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Kempirsai Cr deposit, Urals, Aqtöbe Oblysy (Aktubinsk [Aktyubinsk; Aktubinskaya] Oblast'), Kazakhstan

(Кемпирсай)

Giant podiform chromite deposit with reserves >300 Mt of Cr2O3. Presented as some tens of chromite pods and lenses on a 30x50 km territory. It is hosted by harzburgite and dunite rocks metamorphised at amphibolite facies conditions.
Located in the metasedimentary silurian Sakmara belt.

Refs.:
- Melcher F., Grum W., Simon G., Thalhmmer T. & Stumpfl E.F. (1997): Petrogenesis of the ophiolitic giant chromite deposits of Kempirsai, Kazakhstan: a study of solid and fluid inclusions in chromite. Journal of Petrology 38, 1419–1458.
- http://www.gl.rhul.ac.uk/geode/Uralides/Kempirsai.html




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Mineral List:
  		•  Apatite-(CaF)
  		• Aragonite
  		• Asbolane
  		• Cerianite-(Ce)
  		• Chromite
    var: Aluminian Chromite
  		• Ernienickelite
  		• Gaspéite
  		• Gypsum
  		• Hollandite
  		• Lithiophorite
  		• Magnesiochromite
  		• Magnesite
  		• Magnetite
    var: Ishkulite
  		• Nontronite
  		• Pargasite
  		• Potassicpargasite
  		• Pyrolusite
  		• 'Serpentine Group'
  		• 'Unnamed (Ca-analogue of petterdite)'


    19 entries listed. 15 valid minerals.

    Localities in this Region:
    Kazakhstan
     
    • Aqtöbe Oblysy (Aktubinsk [Aktyubinsk; Aktubinskaya] Oblast')
      • Urals
        • Kempirsai Cr deposit

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