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Ivashchenko, Vasily I. (2024) Ore Formation and Mineralogy of the Alattu–Päkylä Gold Occurrence, Ladoga Karelia, Russia. Minerals, 14 (11). doi:10.3390/min14111172

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TitleOre Formation and Mineralogy of the Alattu–Päkylä Gold Occurrence, Ladoga Karelia, Russia
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AuthorsIvashchenko, Vasily I.Author
Year2024Volume<   14   >
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Full ReferenceIvashchenko, Vasily I. (2024) Ore Formation and Mineralogy of the Alattu–Päkylä Gold Occurrence, Ladoga Karelia, Russia. Minerals, 14 (11). doi:10.3390/min14111172
Plain TextIvashchenko, Vasily I. (2024) Ore Formation and Mineralogy of the Alattu–Päkylä Gold Occurrence, Ladoga Karelia, Russia. Minerals, 14 (11). doi:10.3390/min14111172
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Abstract/NotesThe Alattu–Päkylä gold occurrence is located in the Northern Lake Ladoga area, in the Raaha-Ladoga suprasubduction zone, at the Karelian Craton (AR)—Svecofennian foldbelt (PR1) boundary. Its gold ore mineral associations are of two types of mineralization: (1) copper–molybdenum–porphyry with arsenopyrite and gold (intrusion-related) and (2) gold–arsenopyrite–sulfide in shear zones. Optical and scanning electron microscopy, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) and fire analysis with AAS finishing were used to study them. Type 1 was provoked by shallow-depth tonalite intrusion ( 1.89 Ga) and type 2 by two stages of Svecofennian metamorphism (1.89–1.86 and 1.83–1.79 Ga) with the possible influence of the impactogenesis of the Janisjärvi astrobleme (age  1 Ga). Intrusive and host rocks were subjected to shearing accompanied by the formation of ore-bearing metasomatic rocks of the propylite-beresite series (depending on substrate) and quartz–sericite, quartz and sericite–tourmaline veins and streaks. Ore mineralization is present as several consecutive mineral associations: pyritic–molybdenite with arsenopyrite and gold; gold–arsenopyrite; quartz–arsenopyrite with antimony sulfosalts of lead; gold–polysulfide with tetrahedrite –argentotetrahedrite series minerals and gold–antimony with Pb–Sb–S system minerals and native antimony. Arsenopyrite contains invisible (up to 234 ppm) and visible gold. Metamorphosed domains in arsenopyrite and rims with visible gold around it are usually enriched in As, indicating higher (up to >500 °C) temperatures of formations than original arsenopyrite with invisible gold (<500 °C). A paragenetic sequence associated with the deposition of invisible and visible gold established at the Alattu–Päkylä ore occurrence: pyrrhotite + unaltered arsenopyrite (with invisible gold) → altered arsenopyrite (As-enriched) + pyrite ± pyrrhotite + visible gold. Gold, associated with gudmundite, sphalerite and native antimony, seems to be due to cainotypic rhyodacitic porphyry cutting tonalite intrusion or with a retrograde stage in post-Svecofennian metamorphism. The isotopic composition of Pb and 238U/204Pb (9.4–9.75) for the feldspar of the tonalite intrusion and the pyrite of gold mineralization, εNd (−4 up to −5) for tonalites and ẟ34S values of −2.10–+4.99 for arsenopyrite, indicate the formation of gold occurrence provoked by Svecofennian magmatic and tectono-thermal processes with the involvement of matter from a mantle-lower crustal reservoir into magma formation and mineralization.

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Pakula gold prospect, Alattu-Pakula-Janis ore field, Pitkyarantsky District, Republic of Karelia, Russia

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