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Satka magnesite deposit, Satka District, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia

Artinite
Satka magnesite deposit, Satka District, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia

Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov
Сатка, Саткинское магнезитовое месторождение

A magnesite deposit that produces the majority of the former Soviet Union's output of this mineral. One of the world's largest magnesite deposits.

References

- Mining Annual Review (1985): 512.
- Ellmies, R., Voigtländer, G., Germann, K., Krupenin, M.T., and Möller, P. (1999): Origin of giant stratabound deposits of magnesite and siderite in Riphean carbonate rocks of the Bashkir mega-anticline, western Urals. International Journal of Earth Sciences 87(4), 589-602.
- Krupenin, M.T. (2002): Comparison of Lower and Middle Riphean sparry magnesite deposits of the Southern Urals province. Boletim Paranaense de Geociências 50, 43-50.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Artinite
Biotite
Brucite
Calcite
Clinochlore
var: Pennine

Dolomite
Magnesite
Pyrite
Quartz
Rutile
'Serpentine Group'
Shungite
Talc


15 entries listed. 10 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

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