New data on multilevel renium mineralization location in the sedimentary cover of the East European platform and Karpinsky swell

Abstract

The paper is based on new author’s materials and literature data concerning the rhenium potential of the sedimentary cover of the East European Platform and the Karpinsky Swell. Analysis of the materials suggests that within the region there are areas where rhenium mineralization is located at several levels of the sedimentary cover section such as the Zhiguli district, the Kalmyk district, and the Donetsk zone. Their detailed characteristic is given. Besides, the Izhora and Nizhnekamsk zones have been described for which the rhenium mineralization is assumed to occur at several levels of the section. It is shown that each of the identified areas has its own peculiar features, but in all of them, there are large faults in the sedimentary cover and the basement. The multilevel occurrence of the rhenium mineralization in the sedimentary cover may indicate the possibility of discovering the mineralization at other, deeper levels of the section.