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The Record of Flood Basalt Magmatism in Siberia, and Origin of the Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Ores at Noril’Sk-Talnakh The record of flood basalt magmatism in Siberia, and origin of the Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ores at Noril’sk-Talnakh Peter1 C. Lightfoot, Vale Base Metals Contained nickel and produced nickel by camp (deposit) Noril’sk is the largest Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit in the World Lightfoot (2016) Lightfoot 2 Economics of Noril’sk Nickel Negative cost of Ni production on global sulfide cost curve Giant reserves and resources to support future production Noril’sk From: Mitchell (2013) Ore type Deposit group Category Ore, Mmt Ni wt% Cu wt% Pd g/t Pt g/t Au g/t 6E g/t Ni kt Ni-rich Talnakh PP+MII 257 2.96 3.59 6.76 1.36 0.22 8.61 7593 Cuprous Talnakh PP+MII 158 0.94 3.93 8.86 2.22 0.63 11.28 1477 Disseminated Talnakh-Noril'skPP+MII 1 1961 0.49 0.99 2.99 0.91 0.19 4.08 9573 Noril’sk3 Nickel, 2015: Polar MRMR The Noril’sk Discoveries Contained Ni at time of discovery (all deposits >0.75% Ni) Talnakh 4 History of the Noril’sk Mining Camp Gulag history: Major events (initial discovery): •Norillag: Norilsk gulag 1935-1956 • Bronze-age artifacts •Labor force constructed the Norilsk •1866: Staked for Cu and coal mining-metallurgic complex •1915: Re-staked •Peak of 72,500 prisoners in 1951 •1920: Urvantsov identified Cu-Ni minerals •Total number of inmates ~400,000 (Sudbury analogue) (includes 300,000 political prisoners). •1923: First shaft (Noril’sk 1) •1953: Noril’sk Uprising (Gorlag revolt) •1935: Noril’sk Kombinat established Built on melting permafrost – entire infrastructure of city and mining camp 5 History of the Mining Camp Major events: 0 5 •1960:Talnakh mineralisation discovered in km boulders and scree •1966: Mayak Mine commissioned Kharaelakh •1971: Komsomolsk Mine commissioned Intrusion •1974: Oktyabrysk Mine commissioned •1982: Taimyrsk Mine commissioned •2004: Skalisty Mine ramping-up •2013: Sverny-Gluboky mine plan and construction Oktyabrsk Taimyrsk Komsomolsk Mayak Section location Mine areas and names 6 Noril'sk Kharayelakh fault The Pathway to the Noril’sk Project • 1985: USSR closed door (Chernenko, Andropov cronies) • 1986: Chernobyl • Nick Gorbachev – PCL secured plan to work on basalt geochemistry/chemostratigraphy with IES USSR Ac Sci • 1987: first basalt samples arrived (SG-9) • Tony Naldrett joined project (ore deposits) • 1988: USSR opened door (Gorbachev: Perestroika and Glasnost) • Valeri Fedorenko (TsNIGRI) joined project (geology) • 1988: Chris Hawkesworth joined project (radiogenic isotopes) • Copious samples arrived from basalt stratigraphy, intrusions, and ore deposits (and duplicated to USGS☺) • 1989: Berlin Wall falls • 1991: Soviet coup attempt: Yeltsin • 1999: Door starts to close: Putin • 2000: Ed Ripley joins study (stable isotope study of basalts) • 2002: Visiting scientist IGEM Russia Ac Sci • Igor Zotov keeps foot in door • 2005: Reid Keays joins team (low level PGE study of basalts) • ~2006: Door effectively closed • 2016: Sample suite (basalts and intrusions) carefully retained for future work 7 Distribution of Siberian Trap Basalts KHARAELAKH TALNAKH INTRUSION INTRUSION 8 Basalt