Major activities and provisional results of gold deposit forecasting in the eastern (Russian) part of Fennoscandian shield

Abstract

The paper discusses the main gold metallogeny features within foreign Precambrian shields (excluding sedimentary-metamorphogene deposits of Au-rich conglomerates and magmatogene Au-rich Cu-Ni and PGE deposits) and regional features of the eastern Fennoscandian shield. Data on geological setting of Finnish gold deposits are summarized and analyzed. The paper briefly reviews gold prospecting knowledge within Karelian-Kola region and work results. The author compiled a digital model of gold-specific forecast-metallogenic map for the eastern Fennoscandian shield; based on this model, further prioritized exploration activities in Karelian-Kola region are proposed, potential for discovering medium-sized and major deposits of various formational and geological/economic types is forecasted.