Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10009
A. Motov, A. Sobolev
{"title":"Phylogenesis of gold in polymetallic volcanogenic-sedimentary massive sulfide ores","authors":"A. Motov, A. Sobolev","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10009","url":null,"abstract":"The Au concentrational level of the ores of polymetallic volcanogenic-sedimentary massive sulfide deposits is predetermined by the geodynamic setting of their formation. The ores formed in a mid-ocean ridge setting are characterized by low Au grades. The ores formed under the island arc conditions possess higher Au contents. In the course of the further existence of the ore deposit, its ores experience repeated external influences: underwater halmyrolysis, thermal and dynamic metamorphism, hydrothermal-metasomatic transformations, and exogenous oxidation. These processes lead to the transfer of gold from a micro- or nano-sized form in the sulfides to the free form and to redistribution of Au over the ore field of the deposit. The heterogeneity of the ores in terms of the Au content and existence forms must be taken into account when preparing a feasibility study. The work is intended for geologists conducting mining and geological modeling, designing techniques for the ore extraction, and proposing ore processing technologies.","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84735565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.47765//0869-5997-2023-10010
A. Suchkov, Denis Vydrich
{"title":"Alteration-mineralization zonality of the Teploe 2 and Intruzivnoe molybdenum prospects in the Djetsky ore cluster, Eastern Sayan","authors":"A. Suchkov, Denis Vydrich","doi":"10.47765//0869-5997-2023-10010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765//0869-5997-2023-10010","url":null,"abstract":"Molybdenum mineralization in the Eastern Sayan is represented by the stockwork, vein, and skarn types. The article is devoted to molybdenum ore occurrences of the Dzhetsky ore cluster of the Sisim-Divnogorsk minerogenic zone, that are characterized by the stockwork type mineralization. The Dzhetsky ore cluster is located 160 km northeast of Abakan and 150 km south of Krasnoyarsk. The study included investigations of the host rocks, ores, and ore-accompanying metasomatic alterations; their mineral assemblages; and the morphological types, relationships, and spatial distribution of the ore segregations. It has been demonstrated that the alteration-mineralization zonality of the Teploe 2 and Intrusivnoe molybdenum prospects of the Dzhetsky ore cluster is represented by the propylite type metasomatic alterations that are superimposed in the central segments of the ore occurrences by veinlet silicification bearing copper-molybdenum mineralization.","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85768016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10007
A.G. Shevkunov, Anton Kornitsky, Anatoliy Bashkirov, Tynchtykbek Idarkulov
{"title":"The Kumtor gold deposit in the Middle Tien Shan, Kyrgyzstan, and the application of 3-D modeling in Seequent’s Leapfrog Geo software for the geological exploration","authors":"A.G. Shevkunov, Anton Kornitsky, Anatoliy Bashkirov, Tynchtykbek Idarkulov","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10007","url":null,"abstract":"The Kumtor deposit is one of the largest gold deposits in the Tien Shan. The ore zones are localized in rocks of the black shale formation, in an amagmatic gently dipping structure. Distinctive features of the ore deposit in a line of gold objects localized in black shales are the predominance of ores of pyrite-(feldspar)-carbonate composition and the almost complete absence of arsenic in the ores. Kumtor is a typical representative of orogenic type deposits.The use of 3D modeling of the geological structure of the ore deposit with the Leapfrog Geo software allows one to quickly correct the model when new drilling and operational exploration data are received, to optimize the exploration work, and to forecast new sites for the exploratory drilling","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"364 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73424059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10006
Y. Ezhkov, Anvar Kholiyorov, Rakhman Rakhimov, U.Kh. Toshmetov
{"title":"Boron-bearing skarn-magnetite mineralization of the Mingbulak ore field, Eastern Uzbekistan","authors":"Y. Ezhkov, Anvar Kholiyorov, Rakhman Rakhimov, U.Kh. Toshmetov","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10006","url":null,"abstract":"Spatial distribution of skarn-magnetite deposits in the Tien Shan region is closely related to gabbroid magmatism that accompanies wide fault zones bordering the South Tien Shan folded system from the north and south and extending as a latitudinal belt towards the Middle and Southwestern Tien Shan.Studies fulfilled during recent decades in the Karzhantau Ridge area have quite clearly demonstrated its gold-copper-bismuth metallogenic specialization with the leading role of gold. The most promising position is characteristic of the Aktash group ore occurrences (Aktam-I, Aktam-II, and Yuzhnoe).Within the studied Mingbulak area of Karzhantau, the most widely distributed are mineral occurrences of iron ore, lead and zinc, gold, and copper, and less developed boron-bearing, tungsten, and fluorite ones. Most of the mineral occurrences in the area formed as a result of magmatic-hydrothermal activity and are confined to fault zones characterized by long duration and complexity of the formation. The mineralization is usually localized in the crush zones and feathering fractures of the faults. The skarn type includes ore occurrences of iron, a metal that is currently strongly deficient for mining enterprises in the Tashkent region.","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"22 S3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91515436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10004
