pyrrhotite

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2300 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, watershed of the rivers Homolkho and Imnyakh, gold deposit "Golets Vysochayshy", north wall of the pit. Carbon quartz-mica schists. The first photo shows quartz veins in the pit wall. Schists contain veins, lenses, and impregnations of pyrite and pyrrhotite. Khomolkhinskaya series. Thickness 650 meters. Paleoproterozoic.

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Russia, Irkutsk region, the upper reaches of the creek of Alexander Nevsky, gold deposit - "Nevskoe". Gold ore.Quartz sulfide mineralization in paleoproterozoic quartz sandstones.Mineralization includes: pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, their oxides, gold, quartz and carbonate-quartz veins.