Critical controls on the formation of contact-style PGE-Ni-Cu mineralization: Evidence from the Paleoproterozoic Monchegorsk Complex, Kola Region, Russia

• Published in: Economic Geology
• Main Authors: Karykowski, Bartosz T., Maier, Wolfgang D., Groshev, Nikolay Y., Barnes, Sarah-Jane, Pripachkin, Pavel V., McDonald, Iain, Savard, Dany
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Sciences de la terre (géologie; géographie); igneous rocks; magmas; metal ores; metals; mineral exploration; nickel ores; Europe; gabbros; intrusions; Kola Russian Federation; Murmansk Russian Federation; copper ores; pegmatite; Precambrian; Proterozoic; pyroxenite; norite; Commonwealth of Independent States; Paleoproterozoic; platinum ores; Fennoscandian Shield; granites; mineral deposits; genesis plutonic rocks; ultramafics; peridotites; platinum group; Russian Federation; upper Precambrian; Monchegorsk; Murmansk; Fennoscandian
• Online Access: https://constellation.uqac.ca/id/eprint/4914/1/911-935.pdf

The Paleoproterozoic Monchegorsk Complex, located in the Russian part of the Fennoscandian Shield, constitutes one of the largest mafic-ultramafic layered intrusions in Europe. The complex hosts extensive contact-style platinum group element-Ni-Cu sulfide mineralization along its margin, irrespectiv...