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Respublika Tuva
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mineralogy
Antigorite Artinite Brucite
mineralogy
Aeschynite-(Y)
geology
Arzak is a mercury deposit in hydrothermally altered granite.
mineralogy
Arzakite Calomel Cinnabar Corderoite Eglestonite Grechishchevite Kaolinite
Kuznetsovite Lavrentievite Mercury Schuetteite
Schuetteite
mineralogy
Bismuth
geology
Chazadyr is a mercury deposit of the so called Listwänite type (Magnesian-Carnbonate
type) with diabase dykes. Chazadyr is located in southwestern Tuva. Major
rocks are Precambrean and Lower Cambrian schists, as well as greenstones,
limestones, and serpentinites. Aditionally there are Silurian sandstones,
siltstones and shales and lower Devonian sandstones. In faults these rock are
considerably altered by metasomatic processes. Most ore is present in these
fault zones.
mineralogy
Albite Ankerite Azurite Barite Calcite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Cinnabar Dolomite
Galena Gypsum Hematite Malachite Metacinnabar Muscovite Opal Pyrite Quartz
Realgar Tennantite
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, pp319-322
mineralogy
Cancrinite Sodalite Vesuvianite
geology
The Dugdu massif is an alkaline intrusion.
mineralogy
Aminoffite Epididymite Meliphanite Wöhlerite
Located at the Oorash river in the Pii-Khem district
mineralogy
Calcite Calomel Cinnabar Corderoite Eglestonite Grechishchevite Kadyrelite
Kuzminite Lavrentievite Mercury
geology
Kara Adyr is a LCT (lithium, ceasium, tantal) pegmatite.
mineralogy
Beryl Elbaite Pollucite Spodumene Stibiotantalite
geology
The Karasug mine is a carbonatite deposit in the western part of the Tannu Ola
range.
mineralogy
Barite Celestine Fluorite Gearksutite Hematite Kaersutite Karasugite Quartz
Siderite Strontianite Tikhonenkovite
geology
Khovu Aksy was discovered in 1947. Khovu Aksy is located close to the
Kyzyl-Ubsunur fault, which is the border between the East Tuva Anticlinorium and
the West Tuva Synclinorium. The exact geology of the complex is too complicated
to describe here in a few words. When I oversimplify there is a complex of
sedimentary rocks of both marine, volcanogenic and terrigenous origin and of
Devonian, Carboniferous and Jurassic ages. After folding and partial metamorphic
alteration, these layers where intruded by a number of different rocks, like
granites, diabase and andesite trachites. These intrusions formed skarns at the
contact with limestone. And to make it really interesting, the skarns got
altered afterwards. Alkaline solutions altered the mainly Scapolite skarns to
prehnite-feldspar rocks. See the reference of Smirnov, below for a much more
detailed explanation.
mineralogy
Acanthite Albite Andradite Annabergite Aragonite Argentopentlandite
Arsenopyrite Barite Bismuth Bornite Calcite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Conichalcite
Datolite Elbaite Emplectite Erythrite Fluorite Fluoroapatite Galena Gersdorffite
Glaucodote Gold Heterogenite-2H Köttigite Krutovite Lazarenkoite Liroconite
Lollingite Nickeline Nickel-skutterudite Olivenite Orthoclase Pentlandite
Pharmacolite Pharmacosiderite Picropharmacolite Prehnite Pumpellyite-Fe2+ Pyrite
Quartz Rammelsbergite Roselite Safflorite Shubnikovite Siegenite Silver
Skutterudite Smolianinovite Sphalerite Talc Tennantite Tirolite Titanite
Vladimierite
 Erythrine |
 Heterogenite |
 Shubnikovite |
 Smolianinovite |
 Roselite |
Ore Deposits of the USSR, by V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p87 - 99
geology
Located in the Sangilen Upland, the Korgeradabin is an alkaline massif. It is
the type locality for Zirkophyllite and Zirkosulkphate
mineralogy
Aegirine Albite Eudialyte Fluorapophyllite Fluorite Fluoroapatite Hisingerite
Leukophane Natrolite Smithsonite Zirkophyllite Zirkosulfate Astrophyllite
Catapleiite Hjortdahlite Rosenbergite
geology
Pichikhol massif is an alkaline intrusion, near the Balygtyg river in the
Sangilen Upland.
mineralogy
Albite Euxenite-(Y) Muscovite Pyrochlore Quartz Rinkite Thorbastnaesite Thorite
Zircon
geology
Tardanskoye is a skarn deposit mined for gold
mineralogy
Gold Magnetite Phlogopite
The geochemistry of gold and it's deposits, geological survey of Canada, bulletin 280, 1979, p 251
geology
The Tastyg deposit is a spodumene rich pegmatite.
mineralogy
Clinoholmquisite Ferrisicklerite Helvite Hingganite-(Ce) Spodumene
Known as a Pachnolite locality. There should be more interesting mineralogy there.
geology
The local geology of Terligkhai is dominated by complex tectonic movements.
Basically the area was folded during the Hercynian orogeny. But after this
primary upthrust, many followed. The Terligkhai deposit is connected to the
Pel'oruk fault. Here an Ordovician sand-shale was pushed onto a Devonian
volcano-sedimentary sequence. This Lower Devonian sequence consists mostly
of andesitic tuffs and conglomerates and is ore bearing.
mineralogy
Ankerite Barite Calcite Chalcopyrite Cinnabar Dyscrasite Marcasite Pyrite Quartz
Sphalerite Tetrahedrite
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II pp 331-335
mineralogy
Diopside Gearksutite Thomsenolite Wollastonite
A sedimentary sandstone deposit.
mineralogy
Cadmoselite* Calcite Chalcopyrite Clausthalite Ferroselite* Laumontite Pyrite
Selenium Sphalerite
The name resembles Ust Uyuk, above and so does the geology and mineralogy. There could be a mix up and both localities could be the same. Both localities and their mineralogy are named in 'Minerals First Discovered on the Territory of the former Soviet Union', by Igor Pekov. This is a very good reference source with accurate data. Therefore I consider both localities as separate ones.
geology
Ust-Yuk is a sedimentary sandstone deposit.
mineralogy
Soddyite Uranophane Vanuranylite
