Oktyabrsky

Past Producer in Russia with commodities Palladium, Copper, Nickel, Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Controls for ore emplacement
  11. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  12. Mining district
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039077
MRDS ID M046613
Record type Site
Current site name Oktyabrsky
Alternate or previous names Komsomolsky Field, Oktyabrsky-Talnakh

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 88.44532, 69.56448 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • ASSOC. WITH SW ARM TALNAKH INTRUSION. ; RUSSIAN SFSR, KRASNOYARSKII KRAI

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Palladium Critical Primary
Copper Primary
Nickel Critical Primary
Gold Tertiary
Silver Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore
Hematite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Silver Ore
Sperrylite Ore

Analytical data

Result PALLADOARSENIDE: PD = 68.85%, AG = 3.29% AU = 1.41%, AS = 26.45%. FORMULA = (PD 1.83 AG 0.09 AU 0.02) 1.94 AS 1.00. PAOLOVITE = (PD 200 PT 0.05) 2.05 SN) SOBOLEVSKITE, WT. % : PD=35.5, BI=64.0, SUM=99.5

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) 88.44532, 69.56448

Economic information

Ore body information

  • General form DISSEMINATED, VEINS

Controls for ore emplacement

  • At Edge Of Intrusion

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Noril'Sk District

Comments on the production information

  • AT NORILSK-COPPER, COBALT, SELENIUM, TELLURIUM ARE ALSO PROCESSED.

Comments on development

  • NORTHWESTERN SIBERIA, LARGEST NICKEL AND COBALT DEPOSITS IN U.S.S.R. PLANT TO BE BUILT BY FINNISH COMPANIES, AT NORILSK, WILL HAVE CAPACITY OF 200,000 TPY, SCHEDULED ON-STREAM 1976-77 AT COST OF $375 MILLION.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit LOWER SOUTH EAST BRANCH, TALNAKH INTRUSION
Deposit RECORD W002836 BY GLENN L. SHAFFER HAS BEEN INCORPORATED INTO THIS RECORD.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-MAR-1976 Till, Alison B. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-SEP-1994 Page, Norman J. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-FEB-1975 Shaffer, Glenn L. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.