Vitaliy Stepanov
{"title":"On the gold content in the antimony and mercury mineralization in Priamurye","authors":"Vitaliy Stepanov","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10004","url":null,"abstract":"The data on the geological and structural position, composition of metasomatites, ores, and gold content of antimony and mercury deposits and occurrences of the Priamursky gold-bearing area are presented. It was established that the ores of many of them contain native gold, whose concentration reaches commercial values. Some of the gold-bearing antimony and mercury deposits serve as sources of the formation of gold placers. By the composition of ores, near-ore metasomatites and samples of native gold, the analogues of these deposits and occurrences are the famous gold deposits of Yakutia - Sarylakh of the gold-antimony formation and Kyuchus of the gold-mercury formation. It is recommended to audit a number of mercury and antimony deposits and occurrences in the Priamursky province for gold. As a result, it is expected to identify deposits of gold-antimony and gold-and-mercury formation. In addition, occurrences of antimony and mercury may be indicative of the presence of gold-sulfide formation deposits in the bedrock, similar to a large deposit Mayskoye (Chukotka).","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72992281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10001
{"title":"Prospects for the natural uranium world market","authors":"","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10001","url":null,"abstract":"Various scenarios for development of the world uranium industry are considered, and an assumption is made of a high probability of the rapid growth scenario, according to the IAEA, which assumes an annual growth rate of the total nuclear power plants (NPPs) capacity of 2-2.5%. Based on this forecast, an assessment is made of capabilities of the uranium world mineral base to meet the NPPs needs in the nuclear fuel. It is demonstrated that only the restoration of production at temporary closed down mining enterprises, the growth of output at existing mines, and using secondary sources of uranium guarantee a sufficient amount of the raw materials to meet the demand for uranium in the next decade. Moreover, the shortage of raw materials for nuclear fuel in the near future may again be replaced by its excess. However, by the end of the current or early next decade, due to the depletion of the resource base of some operating mines, including Four Mile and Cigar Lake in Canada, the capacities of mining enterprises will be insufficient to meet the fuel needs of NPPs. A shortage of uranium may appear again, that will grow rapidly in the future. This will mean a new round of growth in prices for natural uranium, which, in turn, will stimulate an increase in uranium production throughout the world and will expand the prospects for the implementation of projects for the development of new uranium deposits in Russia, primarily Argunskoe and Zherlovoe in the Streltsovskoe uranium ore region","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"7 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88254896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ores and metalsPub Date : 2023-04-07DOI: 10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10002
O. Vladimirtseva, Victor Konoplev, M.B. Bereznev
{"title":"Composition and gold-bearing potential of Neogene deposits \u0000in the middle reaches of the Selennyakh river, \u0000Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)","authors":"O. Vladimirtseva, Victor Konoplev, M.B. Bereznev","doi":"10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47765/0869-5997-2023-10002","url":null,"abstract":"Because of significant exhaustion of known easily accessible gold placers, revealing new such objects is becoming increasingly important. Several gold placer clusters are situated in the region of the Selennyakh River in the middle course of the Indigirka River. They are mainly located along the left bank of the Selennyakh River, in its upper reaches. The right banks of the Selennyakh River, especially in its middle course, remain poorly studied. However, the presence of halos of panned gold concentrates with no obvious relation to probable primary sources of gold, revealed in the 1970s-80s, is a reason for this area to be studied as a gold-bearing one. The article presents results of the 2020-2021 panned heavy mineral concentrate sampling within the Vetvistyi site in the middle reaches of the Selennyakh River, provides a characteristic of the alluvial gold typomorphism, and gives a description of the Neogene deposits drained by the Vetvistyi Stream. The belonging of the Neogene deposits to the Uyandina Formation that fills the Momo-Selennyakh depression has been confirmed. Potentially commercial gold-bearing potential of the Vetvistyi Stream and its tributaries has been substantiated, and gold particles (signs) have been revealed in the Neogene deposits of the Uyandina Formation","PeriodicalId":19636,"journal":{"name":"Ores and metals","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75004089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}