Abstract
Massive sulfide deposits in the Pacific and Ural provinces have varying mercury contents. The latter is lower in metamorphosed ores than in unmetamorphosed or in young ones. Two varieties of cenozoic sulfide ores are distinguished: 1) products of subcontinental solfataric action with high mercury content in pyrites, accompanied by cinnabar, 2) products of postvolcanic activity in submarine suites with low mercury content in sulfides (Kurokotype). A distribution of mercury between coexisting sulfides (in descending rank) corresponds to the sequence: sphalerite-chalcopyrite-pyrite. During metamorphism, sulfides loose their mercury (pyrite in higher degree than chalcopyrite). It is possible that mercury vaporised from sulfides has some influence on the formation of mercury ores at some distance from metamorphosed sulfide bodies within the same region.
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