THE TARYN VEIN-DISSEMINATED ORE DEPOSIT: A NEW TYPE OF GOLD MINERALIZATION IN THE VERKHNYAYA INDIGIRKA REGION, YAKUTIA

Abstract

The Verkhnyaya Indigirka region of Yakutia includes central part of the Glavnyi gold-bearing belt of the Russian Northeast. Besides large placer gold deposits, many of which have been already mined out, this region contains gold-antimony (Sarylakh, Maltan, and others), gold-quartz (Badran, Khangalas, Nagornoe, and others), and gold-base metal (Yakutskoe, Ergelyakh, and Chugulak) ore deposits. Based on a detailed study of ores of the Taryn deposit, we first established a gold-sulfide disseminated type of large-scale gold mineralization in the Verkhnyaya Indigirka region and revealed complete ore formation series of vein-disseminated noble metal mineralization.