Stratigraphy of the Noril’sk Region Samoedsky Kumginsky Kharaelakhsky Mokulaevsky Morongovsky Crustally- contaminated and ~ 3500 m Nd3 Ni-Cu-PGE- Nadezhdinsky depleted basalts Nd2 Nd1 Tuklonsky Tholeiitic basalts Khakhanchansky Gudchikhinsky Picritic basalt Syverminsky Alkalic and sub-alkalic 9 Ivakinsky basalts Lightfoot and Lightfoot 2001 Hawkesworth, Basalt escarpment east of Talnakh: Iv-Sv-Gd-Nd Formation basalts ~5km north of here, drill core June, 1987 SG32 drilled through 3 km of basalt during Soviet-era exploration Base of basalts Underlain by Kharaelakh and Talnakh Intrusions Myak Mine 10 Composite Chemostratigraphy – Noril’sk Basalts 11 Composite Chemostratigraphy – Noril’sk Basalts 12 Composite Chemostratigraphy – Noril’sk Basalts 13 Siberian Trap basalts: MgO versus Ni 14 Composite Chemostratigraphy – Noril’sk Basalts 15 Siberian Trap basalts: MgO versus Pd 16 Distribution of mines on the Talnakh-Kharaelakh Intrusions 0 5 km Kharaelakh Intrusion Talnakh Intrusion Oktyabrsk Taimyrsk Komsomolsk Mayak Section location Mine17 areas and names Noril'sk Kharayelakh fault Stratigraphic column showing the position of differentiated intrusions in Devonian and Lower Permian sedimentary rocks 18 Modal Rock unit % MgO Important Petrology of the Talnakh and olivine wt % Minerals Leucocratic Kharaelakh Intrusions gabbro 0-3 4-8 Pl1 Quartz diorite (Russian: quartz 0 1.2-1.7 Pl 2 + Aug + Qtz gabbrodiorite) Magnetite 0-4 4.4-7 Pl + Aug + Mt gabbro 2 Prismatic gabbro Pl (Russian: gabbro- 0-5 6-7 Pl2 + Aug anorthosite diorite) 90 90 leucocratic taxitic olivine- contact (leuco-) Olivine- 3-7 6-8 Pl + Aug + Ol bearing bearing 2 2 65 65 gabbronorite olivine olivine troctolite gabbronorite 35 35 Olivine 10-27 9-12 Pl 2 + Aug + Ol2 picritic to + sparse Pl1 olivine-rich (mela-) picritic 10 10 GABBRODOLERITE Ol + Pl + Aug plagioclase-bearing ultramafic rocks Picritic 40-80 18-29 1 2 Px Ol + Sulphide + Pl1 glom + sparse Pl1 Pl + Ol + Aug Taxitic 7-18 9-16 2 2 19 + Sulphide + Pl1 glom Contact 10-15 7-8 Pl 2 + Aug + Ol2 Talnakh: Komsomolsk Mine Lower Taxitic Gabbrodolerite 20 RX187911 (C03-0838) Taxitic Picritic gabbrodolerite (C02- gabbrodolerite, Noril’sk II Intrusion 0590) 21 Olivine melagabbro (C02-0584) Olivine gabbrodolerite (C02-0583) 22 Geology of the Kharaelakh Intrusion 23 Geology of the Kharaelakh Intrusion 24 Geological Sections Showing Rock Types Developed in KZ-1572 the Kharaelakh Intrusion Talnakh Intrusion NE branch Apophysis of intrusion Picritic gabbrodolerite Host rocks SW branch (m) Taxitic-like gabbrodolerite and Kharaelakh Intrusion Gabbrodolerite Taxitic gabbrodolerite KZ-1560 150 Olvine-bearing gabbrodolerite and olivine gabbrodolerite Massive Sulphide KZ-1879 KZ-866 140 KZ-1572 130 KZ-877 KZ-1879 KZ-866 KZ-877 120 KZ-1162 KZ-1162 110 KZ-107 100 KZ-107 90 5 km 80 KZ-1560 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 25 South West North Geological Sections Showing Rock Types Developed in SW Branch, Talnakh Intrusion Talnakh Intrusion (m) KZ-253 NE Branch 150 SW Branch Kharaelakh Intrusion 140 KZ-275 130 KZ-203 120 110 100 KZ-183 90 KZ-203 KZ-57 KZ-275 80 KZ-183 KZ-253 KZ-57 70 5 km 60 50 Gabbrodolerite Olvine-bearing gabbrodolerite and olivine gabbrodolerite 40 Picritic gabbrodolerite 30 Taxitic-like gabbrodolerite and Taxitic gabbrodolerite 20 