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Nizhny - Tagil Massif

Past Producer in Russia with commodities Palladium, Platinum, Chromium, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Iridium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  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 10039123
MRDS ID M046668
Record type Site
Current site name Nizhny - Tagil Massif

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 59.78229, 57.63817 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • RUSSIAN SFSR, URALS

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Palladium Critical Primary
Platinum Critical Primary
Chromium Critical Primary
Osmium Primary
Ruthenium Critical Primary
Rhodium Critical Primary
Iridium Critical Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Iridosmine Ore
Millerite Ore
Pentlandite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) 59.78229, 57.63817
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Part Of Eugeosynclinal Zone In Urals Folded Region

Ore body information

  • General form CONCENTRICALLY ZONED HORN-SHAPE

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Pt-Bearing Chromite Segregations, Some Columnar.

Comments on the geologic information

  • NIZHNY - TAGIL UNUSUAL IN ITS COLUMNAR CHROMITE SEGREGATIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS OF NATIVE PLATINUM WITH RELATIVELY IMPOVERISHED CHROME SPINELS.; HR.AGE.MV: DUNITE, PERIDOTITE AT CENTER OF CONCENTRICALLY ZONED HORN

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Past Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Nishny-Tagil

Comments on the production information

  • YEARLY PRODUCTION, TAGIL AREA (MINES AND PLACERS), IN TOZ X .0001: {1825 0.2275 {1826 0.4550 {1827 0.9100 {1828 3.9430 {1829 3.3148 {1830 4.3764 {1831-1838 4.4199-5.2433 {1839-1840 3.9214-4.0515 {1841-1842 4.5281-5.0916 {1843 9.1213 {1844 4.2790 {1845 2.0367 {1848-1851 0.1301-0.4766 {1852-1854 1.0401-4.1381 {1855-1871 2.1665-5.8281 {1872-1877 2.1233-3.0549 {1878 3.0549 {1879 2.9682 {1880 2.9899 {1881 3.2497 {1882 4.5281 {1883-1892 2.3182-4.2898 {1893 3.3582 {1894 3.4232 {1895 2.7297 {1896 2.3400 {1897 2.9683 {1898 3.8348 {1899 3.5099 {1900 3.3148 {1901 3.0765 {1902 2.3182 {1903 2.8382 {1904 2.6865 {1905 2.3724 {1906 2.2966 {1907 2.3616 {1908 1.7549 {1909 2.0799 {1910 2.9889 {1911 3.8564 {1912 3.8132 {1913 3.5965 {1914
  • 3.4664 {1915 2.3832 {TOTAL PRODUCTION, 1825-1915: 297.53 X 100,000 TOZ.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SMIRNOV, V. I., ED., 1974, ORE DEPOSITS OF THE USSR, VOL. 3, IZDATELSTVO NEDRA, MOSCOW

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit RESEMBLES INAGLINSK MASSIF.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-DEC-1976 Till, Alison B. U.S. Geological Survey

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