Is Mercury a volatile‐rich planet?

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Mercury’s Weather-Beaten Surface: Understanding Mercury in the Context of Lunar and Asteroidal Space Weathering Studies (2014, background): “…from an iron core in a low-oxygen-fugacity environment could produce misleadingly high K/Th ratios (as an indicator of a planet’s volatile inventory) even if Mercury is actually volatile poor (McCubbin et al. 2012), though this argument does not account for Mercury’s high Na and S abundances.”
The curious case of Mercury's internal structure (2013, background): “However, the surface abundance combined with the low surface Fe content suggest that chemical conditions were so strongly reducing [Nittler et al., 2011; Zolotov et al., 2013; McCubbin et al., 2012] during Mercury’s formation and 6000 7000 8000 9000 0 0.”
Thermochemical evolution of Mercury's interior (2013, methodology): “The last set consisted of models with Dm = 400 km but 10% U and Th were assumed to be partitioned into the core [McCubbin et al., 2012].”
Chemical heterogeneity on Mercury's surface revealed by the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer (2012, background): “Measured surface abundances of K [Peplowski et al., 2011] and S [Nittler et al., 2011] indicate that Mercury is not depleted in volatile elements relative to the other terrestrial planets, although this inference has been questioned [McCubbin et al., 2012].”