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This paper analyzes metallogenic specialization of two pairs of pyrite-bearing structural-formational zones2 belonging to the Caucasian segment of the Mediterranean fold belt. These zones evolved during the Alpine tectono-magmatic cycle along the northern and southern framing of the Transcaucasian microcontinent. In the northern pair (the Great Caucasus meganticlinorium) the pyrite-bearing zones are in the central trough and the south continental rise, and in the southern pair (the Lesser Caucasus meganticlinorium), they are in the rift ophiolitic zone and the island arc. A clustering concentration pattern of base- metal mineralization with centrifugal and centripetal types of localization of pyrite, porphyry and vein deposits has been revealed.
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Kurbanov, N.K. (1986). Copper-Pyrite and Pyrite Base Metal Deposits of the Caucasian Region. In: Friedrich, G.H., Genkin, A.D., Naldrett, A.J., Ridge, J.D., Sillitoe, R.H., Vokes, F.M. (eds) Geology and Metallogeny of Copper Deposits. Special Publication No. 4 of the Society for Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70902-9_23
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