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Belukha

Occurrence in Russia with commodity Tungsten
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Reserves and resources
  11. Links to other databases
  12. Bibliographic references
  13. General comments
  14. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10055822
MRDS ID SP00021
Record type Site
Current site name Belukha
Alternate or previous names Bulucha

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 115.99912, 50.49788 (WGS84)
Relative position 28 KM EAST OF THE BUKUKA DEPOSIT, TRANSBAIKAL IS ONE OF THE KUKUL'BEY GROUP OF DEPOSITS

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Comments on the location information

  • ACTUAL LATITUDE LONGITUDE RANGE IS 50-30-00N TO 52-00-00N, AND 116-00-00E TO 117-00-00E. AREA IS 4 SQUARE MILES.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Tungsten Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • A CONSIDERABLE PART OF THE HIGH-GRADE ORE REPORTED TO BE MINED OUT

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bismuth Ore
Molybdenite Ore
Scheelite Ore
Wolframite Ore
Albite Gangue
Fluorite Gangue
Microcline Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Late Jurassic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite

Nearby scientific data

(1) 115.99912, 50.49788
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • MAJOR POST-ORE GEOLOGIC EVENT: GRANITE AT MODERATELY SHALLOW DEPTH. . MORE THAN 100 STEEPLY-DIPPING QUARTZ-WOLFRAMITE VEINS. UPPER HORIZONS RICH IN WOLFRAMITE; LOWER HORIZONS DEPLETED OF WOLFRAMITE, BUT ENRICHED IN SULPHIDES (PYRITE, PYRRHOTITE, ARSENOPYRITE, SPHALERITE, AND CHALCOPYRITE.) VEINS ARE SEVERAL HUNDRED METRES LONG, UP TO 500 M IN VERTICAL EXTENT AND ABOUT 0.5 M WIDE. STOCKWORK ZONES ALSO PRESENT.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1916
Year of first production 1916

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1983
    Total resources 1181000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Tungsten Wo3 0.6 wt-pct Tungsten Major 1983

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • "R" DENOTES IN SITU RESOURCES - QUANTITIES OF ECONOMIC INTEREST FOR THE NEXT FEW DECADES. "1" DENOTES KNOWN DEPOSITS WITH RELIABLE ESTIMATES. "E" DENOTES ECONOMICALLY EXPLOITABLE. "M" DENOTES MARGINALLY ECONOMIC. "S" DENOTES SUBECONOMIC.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    ANSTETT, T.F., BLEIWAS, D.I., AND HURDELBRINK, R.J., 1985, TUNGSTEN AVAILABILITY - MARKET ECONOMY COUNTRIES, U.S. BUREAU OF MINES, INFORMATION CIRCULAR 9025, P. 23.. . BARABANOV, V.F., 1961, MINERALOGY OF TUNGSTEN DEPOSITS IN THE EASTERN TRANSBAIKAL REGION, LENINGRAD, LENINGRAD UNIVERSITY, 360 P. (REVIEWED BY E.A. ALEXANDROV IN INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW, VOL. 5, NO. 5, MAY 1963, P. 601-603).. . LEVITSKII, O.D., 1964, GEOLOGIYA RUDNYKH MESTOROZHDENII ZAKBAIKAL'YA (GEOLOGY OF THE ORE DEPOSITS OF TRANSBAIKAL), MOSCOW IZDATEL'STVO "NAUKA", 355 P., P. 129-153

  • Reserve-Resource

    INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY RECORD W095

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit FORMATION NAME IS KUKUL'BEY INTRUSION

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-NOV-1985 Sinclair W. David Geological Survey of Canada
Reporter 01-NOV-1985 Werner, Antony Mineral Policy Sector, Dept. of Energy Mines & Resources, Ottawa, Canada

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