MINERAL INCLUSIONS IN PLATINUM GRAINS FROM THE KAZAN PLACER (SOUTH URALS)

Abstract

Platinum grains from the Kazan placer in the South Urals contain inclusions of native metals (gold, osmium group alloys), as well as PGE chalcogenides: sulfides (laurite, erlichmanite, bauite), sulfoarsenides (irarsite and hollingworthite), stibiopalladinite, telluride (merenskiite) and selenides.

Keywords

• kazan placer
• platinum
• native gold
• alloys of the osmium group elements
• tellurides
• selenides
• pge sulfides