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Severnyi Ural

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The Severnyi Ural is the Northern Ural. The area between Nizhne Tagil and the Pripolar Ural. Politically this area is part of the Permskaya oblast in the west and the Sverdlovskaya oblast in the east.


Biserskoye

A chromium deposit near Laki in the Permskaya oblast. It consists of ultrabasic rocks and is very similar to the better known Saranovskoye mine. In fact Biserskoye is located only 12 kilometers south of Saranovskoye. In the 19th century this mine was much better known than Saranovskoye. In fact it is the type locality Shuiskite  is Biserskoye and not Saranovskoye! Clinochlore occurs here in the variety Kämmererite. In the 19th century the mine was known as  Biserkii Zavod.

mineralogy
Calcite Chromite Clinochlore Shuiskite Titanite Uwarowite


Krasnoturinsk

geology
Krasnoturinsk is a name of a town in the so called Auerbach-Turin ore field. In this ore field are numerous iron and copper skarns located. The country rock consists of different kinds of volcanic-sedimentary rocks with limestone lenses of the Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. The sediments are Upper Silurian to lower Devonian and have a total thickness of over 3000 meters. These sediments where intruded by the Central Auerbach intrusion and several satellites. The Auerbach intrusion consists mainly of granodiorite. At the northwest side of the intrusion formed about 15 copper rich skarn ore bodies. The largest are Frolovskoye, Nikitin, Novofrolovskoye, Nikolo-Podgora, Bashmakovskoye, Bogoslovskoye and Vadimo-Aleksander deposits. (See below for more about Novofrolovskoye)
In the southwest of the intrusion lay iron rich skarns.

mineralogy
(combined mineralogy for all Krasnoturinsk copper mines)
Andradite Anhydrite Anthophyllite Antimonite Antimony Aragonite Arsenic Azurite Barite Bournonite Brochantite Calciborite Calcite Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Clinokurchatovite Cobaltite Copper Cubanite Cuprite Datolite Dolomite Ekaterinite Enargite Epidote Erythrite Famatinite Fluorapophyllite Formicaite Frolovite Galena Gersdorffite Grossular Halotrichite Hematite Hemimorphite Ilvaite Jamesite Korzhinskite Kurchatovite Lead Linnaeite Lollingite Magnetite Melanterite Molybdenite Nickel-skutterudite Nifontovite Pentahydroborite Polydymite Prehnite Pumpellyite-Fe2+ Pyrite Pyrrhotite Sibirskite Siegenite Skutterudite Sphalerite Szaibelyite Tennantite Tenorite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Tremolite Uralborite Valleriite Vimsite Vivianite Wollastonite Zoisite

Geology of Mineral Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, p167-168


Kytlym massif

geology
The Kytlym massif is a dunite intrusion, located about 400km north of Nizhne Tagil. The massif consists of five large blocks, named Kosva, Konzhankov, Sukhogorsk, Serebryansk and Valentorsk. The Valentorsk and Sukhogorsk blocks consist mainly of Gabbronorite and Clinopyroxenite. The Srebryansk block consists of Gabbro and magmatic breccia. The Konzhakov and Kosva blocks consist of Dunite, Clinopyroxenite and Gabbro.

mineralogy
Chromite Cuproiridsite Cuprorhodsite Erlichmanite Isoferroplatinum Osmium Platinum Tetraferroplatin Tulameenite

 

Pt Alloys from Chromitites of Uralian-Alaskan complexes, Russia, by G.Garuti et al, Canadian Mineralogist Vol 40 pp.357-376


Marsyat

geology
Marsyat is a paleogene sedimentary manganese deposit on the eastern slope of the Severnyi Ural.


