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USGS Professional Paper 1697 - Alaska Resources Library

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Lantarsky-Dzhugdzhur Metallogenic Belt of<br />

Anorthosite Apatite-Ti-Fe and Gabbroic Ni-Cu<br />

(PGE) Deposits (Belt LD), Central Part of<br />

Russian Far East)<br />

The Lantarsky-Dzhugdzhur metallogenic belt of anorthosite<br />

apatite-Ti-Fe and gabbroic Cu-Ni-Co-PGE deposits<br />

is hosted in the conamed igneous belt of layered gabbro and<br />

anorthosite complexes in one of a linear series of mafic plutons<br />

that crop out along in the Stanovoy block along the southern<br />

flank of the North Asian Craton (fig. 2; tables 3, 4) (Nokleberg<br />

and others, 1997b, 1998). The belt occurs in the northern<br />

Khabarovsk Province in the central part of the Russian Far East<br />

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Proterozoic Metallogenic Belts (2500 to 570 Ma; figures 2, 3) 13<br />

and in southern Yakutia. U-Pb and Sm-Nd isotopic ages for the<br />

host anorthosite intrusions range from 1.7 to 1.9 Ga (Sukhanov<br />

and others, 1989; Neimark and others, 1992).<br />

The Lantarsky-Dzhugdzhur igneous belt consists of five<br />

gabbroic Cu-Ni-Co-PGE deposits that are hosted in anorthosite<br />

and gabbro bodies that occur along the 1,000 km-long<br />

Stanvoy suture (collisional) zone between the Archean Aldan<br />

shield of the North Asian Craton to the North and the Proterozoic<br />

Stanovoy block to the south. The Archean rocks to<br />

the north consist of gneiss and schist intruded by Paleozoic<br />

to Mesozoic granitic rock (Lennikov, 1979). The rocks south<br />

of the suture zone consist of Archean granulite facies metamorphic<br />

rock, and Paleozoic greenschist to amphibolite facies<br />

metamorphic rock. The Lantrasky-Dzhugdzhur anorthosite<br />

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Surficial deposits (Quaternary)<br />

Siltstone, argillites of<br />

Tabakchanskaya Suite (Late Jurassic)<br />

Quartz-feldspathic sandstone (Vendian)<br />

Dolomites of Gorbunovaskaya Suite<br />

(Middle-upper Riphean)<br />

Siltstone, shale<br />

Spiridonovskaya Suite, Upper Riphean<br />

Hematite-bearing shale, upper suite<br />

Sandstone<br />

Limestone<br />

Shale, lower subsuite<br />

Hematite ore<br />

Gabbro-diabase dike<br />

Contact<br />

Thrust<br />

Strike and dip of bedding<br />

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Figure 4. Pobeda ironstone deposit, Oroek metallogenic belt, Russian Northeast. Adapted from Shpikerman (1998). See<br />

figure 2 and table 4 for location. For this and succeeding mineral deposit figures, all elevations above sea level, except<br />

as noted.

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