Evolutionary-genetic method for forecasting ore gold objects

Abstract

The subject of the research is methods for predicting natural heterogeneities containing mineralized areas of the earth’s interior, accumulations of ore gold, which allow obtaining reliable knowledge about a mineral object, applying effective methods for its assessment, study and practical use. The topic of research is an evolutionary-genetic method for predicting ore gold objects, which was used to assess the prospects for gold content in Eastern Transbaikalia on a scale of 1: 500,000 at the beginning of this century. The purpose of the work is to present a new forecasting method, which boils down to identifying geological formations specialized for gold (geoblocks, strata, horizons, zones), and within them - areas of multiple gold concentration. The research methodology consists in identifying the main stages, geological processes leading to the concentration of gold in the process of long-term evolution of natural facies and formations, clarifying the sources of gold and gold-bearing objects in them. As a result of forecasting, it was found that at high initial gold contents in the initial substrate, one or two stages of its mobilization formation and redistribution are sufficient, at low gold contents, multiple redistribution and concentration are required. The likelihood of the industrial and larger-scale gold mineralization is directly correlated with the prospects of geological structures for the localization of endogenous mineralization, conditions that exclude the dispersion of matter in the final phase of ore formation, and the number of concentration stages. The method makes it possible to exclude from the perspective huge areas of the central parts of granite-gneiss domes and granite plutons and requires careful attention to mafic blocks that are not exposed according to geophysical data by erosion, as well as to xenoliths and remnants of potentially gold-bearing host rocks among granitoids