Application of lithogeochemical and pyrite trace  element data for the determination of vectors to ore  in the Raja Au–Co prospect, northern Finland

Raič, Sara; Molnár, Ferenc; Cook, Nick; O'Brien, Hugh; Lahaye, Yann

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/se-13-271-2022

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02 Feb 2022

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Application of lithogeochemical and pyrite trace element data for the determination of vectors to ore in the Raja Au–Co prospect, northern Finland

Sara Raič, Ferenc Molnár, Nick Cook, Hugh O'Brien, and Yann Lahaye

Model code and software

Data reduction software for the laser ablation microprobe, GLITTER™ GLITTER Team http://www.glitter-gemoc.com/GLITTER-45_p_12.html

Exploratory data analysis software application, Version 7.2, ioGAS™ IMDEX Limited August 2019 https://reflexnow.com/product/iogas/

Short summary

Orogenic gold deposits in Paleoproterozoic belts in northern Finland have been explored not only for gold but because of the occurrences of economically important concentrations of base metals, especially cobalt. In this study we are testing the vectoring capacities of pyrite trace element geochemistry, combined with lithogeochemical and sulfur isotopic data in the Raja gold–cobalt prospect (northern Finland), by using multivariate statistical data analysis.