Stages and Formation Conditions of Productive Mineral Associations of the Dalnegorsk Borosilicate Deposit,Sikhote Alin

Geology of Ore Deposits - A special investigation of fluid inclusions and geochemical and isotopic studies of their typomorphic features were carried out for danburite and datolite from skarn...     

Seasonal and Long-Term Changes in the Intensity of O2(b1Σ) and OH(X2Π) Airglow in the Mesopause Region

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Spectral observations of the mesopause airglow at the Zvenigorod Scientific Station have been used to obtain the midnight emission intensities of molecular oxygen...     

The Dzhalinda Deposit in the Amur Region,Russia: Genesis and position in the classification of tin deposits

The Dzhalinda wood tin deposit is located at the eastern margin of the Bureya Massif and, according to the Russian classification of tin deposits, is referred to the rhyolite-hosted type. The Dzhalinda deposit is compared with the deposits located in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. In spite of some similar features, the Dzhalinda deposit differs significantly from the American deposits in the composition of ore-bearing rhyolite and the type and composition of host rocks. It is suggested that the ore-bearing rhyolitic melt at the Dzhalinda deposit evolved with the formation of a highly silicic residual melt depleted in P and Li and enriched in Sn, being opposed in this respect to the ongonite model typical of such deposits. The drastic change in the physicochemical parameters of the system caused by the evolution of the melt under near-surface conditions of a volcanic vent led to the separation of Si-Sn complexes, which broke down into various silica modifications and oolite-like wood tin.     

Multimetal potential and high productivity of local ore-magmatic systems of Sikhote Alin: Evidence from the Arsen’evskoe deposit

The Arsen’evskoe deposit with large tin reserves is traditionally considered as a reference object of the Kavalerovo ore district. New data obtained allow us to draw genetic conclusions. It is shown that the deposit combines the products of three tin-bearing stages and final tungsten mineralization. Ores of different stages related to different magmatic complexes represent tin-sulfide, cassiterite-sulfide-silicate, and cassiterite-quartz formations and are complex in composition (Sn, Pb, Zn, Cu, Ag). Large volumes of multimetal ores of the Arsen’evskoe deposit are prepared for mining; their reserves can be doubled at minor additional costs. The inferred reserves of complex ores of the Arsen’evskoe and other ore fields of the Kavalerovo district are an order of magnitude higher than the known reserves and are large enough for highly profitable mining production.     

Specific features of the fluid regime during the formation of systems with copper-molybdenum-gold and copper-tin mineralizations (Iskra-Soboliny knot, Kavalerovo ore district, Primorye)

Specific features of the fluid regime in ore-magmatic systems located in the southwestern part of the Kavalerovo ore district (Primorye) are considered. One system is accompanied by mineralization of the porphyry copper type (Lazurnoe deposit); the other system, by tin (copper-tin) mineralization of the hydrothermal type (Iskra deposit). It is shown that the magmatic stages of these systems are distinguished mainly by the chlorophile nature of the copper-gold system and the fluorophile nature of the copper-tin system. The well-known distinction of these systems in terms of the redox parameter is confirmed, and its different evolution scenarios in the systems are shown. The results of the study of fluid inclusions in quartz of postmagmatic associations show that the processes of ore formation at the Lazurnoe deposit were characterized by a wide temperature range and the heterogeneity of the mineral-forming environment. The early period was marked by the coexistence of aqueous-saline brines (mainly of Na-Ca-Mg-chloride composition) and low-density fluid inclusions. The late period was dominated by ordinary hydrothermal solutions. The Iskra deposit formed in a relatively narrow temperature range from homogeneous fluids of essentially Na-chloride composition characterized by moderate and low salinity.     

Tin–rare-earth element greisens of the Solnechnoe cassiterite–silicate deposit,Russian Far East

The paper considers for the first time the morphology, composition, and conditions of formation of the greisens of the Solnechnoe deposit (Komsomol’sk ore district), a typical cassiterite–silicate assemblage. The greisens are localized in the root parts of the deposit and represent a system of veins and veinlets formed in the contraction fractures of the metasomatically altered roof of the monzogranite intrusion (age of 94–92 Ma). The cassiterite–chlorite–carbonate–muscovite–quartz composition of the greisens with admixture of topaz, fluorite, and apatite reflects the composition of the monzogranites. The greisens are close in age (85.3 Ma on muscovite) to the granitic aplites (80–85 Ma on the whole-rock and biotite) of the final phase of the intrusive magmatism. The fluid regime of their formation differs from that of the economic ores in higher temperature, pressure, and salinity. One distinguishing feature of the greisens is elevated contents of LREE, U, and Th, which are incorporated in the REE fluorcarbonates, thorite, and uranothorite crystallizing together with cassiterite.     

Monzonitoid association of the Kavalerovo ore district (Primorye): geochronology and some genetic problems

This paper is dedicated to the isotope-geochronological study of the rocks that compose two large intrusions and a separate group of minor intrusions in the western part of the Kavalerovo ore district. In most publications, these rocks are considered as monzonitic or trachyandesite-monzonitic association. On the basis of the amphibole and biotite K-Ar ages and the Rb-Sr whole-rock and mineral datings, the studied association was formed within the interval of 113–98 Ma. A wider interval of 115–95 Ma was obtained with allowance for other isotope data, including those on the rocks of the volcanic facies. This is consistent with the concepts that the studied association belongs to a single magmatic complex. No significant and systematic age differences have been established between the compositionally similar rocks from the different massifs. In compliance with the scheme of the geodynamic evolution of the region, the chambers of latitic melts of the volcanic and most intrusive rocks of the complex were formed prior to the initiation of the Sikhote-Alin subduction volcanic belt. The initial stage of the formation of the latter is presumably constrained by the data on the biotite from the quartz diorites from the Uglovaya VTS (90 Ma), which is located in the central part of the region, and on the late amphibole from the monzonitoids of its western part (91–92 Ma). The geochemical differences between rocks from the different intrusive bodies could be caused by the specifics of the melt evolution in the intermediate or crystallization chambers.