~
Altai
~
An impression of the Altai, Oleg Demyanenko
Aktash mecrury deposit
Note that there are more Aktash localities in the former Soviet Union. There is an Aktash near Tashkent in Uzbekistan and an Aktash near Talas in Kirgizia.
geology
The Ak Tash deposit is located in the same Kurai faultzone as Chaganuzun, but
the geology of both mercury deposits differ. Both deposits are formed in
different overthrusts, the Ak-Tash and Chaganuzun overthrust. The Aktash deposit
The main important rock is a sequence of Cambrian-Ordovician limestones of the
Kurai group. Most mercury mineralogy is situated in this sequence. The limestone
has been cut by numerous small diorites of the Caledonian Tadzhila intrusive
complex, but these intrusions have no connection with the ore formation. Note
the complete absence of barite and fluorite in Aktash. Antimonite is very
scarce, compared to other Russian mercury deposits.
mineralogy
Aktashite Albite Antimonite Arsenic Azurite Berthierite Calcite Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite Cinnabar Covellite Dickite Dolomite Enargite Goethite
Graphite Hematite Luzonite Malachite Marcasite Mercury Metacinnabar Orpiment
Pyrite Quartz Realgar Sphalerite Sulphur Tennantite Tetrahedrite.
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II pp325-330
Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Hg
mineralogy
Powellite
Beloussovskiy mine
mineralogy
Azurite Copper
mineralogy
Azurite Hemimorphite Malachite Smithsonite
geology
Chaganuzun is a mercury deposit situated in the Kurai ultramafic belt. The rocks
consist of Cambrian eruptive sedimentary rocks (greenstones and tuffs) cut by
Cambrian ultramafic intrusions. Later these rocks where hydrothermally altered.
mineralogy
Ankerite Antimonite Antimonite Arsenopyrite Barite Calcite Chalcopyrite Cinnabar
Dickite Dolomite Fluorite Galena Gersdorffite Millerite Muscovite Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Quartz Realgar Sphalerite Talc Tennantite
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II pp315-319
geology
The Chuja deposit is located at the left bank of the Chuja river, close to the
village of Chagan-Uzun. THe locality consists of marl, schist, cambrian diabase
intrusions and sandstone and limestone of Silurian age. There are also
serpentinites.
mineralogy
Calcite Cinnabar Dolomite Pyrite
Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Hg
mineralogy
Stichtite
mineralogy
Ferrimolybdite Galena Molybdenite Prehnite Sphalerite Zinnwaldite
 Ferrimolybdite |
 Galena |
 Molybdenite |
 Sphalerite |
geology
The Kurai deposit is located near Kurai village along the Artuluk creek, between
Chaganuzun and At-Tash. The deposit is part of the same complex as Chuja,
Chaganuzun and Ak-Tash. Here sandstones and caledonian Diorites are involved.
mineralogy
Cinnabar
Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Hg
Located at the Loktevski river. It is the type locality of Aurichalcite.
mineralogy
Aurichalcite
mineralogy
Ilvaite
mineralogy
Azurite, Wulfenite
Sarasinsk is a mercury deposit of the cinnabar-carbonate type. Probably comparable to the Ak-Tash deposit
mineralogy
Cinnabar Orpiment Realgar
geology
Sinyukhinskoye is a skarn formed by an early paleozoic (grano-) diorite
intrusion into Paleozoic limestones.
mineralogy
Altaite Arsenopyrite Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Diopside Galena
"Garnet" Gold Kafehydrocyanite Magnetite Melonite Pyrite Pyrrhotite
Sphalerite Tennantite Tetrahedrite Wollastonite
The geochemistry of gold and it's deposits, geological survey
of Canada, bulletin 280, 1979, p 251
Minerals first Discovered on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, I.V.
Pekov, p107-108 (Kafehydrocyanite)
geology
Tigeretzk is a granite pegmatite
mineralogy
Bertrandite Beryl Quartz
geology
The Vitimsky mine is a granite pegmatite near Mama Chuya.
mineralogy
Albite Muscovite
geology
The Vladimirovskoye deposit is a cobalt bearing skarn. It is type locality for
Vladimierite.
mineralogy
Altaite Chalcopyrite Hessite Minium Pyrite Sphalerite
Zmeinogorsk mine
(Schlangenberg)
The Zmeinogorsk deposit was discovered in 1732, but there were already traces from earlier mining. Silver was mined between 1742 and 1871. Between 1905 and 1921 gold was mined at Zmeinogorsk.
mineralogy
Acanthite Azurite Barite Chlorargyrite Gold Jalpaite Minium Naumannite Quartz
Silver Stromeyerite Uytenbogaardite Witherite
 Chloragyrite |
mineralogy
Azurite
mineralogy
Azurite Brochantite Cerussite Chalcopyrite Chrysoberyl Copper Galena Gold
Malachite Phosgenite Silver Smithsonite Sphalerite
Unspecified opal mines
Between 1854 and 1921 a few opal mines existed in the Altai. So far I could find any names of these small deposits, but I did manage to get an Altai specimen.
Opal
