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Srednji Ural
(Middle Ural)
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The Srednji Ural is roughly the area of the Ural around the towns of Nizhne Tagil and Ekatarinburg.
19 Parts'ezda mine
(XIX Parts'ezda mine)
The 19 Parts'ezda mine is a copper mine of the Uralian Chalcopyrite Belt close to Bajmak
mineralogy
Calcite Chrysocolla Mimetesite Volborthite
The Akhtenskoye mine is located north of Magnitka north of Zlatoust. Akhtenskoye is an iron ore deposit, which is the type locality for Akhtenskite.
mineralogy
Akhtenskite Cryptomelane Nsutite Pyrolusite Vernadite
Akhtenskite
geology
Alapaikha peak is a late magmatic chromite deposit. The chromite occurs in
serpentinised harzburgite and serpentinite.
mineralogy
Chromite
Geology of Mineral Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1976, p109
Aramashevsk mine
geology
Located in the Alapaevsk district. It is a low temperature hydrothermal deposit
in schist.
mineralogy
Antimonite Gold Quartz
geology
Bazhenovskoye is a rodingite. This means it is an altered fragment of the old
oceanic crust, from the ocean that once was situated between Asia en Europe.
Bazhenovo is located near Asbest. The mine is currently operated by the JSC
UralAsbest The mine is operated since 1885 and is Russia largest asbestos
mine.
mineralogy
Apophyllite-(KF) Brucite Chabazite-Ca Chromferide Clinobehoite Clinochrysotile
Clinotobermorite Diopside Epsomite Grossular Heazlewoodite Hydromagnesite
Hydrotalkite Laumontite Lizardite Magnesioriebeckite Magnesite Manasseite
Pectolite Plombierite Roggianite Rosenhahnite Spessartine Stilbite-Ca Talc
Tobermorite Uwarowite Vesuvianite Xonotlite
 Clinochrysotile |
Grossular (Hessonite) |
 Lizardite |
 Sphalerite |
geology
Located near Zlatoust, Beryaush is a rapakivi granite intrusion with syenites
and nepheline syenites in the central part of the intrusion.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Allanite-(Ce) Biotite Hastingsite Magnetite Muscovite Nepheline
Titanite Zircon
geology
Beresovsk is a mining town northeast of Ekatarinburg. Beresovsk is the oldest
mine of Russia and was discovered in 1745 (some sources report 1744). Beresovsk is geologically a complex
deposit. The host rock is metamorphic rock, mostly formed from siluric
volcanosediments. Then there are ultrabasic intrusion, mainly serpentinites.
Finally there are many granite and aplite veins. The ultrabasic intrusions
brought chromium to the deposit, while the granite brought lead, gold and other
elements. This explains the formation of some rare lead chromates in the
secondary mineralisation.
Individual mines are: Preobrazhenski mine, Tsvetnoi mine, Severnaya mine, Kirovsk mine, Yuzhnaya mine, Vspomogatelnaya mine, Klyuchevsky mine, Staropyshimskoye mine, 5 shaft and the Leninskaya shaft. On maps I so far located the positions of 11 shafts, but I have difficulty to pair the names with the locations. Any helkp is welcome. click here to get a Google earth placemark of the Beresovsk shafts. So far I know 'berezovsk-4' is the Severnaya mine.
