New Geochemical and Mineralogical Data on Rocks and Ores of the NE Flank of the Oktyabr’skoe Deposit (Norilsk Area) and a View on Their Origin

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Nadezhda Krivolutskaya, Yana Bychkova, Bronislav Gongalsky, Irina Kubrakova, Oksana Tyutyunnik, Elena Dekunova, Vladimir Taskaev
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: copper-nickel ore; mafic intrusions; Norilsk district; Oktyabr’skoe deposit; Norilsk; norilsk
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min11010044

The Oktyabr’skoe deposit in the Norilsk ore district is the largest platinum-copper-nickel deposit in the world. It contains a huge main orebody (2.4 km3) of massive sulfide ores and some smaller sulfide bodies. Almost all publications on this deposit are devoted to the main orebody. However, to sol...