RE: Monchegorsk official deposit areas14 Jul 2021 16:42
Work from the Anglo JV days, possibly getting the area back at some stage. Mentioned they were looking at doing so in RNS at the back end of 2019.
Old Volchetundra work -
"ESSAY. Purpose of the work: studying the features of the geological structure of the Volchietundrovsky massif, localizing areas promising for platinum-metal mineralization, assessing the predicted resources of platinoids of categories P1 + P2 in an amount of at least 200 tons. Methods: magnetic prospecting along a network of 200x10 m - 50.5 sq. km, deep geochemical searches for secondary dispersion halos - 2872 samples (6709.1 l. m), prospecting routes - 289.9 l. km, mining - 102 ditches with a volume of 1875.6 cubic meters. m, drilling 73 prospecting and mapping and prospecting wells with a volume of 12129.1 linear meters, furrow (946 samples / 1038.6 linear meters), core (10232 samples), spot (91 samples) and lithogeochemical (849 samples) sampling, laboratory-analytical and office work. As a result of the work, the internal structure of the Volchietundra massif was clarified, in which the Regional and Main zones are distinguished. The marginal zone with a thickness of 20 to 300 m extends almost along the entire eastern endocontact of the massif and is represented by fine-medium-grained leucocratic norites and gabbronorites, less often plagioclasites and orthopyroxenites. The rocks of the Kraevaya zone are associated with disseminated and nested sulfide mineralization, and the zone itself is considered as ore-promising for platinum-metal mineralization. As a result of prospecting work within three areas (Lake Olche, Yukspor and Kuts-Kol), predicted resources of the P1 category were localized in the amount of 66.19 t Pdsl. (board 1 ppm), with average Pt and Pd contents of 0.31 and 0.67 ppm, respectively, and Pd / Pt ratio = 2.20. The resources of category P2 of the marginal zone of the Volchietundra massif were estimated, which amounted to 57.5 tons of Pt + Pd. For the Marginal zone of the Losev and Medvezhye tundra massifs, resources of the P2 category are determined at 35.6 tons. Within the Main zone of the Volchietundra massif, it is assumed that it is possible to find rich platinum-metal mineralization, the resources of the P2 category of which are estimated at 114.0 tons of Pt + Pd. The total forecast resources of the P2 category are estimated at 207.1 t Pt + Pd, and the total resources of the P1 + P2 categories are estimated at 232.35 t Pt + Pd. Recommendations for further work are given."
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