The Tamunier gold deposit in the Northern Ural: Physicochemical formative conditions, ore and fluid sources, genesis
https://doi.org/10.24930/1681-9004-2019-19-1-139-147
Abstract
Research subject. This research study was aimed at investigating metasomatic minerals and ores in the Tamunier Deposit, which is located in the Northern Urals, at the Eastern side of the Tagil megazone within the Auerbach volcano-plutonic belt.
Materials and methods. Well core samples were investigated using a complex of research methods, including optical and electron microscopy, X-ray spectral microanalysis, mineral geothermometry, thermobarogeochemistry (microthermometry, gas chromatography, determination of the salt composition of fluid inclusions in minerals) and isotope geochemistry (isotopes C, O, S, Sr, Pb).
Results. A genetic model describing the formation of the Tamunier deposit was developed using the data obtained on its geological structure, mineral composition of metasomatites and ores, fluid formation mode, sources of ore matter and ore-bearing fluid. In the proposed model, the magmatogenic sodium chloride fluid carrying ore components and S is separated from the Auerbach complex at the depth of intrusion. Penetrating to the surface, this fluid interacts with the rocks of volcanic-sedimentary strata, thereby extracting a number of components, including CO2, S and Sr.
Conclusion. Despite the presence of sulphide mineralization of hydrothermal-sedimentary genesis in the volcanogenic-sedimentary rock mass, the data obtained has allowed us to refer the gold-sulphide ores under study to magmatogenic-hydrothermal formations. The estimated P-T conditions (t = 100–370ºС and P = 0.4–0.6 kbar) and the shallow depth of the Tamunier field have shown its correspondence to the sub-epithermal level in the model of the porphyry-epithermal ore-magmatic system.
About the Authors
D. A. Zamiatina
A.N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Urals Branch of RAS,
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
V. V. Murzin
A.N. Zavaritsky Institute of Geology and Geochemistry, Urals Branch of RAS
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
Russian Federation
15 Akad. Vonsovsky st., Ekaterinburg 620016
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Zamiatina D.A., Murzin V.V. The Tamunier gold deposit in the Northern Ural: Physicochemical formative conditions, ore and fluid sources, genesis. LITHOSPHERE (Russia). 2019;(1):139-147. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24930/1681-9004-2019-19-1-139-147
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