Hg minerals formed in the dispersion halos of mining waste (Western Siberia)

Abstract

The article presents the specialties of Hg minerals formed in natural organic matter from the dispersion halos of tailings and in suspended particulate matters of snowmelt and river waters in the dispersion halos of mining waste. The results were obtained due to studying of mining wastes from Novo-Ursk and Aktash deposits of the Kuznetsk-Altai mercury belt. The formation of secondary Hg minerals of similar shape and size (sulfides and selenides; ternary and quaternary chalcohalides, presumably) were found in both objects. Minerals appear as complex thin intergrowths and that currently do difficult certain identification of them compositions.