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Data on gold ore objects in the Strelna Greenstone Belt in the southeastern Kola Peninsula are presented in the paper. The studied Vorgovy and Sergozero ore occurrences are localized in the zone of tectonic contact of the Neoarchean complexes making up the greenstone belt and the volcanic–sedimentary sequences of the Paleoproterozoic Imandra–Varzuga Zone. The Vorgovy gold occurrence is related to stockwork of carbonate–quartz veins and veinlets hosted in a biotite gneiss transformed into chlorite–sericite–quartz metasomatic rock with pyrrhotite–arsenopyrite dissemination. The Sergozero occurrence is localized in amphibolites corresponding to komatiitic and tholeiitic basalts hosted in biotite gneiss (metapelite). Mineralization is confined to the zone of tectonized contact between komatiitic and tholeiitic basalts, where it is controlled by a strip of metasomatic biotite–calcite rock with gersdorffite–arsenopyrite dissemination. The native gold grains medium to high in fineness are up to 0.1 mm in size and mainly localized at the contact of arsenopyrite and gersdorffite with gangue minerals. Gold mineralization is of superimposed character, and, as indicated by isotopic geochronology, was formed at the retrograde stage of the Svecofennian regional metamorphism. Comparison of ore occurrences localized in the Strelna Greenstone Belt with gold deposits in greenstone belts of the western Fennoscandian Shield and the Superior Province in Canada allows us to suggest a high perspective of the entire Strelna Belt for gold.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Kalinin, O.V. Kazanov, N.M. Kudryashov, G.F. Bakaev, S.V. Petrov, D.V. Elizarov, L.V. Lyalina, 2017, published in Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 2017, Vol. 59, No. 6, pp. 470–500.
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Kalinin, A.A., Kazanov, O.V., Kudryashov, N.M. et al. New Promising Gold-Ore Objects in the Strelna Greenstone Belt, Kola Peninsula. Geol. Ore Deposits 59, 453–481 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701517060022
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