mineralogy
Acanthite Actinolite Aikinite Anglesite Ankerite Annabergite Antigorite
Aragonite Azurite Barite Bayldonite Beudantite Bindheimite Bismite Bismuth
Bismutite Bornite Brucite Bushmakinite Calcite Caledonite Cassedanneite
Cassiterite Cerussite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chromite Chrysocolla Copper
Cornubite Cosalite Covellite Crocoite Cuprite Dolomite Dravite Duftite Embreyite
Emplectite Ferrimolybdite Fluoroapatite Fornacite Galena Galenobismuthite
Gaspeite Gersdorffite Goethite Gypsum Hessite Ilmenite Jarosite Karminite Lead
Leadhillite Lepidocrocite Linarite Liroconite Livingstonite Magnesiofoitite
Malachite Marcasite Massicotite Microcline Millerite Mimetesite Minium
Molybdenite Morenosite Mottramite Muscovite Nickeline Nontronite Olivenite Opal
Pentlandite Pharmacosiderite Phoenicochroite Phosgenite Polydymite Prehnite
Preisingerite Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyromorfite Pyrophyllite Pyrrhotite Quartz
Rutile Scheelite Schorl Scorodite Senarmontite Siderite Silver Sphalerite
Sternbergite Stolzite Sudoite Tennantite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Tirolite
Titanite Torbernite Tungstenite Vanadinite Vauquelinite Violarite Wittichenite
Wulfenite Zircon
Aikinite
Cerussite Crocoite
Gold
Pyromorphite
mineralogy
Glucine Moraesite Uralolite
geology
Borodulinskoye is a Rhodonite deposit located just southeast of Ekaterinburg
mineralogy
Alleghanyite Rhodochrosite Sonolite
geology
Degtyarskoye deposit is located in the Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. The
deposit consists of sericite-quartz-chlorite-schist, volcanosedimentary rocks
and limestone of the Karamalytash formation. It is part of the Uralian
Chalcopyrite belt.
mineralogy
Acanthite Arsenopyrite Bornite Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Cubanite
Digenite Galena Gold Goslarite Magnetite Malachite Mawsonite Pyrite Rutile
Silver Sphalerite Stannoidite Tennantite Tetrahedrite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
geology
Gaiskoye is located in the Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. It is a
stratiform deposit in volcanosedimentary rocks.
mineralogy
Altaite Arsenopyrite Betekhtinite Bonattite Bornite Calaverite Chalcopyrite
Coloradoite Galena Germanite Gold Hessite Krennerite Marcasite Mawsonite
Perroudite Poitevinite Pyrite Selenium Siderotile Sphalerite Stannoidite Tellurobismutite Tennantite
Tetrahedrite
Goroblagodat
geology
The Goroblagodat deposit is an iron deposit at the contact of a diorite-syenite
intrusion and volcanosedimentary rocks of the Tura group. The sedimentary rocks
formed magnetite skarns.
mineralogy
Bornite Calcite Chalcopyrite Epidote Fluorite Fluoroapatite Galena Hematite
Magnetite Marcasite Orthoclase Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Sphalerite Titanite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I pp40-43
geology
Gumechevskoye is a copper skarn of Hercynian age, surrounded by rocks of the
proterozoic Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. The mine is located about 1km
north of Polevskoi zavod along the Chusovaya river. The deposit was discovered
in 1702 and mining commenced 1709. The mine is equally famous for large
ornamental malachite blocks as Mednorudyansk. The mine closed at the end of the
19th century.
mineralogy
Azurite Brochantite Copper Cuprite Malachite Nsutite Tenorite
geology
Gusevogorsk is the eastern part of the Kachkanar deposit. In references both
deposits are often dealt with separately, but geologically they are one. See
Kachkanar for details. The mineralogy below is what I found for Gusevogorsk, but
the Kachkanar mineralogy will also occur here.
mineralogy
Atheneite Bornite Bowieite Braggite Chalcopyrite Cooperite Cuprorhodsite
Erlichmanite Gold Ilmenite Iridium Isoferroplatinum Kotulskite Laurite Magnetite
Mertieite-I Osmium Palladium Platinum Potarite Pyrite Sperrylite
Stibiopalladinite Vysotskite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp35-37
The geochemistry of gold and it's deposits, geological survey of Canada,
bulletin 280, 1979, p 39
geology
Kachkanar is a magmatic iron deposit low in titanium content. It is a
dunite-pyroxenite intrusion into ordovician schists and silurian diabase. The
large dunite intrusion formed nine bodies of dunite rock. Only the western
body is called Kachkanar, the 8 more easterly bodies form the Gusevogorsk
intrusion. The ore is rich in vanadium and PGM elements. It is likely that the
minerals stated under Gusevogorsk also occur here.
mineralogy
Awaruite
Bornite Chalcopyrite Ilmenite Magnetite Osmium Pentlandite Platinum Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Wairaurite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp35-37
Katsina Yama
mineralogy
Epidote (var Pushkinite)
Located south of Nizhne Tagil, 'Kirovgrad' is a group of deposits of the Uralian Chalcopyrite belt.
