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Seven main ore-forming systems—porphyry and epithermal; orogenic related to granitic intrusions; magmatic ultramafic; volcanic-hosted massive sulfide and volcanic–sedimentary; sedimentary basins; related to alkaline magmatic activity; and placers and weathering mantles—are sources of high-tech critical metals. The following promising types of ore deposits containing high-tech critical metals as by-products are recognized: Cu–Mo porphyry, Fe–Cu–Au and Pb–Zn skarn, base-metal epithermal, volcanic-hosted massive sulfide, base-metal stratiform, various tin deposits, and placers containing rare metals including REE. The mineral resources of critical metals in Russia are compared with those known in other countries. The contents of high-tech critical metals in ores of some noble-metal deposits of the Russian Northeast are reported. It is shown that the subsurface of Russia possesses considerable mineral resource potential for hightech critical metals, which allows new enterprises to be created or production of operating enterprises to increase.
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Original Russian Text © N.S. Bortnikov, A.V. Volkov, A.L. Galyamov, I.V. Vikent’ev, V.V. Aristov, A.V. Lalomov, K.Yu. Murashov, 2016, published in Geologiya Rudnykh Mestorozhdenii, 2016, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 97–119.
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Bortnikov, N.S., Volkov, A.V., Galyamov, A.L. et al. Mineral resources of high-tech metals in Russia: State of the art and outlook. Geol. Ore Deposits 58, 83–103 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701516020021
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