Sal'Nyye Tundry Granulite

Occurrence in Russia with commodities Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10039171
MRDS ID M046726
Record type Site
Current site name Sal'Nyye Tundry Granulite
Alternate or previous names Kolvitsk, Ploskotundrovsk

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 33.00735, 67.06703 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • IN THE MIDDLE PART OF THE NORTHERN SLOPE OF THE SAL'NYYE TUNDRY RANGE NEAR MT. VUIM. ; RUSSIAN SFSR, KOLA PENINSULA

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Palladium Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary
Rhodium Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • FOR SPECIFIC ANALYSES SEE KHVOSTOVA ET AL, 1975.

Analytical data

Result AVERAGE CONCENTRATIONS: PT=.000043%, PD=.000056%, RH=.0000014%. PD:PT WIDELY VARIABLE.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Peridotite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Ultramafic Intrusive Rock > Pyroxenite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Schist

Nearby scientific data

(1) 33.00735, 67.06703

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAFIC GRANULITES PROBABLY METAMORPHOSED ANORTHOSITES, GABBRO-NORITES, NORITES, DIORITES.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    KHVOSTOVA, V.P., GOLOVNYA, S.V., CHERNYSHEVA, N.V., 1975, PLATINUM GROUP METALS IN THE MAFIC SCHISTS OF THE GRANULITE COMPLEX, SAL'NYYE TUNDRY, DOLA PENINSULA, GEOCHEMISTRY INT'L, VOL. 12, NO. 3, PP. 122-125

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1977 Till, Alison B. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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