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Siberia
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This is roughly the area between the Ural and Yakutia, minus Tuva and Altai in the south. The three best known mineralogical areas are Norilsk, the Tunguska river area and the Vostochnyi Sayan (Eastern Sayan mountain). The area is quite big and rich and this page will probably chopped up in several smaller ones in the near future.
Abakan deposit
geology
The Abakan deposit is located about 176 km southwest of the city of Abakan in
the Zapadnyi Sayan Mountains. The deposit is skarn situated in diverse Cambrian
sediment and connected to a Cambrian syenite-diorite intrusion.
mineralogy
Actinolite Albite Arsenopyrite Calcite Epidote Halloysite-10A Hematite Magnetite
Pyrite Quartz Quartz Siderite Sphalerite
Abagas deposit
Located less than a kilometer from Tyoya deposit. It is also a magnetite deposit and probably of very similar geology
geology
Located near the Nizhnaya Tunguska river Anakit Creek is a skarn deposit formed
on the contact of diabase and marble.
mineralogy
Afwillite Glaucochroite Merwinite Rankinite Spurrite Tilleyite
geology
The Anzas deposit is located about 100km southwest of Abakan in Zapanyi Sayan.
Anzas is a skarn iron deposit. The sediment consists of quartz-ablite schists,
amphybolites and quartzites. The schists contain limestone lenses. Gabbro
intruded these rocks.
mineralogy
Actinolite Albite Biotite Chalcopyrite Fluoroapatite Magnetite Pyrite Pyrrhotite
Sphalerite
Ore deposits id the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp 65 - 67
geology
A very small nepheline syenite intrusion on the Taimyr peninsula.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Analcime Augite Nepheline Schorlomite
The name of the locality suggests Anhydrite can be found here also.....
Located in the East Sayan region
mineralogy
Pyrite
Belskoye deposit
Located in East Sayan
mineralogy
Cassiterite Spodumene
geology
Birulinskoye is a Permian REE-Li pegmatite on the Taimyr peninsula.
Possibly an interesting locality because the calcite from here contains cobalt. Bolshaya Balakhnya river is located on the Taimyr perninsula.
geology
Botogolskoye is a graphite deposit, located in East Sayan. It is a so called
early magmatic deposit.
mineralogy
Barytolamprofyllite Cancrinite Graphite Nepheline Zircon
geology
Boxon is an Upper Proterozoic Bauxite locality in the Eastern Sayan mountains.
geology
Golozovskoye is probably an LCT pegmatite. It is located in the Sayan Mountains.
mineralogy
Montebrasite Pollucite
 Montebrasite |
 Pollucite |
Gorevsk deposit
geology
The Gorevsk deposit is situated on the left bank of the Angara river. It is a so
called metamorphosed lead zinc deposit and it was discovered in 1953. The oldest
and most important rocks of the deposit are two groups of Riphean rocks, the
Shuntar group and the Kirgitei group. The Shuntar group consists of schists and
the Kirgitei group consists of calcarous shales with seams of marble. This was
formed by the metamorphose of thin layers of limestone. Allthough it is not a
skarn, since there is no intrusion, the rock and mineralogy does resemble one. A
more recent layer of metamorphic rocks is formed by late Devonian to early
Carboniferous marls, sandstones and siltstones. There are also some minor
Riphean dolerite intrusions
mineralogy
Acanthite Albite Anglesite Ankerite Arsenopyrite Boulangerite Bournonite
Breithauptite Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Covellite Dolomite Dyscrasite
Elbaite Epidote Fluoroapatite Galena Gudmundite Jamesonite Magnetite Marcasite
Muscovite Pyrargyrite Pyrite Pyromorfite Pyrrhotite Quartz Siderite Silver
Sphalerite Sternbergite Tremolite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp245-249
geology
Located in the Zashikhinshinskiy metallogenic belt in Eastern Sayan mountains.
The deposit consists of two separate ore formations consisting of nests streaks
and stockworks, spatially related to the Iisky-Gorkhon fault The hydrothermal
mercury ores sit in hostrock consisting of neoproterozoic sandstone and shale
discordantly overlapped by sandstone and conglomerate.
mineralogy
Chalcopyrite Cinnabar Dolomite Marcasite Pyrite Quartz Tiemannite
Tiemannite
Descriptions of Northeast Asia Metallogenic Belts. By Sergey M. Rodionov et al.
