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Subsoil resources have always been and remain a source of wealth for Russia. The authors of the article below discuss the prospects for research into cratonic terranes (blocks) and their marginal structures, which they call “treasure islands” and which are related to the formation of the largest deposits of noble metals and other valuable natural resources.

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  1. A. A. Sidorov
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  2. A. V. Volkov
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Sidorov, A.V. Volkov, 2011, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 316–324.

The authors work at the RAS Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry. RAS Corresponding Member Anatolii Alekseevich Sidorov is chief research fellow. Aleksandr Vladimirovich Volkov, Dr. Sci. (Geol.-Mineral.), is a sector head.

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Sidorov, A.A., Volkov, A.V. “Treasure islands”. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 81, 133–140 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331611020171

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