Remarkable Platinum Minerals
of the Konder Massif (Khabarovsk Krai, Russia)

CONTENTS

Editor’s Prefaces	4	( see PDF )
Author’s Prefaces	6	( see PDF )
Photo gallery “Platinum-group minerals from Konder from the collection of Gokhran of Russia”	8	( see PDF )
Introduction	16	( see PDF )
Chapter 1. General information about placer-forming platinum minerals and their assemblages	20	( see PDF )
Chapter 2. Materials and ?nalytical methods	28	( see PDF )
Chapter 3. Unique platinum placer deposits of the Konder and Uorgalan rivers valley	30	( see PDF )
Chapter 4. Konder alkaline ultramafic massif	42	( see PDF )
Chapter 5. Placer-forming platinum minerals: specific features of ontogeny and genesis	56	( see PDF )
Chapter 6. Atlas of morphology of Konder platinum minerals	84	( see PDF )
6.1. Morphology of aggregates of Pt > Ir-type platinum minerals	86
6.2. Morphology of Pt > Os-type platinum minerals intergrown with clinopyroxene	90
6.3. Morphology of Pt > Pd-type platinum minerals	92
6.4. Sculptures resulting from dissolution and replacement of platinum minerals	103
6.5. Aggregates of platinum minerals of various generations	108
6.6. Morphology of the major noble metal minerals associated to Pt > Pd-type platinum minerals	110
Acknowledgments	115
References	116
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