Microscopic Studies of Gold Deposit of Southern Ashaly in Eastern Kazakhstan

Abstract:

The gold-sulfide deposit Southern Ashaly is localized in carbonaceous terrigenous formation (black shale strata) of the middle carboniferous (Bukon suite, which is the ore-hosting for super large deposit Bakyrchik). The Southern Ashaly is at the exploration stage and according to preliminary estimates of the expected resources belongs to a large deposit in scale. Ore gold mineralization of such level as Southern Ashaly in southwestern Kalba is found for the first time and gives hope for the discovery of such objects in the Boko Vassilyevskoye ore field. Ore-hosting at the field Southern Ashaly is carbonaceous terrigenous formation of the middle carboniferous, with no visible signs of volcanic formations. But, it was revealed, at microscopic research by us, paragenetic relation of the gold mineralization with small intrusions of plagiogranites and zones of plagiogranite porphyry dykes and found volcano-sedimentary rocks (aleuritic tuffsandstone, tuff breccia) which have undergone hydrothermal-metasomatic changes. The vein-disseminated gold-sulfide mineralization is associated with beresitizated plagiogranites and plagigranite-porphyries and hydrothermally altered tuff sandstones, tuff breccia and carbonaceous shales. Southern Ashaly unlike Bakyrchik deposit which contains invisible gold in sulfides, all the gold is concentrated in the pyrite mainly in the form of micro-sized (1-5 µm or less) in arsenopyrite is noted rarely.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 828)
• Pages: 1-10
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.828.1
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Adilkhan Baibatsha*, Kulyash Dyussembayeva, Aimkhan Kassenova
• Keywords: Black Shale Strata, Deposit, Gold, Sulfide

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