Content OF Bi, Ag, Se and Sb in galenite as an indicator of zonality of gold manifestations of the Nizhne-Myakitsky ore cluster (Magadan region)
- Authors: Litvinenko I.S.1, Sotskaya O.T.1
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Affiliations:
- North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute n. a. N.A. Shilo, Far East Branch RAS
- Issue: Vol CLIII, No 4 (2024)
- Pages: 21-33
- Section: МИНЕРАЛЫ И ПАРАГЕНЕЗИСЫ МИНЕРАЛОВ
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0869-6055/article/view/279549
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869605524040026
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/PDMUMS
- ID: 279549
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Abstract
Results of the study of galena from the Berental gold ore system of the RIRGD (Reduced Intrusive Related Gold Deposit) type, associated with the granite stock in the southeastern part of the Yana-Kolyma gold belt, are presented. There is a tendency to change from (1) the mineralization of the bismuth-sulfotelluride type of the apical (intra-intrusive) zone to (2) the mineralization of the sulfide-sulfoarsenide type of the proximal zone and (3) the mineralization of the silver-polysulfide type of the distal zone as one moves away from the Berental intrusive massif outcrop. Galena in the bismuth-sulfotelluride type of ores is characterized by its bismuth geochemical specialization due to bismuthine (Bi2S3) microinclusions. In the sulfide-sulfoarsenide type, in addition to bismuth, the presence of silver is noted. It is caused by a solid solution in galena of matildite (AgBiS2), less often by microinclusions of acanthite (Ag2S). In some areas it contains gold (due to microinclusions of uytenbogaardtite (Ag3AuS2) or native gold). Galena in the silver-polysulfide mineral type of mineralization is characterized by increased concentrations of selenium (solid solution with clausthalite (PbSe)) and (or) antimony and silver (due to miargyrite (AgSbS2) microinclusions).
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I. S. Litvinenko
North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute n. a. N.A. Shilo, Far East Branch RAS
Author for correspondence.
Email: litvinenko@neisri.ru
Russian Federation, Magadan
O. T. Sotskaya
North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute n. a. N.A. Shilo, Far East Branch RAS
Email: sotskaya@neisri.ru
Russian Federation, Magadan
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