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Yuzhnye Ural
Southern Ural
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The Yuzhnye Ural or the Southern Ural is roughly the area south of Ekatarinburg. Typically the Ilmeny Gory are attributed to the Yuzhnye Ural. The border between the Srednye or Middle Ural and the Yuzhnye Ural seems not that rigid. The Ilmeny Gory are now part of the Ilmeny Zapovednik (national park)
Another important part of the Yuzhnye Ural is called 'Bashkiria' . On the map it is roughly the area between Ufa and Magnitogorsk. Geologically it is known as Bashkir Meganticline.
13 Kop
13 pit
Located in the Ilmeny Gory
mineralogy
Actinolite Edenite Fergusonite-(beta)-(Ce) Fluoroapatite Monazite-(Ce)
Phlogopite Quartz Rutile Titanite Zircon
17 Kop
17 pit
A pegmatite located in the Ilmeny Gory
mineralogy
Chevkinite-(Ce)
50 Kop
50 pit
50 Years of October deposit
geology
The 50 Years of October deposit is located on the eastern limb of the
Magnitogorsk megasynclinorium. The country rock consists of middle devonian
volcanogenic rocks of the Mugodzhary and Milyasha groups. These are cut by
subvolcanic rhyolite-dacite dikes and by granitoids of the Sredneorsk massif..
The ore deposit is located at the eastern side of the Sredneorsk intrusion at
the contact with the Mugodzhary group, consisting of amphibolized basaltoids.
Obviously a whole range of metasomatic rocks was formed in the contact aureole.
One such rock is a anthophyllite-biotite-cordierite hornfels.
mineralogy
Andalusite Anthophyllite Arsenopyrite Biotite Chalcopyrite Cobaltite Cordierite
Cubanite Galena Linnaeite Magnetite Molybdenite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz
Sphalerite Spinel.
Ore Deposits of Russia, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp158-161
59 Kop
59 pit
geology
Located in the Ilmeny Gory the 59 mine works an amazonite pegmatite
mineralogy
Mineral name Ilmenorutile Microcline Phenakite Topaz
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
69 Kop
69 pit
geology
The 69 mine works an Amazonite pegmatite in the Ilmeny Gory
mineralogy
Chiolite Cryolithionite Fluorite Gearksutite Microcline Pachnolite Prosopite
Ralstonite Thomsenolite
75 Kop
75 pit
geology
The 75 mine works an alkaline intrusion (nepheline syenites) near Miask in the
Ilmeny Gory
mineralogy
Aeschynite-(Ce) Magnetite Nepheline Pyrochlore Zircon
76 Kop
76 pit
geology
The 76 mine works an alkaline nepheline syenite intrusion. Possibly the same
intrusion as the nearby 75 mine.
mineralogy
Aeschynite-(Ce) Magnetite Nepheline Pyrochlore Zircon
97 Kop
97 pit
geology
97 mine in the Ilmeny Gory. According to Pekov the geology is
apo-ultrabasite-alkaline metasomatites.
mineralogy
Chromite Davidite-(Ce) Fluororichterite Magnetite Monazite-(Ce) Polyakovite-(Ce)
115 Kop
115 pit
Located in the Ilmeny Gory and part of the Ilmeny zapovednik (national park)
mineralogy
Quartz Vishnevite
232 Kop
232 Pit
geology
Located at the southern coast of Ozero Bolshoi Tatkul. in the Ilmeny Gory. It is
a granite intrusion
mineralogy
Braunite Carbonate Fluorapatite Mitridatite Quartz Triplite Ushkovite
242 Kop
242 Pit
Only Schorl is known by me from this locality.