The Gule massif is located in the Kotui basin and is part of the Maimecha-Kotui magmatic province. This province is located between the Kotui and Maimecha rivers, which flow roughly south to north between Enissei and Khatanga. (There are more Kotui rivers in the area!). The Gule massif is a very large heterogeneous intrusion, with a large dunite component. To the northwest lay Mesozoic-Cenozoic deposits of the Khatanga depression and to the southeast paleozoic carbonate and terrigene sediments. Where these two formation meet is a zone with Triassic volcanogene rocks. The Gule intrusion is part of this zone. Other nearby rocks in this zone comprise meimechites of the Meimechin formation, alkaline basalts, trachytes, andesites and picrites of the Del'kan formation, basalt of the Kogotok formation, basaltic tuff and tuffaceous sandstone of the Pravoboyar formation and alkaline basalts, augitites and alkaline picrites of the Arydzhang formation.
The Gule massif and the nearby similar occurences (Kudga, Bor Uryakh, Magan and Odikhincha) where mainly known as source for phlogopite and clinohumite. Minerals from their carbonatite component. In the 1980's large amounts of osmium dominant PGE placers where found in nearby rivers. Since then the dunite component is of interest as probable future osmium source.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Biotite Calcite Calzirtite Cancrinite Chromite Clinohumite
Diopside Dolomite Eudialyte Fluorite Fluoroapatite Forsterite Hibschite
Magnetite Melilite Monticellite Natrolite Nepheline Osmium Perowskite Perowskite
Phlogopite Pyrochlore Pyrrhotite Schorlomite Spinel
Fad'yu Kuda massif
Located on the Taimyr peninsula, itconsists of alkaline rocks.
mineralogy
Thomsonite-Sr
Hungtukunsk intrusion
geology
The Hungtukunsk intrusion is located between the Malaya- and Bolshoi Romanikha
rivers, just west of the Maimechka river. Ultrabasic intrusions came into
contact with organic material. This caused the formation of large amounts of
native iron. About 300km to the southwest is a very similar locality, called,
Ozernaya Gora.
mineralogy*
Chalcopyrite Cohenite Copper Fayalite Graphite Hercynite Ilmenite Iron Magnetite
Pigeonite Pyrrhotite Troilite Wustite
* The mineralogy was found in the reference below and it is not clear wether this rerefs to Ozernaya Gora or the Hungtukunsk intrusion. But mineralogy of both localities is likely identical.
[A.A. Godovikov, V.V.Rjabov, Lapis 4/93,pp30-33 Eine neue, große Lagerstätte von terrestrischem gediegenem Eisen in Nordwest Siberien.]
Irbinskoye is located in East Sayan Mountains
mineralogy
Andradite Babingtonite Barite Calcite Fluorite Ilvaite Magnetite
Kansko-Achinskyi coal basin
geology
Apart from the famous Kuzbas there is another large coal basin in southern
Siberia, the Kansk-Achinsk coal basin. The basin stretches from wst to east
along a syncline in jurassic sediments. The coal is mostly browncoal, won in
large open-cuts.
Individual mines are:
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Achinsk | |
Altat |
| Barandat | |
Beryezovo | |
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Bogotol | |
Itat |
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Kibiten' | |
Nasarovo |
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Tisul' | Uryup | |
Mineralogy
Not much is known from the local mineralogy. The dumps of at least Beryezovo are
or have been burning. From Bogotol Graphite is known.
 Graphite |
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Kemerovo area
(Kuzbass district)
Kremerovo
Oblast
Andzhero-Sudzhensk Prokopyevsk
Tashtagol
Mezhdurechensk
Kemerovo is a Siberian mining town, as can be seen in the above heraldy!. The Kuzbass is actually a large coal district stretching to almost 300 kilometers, orientated NNW-SSE. In this section I reportthe coal mines that I have found so far. A look on Google Earth shows there are plenty more mines. I have not yet found any evidence of mineralogy in the coalmines of the district. Until that happens I will list the coal mines I traced here without much description:
Biryulinskaya mine, a closed mine near Beresovsky
Kiselyovsky open pit, near Kiselyovsk
Krasnogorsky mine, open pit mine, near Mezhdurechensk
Listvyazhnaya mine, underground mine
Oktyabrskaya mine, underground mine in Polysayevo
Ossinkovskaya mine, underground coal mine
Romanovsky mine, a shaft near Beresovsky
Sibirginsky mine, a strip mine near Mezhdurechensk
Sibirskaya mine, underground coal mine in Anzhero-Sudzhensk
Taizhina mine, underground coal mine
Yesaulskaya mine, underground mine near Novokuznetsk
Vysokaya mine, now closed coal mine, at the site where now the Taizhina mine is.
