scholarly journals TAEZHNY EPITHERMAL DEPOSIT OF SILVER ORE (SIKHOTE-ALIN): REGIONAL POSITION, FORMATION CONDITIONS, GEOCHEMISTRY AND MINERAL COMPOSITION

Author(s):  
V.V. Ratkin ◽  
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L.F. Simanenko ◽  
V.A. Pakhomova ◽  
O.A. Eliseeva ◽  
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The Taezhny is a silver with gold (Au:Ag = 1:100) vein deposit with a pronounced mineralogical and geochemical selenium specializationof ores. The deposit is located in the eastern part of the Sikhote-Alin orogenic belt, 700 km north of Vladivostok. The regional position of the describable ore-bearing area, similar to the Mexican deposits of the Guanajuato area typical of the Pacific region, is determined by its relationto the Early Cretaceous island-arc terrane with a distinct geochemical enrichment in silver of its folded rock complex. Quartz vein bodies are located in submeridional fracturesfeathering NE-trending sinistral strike slip faults.The near-ore alteration is dominated bysericitization and silicification of host sandstones. The main silver minerals are freibergite, acanthite, and Se-containing pyrargyrite, polybasite, stephanite. Kustelite, electrum, aguilarite, allargentum, and discrasite are much less abundant. The mineralogical and geochemical zoning of ore bodies emphasized by a highly productive Ag-sulfosalt assemblage enriched in Sein the upper part of veins and the poor ores with predominant acanthite at depth is revealed.The veins were formed with the participation of sodium chloride solutions saturated with CO2 and CH4, at the temperature range from 400 to 150° C. The deposition of productive sulfosalt-bearingassemblages occurred with a suddendecrease in pressure under conditions of discharge of magmatic-meteoric fluids in circulation zones in the sandstones under the screen of volcanic rocks overlying the Kema terrane.

Author(s):  
A. N. Glukhov ◽  
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M. I. Fomina ◽  
E. E. Kolova ◽  
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The authors briefly characterize the geology and structure of the Shtokovoye ore field attached to the area where the Khurchan-Orotukan zone of tectonic-magmatic activation overlays the structures of the Yana-Kolyma ore-bearing belt. Studied are mineral associations and physicochemical conditions of gold ore bodies, located both in granites and in hornfelsed sedimentary masses. By the main features of its geological structure, ore composition, and physicochemical formation conditions, the Shtokovoye ore field mineralization corresponds to the "depth" group of the gold-rare-metal formation, analogous to the Butarnoye, Basugunyinskiye, Dubach, and Nadezhda occurrences. Its ores are peculiar in the late epithermal mineralization, which is associated with the Okhotsk-Chukotka volcanic belt and overlays the sinaccretional gold-rare-metal mineralization.


2021 ◽  
pp. M55-2018-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip T. Leat ◽  
Teal R. Riley

AbstractThe Antarctic Peninsula contains a record of continental-margin volcanism extending from Jurassic to Recent times. Subduction of the Pacific oceanic lithosphere beneath the continental margin developed after Late Jurassic volcanism in Alexander Island that was related to extension of the continental margin. Mesozoic ocean-floor basalts emplaced within the Alexander Island accretionary complex have compositions derived from Pacific mantle. The Antarctic Peninsula volcanic arc was active from about Early Cretaceous times until the Early Miocene. It was affected by hydrothermal alteration, and by regional and contact metamorphism generally of zeolite to prehnite–pumpellyite facies. Distinct geochemical groups recognized within the volcanic rocks suggest varied magma generation processes related to changes in subduction dynamics. The four groups are: calc-alkaline, high-Mg andesitic, adakitic and high-Zr, the last two being described in this arc for the first time. The dominant calc-alkaline group ranges from primitive mafic magmas to rhyolite, and from low- to high-K in composition, and was generated from a mantle wedge with variable depletion. The high-Mg and adakitic rocks indicate periods of melting of the subducting slab and variable equilibration of the melts with mantle. The high-Zr group is interpreted as peralkaline and may have been related to extension of the arc.


1985 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Rodnikov ◽  
A. G. Gainanov ◽  
B. V. Yermakov ◽  
V. M. Kovylin ◽  
V. A. Seliverstov ◽  
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1999 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 225-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Meneghel ◽  
A. Bondesan ◽  
M. C. Salvatore ◽  
G. Orombelli

AbstractThe morphology of the Lichen Hills in the upper section of Rennick Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica, is summarised as follows: (a) a top surface on the volcanic rocks with scattered erratic blocks; (b) an exhumed Kukri Peneplain, sculptured with roches moutonnees with striae and crescentic gouges on which lie moraines and patches of drift of mainly volcanic rocks; (c) a granitic bedrock eroded by glaciers into sharp peaks and cirques on top of which there is a glacial drift attributable to ancient blue-ice areas higher than those observed at present and which may be correlated with the Terra Nova drift (Late Wisconsin); (d) various Holocene ice-cored moraines that are pushed to the lee side of the nunataks arid are often banded in strips of different lithology. The bands of the Holocene moraines are related to the rock complexes that became exposed from the ice during the lowering of the surface of the glacier Analysis of the lithology and pattern of the supraglacial debris, as well as of the blue-ice areas, allows us to construct a depositional model for the moraines, and to relate the glacial drift to blue-ice areas existing since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM).The proposed model shows the different stages of recession of upper Rennick Glacier that are also valid for similar situations observed in northern Victoria Land. A surface lowering of upper Rennick Glacier of several hundred metres shows that significant changes have occurred at the Pacific edge of the East Antarctic ice sheet since the LGM.


1979 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Suárez

SummaryThe Hardy Formation, a sequence of Upper Mesozoic volcanic rocks exposed in Peninsula Hardy (Isla Hoste) in the southernmost archipelago of Chile represents, at least in part, the island-arc assemblage of an island-arc-marginal-basin system related to an eastward dipping subduction zone. This island arc was founded on South American continental crust and is also represented in the island of South Georgia 2000 km to the E. The island-arc assemblage includes pyroclastic rocks, characterized by a high proportion of vitric material, and lava intercalations ranging in composition from rhyolite to basalt. These rocks underwent zeolite and prehnite-pumpellyite facies metamorphism and are gently folded, in contrast with the intense folding exhibited by the rocks exposed to the north of Peninsula Hardy. Silicic volcanics assigned to this assemblage underlie pillow lavas, and are intruded by dolerites and gabbros probably related to a Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous ophiolite magmatism associated with the generation of a quasioceanic marginal basin. Volcanic turbidites (Yahgan Formation) were deposited into the marginal basin.It is suggested that in pre-marginal basin times the Hardy Formation interfingered towards the Atlantic with the silicic volcanics of the Tobifera Formation. However, recent geochemical work on the Tobifera Formation suggest an origin by continental crust anatexis in a volcano-tectonic rift zone related to upper mantle diapirism, whereas an island arc origin is favoured for at least the andesitic and basaltic components of the Hardy Formation. Therefore, the geology of Peninsula Hardy as presented here, confirms early assumptions of the splitting apart of a Middle–Upper Jurassic volcanic terrain along the Pacific margin of South America during the generation of a marginal basin. The spreading axis of the latter seems to have been located at the boundary of two somewhat overlapping petrotectonic assemblages: and island arc on the Pacific side and a silicic volcano-tectonic rift zone towards the Atlantic. A probably Cenozoic volcanic complex discordantly overlies the Yahgan and Hardy formations.


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