405 Kop
405 Pit
geology
Located in the Ilmeny Gory. 405 Kop is probably an alkaline intrusion or a
carbonatite
mineralogy
Arfvedsonite Pyrochlore
The Akhmatovskaya pit is located in the Nazhyamsk Mountains, near Zlatoust. It was operated since 1820 as an iron mine with magnetite as main ore. It is the type locality for perovskite, which was discovered here in 1839. Akhmatovsk it a typical skarn with hessonite and vesuvianite.
mineralogy
Calcite Clinochlore Clintonite Diopside Epidote Grossular Ludwigite Perowskite
Spinel Vesuvianite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Akkermanovskoye
mineralogy
Pyrolusite, Stichtite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
The Baritovy mine is located near Medvedevka village. The deposit was discovered in 1826 by Akhmatov.
mineralogy
Barite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Located about 100km west of Magnitogorsk.
mineralogy
Aragonite Brucite Uwarowite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
Bikkulovskoye is a lesser known metamorphic manganese deposit in the Yuzhnyi
Ural.
mineralogy
Piemontite Pumpellyite-Mn Shirozulite
Piemontite
Pumpellyite-Mn
Shirozulite? unknown
Blyava
(Blyavinskoye)
geology
Bljava is
located in the Uraltau uplift. Before the Uralian orogeny Bljava was a black
smoker, an underwater volcanic vent in the pre-Ural Oceanic rift system.
mineralogy
Aluminite Anglesite Antlerite Atacamite Bassanite Chalcosiderite Chlorargyrite
Copiapite Covellite Cuprite Delvauxite Diadochite Fibroferrite Goslarite Gypsum
Halotrichite Hotsonite Jarosite Jarosite Kafehydrocyanite Langite Liroconite
Melanterite Meta-aluminite Natroalunite Pickeringite Posnjakite Pseudomalachite
Romerite Rozenite Scorodite Slavikite Sulphur Szomolnokite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones
1/93, pp31-35
Zarenschatze, Kolesar and Tvrdy, 2006, pp216
Blyumovskaya
mine
50 Pit
geology
The Blyumovskaya mine is also known as 50 Kop or 50 mine in the Ilmeny Gory.
Blyumovskoye works an Amazonite pegmatite.
mineralogy
Beryl Biotite Ferrocolumbite Ilmenorutile Magnetite Microcline Muscovite Quartz
Samarskite-(Y) Topaz
The Borisovskie Sopki are better known as Borisovski heights, a well known Kyanite locality.
mineralogy
Kyanite
Borzovka is a corund locality located northwest of Kyshtym.
mineralogy
Corund
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Buldym lake is a specific locality within Vishnevogorsk. It is a syenite pegmatite.
mineralogy
Allanite-(Ce) Biotite Fersmite Fluoroapatite Fluororichterite Magnetite
Microcline Muscovite Pyrite Pyrochlore Quartz Titanite Xenotime-(Y) Zircon
Cheremshansk is a nickel mine not far from Verkhnyi Ufalei. The locality should not be confused with Cheremshansk Quartzite quarry near Irkutsk.
geology
This deposit is situated on the contact of serpentinites and marble with slates.
Ultrabasic rocks intruded between the lower marble layer and the upper slate
layer. These ultra basic rocks are known as the Cheremshan massif and today
consists mainly of antigorite and chrysotile serpentinites. Today Cheremshansk
is a nickel deposit. The nickel originates from the ultrabasic magma. But
because of weathering and hydrothermal alteration, the nickel is mostly found in
silicates and carbonates. The deposit type is known as contact-karst type. Here
in Cheremshansk the richest nickel ore are the so called ocherous-silicate
formation, which consists of ferrihalloysite and Asbolane.
mineralogy
Actinolite Antigorite Asbolane Clinochrysotile Garnierite Halloysite-10A
Pecoraite Pimelite Talc
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp 67-70
geology
Chernaya Rechka is a fennite close to Miass. It has a strange sulfate
paragenese.
mineralogy
Copiapite Epsomite Fluorite Gypsum Jarosite Melanterite Pickeringite Pyrite
Svyazhinite
The Eremeevskaya mine is located northwest of Zlatoust in the Nyazhamsk mountains
mineralogy
Clinochlore Diopside Perowskite Titanite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Faisullino quarry
geology
The Faisulino quarry works a manganese deposit in the Yarlykapovo cherts
of the Bashkir meganticline. It is very similar to the Urazovo deposit.
