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A wide application of modern precision research techniques to the studies of Pitkyaranta ores allowed us to find increased contents of indium (to 0.33%), silver (447 g/t), gold (0.2–0.4 g/t), and palladium (0.2 g/t). A series of rare minerals previously not found here was also discovered. Among ore minerals, these are roquesite, zavartskite, electrum, stutzite, altaite, bismite, glaucodot, cervelleite, hedleyite, pavonite, cannonite, plantnerite, lindkvistite, ashoverite, etc. The discovery of roquesite and electrum is the most important in terms of metallogeny. Roquesite (indium sulfide) is found in Karelia for the first time. The highest indium contents in direct correlation to those of zinc are characteristic for polymetallic ores of the Pitkyaranta ore fields with sphalerite as the concentrating mineral (to 0.5% of In). The predicted zinc resources are evaluated to ∼2.5 million t for the Pitkyaranta group of ore deposits, and to 400 000 t for the Hopunvaara region. Respectively, the resources of indium amount to ∼2400 t (total) and 600 t for the Hopunvaara region.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Ivashchenko, M. Valkama, K. Sundblad, A. I. Golubev, V.Yu. Alekseev, 2011, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 440, No. 2, pp. 229–233.
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Ivashchenko, V.I., Valkama, M., Sundblad, K. et al. New data on mineralogy and metallogeny of scarns in the Pitkyaranta ore region. Dokl. Earth Sc. 440, 1307–1311 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X11090182
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