Open AccessCOMPLEX GOLD-MOLYBDENUM DEPOSITS AND OCCURRENCES IN GREENSTONE BELTS OF THE MIDDLE DNIPRO REGION OF THE UKRAINIAN SHIELD
Author(s) -
V.V. Sukach,
L. O. Riazantseva
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mìneralʹnì resursi ukraïni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-8698
pISSN - 1682-721X
DOI - 10.31996/mru.2018.2.3-9
Subject(s) - molybdenum , geology , greenstone belt , geochemistry , mineralization (soil science) , placer mining , archean , prospecting , massif , mining engineering , metallurgy , soil science , materials science , soil water
The most important molybdenum mineralization of the Middle Dnipro province is limited to the Mesoarchean (3,1–2,9 Ga) Greenstone belts or structure (GSS). These are next occurrences: East-Sergiivka, Solone in the Sura GSS and Gannivka (district “Chervona”) in the Kryvyi Rih GSS. They have spatial combining or closeness with well-known gold deposits and occurrences: East-Sergiivka and Solone occurrences are located on the Eastern flanks of the Sergiivka and Balka Zolota deposits, respectively, in the sublatitudinal ore-bearing zones. From the West to the East gold mineralization gradually changes to gold-molybdenum and molybdenum. Gannivka molybdenum and Zhovtіanka gold occurrences are adjacent and localized in the submeridional zone of the Kryvyi Rih-Kremenchuk fault, and not spatially combined. However, similar to the etalon Lobash deposit, they can be combined as elements of a common ore-generating system related to a submeridional-extended granite massif undiscovered by erosion. In the process of previously performed geological surveys and related research, these ore prospects were studied and evaluated separately for each type of minerals. It is proposed to carry out further geological research in the context of spatially and genetically combining of gold and molybdenum mineralization. First of all it concerns deposits and occurrences of Sura GSS, where it is rationally to place two complex gold-molybdenum deposits: Sergiivka and Balka Zolota. This approach, which involves carrying out mining and exploration works on a joint scientific and technical base for molybdenum and gold ores, will undoubtedly have good economic efficiency and, ultimately, substantially increase the investment attractiveness of one or another deposit, facilitate the early launch industrial exploitation.