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
Kopeisk
Korkino
A point of ever lasting discussion in the mineral community is the question if minerals from burning coal dumps are genuine minerals or man made artifacts. The IMA, the authority in this field, has a peculiar view. All minerals discovered up until a certain date are accepted as mineral, the newer ones are man made.......
geology
Kopeisk and Korkino are towns in the Chelyabinsk coal basin. This basin consists
of Triassic browncoal. The coal itself is not very interesting, but the mine
waste was dumped on numerous local dumps. Pyrite within the coal oxidized and
generated heat, causing remaining coal particles to catch fire. These
spontaneous fires occur on many coal dumps and are known to rage for many years
or decades. Most of the dumps in the Kopeisk-Korkino basin are not burning
anymore, but they left behind an interesting mineralogy.
mineralogy
A number of the minerals listed below are not IMA approved minerals because of
the discussion whether or not they are man made.
Aciculite Aegirine Afanasievaite Akermanite Albovite Alunogene Amminite Ammoniojarosite Andalusite Anglesite Anhydrite Anorthite Antarcticite Antlerite Aragonite Armacolite Atacamite Bassanite Bazhenovite Belosharite Biotite Blödite Boussingaultite Brochantite Brucite Calcite Calciumoxide Chalcanthite Chalcocite Chalcocyanite Chalcopyrite Chelyabinskite Chesofiite Chlorocuspidine Chlorohischite Chlorozincite Chondrodite Clinohumite Coalingite Cohenite Copiapite Copper Coquimbite Cordierite Corund Cottunite Covellite Cristobalite Cuprite Cuspidine Diopside Dmisteinbergite Dolerophanite Dorrite Dypingite Efremovite Ellestadite Enstatite Epsomite Esseneite Fayalite Ferro-Cadwadalerite Ferrosilite Fluorapatite Fluorellestadite Fluorite Fluormagnesiohastingsite Fluormagnesiohornblende Forsterite Galena Gehlenite Geikilite Giorgiosite Godovikovite Goethite Grandiferrite Graphite Gypsum Gyrolite Hematite Hercynite Hexahydrite Hibschite Huntite Hydrobasaluminite Hydromagnesite Ignicolorite Igumnovite Indialite Iron Khademite Kladnoite Koktaite Kopeiskite Krasnogorite Krasnoselskite Kruzhevite Kutyukhinite Laihunite Langebeinite Larnite Lausenite Lawrencite Lepidocrocite Leucite Leucorhörnite Lithargite Maghemite Magnesioferrite Magnesiowüstite Magnetite Malakhovite Mascagnite Massicotite Mayenite Mesohydrite Mohrite Molysite Mullite Nantokite Nesquehonite Norbergite Oldhamite Opal Osumilite Ovchinnikovite Oxiferberite Paratacamite Pentahydrite Periclase Perkovaite Perowskite Phlogopite Pickeringite Plattnerite Podnoginite Portlandite Pseudobrookite Pyrite Pyroaurite Pyrrhotine Quartz Redikortsevite Rhomboclase Rhythmite Rorisite Rosickyite Rukavishnikovite Rutil Salmiac Sekaninaite Sellaite Sinjarite Spinel Spurrite Srebrodolskite Starkeyite Sulphaluminite Sulphur Svyatoslavite Tenorite Terriconite Thenardite Tinnunculite Titanite Topaz Torbakovaite Tridymite Troilite Tschermigite Vaterite Wagnerite Warwickite Wolframite Wollastonite Wüstite
reference
Brennende Abraumhlden und Aufschlüsse im Tscheljabinsker Kohlenbecken eine
reiche Mineralienkuche, Boris Cesnokov et al, Mineralien Welt 3/98
Located north of Nizhne Tagil, the Krasnouralsk group of deposits is copper deposit of the Uralian Chalcopyrite belt.
