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Kureyka

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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. Ore body information
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Ownership information
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024390
MRDS ID ISM0102
Record type Site
Current site name Kureyka
Alternate or previous names Kureysk

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 87.16703, 66.48108 (WGS84)
Elevation 130
Relative position CENTROID

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Krasnodarskiy Kray(province)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Russia Krasnodarskiy Kray

Comments on the location information

  • AT LEAST 15 DEPOSITS IN THE STATES OF HAMGYONG-PUKDO AND HAMGYONG-NAMDO: SONGJIN (5 OPERATIONS), CHONGHAK (SEIKAKU; 40 DEG 51'N; 128 DEG 58'E), WARYONG, SAMSANG (MIYAMI), PUKSON, SANETSU (SAMYOL), CHONTOK (CHONDOK, SENTOKU), OBOK (OPOK, GYOOKU)
  • COORDINATES ESTIMATED, ABOUT 1770 KM NORTH OF KRASNOJARSK ON THE KUREYKA RIVER, ABOUT 100 KM UPSTREAM FROM FLOW INTO JENNISEI RIVER

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRAPHITE, CRYSTALLINE
  • GRAPHITE, AMORPHOUS

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Tournaisian;Tunguska Series
    Rock description Tournaisian;Tunguska Series
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Coal

Nearby scientific data

(1) 87.16703, 66.48108
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 103.5M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; GRAPHITE, CALCITE, SULFIDES (PYRITE, PYRRHOTITE, CHALCOPYRITE), ZEOLITE, CHLORITE, SERICITE MAGNETITE; METAMORPHOSED SEAMS OF TUNGUSKA COAL AND LIGNITE THROUGH CONTACT METAMORPHISM NEAR TRAP SILLS. 6 COAL SEAMS ARE KNOWN AT KUREYKA, THE GRAPHITIZED ORE BODY EXTENDS OVER 9 SQUARE KM AND IS 12-15 M THICK; OVERBURDEN: FLUVIATILE QUAT SEDIMENTS AND EPERM SHALES AND SANDSTONES; TOTAL THICKNESS OF OVERBURDEN 5.4 TO 103.5 M
  • ; GRAPHITE, QUARTZ, FELDSPAR, MICA, DIOPSIDE, TREMOLITE, GARNET, ZOISITE, APATITE, CALCITE; ORE CONTAINS ABOUT 6 % FC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1926

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner State Owned

Comments on the production information

  • SEE FOR C17

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 1.4 MILLION AT SONGJIN, 1 MILLION AT CHONGHAK, 1.5 MILLION AT WARYONG. REPORTERS TENTATIVE ESTIMATE: AT LEAST 3 MILLION TONNES MAY BE STILL AVAILABLE IN THE DISTRICT. ASSUMING RECOVERY RATE OF 60 % MAKES R=100000 TONNES CON GRF
  • MIMIMUM ESTIMATE
  • TAKING IN ACCOUNT AN OVERBURDEN/ORE-RATIO OF 3.8/1 (CUBIC-M) FOR SOUTHERN PORTION OF DEPOSIT RESOURCES OF TOTAL DEPOSIT, EXCLUDED QUANTITIES MENTIONED UNDER RR9ROUNDED FIGURE, B+C1+C2 RESOURCES

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. ().
  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). ASSESSMENT(A DETAILED STUDY ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE DEPOSIT WAS DONE IN 1970, INCLUDING DRILLING SHAFT SINKING, TESTS ON BULK SPECIMEN SEMI-INDUSTRIAL TESTS. THE DEPOSIT WAS JUDGED FAVOURABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT); DEPOSIT HAS BEEN WORKED INTERMITTENTLY IN THE YEARS 1930-1940. AVERAGE THICKNESS OF MINEABLE ORE: 8-9 M. ORE CONSISTS OF 80-95 % GRAPHITE; DEGREE OF GRAPHITIZATION IS 60 %, FLAKINESS: 0.5-0.58. DTA REVEALS TWO TYPES OF GRAPHITE: CRYPTOCRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE BURNING AT 630 DEG. C GRAIN SIZE 0.0001 MM; FINE CRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE, BURNING AT 900 DEG. C, GRAIN SIZE 0.01 MM. OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF ORE: SULFUR: 2 % (95 % THEREOF IN SULFIDES) FE: 0.2-5 % (75 % THEREOF IN SULFIDES) MOISTURE: 0.3-2 %, VOLATILE MATTER 0.X % TO X.0 %, ASH: 17 % (AVERAGE IN CALCULATED RESOURCES) ORES ARE AMENABLE TO SURFACE MINING

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, 1984, P.294-304

  • Deposit

    BRITAIN, I.V. & RUBANOV, N.I., 1972: KUREYSKOJE MESTOROZHDENYE GRAFITA; THE KUREYKA-GRAPHITE DEPOSIT - RAZVEDKA I OKHRANA NEDR., NO.9, P.10-13

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit Discovery Year: 1926/27
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 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. TOTAL IDENTIFIED RESOURCES OF THE AREA, INCLUDING DEPOSITS AND
Deposit PARTIALLY EXPLORED OCCURRENCES (KUREYKA, NOGINSKOJE, TURUKHANSK) HAVE BEEN ESTIMATED TO AT LEAST 400 TO 500 MILLION TONNES
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.). NORTH KOREAN RESOURCES OF CRYSTALLINE GRAPHITE MAY BE VERY HUGE, AT LEAST 25 DEPOSITS, NOT CONTAINED IN THIS INVENTORY ARE SCATTERED IN PYONGAN-NAMDO (COUNTIES KUSONG, SAKCHU, CHOSAN, PYOKTONG). RESOURCES OF AMORPHOUS GRAPHITE MAY BE SMALLER, AS COMPARED TO SOUTH KOREAN QUANTITIES

Reporter information

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

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