Благодатное

Благодатное


Phase: operations
Mine Type: Pit

Tags: granite hornfelsed massif sandstone stockwork tuff

Gold Map

Россия, Хабаровский край. Located in Nikolaevsky district of Khabarovsk Territory on the left bank of the Amur River. The regional city centre of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur is 45 km from Blagodatnoye. The deposits are located 39 kilometres apart and are connected by a municipal road. The Mnogovershinnoe mine is located about 100 km from Blagodatnoye.

History:

Systematic exploration at Blagodatnoye started in 2010 with detailed exploration and drilling undertaken between 2011-2012 and again in 2016. No mining has taken place. The TEO of Permanent Condition was submitted for approval in 2018.

Deposit geology:

The deposit is located in the monoclinically lying tuffs and tuff-sandstones situated in the western exocontact zone of the Gyrmansky granitoid massif, which experienced low-intensity but widespread hornfelsing.

Mineralization is represented by several joined ore bodies. The location of these bodies is controlled by:

A series of sub-latitudinal tectonic structures, which often transfer into cleavage zones;
West-north-west faults which apparently feather the sub-longitudinal fault
Mineralisation is presented by stockworks. Veinlets that form these stockworks are mostly smooth, from a millimetre to few centimetres thick. The amount of veinlet-ore material varies from a trace to rarely more than five percent. The shape of bodies is close to isometric or is elongated with sub-vertical dip. The vertical span of mineralization is 250-280 m. The gold of the deposit is fine with 80% grains less than 0.071 mm.

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