Types and Mineral Composition of Gold-Platinoid Mineralization of Giant Iron Ore Deposits of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (Central Russia)

摘要

Iron ore deposits in Precambrian formations of old platforms and shields on all continents of the world [9, 10], providing 57% of foreign and 58% of Russian iron extraction [2], are of special importance in perspective development of the mineral-raw material base of gold and platinum group elements (PGE).rnThe Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA) comprises one of the largest iron-silicon formations of the Low Karelian (within the Kursk Series), which provides more than 50% of iron ore extracted in Russia. About 60 ore objects are located in this formation including a number of supergiant (Mikhailovskoe and Lebedin-skoe) and giant (Korobkovskoe, Stoilenskoe, and Stoilo-Lebedinskoe) deposits exploited by three ore industrial complexes and providing two-thirds of explored resources of iron ores in Russia [2].