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Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk coal basin, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia

Cohenite
Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk coal basin, Chelyabinsk Oblast', Southern Urals, Urals Region, Russia

Photo: Thomas Witzke
Latitude: 55°7'N
Longitude: 61°39'E
Spontaneous fires occur on many coal dumps and are known to rage for many years or decades, forming many rare high-temperature minerals. More than 40 new compounds have been found in the Chelyabinsk Basin, but only 8 of them are today accepted as “real” mineral species.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Aciculite
Afanasievaite
Albovite
Amminite
'Amphibole Group'
Anhydrite
Anorthite
Aquasidite
Armalcolite
Bassanite
Bazhenovite
Belosharite
Boussingaultite
Caldecahydrite
Chesofiite
Chlorosiderite
Chlorozincite
Cohenite
Cordierite
Cuspidine
Demidovskite
Dmisteinbergite (TL)
Efremovite (TL)
Esseneite
Fayalite
Ferberite
Fluorellestadite (TL)
Fluorite
Fluormagnesiohornblende
Fluoro-magnesiohastingsite
Godovikovite (TL)
Grandiferrite
Graphite
Gyrolite
Hematite
Hibschite
Ignicolorite
Igumnovite
Iron
Kieserite
Kladnoite
Krasnogorite
Krasnoselskite
Kremersite
'Kruzhevite'
Kutyukhinite
Larnite
'Leucorhönite'
Lime
Magnesioferrite
Mascagnite
Mayenite
'Mesohydride'
Mullite
Oldhamite
Oxiferberite
Pentahydrite
Periclase
Perkovaite
'Petrified Wood'
Phlogopite
Podnoginite
Pyrrhotite
Redikortsevite
Rhythmite
Rorisite (TL)
Rukavishnikovite
Rutile
Shelkovite
Spinel
Spurrite
Srebrodolskite (TL)
Steklite
Sulfalumite
Sulphur
Svyatoslavite (TL)
'Terriconite'
Tinnunculite
Titanite
Torbakovite
Tridymite
Troilite
'Unnamed (Mg Sulphate)'
Wollastonite


116 entries listed. 49 valid minerals. 7 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

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References

- Chesnokov, B.V., L.F. Bazhenova, E.P. Shcherbakova, T.A. Michal, T.N. Deriabina (1988), New minerals from the burned dumps of the Chelyabinsk coal basin, in Mineralogy, technogenesis, and mineral-resource complexes of the Urals. Akad. Nauk SSSR-Uralskoe Otdel.: 5-31 (in Russian).
- Cesnokov, B., M. Kotrly, and T. Nisanbajev (1998): Brennende Abraumhalden und Aufschlüsse im Tscheljabinsker Kohlenbecken - eine reiche Mineralienküche. Mineralien-Welt, 9 (3), 54-63 (in German).


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