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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.
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
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 |
 Arsenopyrite |
Axinite |
 Calcite |
 Danburite |
 Datolite |
 Fluorapophyllite |
Galena |
 Hedenbergite |
 Ilvaite |
 Pyrrhotine |
 Quartz |
 "Quartz-ß" |
Silver |
 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 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
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
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
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 No10, Mine 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 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
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
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
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 is a greisen deposit.
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.
Himmeleisen aus Siberien, by C. Pinter, Lapis 9/98
geology
Sinerechenskoye is very similar to Dalnegorsk. It consists of multiple skarn
deposits.
mineralogy
Andradite, Grossular
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
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
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
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
