Vanadium Mineralization in Ore of the Vihanti Massive Sulfide Base-Metal Deposit, Finland

摘要

A series of vanadium oxides—shcherbinaite, karelianite, kyzylkumite, coulsonite, and berdesin-skiite—was found in association with pyrrhotite in pyrite—pyrrhotite ore from the Paleoproterozoic Vihanti massive sulfide deposit of the Kuroko-type. It is suggested that enrichment in vanadium of massive sulfide ore from the Vihanti deposit is a result of their metamorphogenic regeneration and pyrrhotinization at the expense of rocks and ore enriched in vanadium. The list of rare minerals in massive sulfide ore has been extended.