Ref.: Tolstykh, N.D., Sidorov, E.G., Laajoki, K.V.O., Krivenko, A.P., and Podlipskiy, M. (2000): The association of platinum-group minerals in placers of the Pustaya River, Kamchatka, Russia. Canadian Mineralogist: 38: 1251-1264.
This placer deposit is situated within the KoryakâKamchatka platinum-bearing belt of Alaskan-type intrusions in eastern Russia.