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Primorski Kraj

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 Primorsky Kraj or Primorye is translated as Maritime Province. It is the coastal province in the far east where Vladivostok is the capital. Most part of the province is taken up by the Sikhote Alin mountains. 


Blagodadnensk

geology
Blagodatnensk is a small tin deposit in the Voznesensk ore zone, near Lake Khanka. Blagodadnensk is a rare type of tin deposit because it is associated with Forsterite bearing marbles and magnesian skarns 

mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Cassiterite Clinochrysotile Diopside Dolomite Fluoroapatite Forsterite Phlogopite Pyrite Sphalerite


Chapayevskoye

geology
Chapayevskoye is a tin/tungsten greisen deposit, which is part of the Voznesensk deposit, near Khanka ozero. (see below for details)

mineralogy
Cassiterite, Wolframite


Dalnegorsk
(Tjetjuche)

geology
Dalnegorsk is a town northwest of Vladivostok, well known by collectors for it's aesthetic mineral specimen. Although the deposit is known since medieval times, modern mining started here in the first decade of the 20th century. At first only lead and zinc where mines here, but in 1946 the Borosilikatnoye deposit was opened for boron mining.

The deposit known as Dalnegorsk acually consists of nine individual deposits. The vast majority of the minerals from Dalnegorsk in collections have no reference to the individual deposits. The individual deposits are: Verkhnee, Sovetskoye-1, Nikolaevskoye, and the following five making up the Partizanskoye group: Sovetskoye-2, East Partizanskoye, Zentral Partizanskoye, West Partizanskoye and Svetlyi. All these are polimetallic deposits. In 1946 the boron deposit Borosilikatnoye was discovered. The name "Tjetjuche" meaning "valley of the wild pigs"  is the old Chinese name for Dalnegorsk. On old mineral labels this name can occur.

Geologically Dalnegorsk is a best described as a skarn, although it is not a pure skarn. Magma came into contact with limestone forming a skarn. But the difference is that metamorphic volcanosediments are also present and ore bearing. The limestone has an age of carboniferous to jurassic and is covered with upper cretaceous to lower tertiary volcanosedimentary rocks.. Most ores occur at the contact and in the limestone. The orogenese can be divided into four phases. Non -ore bearing skarn phase with mainly garnet and wollastonite, the skarn sulphide phase, a polymetallic phase and lower temperature final phase with mainly quartz, calcite and zeolites. In the skarn sulphide phase many boron minerals are formed as well as sulphides. Similar sulphides are formed in the 3rd phase.

 For a much more detailed geological describtion of the individual deposits I refer to the Mineralogical Almanac issue, mentioned below.

mineralogy
Actinolite Albite Andorite Andradite Antimonite Antimony Arsenic Arsenopyrite Azurite Barite Bismuth Bismuthinite Calcite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Clausthalite Clinozoisite Cubanite Danburite Dannemorite Datolite Dickite Diopside Domeykite Elbaite Epidote Ferro-Actinolite Ferro-Axinite Fluorapophyllite Fluorite Galena Galenobismuthite Gersdorffite Graphite Grossular Hedenbergite Hedleyite Hematite Hessite Hisingerite Ikunolite Ilvaite Jamesonite Joseite-A Kutnahorite Ludwigite Magnesioferrite Magnetite Malachite Orthoclase Palygorskite Prehnite Proustite Pyrite Quartz Safflorite Schapbachite Silver Skutterudite Sphalerite Sternbergite Stilpnomelane Tetrahedrite Valleriite Vonsenite Wollastonite Zoisite

andradite-dalnegorsk.jpg (24634 bytes)  Andradite   arsenopyrite-dalne.jpg (54318 bytes) 
Arsenopyrite
axinite-dalnegorsk.jpg (43751 bytes) Axinite  calcite-dalnegorsk.jpg (33267 bytes)
Calcite  
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Danburite          
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Datolite
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Fluorapophyllite
galena-dalnegorsk.jpg (68611 bytes) Galena 
hedenbergite-dalne.jpg (55977 bytes)
Hedenbergite
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Ilvaite 
pyrrhotine-dalnegorsk.jpg (39418 bytes)
Pyrrhotine 
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Quartz  

