Huge reserves of iron in Western Siberia might originate from under an ancient sea
Friday, December 28, 2018 - 06:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The world's largest Bakchar iron ore deposit is located in an ancient sea in West Siberia, Russia. Its proven reserves are over 28 billion tons. Scientists seek to explain the accumulation of such a huge amount of iron. Now, they have proposed the upward migration of a mixture of Fe-rich brine and hydrothermal fluid through marine sediments as the origin of the Bakchar ironstone deposit.