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
geology
Kungur is a city southwest of Perm, known for it's large caves. The caves and
gypsum deposits in the area probably have individual names.
mineralogy
Gypsum
geology
Kurganovskoye is a rodonite deposit in the Srednji Ural.
mineralogy
Alabandite Bannisterite Calcite Chalcopyrite Cummingtonite Galena
Manganocummingtonite Pyrite Pyrochroite Pyroxmangite Rhodonite Spessartine
Sphalerite Tephroite
geology
Kushva is a pegmatitic nepheline syenite.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Allanite-(Ce) Analcime Augite Cancrinite Fluoroapatite
Hastingsite Magnetite Nepheline Oligoclase Platinum Titanite
geology
Lebyazhinsk resembles a magmatic apatite-magnetite type deposit. Other sources
state it as a skarn. A combination is of course possible. More information about
this locality is welcome!
mineralogy
Fluoroapatite Magnetite
Geology of Mineral Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1976, p115
Lipovka is a granite pegmatite in the Rezh district of the Srednji Ural. It gained most fame as type locality of magnesiotantalite. A granite pegmatite cuts a serpentine close to a contact with marl.
mineralogy
Asbolane Bismutomicrolite Bismutotantalite Calcite Chrysoberyl Clinochlore
Cordierite Dravite Dumortierite Dwornikite Elbaite Ferrocolumbite Ferrotantalite
Lepidolite Magnesiotantalite Microcline Pecoraite Phenakite Phlogopite Quartz
Tremolite Uranmicrolite
 Pecoraite |
Tremolite |
geology
Malaya Sedelnikovaya is a metamorphosed sedimentary manganese deposit. It is
mainly used to quarry rhodonite for ornamental purposes, for instance for the
construction of Majakovskaya station of the Moscow subway.
mineralogy
Bustamite Kellyite Manganocummingtonite Pyroxmangite Rhodonite Tephroite
Malyshevo
(Takovaya, Izumrudni Kopi)
Malyshevo is not so much a locality, but more a mining district. Therefore I would favor the name Izumrudny Kopi district (Emerald mines district). But the name 'Malyshevo' got more popular. It all started in 1831, when the first emerald was found here by accident. Not soon afterwards the firt mine, the Sredjensky mine, was opened here.
geology
The Malyshevo district consists of complex hydrothermally altered rocks. To the
west it borders the granite massif of Adui. In the east the Malyshevo
complex borders granodiorites, serpentinitesgabbros and pyroxenedunites of the
Asbestov intrusion.
Basically the Malyshevo complex consists of schist. But the schists where
hydrothermally altered into talc and serpentinite. Bauxitisation, kaolinisation
and chloritisation also took place. More interestingly some elements like
beryllium migrated from the Adui granite into the altered schist at the
contact zone.
Individual mines in the district are: Artyom mine, Aulsky mine, Berjozovaya Rostcha, Krasnoarmejski mine (Chitny), Krasnobolotski mine, Krupskaya mine, Lublinsky mine, Mariinski mine, Ostrovnoye mine, Pervomaiskoye mine (Troitsky mine), Sredjensky mine and, Starkovsky mine
mineralogy
Allanite-(Ce) Analcime Anatase Antigorite Bavenite Behoite Bertrandite Beryl
Bityite Bromellite Brookite Chabazite-Ca Chondrodite Chrysoberyl Clinobehoite
Clinochlore Clinohumite Clinozoisite Corund Enstatite Euclase Garronite Helvite
Ilmenite Isokite Laumontite Margarite Microlite Molybdenite Monazite-(Ce) Opal
Paragonite Protojoseite Pyrochlore Rutile Scheelite Thorite Titanite Topaz
Xenotime-(Y) Zircon
Alexandrite aus dem Ural, Helmut Leithner, Lapis April 1980, pp25-28
Die Smaragdgruben des Urals, Evgenji Burlakov et al, Lapis 7-8/1997, pp44-55
Mednorudyansk mine
The Mednorudyansk mine triggers the reflex 'malachite!' with most collectors. The deposit was discovered in 1814 by Demidov, who also operated the Vysokogorsky mine in Nizhne Tagil. The Mednorudyansk mine is located on the southern slope of Vysokaya sopka, inside the town of Nizhne Tagil. The main product was malachite (hence the background of this website). In 1834 a 3000 pound chunk of solid malachite was dug up. The malachite from here was used to decorate the Winters palace in St.Petersburg. Mednorudyansk was mined by shafts of which the Nadezhda shaft was one. Since 1972 the deposit is mined by an open pit and the shafts are closed.
