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Norilsk - Talnakh
Polar Division - Oktyabrsky, Komsomolsky, Taimyrsky, Kharayelakh, Skalisty, Severnijy, Mayak, Mokulaevskoe,
Bear Creek Division - Norilsk-1, Maslovskoye, Chernogorskoye
Siberia, Russia
Main commodities: Ni Cu PGE PGM




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Talnakh Complex

Norilsk Complex

    Selected References
Arndt N T, Czamanske G K, Walker R J, Chauvel C, Fedorenko V A  2003 - Geochemistry and origin of the intrusive hosts of the Norilsk-Talnakh Cu-Ni-PGE Sulfide deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 495-515
Barnes, S.-J., Cox, R.A. and Zientek, M.L.,  2006 - Platinum-group element, Gold, Silver and Base Metal distribution in compositionally zoned sulfide droplets from the Medvezky Creek Mine, Norilsk, Russia : in    Contrib. to Mineralogy & Petrology   v.152, pp. 187-200.
Barnes, S.J., Kunilov, V.Y.,  2000 - Spinels and Mg Ilmenites from the Norilsk 1 and Talnakh intrusions and other mafic rocks of the Siberian flood basalt province: in    Econ. Geol.   v.95, pp. 1701-1717.
Barnes, S.J., Malitch, K.N. and Yudovskaya, M.A.,  2020 - Introduction to a Special Issue on the Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-Platinum Group Element Deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1157-1172.
Barnes, S.J., Taranovic, V., Schoneveld, L.E., Mansur, E.T., Le Vaillant, M., Dare, S., Staude, S., Evans, N.J. and Blanks, D.,  2020 - The Occurrence and Origin of Pentlandite-Chalcopyrite-Pyrrhotite Loop Textures in Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide Ores: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1777-1798.
Barnes, S.J., Yudovskaya, M.A., Iacono-Marziano, G., Le Vaillant, M., Schoneveld, L.E. and Cruden, A.R.,  2023 - Role of volatiles in intrusion emplacement and sulfide deposition in the supergiant Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-PGE ore deposits: in    Geology   v.51, 6p. doi.org/10.1130/G51359.1.
Begg, G.C., Hronsky, J.A.M., Arndt, N.T., Griffin, W.L., O Reilly, S.Y. and Hayward, N.,  2010 - Lithospheric, Cratonic, and Geodynamic Setting of Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v.105, pp. 1057-1070.
Brovchenko, V.D., Sluzhenikin, S.F., Kovalchuk, E.V., Kovrigina, S.V., Abramova V.D. and Yudovskaya, M.A.,  2020 - Platinum Group Element Enrichment of Natural Quenched Sulfide Solid Solutions, the Norilsk 1 Deposit, Russia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1343-1361.
Cabri L J, Wilson J M D, Distler V V, Kingston D, Nejedly Z, Sluzheniken S F  2002 - Mineralogical distribution of trace platinum-group elements in the disseminated sulphide ores of Norilsk 1 layered intrusion: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v111 pp B15-B22
Canhimbue, L. and Talovina, I.,  2023 - Geochemical Distribution of Platinum Metals, Gold and Silver in Intrusive Rocks of the Norilsk Region: in    Minerals (MDPI)   v.13, 17p. doi.org/10.3390/ min13060719.
Chayka, I.F., Kamenetsky, V.S., Zhitova, L.M., Izokh, A.E., Tolstykh, N.D., Abersteiner, A., Lobastov, B.M. and Yakich, T.Yu.,  2020 - Hybrid Nature of the Platinum Group Element Chromite-Rich Rocks of the Norilsk 1 Intrusion: Genetic Constraints from Cr Spinel and Spinel-Hosted Multiphase Inclusions: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1321-1342.
Distler V V  1994 - Platinum Mineralization of the Norilsk Deposits: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 243-260
Duran, C.J., Barnes, S.-J., Mansur, E.T., Dare, S.A.S., Bedard, L.P. and Sluzhenikin, S.F.,  2020 - Magnetite Chemistry by LA-ICP-MS Records Sulfide Fractional Crystallization in Massive Nickel-Copper-Platinum Group Element Ores from the Norilsk-Talnakh Mining District (Siberia, Russia): Implications for Trace Element Partitioning into Magnetite: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1245-1266.
Duran, C.J., Barnes, S.-J., Plese, P., Kudrna Prasek, M., Zientek, M.L. and Page, P.,  2017 - Fractional crystallization-induced variations in sulfides from the Norilsk-Talnakh mining district (polar Siberia, Russia): in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.90, pp. 326-351. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.05.016.
Ernst, R.E., El Bilali, H., Buchan, K.L. and Jowitt, S.M.,  2024 - Plume-generated 90° stress change linked to transition from radiating to circumferential dolerite dike swarms of the siberian traps large igneous province and to emplacement of the Norilsk-Talnakh ore deposits: in    Econ. Geol.   v.119, pp. 243-249. doi: 10.5382/econgeo.5065.