Novofrolovskoye mine

A skarn deposit near the town of Krasnoturinsk. This hercynian skarn is located in the proterozoic Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. See Krasnoturinsk, above, for a more detailed description of the geology.

mineralogy
Andradite Anhydrite Calciborite Calcite Clinokurchatovite Dolomite Ekaterinite Formicaite Frolovite Grossular Korzhinskite Kurchatovite Magnetite Nifontovite Pentahydroborite Sibirskite Tetradymite Uralborite Vimsite Vitimite


Calciborite


Peschansk

geology
Peschansk is a magnetite-calc skarn, about 10km south of Krasnoturinsk. The skarn is formed by an intrusion of diorite in limestone. The diorite is the Peschansk diorite massif, which is part of the larger Auerbakh intrusive complex. The limestone is devonian sediment and it is covered with vulcanogenic sediments. Of course the limestone altered to marble and the volcanosediments to hornblende porphyrites.

mineralogy
Chalcopyrite, Magnetite


Polunochnoe

geology
Polunochnoe is a Paleogene sedimentary manganese deposit on the eastern slopes of the Severnyi Ural. 


Saranovskoye
(Sarany)

geology
Saranovskoye is a Caledonian ultrabasic intrusion consisting of gabbro and gabbronorite in precambrean schist and quartzite. There are three major chromite orebodies and several smaller ones as well as diabase dikes. Mineralogically the chromite ore contains pockets of calcite and chromium minerals as well as some PGM minerals. The well known chrom titanites come from the diabase dikes .

mineralogy
Albite Amesite Anatase Andradite Ankerite Antigorite Aragonite Atheneite Azurite Barite Bornite Borovskite Braggite Brookite Brucite Calcite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chromite Chrysocolla Clinochlore Clinozoisite Covellite Crocoite Cubanite Diaspore Dolomite Epidote Erlichmanite Fluoroapatite Galena Goethite Grossular Gypsum Halotrichite Hematite Hydrocerussite Hydromagnesite Ilmenite Jarosite Kaolinite Kassite Laurite Linnaeite Lithargite Lizardite Maghemite Magnesite Magnetite Malachite Marcasite Massicotite Millerite Montmorillonite Morenosite Muscovite Nepouite Nontronite Opal Osmium Palygorskite Paragonite Pentlandite Perowskite Phlogopite Polydymite Pumpellyite-Mg Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rancieite Redledgeite Rutile Saponite Shuiskite Siderite Siegenite Sperrylite Sphalerite Stichtite Stillwaterite Stilpnomelane Szaibelyite Talc Titanite Todorokite Tremolite Uwarowite Valleriite Vanadinite Violarite Zoisite

I would like a confirmation on Crocoite. I had it as 'doubtfull' in my database, but Burlakov mentions galena, with which it would make sense afterall.

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  Millerite           Shuiskite                Titanite             Uwarowite

Ore Deposits of the USSR, 1977, V.I. Smirnov, pp225-233
Die Chromitlagerstätte Sarany im Ural, E.V. Burlakov and A.V. Adonin, Lapis 10/2006, pp53-60
Erzlagerstätten, Hans Schneiderhorn, 4th edition, 1962, p60


Serovsk

geology
Serovsk is a nickel-silicate deposit. This deposit was formed by weathering of serpentine rocks

mineralogy
Goethite Nontronite


Solikamsk

Solikamsk    Zarazina
Berezniki      Kruggly Rudnik

geology
Solikamsk is  surprisingly little known in the west. It is located on the western outskirts of the Ural north of Perm. "Solikamsk" actually means "salt of the Kama". No surprise the town was established as salt mining town in 1430. It was even briefly the capital of the Ural. The town's heraldy refects a well where the salt brine is winched up. The salt is currently mainly of interest for high magnesium content. The Solikamsk Magnesium Works produce the metal here. Other metals present in the brine are ceasium and rubidium. So far I found only the Verkhnekamskoye mine, but there are definitely more works. Nearby villages also have saltmines, such as Berezniki, Zarazina and Kruggly Rudnik.
Geologically the salt is of early permian age.

mineralogy
Carnallite Halite Pyrite Sylvite

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     Carnallite


Voronovskoye mine

 

mineralogy
Aktashite Alabandite Antimonite Chalcostibite Cinnabar Clerite Gold Greigite Orpiment Pyrite Realgar Routhierite Sphalerite Zinckenite