Effects of temperature, silicate melt composition, and oxygen fugacity on the partitioning of V, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Mo, Ag, Sn, Sb, W, Au, Pb, and Bi between sulfide phases and silicate melt

log(DSL/SMorDMSS/SM=d+a·10,000/T+b·(ΔFMQ)+c·log(FeOmelt)in which T is temperature in K, FeOmelt denotes wt% FeOtot in silicate melt, and ΔFMQ denotes log fO2 relative to the fayalite-magnetite-quartz (FMQ) oxygen buffer. The application of this equation to natural samples of basaltic to rhyolitic composition yields DMSS/SM and DSL/SM values that agree with the measured values within ±0.5 log units for most of the elements, indicating the validity of the application of this equation to natural systems. Our partitioning data imply that sulfide liquid saturation in low-temperature intermediate to felsic melts causes a strong depletion in Cu, Au, Bi, and potentially Ag in the silicate melt, whereas MSS saturation may cause a depletion in Cu and potentially Au. Other elements including W, Zn, As, Mo, Sn, Sb, and Pb are much less or not affected by the saturation of sulfide liquid or MSS. These results place important constrains on the potential of magmas in forming porphyry-type ore deposits and the origin of the observed variability in metal ratios in porphyry-type ore deposits.