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Abstract: Gravity models of the crust and upper mantle to a depth of 100km are analyzed to study structural relationships of tectonic and tectonophysical media of different rigidities with the distribution of shallow ore deposits above the Aldan-Zeya plume. The spatial correlation of ore clusters and districts with high crustal viscosity inhomoheneities at depths of 10, 20, and 35km shows distinct stepwise behavior. On the other hand, media of decreased viscosity are observed in the lower crust (at depths of 25–30km), subcrustal (40–50km) layers, and asthenosphere (at a depth below 70km). They are related to chambers of the complete or partial melting (heat sources) of magmatic and ore occurrences near the Earth’s surface. Lateral metallogenic zoning in the spatial distribution of the ore deposits is due to the spread and redistribution of magmas and ore-forming fluids, shielded by rigid plates in the lower crust. A naturally determined series of ore parageneses is observed from center to flanks of the plume: Au, Mo→Au, Ag, Pb, Zn→Au, Pb, Zn→Au, W→Au, Sb→W, Sn→Sn. The mutual position of the tectonomagmatic structures of different ranks within the plume head obeys hierarchical and fractal laws. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The Berezitovoe gold-polymetallic deposit is localized in the west of the Selenga–Stanovoi superterrane composed of a wide spectrum of Early and Late Precambrian igneous rocks and abundant Paleozoic and Mesozoic intrusive and volcanoplutonic associations. The 40Ar/39Ar ages determined for metasomatites bearing gold-polymetallic mineralization are as follows: garnet-quartz-muscovite-sericite-K-feldspathic metasomatites (129.7±3.2–127.3±4.4 Ma); muscovite-quartz-sericite metasomatites (132.0±2.9–131.3±2.3 Ma). According to the age and general scheme of evolution of the Early Cretaceous magmatism in the Selenga–Stanovoi superterrane, the metasomatites of the Berezitovoe deposit are nearly coeval to the intrusive rocks of the Amudzhikan complex (132–128 Ma). The revealed platinum potential of gold-polymetallic ores and metasomatites permits ranking the Berezitovoe deposit as a specific complex gold-polymetallic-platinum deposit, which considerably increases its commercial value. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: The Borgulikan ore field is localized in the west of the Umlekan-Ogodzha volcanoplutonic belt made up of various igneous (upper-Amur granite-granodiorite (140–134 Ma), Burunda monzodiorite-granodiorite (130–127 Ma), and Taldan andesite (127–123 Ma)) and superposed (Early Cretaceous Gal’ka trachybasalt-rhyolite (119–115 Ma) and Late Cretaceous trachybasalt-trachyandesite (97–94 Ma)) complexes. 40Ar/39Ar dating of porphyry intrusions breaking through the Taldan volcanic complex and associated with Cu-Mo-(Au) mineralization yielded the following ages: early (dark) “pre-ore” quartz monzodiorite porphyrites — 125.8±0.7 Ma (groundmass) and 125.2±1.8 Ma (biotite phenocrysts); late (cream) “syn-ore” quartz monzodiorite porphyrites — 122.6±0.7 Ma (biotite phenocrysts). In age and many geochemical features the quartz monzodiorite porphyrites are close to the Taldan complex volcanics. Both of these rocks seem to belong to the same volcanoplutonic association. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]