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The Krasnotur’insk skarn copper ore field known from the theoretical works of Academician K.S. Korzhinskii is located in the western part of the Tagil volcanic zone (in the area of the town of Krasnotur’insk). The ore field is composed of layered Devonian (Emsian) volcanosedimentary rocks intruded by small plutons of quartz diorites, diorites, and gabbrodiorites. Widespread pre-ore and intra-ore dikes of similar composition control the abundance of the andradite skarns formed after limestones and the magnetitesulfide and sulfide ore bodies formed after skarns. The LA-ICP-MS U-Pb concordant age of zircon from the quartz diorite of the Vasil’evsko-Moskalevskii pluton calculated by 16 analyses (16 crystals) is 407.7 ± 1.6 Ma (MSWD = 1.5). Taking into account the geological and petrogeochemical similarity of diorites of small plutons and intra-ore dikes, it is assumed that this age corresponds to the period of formation of the ore-magmatic system of the Krasnotur’insk skarn copper ore field. It was probably formed somewhat earlier than the Auerbakh montzonitic pluton and the accompanying skarn magnetite deposits in the south.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Grabezhev, Yu.L. Ronkin, V.N. Puchkov, A. Gerdes, M.Yu. Rovnushkin, 2014, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2014, Vol. 456, No. 4, pp. 443–447.
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Grabezhev, A.I., Ronkin, Y.L., Puchkov, V.N. et al. Krasnotur’insk Skarn copper ore field, Northern Urals: The U-Pb age of ore-controlling diorites and their place in the regional metallogeny. Dokl. Earth Sc. 456, 641–645 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X14060117
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