Platinum and platinoids in the Bolotisty gold-placer deposit (Khabarovsky Krai, Russia)

• Main Authors: Lavrik Natalya, Stepanova Valentina, Lavrik Alexandra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: EDP Sciences 2020-01-01
• Series: E3S Web of Conferences
• Online Access: https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2020/52/e3sconf_pcdg2020_03012.pdf

The article shows the results of studies the platinum mineralization (within the framework of studying the complexity of deposits) in the waste of heavy concentrate in the southeastern flank of the Bolotisty gold-placer deposit, which the located in the Khabarovsky Krai (Russia). The deposit is localized in the “erosion window” among the covers of Miocene basalts and Eocene andesites, where Cretaceous sedimentary, tuffaceous-sedimentary rocks of the basement of the volcano structure, broken through by an Eocene intrusive body of intermediate and basic composition, come to the surface. An abbreviated mineralogical analysis for monofraction of precious metals was carried out for a concentrate fraction weighing 1.813 kg with a grain size of -3.0 + 0.1 mm. Gold and platinum were found - 1.38 mg and 1.08 mg. Platinum has an iron impurity up to 3-5 % Fe and Cu, Ir, Rh impurities are variable. There are plate-like inclusions of native osmium with an admixture of ruthenium in 43 % of the studied platinum grains. There are single inclusions of ehrlichmanite. A large amount of high-temperature dipyramidal quartz, along with magnetite, chromite, tourmaline and other minerals is a characteristic feature of the concentrate and platinum grains of this area.