Ziminka mine, underground mine in Prokopyevsk
Zyryanovskaya mine
The mineralogy of the Kuzbass is more interesting than coal. There are numerous skarns in the basin to, see for instance Tyoya, Tashtagol or Sheregesh iron deposits!
geology
The Khavokiperskiye rocks is a polymetallic ore occurence in the basin of the
Nizhnaya Tunguska river, on the left bank of the river 40km downstream or Tura.
mineralogy
Calcite Chalcopyrite Evenkite* Galena Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Sphalerite
geology
Kiya-Shaltyr is a nepheline-syenite intrusion in the Chernorechensk graben in
the Kuznetsk Alatau mountains. It is an alcalic-ultramafic intrusion associated
with carbonatites. It's age is approximately 383 m.y..
Krutnoye is one of those typical zeolite localities which occur more in the basin of the Nizhnaya Tunguska river.
mineralogy
Analcime Calcite Fluorapophyllite Heulandite-Ca Mordenite-Ca Quartz Stilbite-Ca
Tungusite
Located in the Kotui basin close to Gule. Similar to Gule it is a heterogeneous intrusion consisting of ultrabasic as well as alkaline rocks. Carbonatites also occur at Kugda. See Gule (above) for a more detailed description of the regional geology.
mineralogy
Aegirine Augite Calcite Cancrinite Chromite Clinohumite Clinohumite Combeite
Diopside Djerfisherite Dolomite Fluoroapatite Forsterite Magnetite Melilite
Monticellite Nepheline Pectolite Pentlandite Perowskite Phlogopite Pyrrhotite
Sodalite Titanite Vermiculite Wollastonite
Kulunda is a salt lake located in southern Siberia, just east of Pavlodar (Kazakhstan).
mineralogy
Glauberite, Halite
geology
A little known nepheline syenite deposit on the Taimyr peninsula.
geology
I could not find many references about Kuzmovka, other than that it is located
along the Podkamenaya Tunguska river.Judging from the mineralogy the locality is
very similar to the skarn of Anakit creek long the Nizhnaya Tunguska.
Any information is welcome
mineralogy
Afwillite Melilite Merwinite Spurrite Tilleyite
geology
A syenite-essexite intrusion on theTaimyr peninsula.
mineralogy
Allanite-(Ce) Eudialyte Fluorite Fluoroapatite Magnetite Quartz Riebeckite
Titanite Zircon
geology
Lebedskoye is a skarn deposit in Paleozoic limestones formed by paleozoic
diorite intrusions. Lebedskoye is located in the Gornaya Shoriya, where other
skarns like Tashtagol and Sheregeshkoye are also located.
mineralogy
Altaite Arsenopyrite Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Diopside Galena
"Garnet" Gold 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
Lenivaya river
Located on the Taimyr peninsula
mineralogy
Orpiment
geology
Lysansk is a dunite-pyroxenite intrusion with magnetite ore in East Sayan.
mineralogy
Magnetite
geology
A carbonatite on the Taimyr peninsula. The locality s potentially interesting
because additional to the mineralogy below there are REE carbonates repored.
mineralogy
Albite Ankerite Barite Dolomite Fluorite Fluoroapatite Hematite Magnetite
Phlogopite Siderite
geology
Natal'evskoye s a skarn deposit at the contact between Paleozoic limestones and
a Paleozoic diorite intrusion in the Kuznetskii Alatau
mineralogy
Altaite Arsenopyrite Bismuth Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Diopside Galena
"Garnet" Gold 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
Nidym river
(Nadym)
geology
Mostly known for it's zeolites in triassic basalt. My hemimorphite-limonite
specimen from here suggests it is probably a polymetallic deposit like the
Khavokiperskiye rocks.
mineralogy
Analcime Calcite Chabazite Erionite Fluorapophyllite Gyrolite Hemimorphite
Laumontite Mordenite Stilbite Thomsonite
Calcite
Chabazite
Hemimorphite
geology
Odykhincha is a heterogeneous intrusion consisting of utrabasic and alkaline
rocks as well as carbonatite. See Gule (above) for a more detailed description
of he local geology.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Augite Biotite Calcite Cancrinite Chromite Clinohumite Diopside
Eudialyte Fluoroapatite Forsterite Juanite Lamprophyllite Magnetite Melilite
Mosandrite Natrolite Nepheline Pectolite Perowskite Phlogopite Phlogopite
Pyrochlore Pyrrhotite Schorlomite Spinel Titanite
geology
Ol'khovo is a gold-sulphide deposit in East Sayan. The geology of the area
consists of lower and middle Cambrian sediments (limestones, tuffs, sandstones
and slates). All these where heavily folded. In the Ordovician several kinds of
intrusive rocks of the Ol'khovo complex intruded these sediments. The intrusive
rocks consist of granites, granodiorites, diorites and gabbrodiorites. The ores
are connected with skarns formed with these intrusions
mineralogy
Ankerite Arsenopyrite Bismuth Bornite Calcite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Dolomite
Galena Gold Hessite Krennerite Magnetite Marcasite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz
Siderite Sphalerite Tennantite Tetradymite
Ozernaya Gora
(approx.)
