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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">gscience</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Mining Science and Technology (Russia)</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Горные науки и технологии</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2500-0632</issn><publisher><publisher-name>The National University of Science and Technology MISiIS (NUST MISIS)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17073/2500-0632-2019-4-273-281</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">gscience-173</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>GEOLOGY OF MINERAL DEPOSITS</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ГЕОЛОГИЯ МЕСТОРОЖДЕНИЙ ПОЛЕЗНЫХ ИСКОПАЕМЫХ</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Method for Revealing Placer Gold Source</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Метод определения источника россыпного золота</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Владимирцева</surname><given-names>О. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Vladimirtseva</surname><given-names>O. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Москва</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Moscow</p></bio><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru">Российский государственный геологоразведочный университет им. Серго Орджоникидзе<country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en">Russian State Geological Exploration University named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze<country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2019</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>01</month><year>2020</year></pub-date><volume>4</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>273</fpage><lpage>281</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Vladimirtseva O.V., 2020</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2020</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Владимирцева О.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Vladimirtseva O.V.</copyright-holder><license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://mst.misis.ru/jour/article/view/173">https://mst.misis.ru/jour/article/view/173</self-uri><abstract><p>Material characteristics of placer gold and geological and geomorphological features of placercontaining watercourses allow revealing the type of source that formed the placer. The studied area (the middle reach of theAdychaRiver, Verkhoyansk District, Yakutia) is characterized by highly developed placer gold mineralization both in ancient terrace sediments and high-order watercourses. The significant placer gold mineralization in the high-order watercourses, at very limited number of known bedrock gold deposits suggests the presence of not yet discovered bedrock gold mineralization. Revealing the type of sources of placer gold in young high-order watercourses allows to create prognostic and prospecting models for both potential placer and primary (vein) ore occurrences. The purpose of the study is to compile a logical-information algorithm, which, based on the most significant material and geological-geomorphological factors, will enable revealing the type of placer gold source and the possibility of its location discovery and probability of gold transportation continuation from the source. The study result is presented by a program (the Python programming language) that characterizes the type of placer gold source based on gold grain rounding degree, the presence of gold intergrowths with other minerals and the presence of heavy fraction. Assessment of the possibility of placer gold source location determination is based on geological and geomorphological factors: watercourse order, the type of placer, and spatial association with terraces of ancient erosion levels. The study of well-known gold placers using the created program allowed revealing gold placers  with supposedly primary gold source and other ones with the source in the form of a natural intermediate gold concentrator. A map of exogenous gold mineralization with forecast elements was also created, presenting areas promising for revealing primary gold mineralization (areas of presence of high-order watercourses with gold mineralization source) and areas of high-order watercourses promising for discovering gold placers (identified by analogy (in geological and geomorphological position) with watercourses with the known source in the form of natural intermediate gold concentrator.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Вещественные характеристики золота россыпных объектов и геолого-геоморфологические особенности россыпесодержащих водотоков позволяют судить о типе источника, сформировавшего россыпь. Исследуемый район (среднее течение реки Адыча, Верхоянский район, Якутия) характеризуется сильно развитой россыпной золотоносностью как древних террасовых отложений, так и водотоков низких порядков. Значительная золотоносность водотоков низких порядков при единичных месторождениях золота предполагает наличие еще не известных коренных скоплений золота. Определение типа источников россыпей молодых водотоков (I и II порядков) позволяет строить прогнозно-поисковые модели как для потенциально россыпных, так и для рудных объектов. Цель исследования заключается в составлении логикоинформационного алгоритма, который на основе наиболее значимых вещественных и геологогеоморфологических факторов позволит не только определить тип источника россыпи, но и вероятность его локализации и продолжающегося сноса металла. Результатом исследования стала программа (язык программирования Python), характеризующая тип источника россыпи на основе окатанности золотин, наличия сростков золота с другими минералами и представленности тяжелой фракции. Оценка вероятности локализации источника россыпи основывается на геолого-геоморфологических факторах: порядок водотока, тип россыпи, пространственная связь с террасами древних эрозионных уровней. При исследовании известных россыпных объектов на созданной программе выявлены россыпи с предположительно коренным источником и источником в виде промежуточного коллектора. Также составлена карта экзогенной золотоносности с элементами прогноза: площадями, перспективными на выявление коренных скоплений золота (области распространения водотоков низких порядков с рудным источником) и водотоками низких порядков, перспективными для выявления россыпных объектов (выделены по принципу аналогии по геолого-геоморфологической позиции с известными водотоками с источником в виде промежуточного коллектора).</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>золото</kwd><kwd>россыпи</kwd><kwd>Адыча</kwd><kwd>прогноз</kwd><kwd>алгоритм</kwd><kwd>окатанность золота</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>gold</kwd><kwd>placers</kwd><kwd>Adycha</kwd><kwd>forecast</kwd><kwd>algorithm</kwd><kwd>gold grain rounding degree</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Chapman R. J., Mortensen J. 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