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This work presents the results of the first comprehensive study of PGE mineralization from massive chromitites of the Iov dunite body (Northern Urals). The chromitites are composed of chromespinelides with a higher content of Cr2O3 with respect to those from other zonal clinopyroxenite–dunite massifs of the Urals. However, the composition of chromespinelides fits the trend that is characteristic of the dunite–clinopyroxenite–gabbro formation. PGE minerals, in particular Pt–Fe solid solutions, were identified in chromitites and in chromespinelides in the form of crystals and aggregates of a complex non-crystallographic habit and less often of an idiomorphic cubic habit. In terms of stoichiometry, Pt–Fe minerals correspond to ferroplatinum (Pt2Fe) and isoferroplatinum (Pt3Fe). The minerals of the isomorphic tetraferroplatinum–tulameenite–nickelferroplatinum series are widely distributed. Thus, the PGE mineralization of the Iov dunite body has features that are characteristic of clinopyroxenite–dunite massifs of the Urals.
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Original Russian Text © R.S. Palamarchuk, S.Yu. Stepanov, D.A. Khanin, A.V. Antonov, 2017, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 4: Geologiya, 2017, No. 5, pp. 68–76.
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Palamarchuk, R.S., Stepanov, S.Y., Khanin, D.A. et al. PGE Mineralization of Massive Chromitites of the Iov Dunite Body (Northern Urals). Moscow Univ. Geol. Bull. 72, 445–454 (2017). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0145875217060096
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