leave EBSD maps of grains with a maximum content of V, in which it was supposed to find colusite microinclusions. The resulting maps illustrate some grains' complex and irregular zoning according to sphalerite and wurtzite. Many articles are devoted to studying the distribution of micro impurities among these two ZnS modifications. It was decided to compare the available EBSD map with the trace element distribution map, which can be done using the ICP-MS method with laser sampling. But, unfortunately, our device was broken.
It has been under renovation for eight months now.
In this regard, I would like to ask the following. Can someone from the community lend time on your equipment and map LA-ICP-MS 2-3 grains of zinc sulfide (grain size ~400-500 microns)?
We are ready to add this person to the article's co-authors or mention it in the thanks section. I am prepared to come to your organization in person if necessary. Or send samples by mail.
I hope for your help. It is painful and hard on the soul because quite interesting samples on which many works have been carried out are gathering dust on the shelf, and new results have not yet reached colleagues.
Not yet, our LA-ICP-MS started to work, but the quality of measurements is
unstable
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