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Platinum-group minerals from Seyba, Eastern Sayans, Russia, and substitutions in the PGE-rich pentlandite and ferhodsite series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2019

Andrei Y. Barkov ,
Gennadiy I. Shvedov ,
Andrey A. Nikiforov  and
Robert F. Martin
Andrei Y. Barkov*
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory of Industrial and Ore mineralogy, Cherepovets State University, 5 Lunacharsky Avenue, 162600 Cherepovets, Russia
Gennadiy I. Shvedov
Affiliation:
Institute of Mining, Geology and Geotechnology, Siberian Federal University, 95 Avenue Prospekt im. gazety “Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy”, 660025 Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Andrey A. Nikiforov
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory of Industrial and Ore mineralogy, Cherepovets State University, 5 Lunacharsky Avenue, 162600 Cherepovets, Russia
Robert F. Martin
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University, 3450 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0E8, Canada
*
*Author for correspondence: Andrei Y. Barkov, Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Chromitite zones associated with ultramafic units of the Lysanskiy layered complex of dunite–peridotite–gabbro composition could well represent the primary source for the placers bearing platinum-group minerals (PGM) of the entire drainage of the River Sisim and its tributaries, the rivers Ko and Seyba, eastern Sayans. Alluvial gold present in the placers of River Seyba, as elsewhere in the Sisim Placer Zone, reflects mineralisation during a recent period of tectonic activity. We focus on the PGM in the Seyba suite, and in particular on the attributes of pentlandite enriched in platinum-group-elements (PGE) and the compositionally similar and recently defined ferhodsite, which were trapped in host grains of Os–Ir–Ru alloy. Both minerals formed from small volumes of fractionated Fe–Ni–Cu melt considerably enriched in the PGE. In the Seyba suite, as in several others, the amounts of PGE in ferhodsite exceeds that in pentlandite, which results in a greater proportion of vacancies than in pentlandite.

Keywords

platinum-group elementsplatinum-group mineralsbase-metal sulfidespentlanditeferhodsitePGM–gold placersRiver SeybaSisim placer zoneRussia
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 83 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 531 - 538
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Copyright © Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2019 

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Associate Editor: Sergey V. Krivovichev

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