Tayginsk

Producer in Russia with commodity Graphite
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Ownership information
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024386
MRDS ID ISM0098
Record type Site
Current site name Tayginsk
Alternate or previous names Tayginka, Tajginskoje

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 60.65136, 55.63122 (WGS84)
Relative position CENTROID

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES OF DEPOSIT FROM MAP 1 BY 1 MILLION. THE DEPOSIT LIES 12-14 KM SOUTH OF KYSHTYM

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRAPHITE, CRYSTALLINE, DISSEMINATED FLAKES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Gneiss
    Rock unit name Ilmenogorsk Suite
    Rock description Ilmenogorsk Suite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Pegmatite

Nearby scientific data

(1) 60.65136, 55.63122

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Sysersk-Vyzhnegorsk-Ilmenogorsk-Gneiss Complex

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; GRAPHITE, BIOTITE, PLACIOCLASE, QUARTZ; THICKNESS (WIDTH) OF GRAPHITE ZONE 20-135 M LENGTH OF ORE BODY 1300-2900 M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of last production 1985

Mining district

District name Urals

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner State Owned ( Kyshtym Kaoline-Graph Ite Combine)

Comments on the production information

  • ROM-ORE MINED IN 1964: 389000 TONNES, GRADING 7 % C; IN 1973 AVERAGE GRADE WAS 2-4.3 % FCROM-ORE MINED IN 1964 WAS 389000 TONNES GRADING 7 % FC

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 0.5 TO 7.5 % FC (AVERAGE 2.0 TO 4.3% FC), RESOURCE FIGURES AS COMPARED TO PRODUCTION DATA INDICATE, THAT DEPOSIT MAY BE NEAR DEPLETION

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ().

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    TATARINOV, P.M., (EDITOR); 1934: KURS NERUDNYCH MESTOROZHDENIY; COURSE ABOUT "NON-ORE" DEPOSITS. MOSCOV

  • Deposit

    TATARINOV, P.M., (EDITOR) 1969: KURS MESTOROZHDENIY NEMETALICHESKYCH...; TEXTBOOK OF NON-METALLIC MINERAL DEPOSITS. NEDRA. MOSCOV

  • Deposit

    KUZVART, M. 1984: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS AND ROCKS.- DEVELOPM. IN ECON. GEOL. NO.18, ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBL. B.V. AMSTERDAM

  • Deposit

    KUZAKOV, M.G., 1979: DER UNTERTAGEBAU VON KLEINEN LAGERSTAETTEN...(GLIMMER, GRAPHIT, TALK)...IN DER UDSSR- WORLD MINING CONGR. ISTANBUL, VOL.II, NO.2

  • Deposit

    PETROV, V.P. (EDITOR), 1984: NON-METALLIC UTILE MINERALS OF THE USSR, REFERENCE-BOOK (RUSSIAN) - NEDRA, MOSCOV, P.294-304

  • Deposit

    MINISTRY OF GEOLOGY OF THE USSR, 1973: GEOLOGIYA SSSR, TOM.XII (SIDORENKO, EDITOR), NO.2, USEFUL MINERAL RESOURCES. MOSCOV, NEDRA

  • Production

    SIDORENKO (EDITOR) 1973: GEOLOGY OF THE USSR (RUSSIAN), VOL.XII, P.465

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). SURFACE FLOTATION TO YIELD A 90 % FC PRODUCT (UP TO 93 %) STATEMENTS IN KUZAKOV, M.G., 1979: - TOTAL ORE PRODUCTION USSR: MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION TONNES PER YEAR. 96% OF THIS IS ORES OF CRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE (2.5-10 % FC). -TOTAL USSR PRODUCTION OF GRAPHITE-CONC. (GRAPHITE PRODUCT) 1977: 104700 TONNES. - PRODUCING MINES, MENTIONED: BOTOGOLSK (CRYSTALLINE HIGH GRADE LUMP ORE) 900 TPY; NOGINSKOJE (AMORPHOUS GRAPHITE) 50000 TO 55000 TPY ORE. TAS-KAZGANSKOJE, TAJGINSKOJE, ZAVALE (CRYSTALLINE FLAKES). OTHER DEPOSITS WHICH MAY BE PRODUCING: SOJUSNOJE, STARO-KRYMSKOJE

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1985 Krauss, Ulrich H. Bundesanstalt Fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffee (Germany)

Beyond USGS

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