"Quartz-ß"
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Wollastonite

references:
Die Blei-Zink- und Bor Lagerstätte Dalnegorsk in Ostsiberien, by Michael Hamet et al, Mineralienwelt 6/92
Dalnegorsk Boron Deposit a Unique Mineralogical Object, by A.E. Lisitsyn, S.V. Malinko, World of Stones 4/94
Ore Deposits of de USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1979, Vol II p182-189
Dalnegorsk, Mineralogical Almanac 4/2001 V.V. Moroshkin et al (~128 pages)
Geology of Mineral Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, p173-174


Kavalerovo

Kavalerovo is mentioned as both a deposit and as a ore region. It is possible that Kavalerovo is a deposit in the ore region with the same name. The best known deposit in the Kavalerovo ore region is the Rudnoye deposit.

mineralogy
Cassiterite

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Kirovskoye

geology
Kirovskoye is a  tin deposit, located near the watershed between the Ulache and Shetuche rivers in the southern Sikhote Alin. Sandstones of the Daubicha synclinale where intruded by felsic rocks of the Marjanov complex. high temperature cassiterite was found in miaroles of this intrusion. Quartz-tourmaline stocks do also occur here.

mineralogy
Cassiterite, Quartz

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Mnogovershinskoye

geology
The Mnogovershinskoye deposit is located in the Primore Volcanic Belt. The deposit consists of  intrusive granitic and granodiorite rocks, together with associated extrusive rocks and volcanic sediments of the early tertiary (Oligocene-Eocene). Later these rocks where metamorphically and metasomatically altered.

mineralogy
Argentojarosite Bismuthinite Cassiterite Chalcopyrite Freibergite Galena Gold Hematite Hessite Kaolinite Marcasite Molybdenite Montmorillonite Pyrite Quartz Silver Sphalerite Wolframite

Also present are gold, silver and bismuth tellurides, (could be Tetredymite, Calaverite, Krennerite, Nagyagite, Sylvanite etc)

Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol III, pp15-17


Ossinovskoye

geology
Ossinovskoye is part of the Voznesensk ore occurence and consists of quartz-tourmaline bodies and skarns

mineralogy
Cassiterite, Quartz

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Partizansk coal district
(Suchan)

Partizansk is a town east northeast of Vladivostok. It is a coal mining town. The two early coal mines where Suchansky mine and No 1 mine, both opened around 1900. Mining grew over the years and in the 1920's more mines where active. Mine No10Mine No 20 and Tsentralnaya mine are known. Partizansk was known as Suchan, as many town in Primorye have old Chinese names.

So far I could not trace any mineralogy here


Pervomaiskoye

Pervomaiskoye consists of carbonate skarns and is part of the Voznesensk ore deposit near lake Khanka. See Voznesensk for details.

mineralogy
Cassiterite

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Podgranichnyi

geology
Podgranichnyi is a fluorite deposit in the Voznesensk ore zone near Lake Khanka. It consists of Mica-Fluorite veins in granite of the Voznesensk intrusion.

mineralogy
Fluorite


Raspashnoye

geology
Raspashnoye is located southeast of Kirovskoye (see above). In this tin deposit cassiterite occurs in Paleozoic metamorphic schist. Mineralogy is probably related with the Marjanov intrusion.

mineralogy
Cassiterite

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Rudnoye

geology
The Rudnoye deposit is part of the Kavalerovo ore region. Rudnoye deposit is connected to a north-northeasterly fault in Jurassic and cretaceous terrigenous sediments. Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary volcanic activities formed diorite dikes, which where subsequently metasomatically altered. 

mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Biotite Cassiterite Chalcopyrite Elbaite Galena Marcasite Pyrite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Sphalerite

Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol III, p278 - 285


Sabanovo

Sabanovo is a greisen deposit.


Sikhote Alin meteorite

On the 12th of  February 1947 a large meteorite fell in the Sikhote Alin Mountains. The meteorite exploded in the atmosphere and thousands of fragments fell to earth. The impact site is located about 75km northeast of Dalnerechensk, roughly half way Vladivostok-Khabrovsk. Up to a few years ago this iron meteorite was hard to find on the market and individuals where quite expensive. Today it is probably the most common iron meteorite on the market and prices can be very low. The Sikhote Alin meteorite is a type IIB iron meteorite.