mineralogy
Azurite Brochantite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chalcosiderite Chrysocolla Copper
Cuprite Cyanotrichite Delafossite Libethenite Magnetite Malachite Olivenite
Pseudomalachite Pyrite Pyrolusite Reichenbachite Wavellite
 Azurite |
 Chalcosiderite |
 Delafossite |
 Libethenite |
 Malachite |
Murzinka District
Kazennitsa
Semeninskii
Murzinka is not a true locality but rather an old mining district, located roughtly 150km north of Ekaterinburg. The district is discussed as a whole because in history there were countless small mines and pits, often no deeper that 10 meters. It is impossible to research each of these pits separately. Individual mines include: Alabashka mine, Karnilova mine, Sissikova mine, Yushakova mine, Shaitanka mine , Kazennitsa mine, Meshcherskii mine, Mokrusha mine, Novaya mine, Novgorodnaya mine Semeninskii mine, Suvorovskaya mine, Topaznitsa mine, Vatikha mine.
geology
The geology of Murzinka requires a more regional description. Murzinka is
located in the Murzinka-Adui megaanticlinorium, which is located in the Eastern
Ural megazone. The Murzinka-Adui megaanticlinorium is regarded as a micro
continent, or a continental fragment that became separeated during the
Odrovicium. The rocks of the megaanticlinorium consist mainly of three
metamorphic units. The oldest one dates back to the upper Paleozoicum and
consists of biotite gneiss, garnet-biotite-gneiss and two mica gneiss. A little
younger is unit consisting of amphiboles and amphibole-biotite gneiss. The
youngest unit consists of graphite-mica schists and quartzites with lenses of
amphibole gneisses.
Murzinka is a granite with large pegmatite veins, up to 3 meter in width.
mineralogy
Albite Beryl Elbaite Hambergite Kanonerovite Lepidolite Microlite Masutomilite
Orthoclase Quartz Topaz
(Kazennitsa mine, is the type locality for Kanonerovite)
Russische Topase und Berylle, Helmuth Leithner, Lapis september 1981, pp9-14
Newyansk is the name of a concession on the Vysokaya mountain in Nizhne Tagil. See Nizhne Tagil for more information.
mineralogy
Brass Iridium Osmium Palladseite Platinum Rutheniridosmine Ruthenium Sorosite
Tetraferroplatin
 Chromium |
 Rutheniridosmin |
 Tetraferriplatinum |
The Nizhne Tagil deposit was discovered in 1696 as iron mine (magnetite ore). The first mining activity was at Vysokaya hill, which was also known as Magnitnaya hill. In 1721 mining started on this hill in the Vysokorskoye mine (see separate entry below). After the owner of the mine, Demidov, died the consession was split into three. These three consessions have very familiar names to today's mineral collectors: Revda, Nizhne Tagil and Newyansk. Later in the 18th and 19th century the Revda and Newyansk where split up further, so Vysokaya mountain had the Revdinsky, Suksunsky, Verkh-Isetsky, Alapayevsky and Newyanski mines. The name Vysokogorsky mine seemed to be some universal name for all the mines on the mountain. In 1990 the main quarry of the Vysokogorsky mine closed and was partially flooded.
geology
Nizhne Tagil is often mentioned as platinum occurence. The source of this
platinum, or better these PGM minerals is a differentiated dunite-pyroxenite
intrusion. The country rocks are volcanosediments and metavolcanics of the
Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. The intrusion itself measures about 6km
east-west and 12km north south and is also known as Solovjovaya Gora. In
the streams next to Solovjovaya Gora are many platinum placers, which are also a
very important source for PGM minerals. One such placer is Novy Log
placer about 2km west of the massif. Another one is the Bobrovka river.
mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Awaruite Bowieite Braggite Brass Chromite Clinochrysotile Cooperite
Cuprostibite Diopside Erlichmanite Ferronickelplatinum Galena Gold Gupeiite
Hausmannite Hexaferrum Irarsite Iridium Isoferroplatinum Kashinite Laurite
Palladium Platinum Pyrrhotite Sperrylite Stannite Tetraferroplatin Tin
Tulameenite Volborthite Vysotskite
geology
Located near Ekatarinburg, Nyzepetrovsk is consists of peralkaline and nepheline
syenites, trachytes and phonolites.
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Andradite Biotite Calcite Chalcopyrite Fluorite Fluoroapatite
Grossular Hastingsite Magnetite Nepheline Orthoclase Pyrochlore Titanite
Ozernoye is a copper deposit of the Uralian Chalcopyrite Belt.