Massive Sulphide 10 Host rocks 0 26 South North Geological Sections Showing Rock Types Developed in Flanking Apophysis of the NE Talnakh Intrusion Zajachy Creek E Basalt NE and SW Talnakh Intrusion and Kharaelakh W Central Low Talnakh Intrusion Graben 0 Sedimentary Rock -200 Noril’sk Kharaelakh Fault -400 30m -600 KZ-1646 -800 1 km KZ-997 -1000 SV-23 KZ-820 20m KZ-16 Contact gabbrodolerite KZ-1685 Leucocratic gabbro SG-23 Gabbrodolerite Outcrop Olivine gabbro Olvine-bearing gabbrodolerite 10m and olivine gabbrodolerite Picritic gabbrodolerite Taxitic-like gabbrodolerite and Taxitic gabbrodolerite Plagioclase phenocrysts Plagioclase glomerocporphyriths 0m Host rocks 0m27 50m 100m 130m 240m 300m 2800m 10,000 to 16,000m Proximal Distal Geological section through the western flank of the Kharaelakh Intrusion Lightfoot Zotov (2006) and Lightfoot 28 Geological section through the western flank of Kharaelakh Intrusion 29 Lightfoot and Zotov (2014) Kharaelakh Intrusion: Apophyses of Chilled Gabbrodolerite in recrystallized marl 30 Kharaelakh Intrusion recrystallized marl; spotted hornfels (952m; Drill Core TG21) 31 Talnakh Type and Low Talnakh Type Intrusions: La/Sm (contamination index) versus Ni/Ni* (sulfide control index) Different sulfide melt controlling picritic gabbrodolerites versus olivine gabbrodolerites ? 32 33 34 Process of space-creating along mantle- penetrating transform faults Monteiro35 and Lightfoot, 2006; Lightfoot and Evans-Lamswood, 2016 Principal ore types at Kharaelakh and Talnakh • Disseminated sulphide • Massive Ni-rich sulphide • Cuprous sulphide 36 • Upper taxite reef Disseminated Sulphide: distribution at Talnakh and Kharaelakh ? ? Disseminated sulphide Talnakh intrusion Kharaelakh intrusion Outcrop Noril’sk-Kharaelakh fault 0 2 km 37 After Krivtsov et al. (2001) Taxitic gabbrodolerite – Oktyabrysk Mine (Kharaelakh Intrusion) 38 39 Field Number 8023 Disseminated sulfide ores RX number 200525 PTS number C02-0049 Sampled by PCL (1989) Oktyabrsky 1 shaft; Intrusion Oktyabrsky Intrusion Taxitic hypidiomorphic- textured mela augite Rock type troctolite. This specimen has a fairly pristine pyrrhotite dominant assemblage with po>>cp>pn with minor cubanite. The usual tiny grains are associated with Mineralogy alteration cracks in olivine. Oktyabrsky 1 shaft; Mine Oktyabrsky Intrusion MgO (wt%) n.a. Ni (wt%) 0.96 Cu (wt%) 2.91 Co (wt%) 0.03 S (wt%) 5.13 Pt (ppm) 3.66 Pd (ppm) 11.30 Au (ppm) 0.93 40 Noril’sk: Medvezhy Ruchei. Picritic gabbro- Field Number n.a. RX number 187921 dolerite with stock-work of sulphide veins – PTS number n.a. Sampled by PCL injection of massive sulfide into consolidated Intrusion Noril'sk I Rock type MASU vein cutting Taxitic intrusion gabbrodolerite Mineralogy Massive cpy-pn-po Mine Bears Brook MgO (wt%) n.a. Ni (wt%) 5.51 Cu (wt%) 29.2 Co (wt%) 0.07 S (wt%) 33.2 Pt (ppm) 72.4 Pd (ppm) 334 Au (ppm) 0.53 41 Principal ore types at Noril’sk • Disseminated sulphide • Massive Ni-rich sulphide • Cuprous sulphide • (Upper taxite reef sulphide) A B Cuprous Ores KHARAELAKH “Reef” INTRUSION B TALNAKH INTRUSION NE BRANCH A Disseminated sulphides TALNAKH INTRUSION SW BRANCH ~100m 1 km Massive Ni-rich ores Country Rocks Mk and Mk-Cub massive ores Kharaelakh Intrusion Cpy-Cub massive
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