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Kachkanar Mt. Kachkanar

Producer in Russia with commodities Iron, Titanium, Metal, Vanadium
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  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 10008236
MRDS ID D000239
Record type Site
Current site name Kachkanar Mt. Kachkanar

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 59.00156, 58.99791 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • CENTRAL URAL MTS., E. SLOPE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Iron Primary
Titanium, Metal Critical Primary
Vanadium Critical Primary

Host and associated rocks

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

Nearby scientific data

(1) 59.00156, 58.99791
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • HR.AGE.MV: MAFIC, ULTRAMAFIC

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Comments on the production information

  • TOTAL ORE PRODUCTION, 1963-1970, PROBABLY ABOUT 130,000,000 MT, FROM WHICH POSSIBLY ABOUT 25,000 ST V RECOVERED. 25,000,000 MT ORE PRODUCED 1968; PRODUCTION TO BE INCREASED TO 33,000,000 MT ORE IN 1970 OR 1971. ASSUMING ABOUT 50% V RECOVERY FROM ORE, ABOUT 250 ST V RECOVERABLE PER 1,000,000 MT ORE, OR ABOUT 2,000 ST V YEARLY AT PRESENT MINING RATE. (RPF EST BASED ON PROBABLY RELIABLE DATA.) ORE AVERAGES 16-17% FE, 0.10-0.12% V2O5, 1.5% TIO2; CONCENTRATES TO 60% FE, 0.66% V2O5, 3.3% TIO2 (UTKOV, V.A., AND OTHERS, ABS. NO. 154051C IN CHEM. ABS., V. 75, NO. 26, 1971).

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • 12,919,000,000 MT ORE RESERVES (UN, 1970), EQUALS ABOUT 7,000,000 ST V IN RESERVES, OF WHICH ABOUT 3,500,000 ST V RECOVERABLE (RPF EST)

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SEE POLYAKOV, 1959; BARDIN, 1959; ZAKHAROV, 1964, IN USGS BULL. 1316. ALSO SEE UN, 1970, IRON ORE RESOURCES OF WORLD

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JUN-1973 Fischer, Richard P. U.S. Geological Survey PARSED HOST ROCK AND ASSOCIATED ROCK INFORMATION FROM OLD SINGLE VALUED FIELD TO NEW MULTIVALUED FIELD
Editor 27-APR-1995 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey

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

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