Using GIS technologies and pattern recognition methods based on morphostructural data, ore-bearing structures in the Caucasus characterized by the predominance of polymetallic mineralization were determined. The structural basis of the study was the scheme of morphostructural zoning of the Caucasus, displaying the hierarchical system of crustal blocks, their boundaries – morphostructural lineaments, as well as the position of morphostructural nodes formed at the intersection of lineaments. It was found that small, medium and large metal deposits of the Caucasus are confined to morphostructural nodes. The objective of the work is to determine the characteristic geomorphological and geophysical features of metal deposit localization sites and, based on them, to identify potentially ore-bearing morphostructural nodes. The problem was solved using the learning recognition algorithm based on geomorphological and geophysical parameters characterizing the nodes. The parameter values were determined using the geoinformation system based on electronic geodatabases. The training sample of the recognition algorithm consisted of nodes in which metal deposits of the considered sizes were known. The recognition task was to divide all 237 nodes determined as a result of morphostructural zoning into two classes: ore-bearing and non-ore-bearing. As a result, 80 nodes out of 237 were assigned to the ore-bearing class. Potentially ore-bearing nodes are concentrated mainly in the central part of the Greater Caucasus and in the inner regions of the Lesser Caucasus.

Alexander I. Gorshkov
Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (PhD),
Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (DSn)
Сhief Researcher
Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical
Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
84/32, build. 14, Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, GSP – 7, 117997, Russia
е-mail: gorshkov@mitp.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5843-8468
SCOPUS Author ID: 7101853969
Researcher ID: D-3030-2018
SPIN code: 2092-7780
AuthorID: 58927

Artem I. Livinsky
Junior Researcher
Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical
Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
84/32, build. 14, Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, GSP – 7, 117997, Russia
е-mail: artem@mitp.ru
SPIN-код: 2464-7854
AuthorID: 1056537

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