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Sarbaiskoe deposit (Sarbai Mine; Sarbay Mine), Kostanay Province (Qostanay Oblysy; Kostanai Oblast'), Kazakhstan

Chabazite
Sarbaiskoe deposit, Kostanay Province, Kazakhstan

Photo: Rob Lavinsky
Сарбайское месторождение

Giant skarn iron deposit with 725 million tons of ore grading at 46% Fe. The eastern orebody has a strike length of 1.7 km, is up to 185 m thick and has been traced for more than 1 km down dip. The western orebody extends for 1.8 km along strike and has possible reserves of another 775 million tons of ore.

References

- Pekov, I.V. and Karpenko, V.Yu. (1996) Unusual stromeyerite-mckinstryite pseudomorphs after dyscrasite in the Sarbai deposit of northern Kazakhstan. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta, Seriya 4: Geologiya, (6), 45-50 (in Russian).
- Pekov, I.V. & Karpenko, V.Yu. (1997): Minerals of the Silver-Bearing Veins of the Sarbay Deposit (North Kazakhstan). World of Stones, 5 (12), 2-15.


Mineral List

Acanthite
Albite
Allargentum
Andradite
var: Melanite

Argentopyrite
Arsenic
Arsenolite
Arsenopyrite
Baryte
Bismuth
Bornite
Calcite
'Chabazite'
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Covellite
Cupropearceite (TL)
Dyscrasite
Epidote
Fluorite
Galena
'Gmelinite'
Gmelinite-Ca
Goethite
Gypsum
Hematite
'Heulandite'
Kaolinite
Limonite
Löllingite
Magnetite
Marcasite
Mckinstryite
Moolooite
Muscovite
Natrolite
Orthoclase
Pearceite ?
'Pearceite-T2ac'
Pharmacolite
Polybasite
Prehnite
Proustite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Quartz
var: Chalcedony

Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stellerite
Stephanite
Stibnite
'Stilbite'
Stilbite-Ca
Stromeyerite
Tennantite
Tetrahedrite
Wulfenite
Xanthoconite


62 entries listed. 53 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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