Aginskoe

Prospect in Russia with commodities Gold, Silver
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Ownership information
  9. Reserves and resources
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10255418
MAS/MILS ID 4520000650
Record type Site
Current site name Aginskoe

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 158.031, 55.4817 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Silver Secondary

Nearby scientific data

(1) 158.031, 55.4817

Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • ACCORDING TO THE CIS MAP: SIZE-AVERAGE GENSIS-HYDROTHERMAL SHAPE-MINERALIZED SCHISTOZE ZONES HOST ROCKS-INTERMEDIATE VOLCANICS CIS MAP INDICATES RESERVES EXIST. SCALE OF CIS MAP IS 1:5 MILLION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Asarco (American Smelting And Refining Co.)
    Interest 25
    Home office New York
    Year 1994
    First year 1994
  • Type Owner
    Owner Grynberg Resources
    Interest 25
    Home office Colorado
    Year 1994
    First year 1994
  • Type Operator
    Owner Kamchatgeologia
    Interest 50
    Home office Russia
    Year 1994
    First year 1994

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1994
    Indicated 1000000mt ore
    Demonstrated 1000000mt ore
    Total resources 1000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 28.35 g/mt Gold Major 1994
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1994
    Demonstrated 26mt commodity
    Total resources 26mt commodity
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 40 g/mt Gold Major 1994

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESERVES REPORTED TO BE 30 T AU IN QUARTZ VEINS TO DEPTH OF 250 M. RESERVES REPORTED TO BE 598,000 T OF C1 ORE INCLUDING 11.2 TONS OF GOLD, AND C2 RESERVES OF 201,000 TONS CONTAINING 3.913 T/AU AND 2.4 T OF AG.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    INTERFAX MINING REPORT. JULY 15-22, 1994, P. 5.

  • Deposit

    MINING JOURNAL. AUG. 19, 1994.

  • Deposit

    SKILLINGS MINING REVIEW. AUG. 27, 1994, P. 7.

  • Reserve-Resource

    INTERFAX MINING REPORT. APR. 15-22, 1994, P. 4.

  • Deposit

    CIS MAP, 1991.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit DEPOSIT LOCATED 180 KM FROM TOWN OF MILKOVO IN KAMCHATKA. A SECOND LOCATION IS REPORTED TO BE 90 KM FORM MILKOVO. ASARCO WON TENDER BID TO DEVELOP DEPOSIT.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 31-OCT-1994 Alaska Field Operations Center (AFOC) U.S. Bureau of Mines

Beyond USGS

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

Operator history (post-MRDS)

MRDS records operators as of each record's last update (≤ 2019). Some of the operators listed here have since changed hands or dissolved:

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