Gaya deposit
geology
The Gaya deposit is located in the western limb of the Magnitogorsk
Megasynclinorium, just as the Sibay deposit. Gaya is a (sub)volcanic deposit
consisting of tuffs of the Ulutau group (devonian). There are several andesite,
dacite and rhyolite layers, all cut by numerous diabase and plagioclase
porphyrite dikes and sills.
mineralogy
Albite Arsenopyrite Atacamite Barite Bornite Chalcanthite Chalcopyrite
Coloradoite Connellite Copper Cuprite Delafossite Epidote Galena Gold Marcasite
Nantokite Paratacamite Prehnite Pumpellyite-Fe2+ Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Silver
Sphalerite
(Apart from the listed minerals 'silver tellurides' are also mentioned)
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp 151-157
Also known as Gumbeika this locality can be found about 35km east of Magnitogorsk
mineralogy
Scheelite Strontianite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Ilmeny Gory
The Ilmeny Gory is a mountain range in the southern Ural dotted with many mines of different types. In the near future I will add a more detailed page about Ilmeny.
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Irkuskan quarry
(Bakal, Bakalskoye)
Irkuskan quarry is located close to the town of Bakal. This is why the locality is also known as Bakalskoye. Both Bakalskoye and Irkuskan are however one and the same locality.
geology
The Irkuskan quarry is a sedimentary iron deposit in the Bashkir meganticline. It is
located in sediments of the Bakal formation of the lower Riphean or Burzyanian
era of the proterozoicum. In other words the deposit is part of the East
European craton and substantially older than the Ural mountains.
mineralogy
Albite Ankerite Aragonite Azurite Barite Chalcopyrite Dolomite Fluoroapatite
Galena Goethite Hematite Magnesite Magnetite Opal Pyrite Pyrolusite Siderite
Sphalerite Vivianite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp 76-79
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
mineralogy
Clinochlore Diopside Perowskite Titanite
A river located near Koshkar. It is a placer deposit for Topaz.
Russische Topase und Berylle, Helmuth Leithner, Lapis september 1981, pp9-14
Kamenno-Pavlovskaya was a gold deposit in the Southern Ural. In the spring of 1852 the merchant Bakakin found a gemmy topaz in this deposit, starting the prospecting for gemstones in this part of the world.
mineralogy:
Beryl Chrysoberyl Corund Cyanite Elbaite Euclase Quartz Spinel Staurolite
Russische Topase und Berylle, Helmuth Leithner, Lapis september 1981, pp9-14
Karagay quarry
geology
The karagay quarry is a magnesite quarry in the Bahskir meganticline. This
quarry has similar geology to the Satka deposit.
mineralogy
Magnesite
geology
Karagaz Tau is a jasper locality in Bashkiria
mineralogy
Jasper
Kempirsai
(Kemersai)
geology
Kempirsai is a dunite occurence with chromium and PGM ores.
mineralogy
Chromite Bracewellite Brucite Laurite Opal
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Erzlagerstätten, Hans Schneiderhorn, 4th edition, 1962, p60
Khalilovskoye deposit
geology
Khalilovskoye, or Khalilovo is located northwest of Orsk. It is a weathered
serpentinite deposit, where the main ore is Magnesite.
mineralogy
Chromite Magnesite Opal Pentlandite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Erzlagerstätten, Hans Schneiderhorn, 4th edition, 1962, p60
Geology of ore deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1976, p371
Kiryabinsky copper mine
The Kiryabinsky copper mine is located on the west bank of the Ural river south of the Ilmeny gory. This old mine was in operation from 1764 until 1827.
mineralogy
Albite Calcite Fluoroapatite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
A hydrothermal gold vein deposit related to the Hercynian Plastovsk plagiogranite
massif. The local dyke rock is called 'tabashky', a blastic rock containing
biotite, amphibole, feldspar, epidote, quartz and carbonates. The ore occurs in
quartz-arsenopyrite-gold type veins. These veins do not have their origin
in the Plastovsk massif, but are generated by an upper Paleozoic microcline
granite, located further west. This microcline granite intrusion altered the
dikes in the first intrusion and deposted minerals in the space that became
available.
