Udachnaya

Producer in Russia with commodities Platinum, Palladium, Diamond

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Controls for ore emplacement
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Mining district
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10038965
MRDS ID	M046459
Record type	Site
Current site name	Udachnaya

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	110.11944, 66.88361 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

LOCATION APPROXIMATE ; YAKUTSKAYA ASSR

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Platinum Critical	Tertiary
Palladium Critical	Tertiary
Diamond	Primary

Comments on the commodity information

A. Wilson (12/18-2014) added diamond as primary commodity based on news reports and brief online fact checking.

Analytical data

Result	GARNET PERIDOTITE, PT - 0.056 PPM, PD - 0.01 PPM
Result	SPINEL PERIDOTITE, PT - 0.161 PPM

Nearby scientific data

(1)	110.11944, 66.88361	ListMap

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

Kimberlite Pipe

Comments on the geologic information

HR.AGE.MV: GARNET PERIDOTITE, SPINEL PERIDOTITE INCLUSIONS

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type	Surface-Underground
Development status	Producer
Commodity type	Both
Significant	No
Discovery year	1955

Mining district

District name	Daldyn - Alakit

Comments on the workings information

Originally a large open pit mine. Since 2010 has been converted to underground.

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	M046459

Bibliographic references

Deposit

YUSHKO - ZAKHAROVA, O. YE. AND ILUPIN, I. P. "DISTRIBUTION OF PLATINUM IN MANTLE INCLUSIONS IN KIMBERLITE....." DOKLADY, ESS, AKADEMIIA NAUK SSSR, 1973
Commodity

Capital OTC, 2014, Rock with 30,000 diamonds inside unearthed in Russia: accessed 12/18/2014 at http://www.capitalotc.com/rock-with-30000-diamonds-inside-unearthed-in-russia/26637/.
Deposit

Alrosa, 2015, Company website, ALROSA completes open-pit mining at the Udachnaya pipe: http://eng.alrosa.ru/alrosa-completes-open-pit-mining-at-the-udachnaya-pipe/ (accessed 07/27/15)

Comments on the references

Wikipedia data sources: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udachnaya_pipe] 1. Barthelmy, David. "Amakinite Mineral Data". Retrieved 2006-12-31. [http://webmineral.com/data/Amakinite.shtml#.VJL6CcDAA.] 2. Jump up to: a b "Meeting of ALROSA Supervisory Board". Alrosa. 2004-05-24. Retrieved 2006-12-31. [http://eng.alrosa.ru/] 3. "Udachny town, Yakutia, established by Udachnaya Pipe in 1968". Moi gorod (in Russian). Retrieved 2006-12-31. [http://www.mojgorod.ru/r_saha/udachnyj/] 4. a b Р.М. Лобацкая , Н.В.Воронцова, В.М.Усачев, М. Владимиров (2006). МИРОВОЙ РЫНОК ЮВЕЛИРНЫХ КАМНЕЙ (in Russian). Irkutsk: IrGTU. p. 107. Retrieved 2006-12-31. [link broken as of 12/18/2014] 5. "Diamond deposits in the Sakha Republic". rough-polished.com. 25 June 2012. [http://rough-polished.com/en/analytics/65180.html]

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	1975-10-01	Till, Alison B.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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