CONDITIONS OF FORMATION OF GOLD-BEARING MAGNETITE-CHLORITE-CARBONATE ROCKS OF THE KARABASH ULTRAMAFIC MASSIF (South Urals)

Minerals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valery Murzin ◽  
Konstantin Chudnenko ◽  
Galina Palyanova ◽  
Aleksandr Kissin ◽  
Dmitry Varlamov

We present a physicochemical model for the formation of magnetite-chlorite-carbonate rocks with copper gold in the Karabash ultramafic massif in the Southern Urals, Russia. The model was constructed based on the formation geotectonics of the Karabash massif, features of spatial distribution of metasomatically altered rocks in their central part, geochemical characteristics and mineral composition of altered ultramafic rocks, data on the pressure and temperature conditions of formation, and composition of the ore-forming fluids. Magnetite-chlorite-carbonate rocks were formed by the hydrothermal filling of the free space, whereas chloritolites were formed by the metasomatism of the serpentinites. As the source of the petrogenic and ore components, we considered rocks (serpentinites, gabbro, and limestones), deep magmatogenic fluids, probably mixed with metamorphogenic fluids released during dehydration and deserpentinization of rocks in the lower crust, and meteoric waters. The model supports the involvement of sodium chloride-carbon dioxide fluids extracting ore components (Au, Ag, and Cu) from deep-seated rocks and characterized by the ratio of ore elements corresponding to Clarke values in ultramafic rocks. The model calculations show that copper gold can also be deposited during serpentinization of deep-seated olivine-rich rocks and ore fluids raised by the tectonic flow to a higher hypsometric level. The results of our research allow predicting copper gold-rich ore occurrences in ultramafic massifs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-224
Author(s):  
V. V. Murzin ◽  
G. A. Palyanova ◽  
D. A. Varlamov ◽  
S. N. Shanina

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Yarboboev ◽  
Sh. Sultanov ◽  
I. Ochilov

Analysis of the available information and the results of many years of research on gold deposits in Uzbekistan made it possible to identify the main unconventional types of deposits. Among them, the most interesting are apocarbonate, crustal, sulfide-carbonaceous and apovolcanogenic quartzite (Upper-Kattakashkasai ore occurrence). The apocarbonate type is widespread in Uzbekistan, has been studied in sufficient detail and information is provided on it in this article. The article examines the existence, distribution and genesis of ores of Karlin type gold deposits. The generalizing characteristics of the Karlin type gold mineralization are given. The issues of geochemical specialization of the Paleozoic strata of the Chakylkalyan megablock are considered, the most favorable stratolevel for the localization of mineralized zones is determined, and the features of carbonate rocks in the process of gold deposition during reactions with silicic solutions are characterized. Based on the materials of regional geochemical profiling, the behavior of the main ore-forming elements in the rocks of both carbonate and volcanogenic-terrigenous strata is analyzed. As a result of the analysis, subclarkic contents of the main ore-forming elements (As, Co, Ni, Pb, Cu, Ag, V, Cr, Sc) were revealed, which create increased concentrations in gold-bearing pyrites of both apocarbonate gold mineralization and related formations.


Author(s):  
P. V. Kazakov ◽  

The Shartymskiy Graben was formed at zone of the Shartymskiy Fault in the late collision stage of development of the Southern Urals on the joint of the Western and Eastern Magnitogorsk sub-zone in conditions of variable compression and stretching, and was made with the Lower Carboniferous limestone. Occurrences of gold-bearing metasomatites (jasperoids, sericite-chlorite-carbonate-quartz, sericite-quartz) have been established in the precontact zones of carbonates, gabbro-dolerites, diorites dykes, and small intrusions of sub-alkaline leuсograniteporphirs of the Shartymskiy massif. Mediated connection with them of gold sprouts is established. The gold economic concentration of the Vorontsovskiy deposit type is expected on the certain sections of metasomatites of jasperoid association and their weathering crust.


1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1592-1602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Leblanc

A type of Co–Ni arsenide deposit with accessory gold and no silver can be recognized in ultramafic massifs of upper mantle origin. The Bou Azzer deposits (50 000 t Co) are distributed along the borders of serpentinite massifs in an Upper Proterozoic ophiolite (Anti-Atlas, Morocco). They consist of quartz–carbonate lenses with Co (Ni–Fe) arsenides. Gold is related to the skutterudite (8–15 ppm average content). In the Alpine lherzolite massif of Beni Bousera (Rif, Morocco) are found small chromite–Ni arsenides veins (300 t Ni) with accessory gold. They are associated with late orthopyroxene–vermiculite dikes. Several occurrences of As, arsenides, and gold-bearing carbonate rocks are found in serpentinites from various ophiolites. It is proposed that gold was leached by As- and Co2-rich hydrothermal solutions related to the serpentinization of mantle peridotites.


LITOSFERA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 894-911
Author(s):  
V. G. Korinevsky ◽  
V. A. Kotlyarov ◽  
S. V. Kolisnichenko ◽  
D. A. Artemiev

Research subject. Rare minerals of tin and antimony – stistaites from natural lead plates from the Severo-Svetlinskaya placer in the Chelyabinsk region and from microspherules of intermetallic compounds in the products of erosion of granites of the Kisegach complex in the Ilmeny Mountains.Materials and methods. Electron probe analysis and laser ablation with inductively coupled plasma were used to study the composition of the predominant minerals of intermetallic compounds in lead plates extracted during the washing of a gold-bearing placer, as well as from metal microspherules in the sandy fraction of eroded granites.Results. Two types of stistaite were identified: lead and arsenic-lead. Lead stistaites is sharply predominant, with its average composition (wt %) being Sb – 47.39, Sn – 38.75, Pb – 13.24, Cu – 0.06. The average composition of arsenic-lead stystaite (wt %) was found to be Sb – 43.89, Sn – 41.06, Pb – 11.02, As – 3.05, Cu – 0.47. Tin-lead microspherules from the destruction products of biotite granites of the Kisegach massif (Ilmeny Mountains) occasionally contain crystals and spotted precipitates of lead stistaite with the composition (wt %) of Sn 53.54, Sb 38.45, and Pb 7.42.Conclusions. It is assumed that, in both cases, the formation of alloys of intermetallic compounds of tin, lead and antimony with inclusions of native copper and iron was associated with granite magmatism.


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