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Speciation and thermodynamic properties for cobalt chloride complexes in hydrothermal fluids at 35-440 °C and 600 bar: An in-situ XAS study |
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| Authors: | Weihua Liu Stacey J Borg Denis Testemale Barbara Etschmann Jean-Louis Hazemann Joël Brugger |
| Institution: | a CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia b Institut Néel, Département MCMF, 38042 Grenoble, France c FAME Beamline, ESRF, 38043 Grenoble, France d ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia e South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia f Tectonics, Resources and Exploration (TRaX), School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia |
| Abstract: | Aqueous Co(II) chloride complexes play a crucial role in cobalt transport and deposition in ore-forming hydrothermal systems, ore processing plants, and in the corrosion of special Co-bearing alloys. Reactive transport modelling of cobalt in hydrothermal fluids relies on the availability of thermodynamic properties for Co complexes over a wide range of temperature, pressure and salinity. Synchrotron X-ray absorption spectroscopy was used to determine the speciation of cobalt(II) in 0-6 m chloride solutions at temperatures between 35 and 440 °C at a constant pressure of 600 bar. Qualitative analysis of XANES spectra shows that octahedral species predominate in solution at 35 °C, while tetrahedral species become increasingly important with increasing temperature. Ab initio XANES calculations and EXAFS analyses suggest that in high temperature solutions the main species at high salinity (Cl:Co >> 2) is CoCl42−, while a lower order tetrahedral complex, most likely CoCl2(H2O)2(aq), predominates at low salinity (Cl:Co ratios ∼2). EXAFS analyses further revealed the bonding distances for the octahedral Co(H2O)62+ (octCo-O = 2.075(19) Å), tetrahedral CoCl42− (tetCo-Cl = 2.252(19) Å) and tetrahedral CoCl2(H2O)2(aq) (tetCo-O = 2.038(54) Å and tetCo-Cl = 2.210(56) Å). An analysis of the Co(II) speciation in sodium bromide solutions shows a similar trend, with tetrahedral bromide complexes becoming predominant at higher temperature/salinity than in the chloride system. EXAFS analysis confirms that the limiting complex at high bromide concentration at high temperature is CoBr42−. Finally, XANES spectra were used to derive the thermodynamic properties for the CoCl42− and CoCl2(H2O)2(aq) complexes, enabling thermodynamic modelling of cobalt transport in hydrothermal fluids. Solubility calculations show that tetrahedral CoCl42− is responsible for transport of cobalt in hydrothermal solutions with moderate chloride concentration (∼2 m NaCl) at temperatures of 250 °C and higher, and both cooling and dilution processes can cause deposition of cobalt from hydrothermal fluids. |
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