The Suzdal gold-sulfide deposit in the black shale of Eastern Kazakhstan

The Suzdal gold-sulfide deposit is situated in the northwestern part of the West Kalba gold belt in Eastern Kazakhstan and belongs to the genetic type of stringer-disseminated mineralized zones hosted in the Lower Carboniferous black-shale volcanic-carbonate-terrigenous sequences. Mineralization is controlled by the NE-trending Suzdal Fault. In the north, the deposit borders on the Early Triassic Semeytau volcanic-plutonic structure. Mineralization is superposed on the Late Paleozoic complex of metadolerite and quartz porphyry dikes. Ore deposition was a long-term process comprising four stages. The first stage was related to deposition of slightly auriferous pyrite syngenetic to host rocks. The second stage is characterized by formation of the first productive (with invisible gold) fine-acicular arsenopyrite mineralization accompanied by sericitization and localized in the tectonic zone. The stockwork ore with pocket-disseminated base-metal mineralization and free microscopic gold of the third stage is hosted in silicified rocks. The ore formation has been completed by quartz-stibnite veins superposed on all preceding types of mineralization. According to Ar/Ar dating of sericite, a chronological gap between the second and the third stages is estimated at 33 Ma. The deposit is an example of polygenetic and multistage mineralization.     

Evolution of the Vagran Gold-Bearing Placer Cluster (Northern Urals) and Prospects for Revealing Bedrock Mineralization

Geology of Ore Deposits - Abstract—More than 10 t of gold have been mined within the Vagran placer cluster (Northern Urals), and the identified primary sources are limited to single...     

Volatile and trace elements in alkaline and subalkaline melts of ocean islands: Evidence from inclusions in minerals and quenched glasses of rocks

Our database of published contents of volatile, major, and trace elements in melt inclusions in minerals and quenched glasses of volcanic rocks was used to calculate the mean compositions of alkaline and subalkaline melts of ocean islands. The data array included ~10300 determinations from more than 200 publications. The alkaline basic melts (mean Na₂O + K₂O is 4.75 wt %) are strongly enriched compared with the subalkaline melts (mean Na₂O + K₂O is 2.70 wt %) in volatile components (0.96 and 0.37 wt % H₂O, 650 and 190 ppm Cl, 1480 and 320 ppm F, and 930 and 530 ppm S, respectively) and many trace elements. For instance, the alkaline and subalkaline melts contain 31.8 and 7.2 ppm Rb, 50.1 and 9.6 ppm Nb, and 39.9 and 5.7 ppm La, respectively. Such relations were not observed for V, Cr, Co, Cu, Ga, and Sc. As to the major elements, the alkaline melts show significantly higher contents of Ti, Fe, and P, but lower contents of Si and Mg compared with the subalkaline melts. The enrichment of the alkaline melts in many trace elements compared with the subalkaline melts is retained also in silicic melts. The distribution of trace elements suggests a higher contribution of pyroxenite material during the formation of alkaline melts.     

Concentration of ore elements in magmatic melts and natural fluids as deduced from data on inclusions in minerals

Based on intergration of the published data on composition of inclusions in minerals and quenched glasses, the mean concentrations of 24 ore elements have been calculated for magmatic silicate melts formed in main geodynamic settings of the Earth and in natural fluids. The mean glass compositions normalized to the primitive mantle correlate with the partition coefficient between olivine and the basic melt. It is established that the degree of enrichment in ore elements depending on geodynamic setting is controlled by various contribution of fluids to the element transfer and accumulation. The ratios of element contents in each geodynamic setting to the mean concentrations of elements over all settings in the Earth have been calculated.     

Direct data on the ore potential of acid magmas of the Uzel’ginskoe ore field (Southern Urals,Russia)

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