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USGS Professional Paper 1697 - Alaska Resources Library

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Omulev Austrian Alps W Deposit<br />

The Omulev Austrian Alps W deposit (fig. 11) (Shpikerman<br />

and others, 1986) consists of veinlets in Middle Ordovician<br />

black, carbonaceous, calcareous siltstone. The main ore<br />

mineral is scheelite with local pyrite, antimony realgar, orpiment,<br />

galena, and chalcopyrite. The ore minerals are restricted<br />

to a conformable, thin layer that is intricately folded along<br />

with adjacent sedimentary rocks. The ore minerals and sedimentary<br />

rocks exhibit greenschist-facies metamorphism. The<br />

deposit occurs in the core of a large, open, northwest-trending<br />

anticline and covers an area of about 100 km 2. The deposit is<br />

small and has an average grade of as much as 1 percent WO 3.<br />

55 o<br />

Realgar Greek<br />

40 o<br />

Lower band: Phyllite, schistose<br />

siltstone and argillite<br />

Upper band: Argillaceous limestone<br />

Lower band: Limestone, carboniferous<br />

argillaceous shale<br />

Upper band: Marl, phyllite<br />

Horizons with low-grade<br />

sulfide-scheelite<br />

Zone with high grade sheelite<br />

Contact<br />

Cambrian through Silurian Metallogenic Belts (570 to 408 Ma) 29<br />

0 2 km<br />

Vesnovka Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn Deposit<br />

The Vesnovka Kipushi Cu-Pb-Zn deposit (Shpikerman,<br />

1998) consists of veinlets and disseminated sulfides in<br />

Middle Ordovician limestone, shale, and siltstone. The ore<br />

bodies trend east-west and form metasomatic replacements<br />

conformable to bedding. The chief ore minerals are sphalerite,<br />

galena, chalcopyrite, and renierite(?). The calcareous siltstone<br />

that hosts the ore bodies is silicified and cut by calcite<br />

veins. Local tuff beds in these formations suggest a volcanic<br />

island arc that occurred along the margin of an Early and<br />

Middle Ordovician continental-margin sedimentary basin<br />

(Bulgakova, 1986).<br />

40 o<br />

Vo<br />

Fault<br />

40 o<br />

lnistyi Greek<br />

Pionee e<br />

r Gr ek<br />

Krivun Formation<br />

(Middle Ordovician)<br />

60 o<br />

Mokry Formation<br />

(Lower-Middle Ordovician)<br />

Strike and dip of bedding<br />

Figure 11. Omulev Austrian Alps W deposit, Omulevka River metallogenic belt, Russian Northeast. Schematic<br />

geologic map. Adapted from Shpikerman and others (1986). See figure 2 and table 4 for location.

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