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Rhodonite occurrence, Muzeinyi Valley, Inyl'chek Range, Issyk-Kul'skaya Oblast, Kyrgyzstan

(Muzeinyi sai)

A rhodonite body located in a highland valley (sai = valley) some km from the Trudovoe (Trudovoye) tin deposit.
The ore body is located on the northern slope of the Inyl'chek Range (exocontact of the Inyl'chek Sn-bearing granite massif).
Now this body is almost competely mined for jewellery rhodonite.

Refs.:
- Pautov L.A., Khvorov P.V., Ignatenko K.I. Alleganyte from rhodonite rocks of Inylchek range (the first description of alleganyte from USSR). Novye dannye o mineralah SSSR (New data on minerals of USSR), Moscow, Nauka, 1989, p. 162-166 (in Russian).
- Pautov L.A., Ignatenko K.I., Belakovskii D.I. New data on sonolite. Zapiski Vserossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 1990, 119(3), p.98-101 (in Russian).
- Pautov L.A., Belakovskii D.I., Skala R. e.a. Vistepite MnSnB2Si5O20 - a new borosilicate of manganese and tin. Zapiski Vserossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 1992, 121(4), p. 107-112 (in Russian).
- Pautov, L.A., Khorov, P.V., Ignatenko, K.I., Sokolova, E.V., and Nadezhina, T.N. (1993) Khristovite-(Ce), (Ca,REE)REE(Mg,Fe)AlMnSi3O11(OH)(F,O), a new mineral of the epidote group. Zapiski Vserossiyskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva: 122(3): 103-111 (in Russian).





Mineral List:
  • Alabandite
  • Alleghanyite
  • Baryte
  • Cassiterite
  • Hejtmanite
  • Helvite
  • Hübnerite
  • Hyalophane
  • Khristovite-(Ce) (TL)
  • Kinoshitalite
  • Manganosite
  • Monazite-(Ce)
  • Pyrolusite
  • Pyrophanite
  • Quartz
  • Rhodochrosite
  • Rhodonite
  • Scheelite
  • Sonolite
  • Spessartine
  • Tephroite
  • Vistepite (TL)


    22 entries listed. 21 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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