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40Ar/39Ar age of adularia from veins of the Tokur gold deposit, the Mongolian-Okhotsk Orogenic Belt, Russia

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The 40Ar/39Ar age of the productive stage of the ore-forming hydrothermal process at the large Tokur gold deposit is 122.4 ± 2.0 Ma. This estimate suggests a paragenetic relationship of this deposit with the nearly exposed Karaurak subvolcanic trachyrhyodacite intrusion, the U—Pb zircon age of which was previously estimated at 120 ± 5 Ma. The age of mineralization at the Tokur deposit is close to the time of formation of some other deposits in the Russian Far East localized in various structural units.

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    A. A. Sorokin & N. S. Ostapenko

  2. Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, pr. Akademika Koptyuga 3, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    V. A. Ponomarchuk & A. V. Travin

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Original Russian Text © A.A. Sorokin, N.S. Ostapenko, V.A. Ponomarchuk, A.V. Travin, 2011, published in Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 2011, Vol. 53, No. 3, pp. 297–304.

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Sorokin, A.A., Ostapenko, N.S., Ponomarchuk, V.A. et al. 40Ar/39Ar age of adularia from veins of the Tokur gold deposit, the Mongolian-Okhotsk Orogenic Belt, Russia. Geol. Ore Deposits 53, 264–271 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701511030081

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