The Kuranakh epithermal gold deposit, East Russia

被引:2
作者
Rodionov, Sergey M. [1 ]
Fredericksen, Rick S. [1 ]
Berdnikov, Nikolay V. [1 ]
机构
[1] RAS, Inst Tecton & Geophys, Khabarovsk, Russia
来源
MINERAL DEPOSIT RESEARCH: MEETING THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE, VOLS 1 AND 2 | 2005年
关键词
Kuranakh mine; epythermal; gold; Aldan Shield; Russia;
D O I
10.1007/3-540-27946-6_269
中图分类号
P5 [地质学];
学科分类号
0709 ; 081803 ;
摘要
The Kuranakh mine is one of the largest lode gold mines in Russia and has produced 220 tonnes of gold. From 1957 until 1997 the mine has extracted 74.1 million tonnes of ore grading 3.57 g/t gold (Benevolskiy, 1985). The Kuranakh gold deposit is of the epithermal, quartz-adularia-sericite (illite)-type. Several subhorizontal, blanket- or ribbon-like ore bodies up to 50 m thick occur mainly along and/or above, and in some places, under the contact between Cambrian calcareous footwall rocks and overlying Jurassic clastic rocks within a narrow zone, about 30 km long, bounded by several south-north trending faults. Originally, gold mineralization was associated with pyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and galena; however, total sulfides were only a few percent of the total rock mass.The deposit has been thoroughly oxidized and only traces of arsenopyrite and pyrite are found. Gold occurs primarily as mineral grains less than 5 microns in size and is usually contained within friable grains of porous goethite. Studies of fluid inclusions show homogenization temperatures from 80oC to 220oC but generally averaging from 110 degrees C to 160 degrees C.
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页码:1053 / 1056
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