Evolutionary historical model of the Dukat silver giant

There are good grounds to believe that the inherited development of ore bodies controls the most important regularities in the location of deposits, especially of large ones, and also explains quite clearly the relatively selective ore occurrence in different magmas. Giant silver deposits were identified among both Paleozoic bodies and their regenerated Late Mesozoic vein-disseminated analogues. Jointly they represent a unified polychronic ore formation range. The performed investigations of mineral composition and the isotopic Sm-Nd system of granitoids in the Dukat ore field and their gold- and silver-bearing melanocratic inclusions established the possible occurrence of the Paleozoic juvenile continental crust of the Siberian Craton in their composition and confirmed our complicated scheme of oregenesis at the Dukat silver giant. The occurrence of high-grade gold in the melanocratic mineral aggregates of granitoids in the Dukat ore field should be regarded as a feature of hypabyssal gold-bearing zones being of high commercial interest.     

Observations and Theoretical Analysis of Lightcurves of Natural Satellites of Planets

We present the results of photometric observations of Saturn's seventh satellite Hyperion and four other planetary satellites: Saturn's moon Phoebe and three Jovian satellites Himalia, Elara, and Pasiphae. The observations have been conducted from September, 1999 to March, 2000, and during September–October, 2000. Analysis of periodic variations in Hyperion's lightcurve was performed. The lightcurve was modeled using the software package developed for calculating the rotational dynamics of a satellite. Our data generally indicate that over the period of observations Hyperion was in the chaotic mode of rotation.     

On the Need for Accurate Monitoring of the Geomagnetic Field during Directional Drilling in the Russian Arctic

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth - Abstract—The readings of well magnetometers used in directional drilling may be distorted by geomagnetic storms and substorms. These distortions occur...     

Detection of the 2020 Geomagnetic Jerk Using near Real-Time Data from the “St. Petersburg” and “Klimovskaya” Magnetic Observatories

Doklady Earth Sciences - Highly accurate observations of the Earth’s total magnetic field vector promptly derived from the data recorded at the “St. Petersburg” (Leningrad oblast)...     

First find of platinum group metals in the ore of Kirganik copper–porphyry deposit (Kamchatka)

The Kirganik copper–porphyry deposit is situated in the central part of the Sredinnyi Mountain Range of Kamchatka and is confined to fields of development of potassic orthoclase metasomatite and hypabyssal intrusions of shonkinite. Platinum group metals (PGMs), such as merenskyite, kotulskite, keithconnite, and temagamite, were discovered in the chalcopyrite–bornite and chalcopyrite–bornite–chalcosine ore of the deposit for the first time.     

“Postmineral” basaltoids and ore-bearing hydrothermal mineralizations

Contrasting volcanism (rhyolite-basalt) is typical of volcanogenic ore-bearing zones. At the same time, it has not been considered correct to regard contrasting volcanism as an exploration criterion for such zones, since the basaltoid member of volcanism is frequently postmineral. However, there is sufficient reason to consider subvolcanic bodies of postmineral basaltoids as the latest (terminating) formations of an approaching front of basic magmas, which is the cause of upper crustal granitoid magmatism and hydrothermal anomalies. Naturally enough, all volcanism ceases after the basaltoid effusions, and the hydrothermal systems also gradually disappear. Relicts of these systems are frequently reliably identified as quartz carbonate geodes in basaltic andesite sheets and dikes.     

Formation conditions of high-grade gold–silver ore of epithermal Tikhoe deposit,Russian Northeast

The Tikhoe epithermal deposit is located in the Okhotsk–Chukotka volcanic belt (OChVB) 250 km northeast of Magadan. Like other deposits belonging to the Ivan’insky volcanic–plutonic depression (VTD), the Tikhoe deposit is characterized by high-grade Au–Ag ore with an average Au grade of 23.13 gpt Au and Au/Ag ratio varying from 1: 1 to 1: 10. The detailed explored Tikhoe-1 orebody is accompanied by a thick (20 m) aureole of argillic alteration. Pyrite is predominant among ore minerals; galena, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, Ag sulfosalts, fahlore, electrum, and küstelite are less abundant. The ore is characterized by abundant Sebearing minerals. Cu–As geochemical specialization is noted for silver minerals. Elevated Se and Fe molar fractions of the main ore minerals are caused by their formation in the near-surface argillic alteration zone. The veins and veinlets of the Tikhoe-1 ore zone formed stepwise at a temperature of 230 to 105°C from Nachloride solution enriched in Mg and Ca cations with increasing salinity. The parameters of the ore-forming fluid correspond to those of epithermal low-sulfidation deposits and assume the formation of high-grade ore under a screening unit of volcanic rocks. In general, the composition of the ore-forming fluid fits the mineralogy and geochemistry of ore at this deposit. The similarity of the ore composition and parameters of the ore-forming fluid between the Tikhoe and Julietta deposits is noteworthy. Meanwhile, differences are mainly related to the lower temperature and fluid salinity at the Julietta deposit with respect to the Tikhoe deposit. The fluid at the Julietta deposit is depleted in most components compared with that at the Tikhoe deposit except for Sb, Cd, and Ag. The results testify to a different erosion level at the deposits as derivatives of the same ore-forming system. The large scale of the latter allows us to predict the discovery of new high-grade objects, including hidden mineralization, which is not exposed at the ore field flanks and beyond them.