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
geology
Pervouralskoye is a dunite-pyroxenite intrusion
mineralogy
Magnetite
geology
Shabry is located close to Ekatarinburg and is one of the typical Talc mines
of the Ural. The Talc is formed by metamorphose of ultrabasic rocks from the
ancient ocean floor.
mineralogy
Buergerite Dolomite Hematite Hydroxylapatite Schorl Talc
Solovjovaya Gora
A more correct name for the Nizhne Tagil platinum occurence. But because Nizhne Tagil is better known I put it there. So see Nizhne Tagil a little higher on this very page.
Sukhoi Log is a not so long ago discovered gold-pgm deposit northeast of Ekatarinburg. Sukhoi Log is a stratabound gold deposit is limestone of the Riphean Khomolkhinsk Formation. It is a very promising deposit economically and there is an impressive array of minerals allready known to occur at this locality. A lot of them are probably only as microscopic inclusions.
mineralogy
Acanthite Altaite Arsenopyrite Baddeleyite Berzelianite Calaverite Cervelleite
Chalcopyrite Chromium Cobaltite Cooperite Copper Cubanite Cylindrite Dyscrasite
Enargite Galena Galenobismuthite Gersdorffite Gold Greenockite Heazlewoodite
Hessite Iodargyrite Iron Isoferroplatinum Joseite-A Krennerite Lead Magnetite
Maucherite Millerite Molybdenite Monazite-(Ce) Nickeline Pentlandite Petzite
Platinum Pyrite Pyrrhotite Rammelsbergite Rutile Safflorite Scheelite Silver
Skutterudite Sphalerite Stutzite Tetraferroplatin Tetrahedrite Tin Titanium
Tulameenite Umangite Violarite Xenotime-(Y)
geology
Syssert is again an ultrabasic relict of the ancient oceanic floor
mineralogy
Buergerite Magnetite Osmium Planerite Volborthite
 Magnetite |
geology
Uktus is a complex Dunite intrusion, located just southeast of Ekatarinburg.
Several blocks of Dunite, lay inside a zone of Clinopyroxenite and Wehrlite. The
latter one is cut by Gabbro. The complex aso contains small amounts of
Chromitite.
mineralogy
Brugnatellite Chromite Cuproiridsite Cuprorhodsite Erlichmanite Isoferroplatinum
Lithiophorite 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
geology
The Volkovo deposit is located in the northern part of the Srednji
Ural. Geologically it is located in the most northern part of the Tagil massif.
This part of the Tagil massif is also known as the Volkovo gabbrol massif. It is
a magmatic copper deposit with gabbro, gabbro-diorite and quartz-diorite as main
rocks.
mineralogy
Anorthite Azurite Biotite Bornite Bytownite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite
Fluoroapatite Galena Labradorite Magnetite Malachite Merenskyite Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Sphalerite
reference
Ore Deposits of the USSR, by V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II pp 107-112
Vysokogorskoye
mine
(Gora Vysokaya)
For the complex history of this mine see Nizhne Tagil, above. Gora Vysokaya means high mountain
Geology
Located close to Nizhne Tagil this mine is an iron skarn deposit, probably of
Hercynian age, located inside the proterozoic Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone
belt.
mineralogy
Magnetite, native Iron
Zolotaya Gora
Karabash
geology
Zolotaya Gora, or 'Golden mountain' is also known as Karabash. It is
a so called rodingite. In this case the rodingite is a metamorphically altered
gabbroid rock of the Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt.. The fluids for this alteration came from seawater, much like the
formation of rodingites in the Alps. Surrounding the rodingite is serpentinite.
In the following tectonic activity the serpentinite is ductile, but the
rodingite is not and cracked. Inside these cracks gold is deposited. Karabash is
regarded part of the Uralian Chalcopyrite belt
mineralogy
Antimony Arsenopyrite Auricupride Awaruite Breithauptite Calcite Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite Chromite Cohenite Copper Cuprostibite Fluoroapatite Galena Graphite
Gudmundite Ilmenite Lead Lizardite Magnetite Nickeline Nisbite Pyrrhotite
Seinajokite Tetraauricupride Titanite Ullmannite Vermiculite Vesuvianite
Zlatogorite Zlatogorite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
