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S. P. Nagaeva
S. P. Nagaeva
Student, research assistant
G.V. Plekhanov Saint Petersburg Mining University
Student, research assistant
G.V. Plekhanov Saint Petersburg Mining University

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Geology
  • Date submitted
    2001-06-27
  • Date accepted
    2001-07-15
  • Date published
    2002-01-01

Mineralogical and geochemical features and staging of Au-Sb-W mineralization of Verkhne-Yenashiminskoye ore cluster deposits (Yenisei Ridge, Siberia)

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Olimpiada, Oleniye and other gold-sulfide deposits are localized in terrigenous-carbonate rocks. The main ore minerals are arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, antimonite, scheelite; rare minerals are wolframite, pyrite, bertierite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, jemsonite, gudmundite, coloradoite, zumoite, aurostibite, native gold and antimony. Gold in ores is present in three different forms: native (assay 910-997) in association with scheelite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite; chemically bound in arsenopyrite structure (up to 0.6 % by mass); aurostibite AiBg, coexisting with antimonite and Sb-sulfosoles. Ore elements are represented by the association (Au-As)i(Sb-Pb-Ag) at Olympiada and (Au-Ag-W)±Sb at Olenyi; their differences are due to variations in the mineral composition of ores: early gold-arsenopyrite and late silver-bearing sulfoantimonite with aurostibite (Olympiada); early gold-shelite-pyrrotite and late aurostibite-antimonite (Olenyi). The Au-Sb-W mineralization formed during the early rare-metal (quartz-wolframite, quartz-shelite-sulfide association) and later gold ore (gold-shelite-pyrrhotite, gold-arsenopyrite, polymetallic, gold-bertierite-antimonite, carbonate-fluorite-pyrite associations) phases.

How to cite: Savichev A.A., Nagaeva S.P. Mineralogical and geochemical features and staging of Au-Sb-W mineralization of Verkhne-Yenashiminskoye ore cluster deposits (Yenisei Ridge, Siberia) // Journal of Mining Institute. 2002. Vol. № 1 150. p. 35-40.