The platinum-group minerals (PGM) are a diverse group of minerals that concentrate the platinum-group elements (PGE; Os, Ir, Ru, Rh, Pt, and Pd). At the time of writing, the International Mineralogical Association database includes 135 named discrete PGM phases. Much of our knowledge of the variety and the distribution of these minerals in natural systems comes from ore deposits associated with mafic and ultramafic rocks and their derivatives (see also Barnes and Ripley 2016, this volume).

This guidebook is dedicated to ultramafic-mafic intrusions, volcanic rocks and the world-class PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide deposits of the Noril’sk Province, Polar Siberia. The characteristics of geology, mineralogy and geochemistry of volcanic rocks and ore-bearing ultramafic-mafic intrusions are briefly outlined. The proposed excursion stops include inspection of the different volcanic and intrusive rocks, associated PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide ores from drill cores and bedrock outcrops. In addition, an open pit Medvezhy Ruchei and two mines (Oktyabrsky and Taimyrsky) collectively provide an overview of the Noril’sk-type intrusions and associated disseminated and massive PGE-Cu-Ni sulfide ores.

Andrei Y. Barkov and Federica Zaccarini Editorial for the Special Issue “Platinum-Group Minerals: New Results and Advances in PGE Mineralogy in Various Ni-Cu-Cr-PGE Ore Systems”
Federica Zaccarini, Giorgio Garuti, Evgeny Pushkarev and Oskar Thalhammer Origin of Platinum Group Minerals (PGM) Inclusions in Chromite Deposits of the Urals
Sai-Hong Yang, Ben-Xun Su, Xiao-Wen Huang, Dong-Mei Tang, Ke-Zhang Qin, Yang Bai, Patrick Asamoah Sakyi and Melesse Alemayehu Platinum-Group Mineral Occurrences and Platinum-Group Elemental Geochemistry of the Xiadong Alaskan-Type Complex in the Southern Central Asian Orogenic Belt

This book describes extraction of nickel, cobalt and platinum-group metals. The starting point is ore-in-place and the finishing point is high-purity metals and chemicals.
We have combined the description of these metals in one book because they very often occur together, are extracted together and have similar properties.
The objectives of the book are to:

(a) describe how these metals occur and are extracted;
(b) explain why these extraction processes have been chosen;
(c) indicate how the processes can be operated most efficiently, with minimal impact on the environment; and,
(d) suggest future improvements.

The geology, tectonics and stratigraphy of the Monchegorsk region (Kola Peninsula, Russia) is briefly described in the guidebook. The geological structure, ore localization and mineralogy of Cu-Ni-PGE and Cr occurrences in the major layered intrusions (Monchepluton, Imandra lopolith, Monchetundra intrusion) are presented in more detail.

Металлы платиновой группы являются важнейшим валютным сырьем, возрастающая их зтребность в связи с требованиями экономики ставит перед геологией важную и актуальную дачу по выявлению новых месторождений.

На территории Карелии за последние годы выделен ряд месторождений и рудопроявлений металлов платиновой группы (МПГ), что позволило считать ее новой перспективной платиноносной провинцией на Северо-Западе России. Наиболее перспективными типами платиноидного оруденения в настоящее время являются месторождения малосульфидного типа в расслоенных интрузиях и массивах. Таким объектом, в частности, явилось Луккулайсваарское патинометальное месторождение. <...>

Volume 2 of the ‘Flotation Reagents Handbook’ is a continuation of Volume 1, and presents fundamental and practical knowledge on flotation of gold, platinum group minerals and the major oxide minerals, as well as rare earths.