Continuous exploration works and investigations of mercury, mercury-antimony and gold-sulfide mineralization in Donetsk metallogenic province resulted in identification of promising gold-mercury ore formation. Dokuchaev-type (Carlin-type) gold mineralization is confined to the Lower Carboniferous limestones, dolomitic limestones and dolomites of the Pavlodar-Donetsk metallogenic belt. Predictive Dokuchaev gold ore district comprises three ore clusters totaling seven ore fields. Geology of the district, position of predicted ore fields, preliminary characterization of potential gold deposits and ore bodies are discussed. Some proposals for methodology of exploration works are presented.
Артеменко et al. (Wed,) studied this question.