mineralogy
Aikinite Aleksite Antimonite Arsenopyrite Bismuth Bismuthinite Bismutite
Boulangerite Bournonite Bursaite Chalcopyrite Chrysoberyl Cobaltite Elbaite
Emplectite Euclase Fluoroapatite Galena Gold Jamesonite Joseite-A Kochkarite
Magnetite Molybdenite Pilsenite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Rucklidgeite
Saddlebackite Scheelite Sphalerite Tennantite Tetradymite Tetrahedrite Wittite
(Smirnov states that there are 72 minerals known from here in 1976, so I'm
missing about half of them)
The geochemistry of gold and it's deposits, geological survey of Canada,
bulletin 280, 1979, p 105
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Geology of Ore Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1976, p310-313
geology
Kozhaevskoye is a rhodonite locality in Bashkiria
mineralogy
Bannisterite Coombsite Manganaxinite Pyrophanite Rhodochrosite Rhodonite
Spessartine
geology
The Kriolitovaya mine is located in the Ilmeny Gory. It is an Amazonite
pegmatite
mineralogy
Cryolite , Microcline ("Amazonite")
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
Kuibas is a satellite ore body of Magnitogorsk. It has probably similar geology.
geology
The Kumak orefield is located in the Kayraktinsky serpentinite massif, along
the right bank of the Kumak river. Kumak consists of amphibolized rocks.
Although it is a gold deposit it is mineralogically known for its rare suite of
native metals.
mineralogy
Aluminium Antimonite Brass Chromferide Chromium Copper Cuprostibite Ferchromide
Gold Iron Lead Stistaite Tin Zinc
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
Kurochkin Log is an alkaline intrusion within the Vishnevogorsk.
mineralogy
Cancrinite Nepheline
Kusimovskoye deposit
A manganese deposit close to Magnitogorsk. Betekhtin discovered Vernadite in this mine in 1937.
mineralogy
Bustamite Rhodonite Vernadite Winchite
geology
Kusinsk is an iron deposit of the titano-magnetite type about 23km north of
Zlatoust. Kusinsk deposit is located in a gabbro-amphibolite intrusion of the
same name. The country rocks are Proterozoic dolomites, schists and quartizes.
Ajacent to the Gabbro-Amphibolite intrusion lays a younger Granite intrusion.
The gabbro intrusion was metamorphically altered.
mineralogy
Biotite Chalcopyrite Corund Elbaite Hematite Hogbomite Ilmenite Kaliumpargasite Magnetite
Manasseite Phlogopite Pyrite Pyrrhotite Quartz Quartz Rutile Spinel Titanite
Ore Deposits of Russia, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol I, pp33-34
Magnitogorsk
(Gora Magnitnaya)
A stylised black magnetic mountain
and miner's hammers
geology
Magnitogorsk ('Magnetic Mountain') is a large town in the Yuzhnye Ural know for
it's steel industry. Cause of this all is a large iron ore deposit. It is an
iron skarn in the Tagil-Magnitogorsk greenstone belt. A complex granitoid
intrusion cuts through a Lower Carboniferous sedementary-effusive series,
consisting of limestones and tuffs.The intrusion went in several stages, first
porphyrites, then diorites, microgranites and finally quartz diorites. During
these intrusions dikes where also formed. But the dikes formed after the main
intrusive event caused the formation of garnet-pyroxene skarns and magnetite
ores. The Magnitogorsk deposit is divided into an eastern and western secton by
post mineralization dikes.
Magnitogorsk consists of six lens shaped orebodies. For many years I kept hearing that Magnitogorsk was not interesting for collectors, because only massive ores where found there. The Calcite below indicates there certainly where pockets of crystal growth!
mineralogy
Calcite Chalcopyrite Diopside Epidote Fluoroapatite 'Garnet' Magnetite Pyrite Pyrrhotite
The Melnikov mine is located in the Chuvashkaya mountains northwest of Zlatoust. The best Perowskite crystals where mined here in 1899
mineralogy
Perowskite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
The upper regions of the Miass river contain placers with interesting PGM
mineralogy.
