Application of the Landsat-8 Data Set and the Digital Elevation Model SRTM to Prediction Gold-Polymetallic Mineralization to the Central Part of the Malouralskaya Zone, the Polar Urals

For the first time for the central part of the Malouralskaya zone of the Polar Urals, a new approach to processing data from remote sensing of the Earth was applied. The data were obtained using the Landsat-8 spacecraft. It consists in integration hydrothermal alteration propagation patterns and lineament density maps. They are based on the results of statistical processing of remote sensing data and digital elevation model SRTM (The Shuttle Radar Tpography Mission). The work was carried out in order to identify morphological features and patterns, features of the deep structure and identify promising areas of localization of gold-polymetallic mineralization in the study area. As a result of the study, it was found that areas promising for the gold-polymetallic type of mineralization in the central part of the Malouralskaya zone are localized within trans-regional fault zones, crossing favorable horizons and structures, and controlling ore mineralization, morphostructures, complicated by radial discontinuous faults of the 1st order NE and NW direction with a length of up to 30 km, as well as zones of increased indices II and III, less often hydroxide-(Al–OH, Mg–OH) and carbonate-containing minerals.