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Lepatinsk

Producer in Russia with commodity Phosphorus-Phosphates
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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. 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 10024710
MRDS ID ISM0449
Record type Site
Current site name Lepatinsk
Alternate or previous names Lopatinsk

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 38.502, 54.33154 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • COORDINATES OF HATGAL. LARGE AREA WEST OF HATGAL, WHICH IS SITUATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE HOEVSGOEL LAKE; THE FOLLOWING DEPOSITS WERE DISTINGUISHED BY RUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS: KHOGORGANSKOE, TSAGANNURSKOE, ULEINDABANSKOE, CHZHIGLINSKOE, KHUBSUGUL'SKOE, BERKHIMUULINSKOE, MANKHANULINSKOE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Phosphorus-Phosphates Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • PHOSPHATE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Unconsolidated Deposit > Sand and Gravel
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Chemical Sediment > Phosphorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) 38.502, 54.33154
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 16M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; APATITE, DOLOMITE, CALCITE, QUARTZ, CHALCEDONY, ALUMOSILICATES; THREE PHOSPHORITE SEAMS, GRADING 22-30 % P2O5, AND 6-13 M THICK. INTERCALATIONS ARE CARBONACEOUS BRECCIATED PHOSPHORITES 18-20 % P2O5. THE HUBSUGUL PHOSPHORITE COVERING AN AREA OF ABOUT 30,000 KM2 HAS A COMPLICATED SYNCLINAL STRUCTURE. THE PHOSPHORITES OCCUR IN A THICK SEQUENCE OF WENDIAN-CAMBRIAN CARBONATE ROCKS FILLING THE HUBSUGUL DEPRESSION. 2 PHOSPHATE SEQUENCES: THE LOWER IS WENDIAN AND CONTAINS PHOSPHORITES WITH >15% P2O5 (AVERAGE 17-29 % P2O5)

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1922
Year of last production 1982

Mining district

District name Voskresensk - Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner State Owned

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • C1 RESOURCES DOWN TO A DEPTH OF 200 M, HUBSUGUL FIELD PROGNOSTIC RESOURCES, NOT YET INVESTIGATED IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (DIFFICULT INFRASTRUCTURE ORE P INS 432 MIL MT 1977 21.7 % P2O5;).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    UFLAND, Z.I., 1937: THE GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THE "EGORJEVSKAJA-GROUP" OF PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITS OF THE MOSCOW REGION. TRANSACT. SCI. INST. FERTILIZ. & INSECTO-FUNGICIDES, NO.142

  • Deposit

    MAKHLINA, M. KH., ET AL.,1974: PHOSPHORITES, (RUSSIAN); IN: GEOLOGIYA SSSR, VOL.IV, LEONENKO, I. N., (EDITOR), IZDAT. NEDRA, MOSCOV, 1974, P.54-66

  • Deposit

    THE BRITISH SULPHUR CORP. LTD., 1980: WORLD SURVEY OF PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS, 4TH ED., LONDON

  • Deposit

    MINING ANNUAL REVIEW, 1981, LONDON

  • Deposit

    ANONYM, 1968: GEOLGOICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMERCIAL DEPOSITS OF MAIN KINDS OF MINERAL RAW MATERIALS FOR FERTILIZERS IN THE USSR, UN, ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE FAR EAST (ECAFE), MINERAL RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT SERIES, NO.32, P.100-109, NEW YORK

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.).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1982 Hofmann, Ursula Bundesanstalt Fuer Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffee (Germany)

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