Fedorenko V A  1994 - Evolution of Magmatism as Reflected in the Volcanic Sequence of the Norilsk Region: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 171-184
Gritsenko, Y.D., Kondrikova, A.P., Gilbricht, S., Schoneveld, L., Barnes, S.J., Godel, B.M., Sluzhenikin, S.F., Petrenko, D.B., Seifert, T. and Yudovskaya, M.A.,  2022 - Quantitative assessment of the relative roles of sulfide liquid collection, magmatic degassing and fluid-mediated concentration of PGE in low-sulfide ores of the Norilsk intrusions: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.148, 26p. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.105042.
Iacono-Marziano, G., Ferrainam C., Gaillard, F., Di Carlo, I. and Arndt, N.T.,  2017 - Assimilation of sulfate and carbonaceous rocks: Experimental study, thermodynamic modeling and application to the Norilsk-Talnakh region (Russia): in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.90, pp. 399-413. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.04.027.
Krivolutskaya, N., Tolstykh, N., Kedrovskaya, T., Naumov, K., Kubrakova, I., Tyutyunnik, O., Gongalsky, B., Kovalchuk, E., Magazina, L., Bychkova, Y. and Yakushev, A.,  2018 - World-Class PGE-Cu-Ni Talnakh Deposit: New Data on the Structure and Unique Mineralization of the South-Western Branch: in    Minerals (MDPI)   v.8, 33p. doi:10.3390/min8040124.
Krivolutskaya, N.A., Gongalsky, B.I., Kedrovskaya, T.B., Kubrakova, I.V., Tyutyunnik, O.A., Chikatueva, V.Y., Bychkova, Y.V., Magazina, L., Kovalchuk, E.N., Yakushev, A.I. and Kononkova, N.N.,  2019 - Geology of the western flanks of the Oktyabrskoe deposit, Norilsk district, Russia: evidence of a closed magmatic system: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 611-630.
Kunilov V Ye  1994 - Geology of the Norilsk Region: The History of the Discovery, Prospecting, Exploration and Mining of the Norilsk Deposits: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 203-216
Latyshev, A.V., Radko, V.A., Veselovskiy, R.V., Fetisova, A.M. and Pavlov, V.E.,  2020 - Correlation of the Permian-Triassic Ore-Bearing Intrusions of the Norilsk Region with the Volcanic Sequence of the Siberian Traps Based on the Paleomagnetic Data: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1173-1193.
Li C, Ripley E M, Naldrett A J  2003 - Compositional variations of Olivine and Sulfur isotopes in the Norilsk and Talnakh intrusions, Siberia: implications for ore-forming processes in dynamic magma conduits: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 69-86
Li, Chusi, Ripley, E.M. and Naldrett, A.J.,  2009 - A New Genetic Model for The Giant Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposits Associated with the Siberian Flood Basalts: in    Econ. Geol.   v104 pp 291-301
Lightfoot P C,  2007 - Advances in Ni-Cu-PGE Sulphide Deposit Models and Implications for Exploration Technologies: in Milkereit B, 2007 Proceedings of Exploration 07: Fifth Decennial International Conference on Mineral Exploration Decennial Mineral Exploration Conferences, Toronto, Canada,    pp. 629-646
Lightfoot P C, Naldrett A J, Gorbachev V A, Fedorenko V A Hawkesworth C J, Hergt J, Doherty W  1994 - Chemostratigraphy of Siberian Trap Lavas, Norilsk District, Russia: Implications for the Source of Flood Basalt Magmas and their Associated Ni-Cu Mineralization: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 283-312
Lightfoot, P.C. and Keays, R.R.,  2005 - Siderophile and Chalcophile Metal Variations in Flood Basalts from the Siberian Trap, Norilsk Region: Implications for the Origin of the Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Ores: in    Econ. Geol.   v100 pp 439-462
Likhachev A P  1994 - Ore-Bearing Intrusions of the Norilsk Region: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 185-202
Malitch, K.N., Belousova, E.A., Griffin, W.L., Martin. L., Badanina, I.Yu. and Sluzhenikin, S.F.,  2020 - Oxygen-Hafnium-Neodymium Isotope Constraints on the Origin of the Talnakh Ultramafic-Mafic Intrusion (Norilsk Province, Russia): in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp.1195-1212.
Malitch, K.N., Latypov, R.M., Badanina, I.Yu. and Sluzhenikin, S.F.,  2014 - Insights into ore genesis of Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits of the Norilsk Province (Russia): Evidence from copper and sulfur isotopes: in    Lithos   v.204, pp. 172-187.
Mansur, E.T., Barnes, S.-J. and Duran, C.J.,  2021 - An overview of chalcophile element contents of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite from magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.56, pp. 179-204.
Mansur, E.T., Barnes, S.-J., Duran, C.J. and Sluzhenikin, S.F.,  2020 - Distribution of chalcophile and platinum-group elements among pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite and cubanite from the Norilsk- Talnakh ores: implications for the formation of platinum-group minerals: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.55, pp. 1215-1232.
Marfin, A.E., Ivanov, A.V., Kamenetsky, V.S., Abersteiner, A., Yakich, T.Yu. and Dudkin, T.V.,  2020 - Contact Metamorphic and Metasomatic Processes at the Kharaelakh Intrusion, Oktyabrsk Deposit, Norilsk-Talnakh Ore District: Application of LA-ICP-MS Dating of Perovskite, Apatite, Garnet, and Titanite: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1213-1226.
