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The problem of invisible gold has acquired global importance because, in many countries, large deposits of disseminated sulfide ores with refractory properties are the main potential source of gold production. The involvement of new gold sulfide deposits with refractory “invisible” gold in operation, in the authors' opinion, will increase and stabilize the level of gold mining in Russia until the end of the current century, because it is possible to extract annually 5–25 t of gold at each deposit for decades.
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Original Russian Text © A.V. Volkov, A.A. Sidorov, 2017, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2017, Vol. 87, No. 1, pp. 40–49.
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Volkov, Dr. Sci. (Geol.–Mineral.), is Head of the Laboratory of the Geology of Ore Deposits, RAS Institute of the Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry (RAS IGEM). RAS Corresponding Member Anatolii Alekseevich Sidorov is Chief Researcher of RAS IGEM.
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Volkov, A.V., Sidorov, A.A. Invisible gold. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 87, 40–48 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331617010051
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