Spence porphyry copper deposit: Hematite (U-Th-Sm)/He geochronology

This spreadsheet contains (U-Th-Sm)/He data for 73 hematite samples from the supergene profile of the Spence porphyry copper deposit in the Central Andes. These data are discussed in the G-cubed publication titled 'A rusty record of weathering and groundwater movement in the hyperarid Central Andes' (Shaw et al., 2021). Spence porphyry copper deposit Drill hole SPD0324, UTM WGS1984 19S, E 474975.22, N 7481100.39 Drill hole SPD 1848, UTM WGS1984 19S, E 474998.29, N 7481399.87 Drill hole SPD 0402, UTM WGS1984 19S, E 473969.87, N 7479755.01

Date (Creation): 2021-06-25

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607774

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Bristol	Joseph Shaw	not available	Originator
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Distributor
British Geological Survey	Enquiries	not available	Point of contact

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Geographic identifier: ANDES [id=842000]
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Begin date: 2017-01-02

End date: 2019-03-29

Supplemental Information: Royal Society Research Grant RG140683

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84 / UTM zone 18S (EPSG::32718)

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	https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item167044	Data

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Date (Publication): 2011

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Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Statement: (U-Th-Sm)/He dating was done at Caltech, using the single aliquot method (Farley, 2002; House et al., 2000). Hematite fragments were loaded into Pt tubes and degassed by incremental heating with a Nd-YAG laser to >1000⁰ C. He extraction conducted under high pO2 (100 torr), buffering the hematite-magnetite transition to >1200° C (Hofmann et al., 2020). Isotope-dilution measurements of 4He were made with an enriched 3He spike, using a Pfeiffer Vacuum quadrupole mass spectrometer. U, Th and Sm were measured on the same aliquots using an Agilent 8800 triple-quadrupole ICP-MS (e.g. Hofmann et al., 2017). (U-Th-Sm)/He ages were calculated according to Farley (2002). Since aliquots were taken from structures much larger than the typical alpha-particle stopping distance in hematite of 13-16 µm (Ketcham et al., 2011), no correction for alpha-ejection or -implantation was applied.