Tareya River Intrusions

Prospect in Russia with commodities Copper, Nickel, Platinum
Sections on this page
  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10097118
MRDS ID M046711
Record type Site
Current site name Tareya River Intrusions
Alternate or previous names Bol'Shaya Bootankaga

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 91.38457, 73.64902 (WGS84)
Relative position TAREYA TRIBUTARY OF PYASINA RIVER, WESTERN TAIMYR

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • LOCATION APPROXIMATE ; RUSSIAN SFSR, KRASNOYARSKII KRAI

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Copper Tertiary
Nickel Critical Tertiary
Platinum Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • ORE MINERALS DISSEMINATED THROUGHOUT BODY AND CONCENTRATED IN LOWER HORIZON OF OLIVINE DIABASES.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Pentlandite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore

Analytical data

Result CU=0.2%, NI=0.1%, PT=0.2 G/T

Nearby scientific data

(1) 91.38457, 73.64902

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Cross-Cutting Sub-Latitudinal And Sub-Meridianal Fractures

Comments on the geologic information

  • "SIMILAR TO NORIL'SK", 30 M THICK, 100 M LONG,; HR.AGE.MV: OLIVINE DIABASE - PEGMATOID DIABASES

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Taimyr Peninsula

Comments on the workings information

  • VEINS, UP TO 4.5 M THICK, OF MASSIVE CHALLOPYRITE-PYRRHOTITE ORE KNOWN.

Comments on development

  • RECOMMENDED FOR FURTHER STUDY, 1973, ALONG WITH OTHER SECTIONS OF TAIMYR-

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    URVANTSEV, N.N., KAVARDIN, G.I., ET AL., 1973, PROSPECTS FOR BROADENING THE MINERAL-RESOURCE BASE OF COPPER-NICKEL ORES IN THE NORTH KRASNOYARSKII KRAI; IN: SEVERO-SIBIRSKII NIKELENOSNYI REGION I EGO PROMYSHLENNYE PERSPEKTIVY; SBORNIK STATEI, LENINGRAD, NIIGA. (IN RUSSIAN)

Reporter information

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

Beyond USGS

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