Associated sulfantimonide mineralization at a unique sulfide-indtium-manganese deposit in Russia

Abstract

In the peripheral vein-carbonate zone of the Vysokogornoye sulfide-indium-manganese deposit, a wide association of polycomponent sulfoantimonides, genetically related to the main mineralization, was found. The identified sulfoantimonides are divided into six groups (in order of decreasing frequency of occurrence) – lead, silver-lead, silver-copper, silver, lead-copper and copper-lead, copper, which in turn can be combined into three series of solid solutions – copper - lead, copper-silver and silver-lead, differing in the degree of miscibility in the cationic sublattices and the atomic proportion Sb/S. The distribution of sulfoantimonides by groups and series in the studied deposit agrees quite closely with the general distribution of sulfoantimonides in nature. The identified association of polycomponent sulfoantimonides increases the industrial prospects of the deposit.