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Chekur-Koyashskoye sulphur deposit, Opuk Mountain Area, Kerch peninsula (Kertch peninsula), Crimea peninsula, Crimea Oblast', Ukraine

(Чекур-Кояшскское месторождение серы, г. Опук (окрестности), Керченский полуостров (ЮЗ часть))

The sulphur mineralization is connected with the Miocene beds represented by interbedded bituminous clays, gypsums, marls, sandstones.



References:
- Dvoichenko P.A. The minerals of Crimea (1914) - Zapiski Krymskogo obshchestva estestvoispytatelei (Proceeding of the Crimea Society of Naturalistes), 1914, vol. 4, p. 1-208 (Rus.)
- Popov S.P. Mineralogy of the Crimea (1938). - M.-L., AN SSSR, 1938, 352 p. (Rus.)





Mineral List:
Calcite
Celestine
'Chalcedony'
'var: Quartzine'
Felsőbányaite
Goethite
Gypsum
Jarosite
Melanophlogite
Pyrite
Sulphur


11 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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