Mungall, J.E., Jenkins, M.C., Robb, S.J., Yao, Z. and Brenan, J.M.,  2020 - Upgrading of magmatic sulfides, revisited: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1827-1833.
Naldrett A J  1992 - A model for the Ni-Cu-PGE ores of the Norilsk region and its application to other areas of flood basalt: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 1945-1962
Naldrett A J  1999 - World Class Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits: Key Factors in their Genesis: in    Mineralium Deposita   v34 pp 227-240
Naldrett A J, Asif M, Gorbachev V A, Kunilov V Ye, Stekhin A I Fedorenko V A, Lightfoot P C  1994 - The Composition of the Ni-Cu Ores of the Oktyabrsky Deposits, Norilsk Region: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 357-372
Naldrett A J, Fedorenko V A, Asif M, Shushen L, Kuniloc V E, Stekhin A I, Lightfoot P C, Gorbachev N S  1996 - Controls on the composition of Ni-Cu Sulfide deposits as illustrated by those at Norilsk, Siberia: in    Econ. Geol.   v 91 pp 751-773
Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C  1999 - Ni-Cu-PGE Deposits of the Norilsk Region, Siberia: Their Formation in Conduits for Flood Basalt Volcanism: in Keays R R, Lesher C M, Lightfoot P C, Farrow C E G, (Eds),  Dynamic Processes in Magmatic Ore Deposits and their Application in Mineral Exploration Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes   v13 pp 195-249
Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Fedorenko V, Doherty W, Gorbachev N S  1992 - Geology and geochemistry of intrusions and flood basalts of the Norilsk region, USSR, with implications for the origin of the Ni-Cu ores: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 975-1004
Pirajno, F., Ernst, R.E., Borisenko, A.S., Fedoseev, G. and Naumov, E.A.,  2009 - Intraplate magmatism in Central Asia and China and associated metallogeny: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.35, pp. 114-136.
Schoneveld, L., Barnes, S.J., Godel, B., Le Vaillant, M., Yudovskaya, M.A., Kamenetsky, V. and Sluzhenikin, S.F.,  2020 - Oxide-Sulfide-Melt-Bubble Interactions in Spinel-Rich Taxitic Rocks of the Norilsk-Talnakh Intrusions, Polar Siberia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1305-1320.
Schoneveld, L., Barnes, S.J., Williams, M., Le Vaillant, M. and Paterson, D.,  2020 - Silicate and Oxide Mineral Chemistry and Textures of the Norilsk-Talnakh Ni-Cu-Platinum Group Element Ore-Bearing Intrusions: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1227-1243.
Seltmann, R., Soloviev, R., Shatov, V., Pirajno, F., Naumov, E. and Cherkasov, S.,  2010 - Metallogeny of Siberia: tectonic, geologic and metallogenic settings of selected significant deposits: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.57, pp. 655-706.
Simonov O N, Lulko V A, Amosov Yu N, Salov V M  1994 - Geological Structure of the Norilsk Region: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 161-170
Sluzhenikin, S.F. and Mokhov, A.V.,  2015 - Gold and silver in PGE-Cu-Ni and PGE ores of the Noril'sk deposits, Russia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.50 pp. 465-492
Sluzhenikin, S.F., Yudovskaya, M.A., Barnes, S.J., Abramova, V.D., Le Vaillant, M., Petrenko, D.B., Grigoreva, A.V. and Brovchenko, V.D.,  2020 - Low-Sulfide Platinum Group Element Ores of the Norilsk-Talnakh Camp: in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 1267-1303.
Song, X., Wang, Y. and Chen, L.,  2011 - Magmatic Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposits in magma plumbing systems: Features, formation and exploration: in    Geoscience Frontiers   v.2, pp. 375-384.
Stekhin A I  1994 - Mineralogical and Geochemical Characteristics of the Cu-Ni Ores of the Oktyabrsky and Talnakh Deposits: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 217-230
Tolstykh, N., Krivolutskaya, N., Safonova, I., Shapovalova, M., Zhitova, L. and Abersteiner, A.,  2020 - Unique Cu-rich sulphide ores of the Southern-2 orebody in the Talnakh Intrusion, Noril’sk area (Russia): Geochemistry, mineralogy and conditions of crystallization: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.122, doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103525.
Torgashin A S  1994 - Geology of the Massive and Copper Ores of the Western Part of the Oktyabrsky Deposit: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 231-241
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Yakubchuk A, Nikishin A  2004 - Norilsk-Talnakh Cu-Ni-PGE deposits: a revised tectonic model: in    Mineralium Deposita   v39 pp 125-142
Zenko T E, Czamanske G K  1994 - Spatial and Petrologic Aspects of the Intrusions of the Norilsk and Talnakh Ore Junctions: in Naldrett A J, Lightfoot P C, Sheahan P (Eds),  The Sudbury - Norilsk Symposium Ontario Geological Survey   Special Publication 5 pp 263-282


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