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The Siratur Gold Deposit in Carbonaceous Rocks of an Ophiolite Association, South Urals

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The Siratur gold deposit occurs in the northern part of the South Uralian segment of the Main Uralian Fault. The ore zone of the deposit is confined to an area of a tectonic junction of serpentinites of the Nurali massif and a longitudinal band of carbonaceous schists of the Ordovician Polyakovka Formation, which also hosts abundant basalts with petrogeochemical features of mid-oceanic ridge mafic volcanic rocks. The gold mineralization of the Siratur deposit mostly includes stringer-disseminated gold-sulfide type (1) in black shales and stringer-disseminated gold-quartz-low sulfide type (2) in listvenite–beresite complex. The microprobe analysis of gold grains showed that the fineness of type 1 and 2 gold is 670–820 and 940–970, respectively. The deposit can be ascribed to the polygenic and polychronous type.

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This work was supported by state contract no. 0246-2019-0078. The analysis of chemical composition of minerals was supported by state contract no. AAAA-A19-119072390050-9.

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  1. Institute of Geology, Ufa Federal Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 450077, Ufa, Russia

    A. V. Snachev & V. I. Snachev

  2. OAO Bashkirgeologiya, 450059, Ufa, Russia

    F. F. Latypov

  3. Institute of Mineralogy, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology, Urals Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 456317, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast, Russia

    M. A. Rassomakhin

  4. Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    D. G. Koshchug & S. V. Vyatkin

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Snachev, A.V., Latypov, F.F., Snachev, V.I. et al. The Siratur Gold Deposit in Carbonaceous Rocks of an Ophiolite Association, South Urals. Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 75, 609–615 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0145875220060113

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