Typomorphic Features of Placer Gold from the Billyakh Tectonic Melange Zone of the Anabar Shield and Its Potential Ore Sources (Northeastern Siberian Platform)

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Boris Gerasimov, Vasily Beryozkin, Alexander Kravchenko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: anabar shield; billyakh zone; typomorphism of native gold; mineral inclusions; disseminated gold-sulfide mineralization; metasomatosis; primary source; Mineralogy; QE351-399.2; Anabar; Arctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min10030281; https://doaj.org/article/56c5fd1ca22f42d1b029c2bae6665d1f

Precambrian shields and outcropped Precambrian rock complexes in the Arctic may serve as the most important sources of various types of mineral raw materials, including gold. The gold potential of the Anabar shield in the territory of Siberia has, thus far, been poorly studied. A number of primary a...