Abstract
Based on results of studying the geochemistry and gold distribution of groundwaters in the Egor'evsk gold-bearing area, a mechanism of gold mobilization, migration, and accumulation in mountain-forest landscape is proposed. Gold mass transfer is part of an ore-generating process running in a water-rock system. Hydrogenic concentration of gold in placers is equally determined by physicochemical processes of secondary mineral formation and hydrodynamic conditions. The amounts of accumulated gold depend on the gold-producing capacity and volumes of waters involved in the mineral formation and on the duration of this process.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 364-376 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Geologiya i Geofizika |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Keywords
- Deposition
- Form of migration
- Geochemistry
- Gold
- Groundwaters
- Mobilization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)