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Botogolsk

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  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 10024388
MRDS ID ISM0100
Record type Site
Current site name Botogolsk
Alternate or previous names Alibert, Aliberovsk, Batagal, Mariinsky, Mount-Alibert, Korneljevsk

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 100.74968, 52.46444 (WGS84)
Elevation 2478
Relative position CENTROID ABOUT 5 KM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Buryatiya(province)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Russia Buryatiya

Comments on the location information

  • ABOUT 230 KM WEST FROM IRKUTSK IN EASTERN SIBERIA NEAR BORDER TO MONGOLIA. "THE TERRAIN IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR ROAD OR RAIL CONSTRUCTION, IT LOOKS LIKE PRIMEVAL MOUNTAIN CHAOS"

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRAPHITE, CRYSTALLINE, LUMP ORE, FLAKES

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Alkali Syenite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock > Quartzite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Mongoshinsk Series;Mongoshinsk Series
    Rock description Mongoshinsk Series;Mongoshinsk Series

Nearby scientific data

(1) 100.74968, 52.46444
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Margin Of Okinsk Anticlinorium

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; GRAPHITE, MICROCLINE, NEPHELINE, AEGIRINEAUGITE, CALCITE, PYROXENE, BIOTITE, MUSCOVITE, GARNET, WOLLASTONITE; METAMORPHOSED SCHISTS, QUARTZITES AND LIMESTONES CONTAINING ORGANOGENIC CARBON WERE INTRUDED BY GRANITES,SYENITES AND BASIC ROCKS. GRAPHITE AS "VEINS" IN NEPHELINE SYENITE. OLD METASEDIMENTS BELONG TO PROTEROZOIC PT3 (RADIOMETRIC DATING, C-ISOTOPES).TWO TYPES OF ORE: 1) RICH ORE IN PLUGS AND VEINS CONTAINING 60-70% AND MORE GRAPHITE, 2) DISSEMINATED GRAPHITE ORE CONTAINING 24-42 % GRAPHITE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1838
Year of first production 1840
Year of last production 1985

Mining district

District name Sayan-Tunginsk Mountain Range

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner State Owned

Comments on the production information

  • ACTUALLY 900 TONNES OF ORE ARE RECOVERED ANNUALLY

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). DEVELOPMENT(UNKNOWN); EXPLORATION(UNKNOWN); ASSESSMENT(THE MAIN PORTION OF THE IDENTIFIED RESOURCES HAS BEEN MINED OUT); THE EXTREMELY HIGH QUALITY GRAPHITE WAS ONCE USED BY GERMAN FABER PENCIL COMP. THE MINE WAS ABANDONED AFTER THE REVOLUTION OWING TO TRANSPORTDIFFICULTIES. IN 1978/79 OREBODY NO.2 WAS MINED FROM AN ADIT (2060 M) THROUGH FILLING METHOD. ORE WAS HANDSORTED

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

    CONOLLY, V., 1975: SIBERIA TODAY AND TOMORROW. -COLLINS, LONDON AND GLASGOW

  • Deposit

    LOBOZOVA, R.V., VINOGRADOV, V.I. & LEBEDEV, V.S., 1971: GENESIS OF BOTOGOLSK GRAPHITE FROM DATA ON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF CARBON.-GEOL. RUD. MESTOROZHD., VOL.13, NO.4,P.50-55

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.). UNDERGROUND 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. NO ACTUAL RESOURCE DATA ON BOTOGOLSK AVA ILABLE. IN 1934 BOTOGOLSK
Deposit RESOURCES WERE GIVEN AS FOLLOWS: ORES CONTAINING 50-73 % FC, CATEGORY A1: 21600 TONNES; CATEGORY A2: 6100 TONNES; CATEGORY B: 4530 TONNES. ORES CONTAINING 24-42 % FC, CATEGORIES A + B: 60000 TONNES TO A DEPTH OF 11-15 M

Reporter information

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

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