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  Sikhote-Alin

Himmeleisen aus Siberien, by C. Pinter, Lapis 9/98


Sinerechenskoye

geology
Sinerechenskoye is very similar to Dalnegorsk. It consists of multiple skarn deposits.

mineralogy
Andradite, Grossular

quartz-sine.jpg (30381 bytes)
Quartz / Grossular


Shcherbakovka

geology
Shcherbakovka is located along the middle stretch of the Pchussun river. Actually Shcherbakovka is a village and polymetallic ares are found in a district of 60 square kilometers around the village. Just north of Shcherbakovka is Sneshnaya Gora located, part of the ore zone and with similar mineralogy

mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Calcite Cassiterite Pyrrhotite Quartz Stannite Topaz

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Tigrinoye

geology
Tigrinoye is a greisen deposit in the Sikhote Alin mountains.

mineralogy
Cassiterite Gorceixite Goyazite Herderite Kolbeckite Lacroixite Quartz Rhodochrosite Triplite Viitaniemiite


Vostok-2 deposit

geology
The Vostok-2 deposit is located in northern Primore. The rocks are sedimentary sand and siltstones of Permian and Triassic age with occasional limestone lenses. This is intruded by various granitoid rocks. At the contact of one such intrusion with a limestone lens a Skarn has formed

mineralogy
Actinolite Arsenopyrite Bismuth Bismuthinite Calcite Cassiterite Chalcopyrite Fluoroapatite Gold Lollingite Muscovite Pyrrhotite Quartz Scheelite Silver Sphalerite Stannite Tennantite Wolframite

Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol III, pp190-192


Voznesensk deposit

geology
Voznesensk is a fluorite deposit in the Voznesensk ore region. It consists of Mica-Fluorite veins in granite of the Voznesensk intrusion. It is an Alaskitegranite on the periphery of the upper Paleozoic Grodekovo batholite. Mineralization was formed by greisen forming. The Yaroslavskoye mine below is part of this ore formation. Voznesensk is located near Khanka ozero, north of Vladivostok. Voznesensk is a suburb of Yaroslavskoye. South of these are numrous large quarries, all part of the Voznesensk intrusion. Yaroslavskoye, Osinovskoye and Pervomaiskoye are mentioned elsewhere on this page. Another large quarrie is located near the village of Novoshakhtinsk and four quarries south of Abramovka.

mineralogy
Bityite Cassiterite Elbaite Fluorite Muscovite Quartz

Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Yaroslavskoye tin deposit

geology
The Yaroslavskoye tin deposit is located near Khanka lake in the Vosnezensk ore region. Yaroslavskoye is a skarn deposit connected to the Vosnesensk intrusive complex. The granites are of early paleozic age. Yaroslavskoye is located at the northwestern edge of this intrusion. Here the granite is only present as dykes. The granits are altered to greisen, whch allready produced some tin minralogy. The country rock consists of Cambrian sericite schist overlain by limestone. At the contact between the two skarns have been  formed.

mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Bismuthinite Cassiterite Chukhrovite-(Ce) Danburite Elbaite Fluorite Fluoroapatite Gearksutite Hubnerite Jarosite Magnetite Molybdenite Muscovite Pyrite Quartz Ralstonite Sellaite Yaroslavite

Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, Vol III, p246 - 250
Gmelin-Krauts Handbuch der anorganischen Chemie, Sn


Zabytoye

geology
Zabytoye, means 'the forgotten one' and is located in the Amgu valley. It is a typical greisen tin deposit. More precisely of the Quartz-Topaz type.

mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Bertrandite Cosalite Hubnerite Ikunolite Ingodite Quartz Topaz


Zolotaya gold placer

geology
This placer is derived from a late Permian dunite-hornblendite-gabbro intrusion of the Uralian-Alaskan type.

mineralogy
Chalcopyrite Cherepanovite Cooperite Cuprorhodsite Erlichmanite Gold Irarsite Iridarsenite Laurite Osmium Platarsite Platinum Ruthenarsenite Sperrylite

G.G. Shcheka et al. (2004) Associations of Platinum-group minerals from the Zolotaya gold placer, Primorye, Russian Far East. CanMin Vol 52 No 2, pp583-599