geology
Ozernaya is a mountain in the western part of the Putorana mountains, 125km
north of the mouth of the Kureijka river. Here the Hungtukunsk gabbro
dolerite intrusion is situated on top of Devonian and Silurian bitumose
limestones and dolomites and under triassic basalt.
mineralogy*
Chalcopyrite Cohenite Copper Fayalite Graphite Hercynite Ilmenite Iron Magnetite
Pigeonite Pyrrhotite Troilite Wustite
* The mineralogy was found in the reference below and it is not clear wether this rerefs to Ozernaya Gora or the Hungtukunsk intrusion. But mineralogy of both localities is likely identical.
 Cohenite |
 Iron |
[A.A. Godovikov, V.V.Rjabov, Lapis 4/93,pp30-33 Eine neue, große Lagerstätte von terrestrischem gediegenem Eisen in Nordwest Siberien.]
Little is known other than 10cm analcime crystals where found here. Ozernoye is located along the Nizhnaya Tunguska river. THe Analcime was found here in 4 meter thick (pillow) basalt flows
mineralogy
Analcime, Calcite, Thomsonite
Analcime from the Nizhnaya Tunguska river, R.V. Galiulin et al, World of Stones 9/96, p46
Popigay crater
geology
The Popigay crater was
formed during a meteorite impact in the late eocence. The crater that was formed
is about 100km in diameter and can be clearly seen about 300km east of Khatanga,
where there is a huge circular depression in the mountains. The result of the
Popigay impact was mainly a shock compression of the local rocks, which
partially transformed into typical high pressure minerals. The resulting rock is
called a Suevite.
Diamond, Londsdaleite Maskelynite (= Bytownite glass).
located in the Ennisei Kryazh
mineralogy
Quartz Stibnite
geology
Rudnaya gora is an iron skarn deposit in eastern Siberia
mineralogy
Magnetite
mineralogy
Heulandite Mordenite Stilbite
geology
Sedete is a melteigite, shonkinite, nepheline syenite formation in the
Maimecha-Kotui basin
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Augite Biotite Diopside Fluoroapatite Magnetite Nepheline
Perowskite Phlogopite Titanite
geology
Shalym is an iron skarn, located in the Gornaya Shoriya near the Tashel river mouth,
in the Kremerovo district.
mineralogy
Magnetite
geology
Sheregeshkoye is located 30km north of Tashtagol in the Gornaya Shoriya. It is a
magnesium skarn at the contact between ordovician and cambrian sedimentary
rocks with gabbroids and syenites of the Mustag-Sarlyk pluton.
mineralogy
Actinolite Andradite Arsenopyrite Biotite Brucite Calcite Chalcopyrite
Clinohumite Diopside Dolomite Dolomite Epidote Fluoroapatite Forsterite Galena
Magnetite Pargasite Phlogopite Phlogopite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Rhodochrosite
Sphalerite Spinel Tremolite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp 49 - 51
geology
Sorsk or Sorskoye deposit is located noethwest of Abakan in Khakasia.
Geologically this area is just part of the East-Sayan Altai folded zone. The
deposit consists of granites and diorites
mineralogy
Azurite Bismuth Chalcopyrite Copper Covellite Creedite Cubanite Cuprite
Ferrimolybdite Fluorite Gearksutite Magnetite Maucherite Molybdenite Pyrite
Quartz Rutile Silver Spessartine Sphalerite Uraninite Wulfenite
Sovetsk deposit
geology
The Sovetsk deposit is located on the Enisei Ridge. The Enisei Ridge is an
anticlinorium consisting mainly of Proterozoic sediments. In the upper
Proterzoikum granitic bodies where injected into these sediments forming
granitic bodies, gneisses, aplite and diabase-porphyrite dykes. After this the
area was subject to metamorphic deformation , erosion and graben formation.