mineralogy
Bornite Bowieite Cherepanovite Chromite Cooperite Cuprorhodsite Erlichmanite
Ferronickelplatinum Ferrorhodsite Ferrorhodsite Godlevskite Gold Hongshiite Ilmenite
Irarsite Isoferroplatinum Keithconnite Laurite Miassite Nickel Palladodymite
Polkanovite Ruthenium Sperrylite Tin Tolovkite Tulameenite Vasilite Vysotskite
geology
In 1927 V.A. Zilbermints found cerite in nearby placer. The next year the
primary deposit was fond at the contact of nepheline syenites and granite (a
fennite rock). It was only the second known primary occurrence of Cerite at the
time. It is the type locality for three REE minerals.
mineralogy
Allanite-(Ce) Allanite-(La) Bastnasite-(Ce) Bastnasite-(La) Britholite-(Ce)
Cerite-(Ce) Hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) Lessingite-(Ce) Tornebohmite-(La)
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Nikolai Maximilianovskaya mine
Located in the Nazyamsky Gory, northwest of Zlatoust. The mine was founded in 1867 by mining engineer V.I. Redikordtsev.
mineralogy
Clintonite Perowskite Spinel (pleonast)
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
Nurali is a Iherzolite-gabbro complex with subeconomic chromite bodies. The
deposit is mineralogically interesting because of a number of platinum minerals
occuring in the chromite.
mineralogy
Chromite Erlichmanite Laurite Spinel
F. Zaccarini et al. (2004), Composition and mineralogy of PGE-rich chromitites in the Nurali Iherzolite-gabbro complex, southern Urals, Russia. CanMin Vol 42 no2, pp545-562
Located about 10km west of Zlatoust
mineralogy
Spinel ('Chlorospinel')
The locality Sanarka is a placer deposit for Topaz. It is usually not of very high quality.
mineralogy
Euclase Topaz
Russische Topase und Berylle, Helmuth Leithner, Lapis, september
1981, pp9-14
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93,
pp31-35
geology
Satka is a sedimentary magnesite deposit, which is part of the Priuralye Bashkir
meganticline. It is located in sediments of the Riphean Satka formation. The
sediments are marbles and dolomites. The orebodies are two stratiform deposits
of crystalline magnesite intruded by diabase dikes. Apart
from the minerals, Satka is known as source for ornamental Ophiocalcite rock.
mineralogy
Aragonite Brucite Magnesite Quartz Siderite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Geology of Ore Deposits, V.I. Smirnov, 1976, p317
geology
Semibratskoye is a sedimentary magnesite deposit, probably highly similar to
Satka. One slight geological difference is that Semibratskoye is localted in the
Middle Riphean Avsyan-Zigozino-Komarov formation. It is slightly younger than
Satka.
mineralogy
Magnesite
Shishimskaya kop
The Shishimsk mine is located about 15km south southwest of Zlatoust in the Riphean Satka formation. The mine is best known for Leuchtenbergite, a Clinoclore variety. The mining operations started in 1833.The first 'Leuchtenbergite' was found here in 1842.
mineralogy
Clinochlore Clintonite Gibbsite Magnetite Spinel Vesuvianite
Clinochlore
Magnetite
Vesuvianite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Sibay quarry
geology
The Sibay quarry is located on the western limb of the Magnitogorsk
megasynclinorium. The rocks of this deposit are volcanogenic and consist of five
different layers of basalt, dacite, again basalt, rhyolite and a final basalt
layer, making up the so called Karamalytash Group. The Karamalytash group is of
Devonian (Eifelian) age. On top of the Karamalytash Group rests the Bugulygyr
group, consisting of jasper. The ore is mostly confided to gabbro-diabase and
pyroxene-plagioclase porphyrites cutting the volcanic rocks. As far as I know
Sibay has two quarries a northern and a newer southern one. The picture is
either the newer southern one, or a possible even newer third quarry.
mineralogy
Arsenopyrite Barite Bornite Calcite Chalcopyrite Cinnabar Enargite
Freibergite Galena Germanite Gold Greenockite Gypsum Hematite Magnetite Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Quartz Siderite Sphalerite Tennantite
Ore Deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, pp146-151
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
The Sludorudnik mine is located near Kyshtym. It is a metamorphic complex. The
name translates as 'mica ore'.
