Structures of sulfide melt crystallization as an indication of metamorphism of the ores in the Oleninskoe gold deposit

Multiphase fine aggregates of galena, pyrrhotite, freibergite, pyrargyrite, diaphorite, fizelyite, uchucchacuaite, ullmanite, and some other minerals are found in the ores of the Oleninskoe gold deposit in the Kolmozero-Voronya greenstone belt (Kola Peninsula, Russia). The aggregates are considered...

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Main Authors: Kalinin, A. A., Savchenko, Ye. E.
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:Russian
Published: 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1834/41527
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Summary:Multiphase fine aggregates of galena, pyrrhotite, freibergite, pyrargyrite, diaphorite, fizelyite, uchucchacuaite, ullmanite, and some other minerals are found in the ores of the Oleninskoe gold deposit in the Kolmozero-Voronya greenstone belt (Kola Peninsula, Russia). The aggregates are considered to be the product of crystallization of sulfide melt formed of the minerals of low-melting-point chalcophile elements (Zn, Ag, Cd, Tl, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Se, Te, etc.) during heating to the temperature above 500 °C. This origin of the aggregates is affirmed by: 1) multiphase composition (up to 6 minerals) of the aggregates; 2) absence of signs of replacing early minerals by the late ones; 3) essential presence in the aggregates of the minerals of chalcophile elements Ag, Pb, Sb, i. e. elements with a low melting point of their compounds; 4) roundish droplet form of inclusions of minor minerals in the main sulfide, and 5) aggregates' position at the boundary sulfide – quartz or in fractures in vein minerals. Partial melting and crystallization of sulfide melts took place during Paleoproterozoic metamorphic event, when the Neoarchean sulfide-bearing rocks were mid-amphibolite metamorphosed under the temperature > 500 °C. Signs of the Paleoproterozoic metamorphism are found in the ores of the neighboring Cu-Mo porphyry Pellapahk deposit as well. В рудах месторождения золота Оленинское (северо-западная часть зеленокаменного пояса Колмозеро-Воронья, Кольский п-ов, Россия) в краевой части зерен галенита, пирротина, фрейбергита отмечены тонкие полиминеральные срастания, в состав которых кроме перечисленных сульфидов входят пираргирит, диафорит, физелиит, учукчакуаит, ульманит и некоторые другие минералы. Эти срастания рассматриваются нами как результат кристаллизации сульфидного расплава, получившегося при нагреве до температуры свыше 500 °C входящих в состав руды минералов халькофильных элементов, имеющих низкую температуру плавления (Zn, Ag, Cd, Tl, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Se, Te и некоторые другие). О таком происхождении ...