Abstract
The hidden mineralogical and geochemical zoning (HMGZ) of the repeated and nonrepeated structural types is characterized by examples of different massive sulfide deposits of Karelia, South Urals, Rudni Altai, and Japan. This zoning is detected in different scale orders by means of microanalysis through the composition variations of the ore-forming sulfides: pyrite, sphalerite, and tennantite-tetrahedrite. Is is shown that in the case of primary origin of such zoning its nonrepeated type corresponds to volcanic-sedimentary ore deposition and repeated type - to a hydrothermal replacement one. It is established that the variations of Co/Ni values or Co-content in pyrite, Fe-content in sphalerite, As-, Sb-, Ag-content in tennantite-tetrahedrite in cross-sections of the individual ore bodies (ore intervals, rhythms) are mainly due to alteration of temperature and sulfur activity during ore formation.
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Eremin, N.I. (1986). The Hidden Mineralogical and Geochemical Zoning and the Ore-Forming Conditions of Copper and Copper- Lead-Zinc Massive Sulfide Deposits. In: Friedrich, G.H., Genkin, A.D., Naldrett, A.J., Ridge, J.D., Sillitoe, R.H., Vokes, F.M. (eds) Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits. Special Publication No. 4 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70902-9_24
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