(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:23 entries listed. 22 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).
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