mineralogy
Albite Ankerite Arsenopyrite Bismuthinite Calaverite Calcite Chalcopyrite
Fluoroapatite Freibergite Galena Gold Ilmenite Marcasite Maucherite Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Quartz Silver Sphalerite Violarite Zircon
The geochemistry of gold and it's deposits, geological survey of Canada, bulletin 280, 1979, p 287
Stavrolitovaya mountain
Located on the Taimyr peninsula
mineralogy
Staurolite
Tashtagol deposit
geology
Tashtagol is a skarn iron deposit near Tashtagol railwaystation, about 200
kilometers southeast of Novokuznetsk. It is located in the famous Gornaya Shoriya
(Black Mountains). The skarn is formed by an intrusion of quartz-syenite into
middle cambrian folded sedimentary rocks. This contains volcanosedimentary rocks
as well as limestones and marble.
mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Epidote Fluorite Fluoroapatite Galena Hematite
Magnetite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rhodochrosite Sphalerite Tennantite
Tetrahedrite
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I pp 46-47
Tatarskoye river
(Tatarka)
geology
A world famous locality for large pyrochlore crystals.
Tatarskoye is located in the Enissi Kryazh, Krasnoyarsk Kraj. About 100km from
where the Angara river flows into the Enissei river. Tatarskoye is geologically
located in the Enissei Ridge foldbelt. It is a carbonatite formed between 660
and 620 Ma ago as part of the Tatarsko-Tyradinsk metallogenic belt.
mineralogy
Aeschynite-(Nd) Anorthite Astrophyllite Eudialyte Pyrochlore
geology
Telbes is a skarn deposit in Western Siberia. It is a rare silicate-skarn type
deposit formed by arkosic sandstones and siltstones
mineralogy
Scapolite
geology
Temir-Tau is a so called iron skarn deposit, located in the Gornaya Shoriya at
the Tashel river mouth in the Kremerovo district.
mineralogy
Magnetite
Located in the basin of the podkamennaya Tunguska river.
mineralogy
Analcime Aragonite Barite Fluorapophyllite Heulandite Mesolite Mordenite
Prehnite Stilbite
Tura is a settle ment (one of the very few) along the Nizhnaya Tunguska river. Many minerals re reported from here, mainly zeolites from the triassic basalt.
mineralogy
Analcime Calcite Datolite Fluorapophyllite Pectolite Powellite Quartz Thomsonite
Tungusite
Tyoya deposit
(Tëya)
geology
The Tyoya deposit is located 183km west of Abakan in the Kuzbass. It is a skarn
iron deposit at the contact of dolomitized late proterozoic-early cambrian
limestones with granitoid intrusive rocks. There are Cambrian and Ordovician
granites as well as granosyenites and syenites. There are also pre-ore diorite
present.
mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Calcite Chalcopyrite Chondrodite Clinohumite Cordierite Diopside
Elbaite Epidote Fluorite Forsterite Hematite Magnesite Magnetite Marialite
Mejonite Nickeline Phlogopite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Safflorite Sphalerite
Spinel Talc Titanite Tremolite Vesuvianite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp 47-49
geology
The Uderei deposit is situated on the Yenissei Ridge, on the eastern limb of the
Tatar snticlinorium. The rocks consist of proterozoic metamorphic rocks like
quartzites, amphibolites, slates, phyllites and siltstones.Later, in the
Mesozoic sediments filled up the lower portions. The proterozoic metamorphic
rocks are cut by interstratal intrusion. They are mainly basic and consist of
diabase, gabbro-diabase and porphyrites. But also more acidic granite intrusions
occur. The ores are connected with quartz veins in the schist.
mineralogy
Antimonite Arsenopyrite Berthierite Bournonite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite
Jamesonite Pyrite Quartz Siderite Sphalerite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp 293-295
Vishuyakovskoye
(Elash)
geology
This locality is also known as Elash, but Vishujakovskoye just sounds much
better! It is a granite pegmatite, located in the East Sayan mountains.
mineralogy
Albite Eucryptite Eudialyte Lepidolite Lithiophyllite Montebrasite Muscovite
Sicklerite Spodumene Topaz Wodginite
Vivi river
(very inacurate placemark because the river is very long)
Located in the Nizhnaya Tunguska basin. Mineralogy contains zeolites from Triassic basalt.
mineralogy
Calcite Fluorapophyllite Heulandite Thomsonite
Vysokoi
geology
Syenites and trachites on the Taimyr peninsula
mineralogy
Analcime Andesine Augite Biotite Fluorite Fluoroapatite Magnetite Marialite
Orthoclase Quartz Titanite Zircon
references
The Maimecha-Kotui Region: A New Platinum Province in Russia, by K.N. Malitch et al, Doklady Akademia Nauk Vol 348, No 4, 1996