mineralogy
Actinolite Annite Epidote Molybdenite Paragonite Rutile Talc Zoisite
Actinolite
Annite
Paragonite Rutile
Zoisite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Sol'iletsk is, how surprising, a salt mining town as reflected in it's name. The heraldy shows a cube of hallite and a pond of water with a snake and a bowl, referring to the medicinal properties of salt water. The website of Ilesksol shows underground mining and two or three shafts. Sol'iletsk is located in the Pri-Ural (just like Solikamsk in the north) about 75km south of Orenburg, near the Kazakh border.
minerals
Halite, Hydroboracite
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
geology
Suran is a sedimentary fluorite deposit in the Bashkir meganticline. It is
located in the lower Riphean Suran formation.
mineralogy
Beryl Churchite-(Y) Lithiophorite Staurolite
geology
Taratash is a so called banded iron formation located at the northeast of the
Bashkirian Meganticline. Geologically it is part of the ancient European
continent and it dates from before the Riphean rift activity.
An old (placer?) gold mine in the southern Urals. The mine was in operation between 1823 and 1842, but produced Russia's largest gold nugget, the Zolotoi-Treugolnik nugget, weighing just over 32kg. This nugget was found in 1842 and apparently they closed the mine soon after...
geology
Tulcan is a Middle Riphean sedimentary iron ore deposit in the Bashkir
meganticline. So far I have no details about it's mineralogy. Should be mainly
Siderite
geology
Uchaly is a so called VMS, or Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide deposit, consisting
of folded and layers of volcanic rocks of the Karamalytash-, Ulutau and Mukas
suites. Uchaly is part of the Uralian Chalcopyrite Belt.
mineralogy
Altaite Anhydrite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Barite Bornite Calaverite Calcite
Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chrysocolla Cinnabar Coloradoite Elbaite Epidote Galena
Gold Hessite Magnetite Malachite Mawsonite Piemontite Pumpellyite-Fe2+ Pyrite
Pyrrhotite Quartz Rutile Siderite Sphalerite Stannoidite Tellurium
Tellurobismutite Tennantite Tetradymite Zoisite
Ore deposits of the USSR, V.I. Smirnov, 1977, Vol II, p140
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of
Stones 1/93, pp31-35
Urazovo deposit
geology
The Urazovo deposit is a manganese deposit connected with the Yarlykapovo Middle
Devonian jaspers . The Blagodatny quarry is quarry within this deposit.
Vishnevogorsk
Vishnevy Gory
geology
Translated as the Cherry Mountains. Vishnevogorsk is a complex intrusion of
about 25 x 4 kilometers in dimension. The main intrusion consists of nepheline
syenites, alkaline syenites and associated carbonatite stockworks. There
additional smaller intrusions nearby.
see also: Buldym lake and Kurochkin Log.
mineralogy
Arfvedsonite Bohmite Calcite Davidite-(Y) Ferrowinchite Fersmite Gibbsite Hedyphane
Ilmenite Microlite Mirabilite Nepheline Niobo-Aeschynite-(Ce) Perowskite
Pyrochlore Quartz Titanite Vishnevite Zircon.
Fersmite Nepheline
Perowskite Vishnevite
Zircon
geology
The Yaman Kasay quarry is interesting about the Ural geology. Here remnants of
the old proterozoic oceanic rift structure can be found. In this case traces of
black smokers and their sulphides. The quarry is not far from Blyava, a similar
locality. Or is it actually the same locality....
The Zelentsovskaya mine is located near Magnitka, near Zlatoust.
mineralogy
Epidote Magnesiohastingite Manasseite Perowskite Spinel ('Chlorospinel')
The South Urals, a brief mineralogical guide, A.A. Evseev, World of Stones 1/93, pp31-35
references:
Many thanks to Viktor Puchkov, who organized two geological tours in this area
and was willing to share some of his pictures. Please look at: http://www.anrb.ru/geol/MinUrals/
for a more detailed description about the various suites and outcrops.
