1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Medvedevsk

Prospect in Russia with commodity Titanium
Map
XML
JSON
KML
C
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 10280049
MAS/MILS ID 4520001044
Record type Site
Current site name Medvedevsk
Alternate or previous names Aka Medvedev

Geographic coordinates

Point of reference Town
Geographic coordinates: 59.60138, 55.28121 (WGS84)
Elevation 457
Location accuracy 1000(meters)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Russia(country)

Europe(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country
Russia

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Titanium Critical Secondary

Nearby scientific data

Town (1) 59.60138, 55.28121
ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Operation type Placer
Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Ownership information

  • Type Unknown
    Owner Zlatoust Association
    Home office Russia
    Year 1994

Comments on the ownership information

  • THE JOINT STOCK COMPANY URALTITAN IS FUNDING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS DEPOSIT AND THE ZLATOUST ASSOCIATION WILL BE RUNNING THE OPERATION.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1994
    Demonstrated 500000000mt ore
    Total resources 500000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Titanium TiO2 7.1 wt-pct Titanium Minor 1994

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • RESOURCES ARE ESTIMATED AT 500 MILLION MT ORE GRADING 7.1% TIO2.

Comments on other economic factors

  • DUE TO THE LOW-GRADE ILMENITE, SOME OF THE ILMENITE CONC. WILL UPGRADED TO A TITANIUM SLAG. PROPOSED PRODUCTION LEVELS ARE 84,000 MT ILMENITE, 47,000 MT TITANIUM SLAG (75% TIO2), AND 25,000 MT PIG IRON CONC. THE BENEFICIATION PLANT IS PLANNED TO HAVE A 4 MILLION TPA THROUGHPUT CAPACITY.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MAP OF MINERAL RESOURCES OF RUSSIA AND ADJACENT

  • Deposit

    COUNTRIES (IN THE FORMER USSR BOUNDARIES), 1991, SCALE

  • Deposit

    1:5,000,000. PUBLISHED IN RUSSIA.

  • Deposit

    INTERFAX MINING AND METALS REPORT. JAN. 21-28, 1994. P.9.

  • Deposit

    INTERFAX MINING REPORT. APR. 29-MAY 6, 1994, P. 8.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING JOURNAL, LONDON. URAL TITAN TRIALS. MAY 27, 1994.

  • Reserve-Resource

    V.322, NO. 8277. P. 386.

  • Deposit

    SMIRNOV, V. I., ORE DEPOSITS OF THE U.S.S.R., VOL. 1,

  • Deposit

    PITTMAN PUBLISHING, 1977, PP. 241-245.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit A LOW-GRADE ILMENITE (40-42% TIO2) DEPOSIT LOCATED NEAR THE CITY OF ZLATOUST. THE OPERATION IS SCHEDULED TO COME ON-LINE IN 1996. IN APRIL 1994, A TEST BATCH OF ILMENITE AND TITANOMAGNETITE ORE WAS REFINED SUCCESSFULLY. DEVELOPMENT TO BE CARRIED OUT IN TWO STAGES. THE FIRST SECTION WILL HAVE A DESIGN CAPACITY OF 1 MILLION TONS, OUT OF AN OVERALL DESIGN CAPACITY OF 5.5 MILLION MT. THE SECTION WILL BE ON LINE BY 2000. DEPOSIT IS LOCATED NEAR TOWNS OF KUSA AND ZLATOUST.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 11-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.

Maps centered on this site