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Rhodochrosite from
Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan


Locality type:City
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Bertrandite13 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Bertrandite at this locality.
Smoky Quartz10 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Quartz10 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Muscovite6 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Pyrite4 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Helvine4 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Helvine at this locality.
Fluorite2 photos of Rhodochrosite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Gypsum1 photo of Rhodochrosite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Rhodochrosite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9506
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9506:8
GUID (UUID V4):70fe3732-76cd-45ca-b475-f6953c6cfefa
Localities for Rhodochrosite in this Region
Kounrad Massif, Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
East Kounrad Mo-W deposit, Kounrad Massif, Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodochrosite
23.7km (14.7 miles) East Kounrad Mo-W deposit, Kounrad Massif, Balkhash, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Grover, Missouri MY FIRST TRIP TO RUSSIA AND KAZAKHSTAN: After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, there...started discussing two localities in neighboring Kazakhstan. One was the classic dioptase locality Altynv...labels was Kounrad. and it was said to be near Lake Balkhash. We Figure 8. Platinum, 7.5 mm across, Khabarovsk...rhodochrositrbertrandite specimens from there. The rhodochrosite crystrals were not large, but. as in fishing...large ones! We charted a collectinghuying trip to Kazakhstan for the summer of 1993, my first trip to Russia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Two geodynamic–metallogenic events in the Balkhash (Kazakhstan) and the West Junggar (China): Carboniferous...Institute of Geological Sciences, Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan Published online: 28 Apr 2013. To cite this...Two geodynamic–metallogenic events in the Balkhash (Kazakhstan) and the West Junggar (China): Carboniferous...Two geodynamic–metallogenic events in the Balkhash (Kazakhstan) and the West Junggar (China): Carboniferous...Institute of Geological Sciences, Almaty 050010, Kazakhstan b Downloaded by [Lulea University of Technology]
Report (issue)
biotite, paracelsian, jacobsite, hausmannite, rhodochrosite, rhodonite, rutile, hyalophane, barite, cymrite...and Lº angban, VÄarmland, Sweden. In the Simplon region, Valais, Switzerland. In the USA, from Franklin...Aberfeldy, Scotland. In Kazakhstan, from the Burultas deposit, west of Lake Balkhash. In Namibia, at Otjosondu
Journal (issue)
Articles The Akchatau mine, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan..................573 by W. E. Wilson & T...Wilson COVER: CREEDITE, 4.6 cm, from Akchatau, Kazakhstan. Parker Sterling collection; Tom Spann photo...Akchatau Mine Akchatau, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical Record...District of Karaganda Oblast, Kazakhstan. It is located about 230 km south of the city of Karaganda, 150 km...of Balkhash City, and 105 km southeast of the Agadyr’ railroad station, which is on the Karaganda-Mointy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Chiatury, Georgia; Nikopol', Ukraine, Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan, etc.), terrigenous bodies of all kinds (Egypt;...volcanogenic formation within the Berezovka Series4 of the region (principal rocks: spilites, augitic pOrphyrites...Type”) The Famennian-Tournaisian Series of Central Kazakhstan may serve as an example of the Second Group....Lower Tournaisian strata in the northeast of the Balkhash Territory and in its north (Bektau Ata), in the...the Lispenskly Rudnik (a copper mine), Western Kazakhstan; Lower Carboniferous conglomerate, sandstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
base metals). Kazakhstan and Russia are the major mine producers of silver in the region, although in...the former USSR's silver production came from Kazakhstan, FSU's leading silver producer, which can now...example of such is the Kounrad deposit in central Kazakhstan. Copper ore is found, in the main, in a vein...of other polymetallic base metals deposits in Kazakhstan, as well. One of the largest is Dzhezkazgan....Other silver-bearing polymetallic deposits in Kazakhstan include the Belousov and Irtysh and Novo-Beryozov
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
do Mina and other deposits are as follows: rhodochrosite, manganocalcite, tephroite, spessartine, rhodonite...high bioproductivity, which accumulated the rhodochrositebearing car bonaceous shales (ampelites). Their...North Africa; (KA) Kaapvaal; (KI) Kimberley; (KZ) Kazakhstan; (MA) Madagascar; (NA) North Atlantic (including...garnets (spessartine) and carbonatebear ing (rhodochrosite) carbonaceous schists, e.g., the large deposit...schists with microcline, oligoclase, graphite, rhodochrosite, and rhodonite. Marble lenses also occur. The
Journal (issue)
JULY–AUGUST 2022 Articles Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan ......................................3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection; Jeff Scovil photo...ry CRYSTAL CLASSICS Dzhezkazgan Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical...Tpmoore1@cox.net The Dzhezkazgan District in central Kazakhstan has been known since the 1980s for fine specimens...newly formed Dzhezkazgan Oblast, created out of Karaganda Oblast. But in 1997, Dzhezkazgan Oblast was eliminated
Journal (issue)
ancylite, schorl 47°59 73°45 Settlem ent, m ine Karaganda O blast’ Apatite, aquamarine, bertrandite, bism...Ju n ctio n o f Siberia, Kazakhstan, and M ongolia *Altaite South Kazakhstan O blast’, near T ashkent...Village stream Semipalatinsk O blast’ N E o f Lake Balkhash W ulfenite English Cyrillic Am ur L ea /...blast’ A pophyllite, prehnite T o w n , lake Karaganda O blast’ R hodochrosite, heulandite (See also...BaxHHcapait 44044 33°53 Balchasch— see Balkhash Balkhash Banxarn Baykal BaitKaa 46°50 74°57 B
Book
Minerals, Hydrometallurgy 2.7 Mineral Resources of Kazakhstan 4.7 Concentrating and Selection of Minerals 2...industrial complexes like Norilsk, Ust­Kamenogorsk, Balkhash, Almalyk, Dzhezkazgan, Central Ural and other...and geological structure are isolated in the ore region territory. Ore fields consist of ore deposits enclosing...shale deposits to which the Dzhezkazgan field in Kazakhstan and the Udokan field in Siberia belong. A large...so­called copper­phorphyry ores (Kounradsky in Kazakhstan, Almalyk in Uzbekistan, Kadzharan in Armenia)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganese deposit and Khubsugul phosphorite-bearing region (Il’in, 1977): (1) Darkhat Group: sandstones, siltstones;...phosphorite-bearing sediments of the Lesser Karatau range (Kazakhstan). (b) Section of the northern Tszyangsi Province...this phosphorite accumulation epoch, although this region also hosts siliceous– carbonaceous facies similar...(Tommotian) Chulaktau Formation of the Karatau basin (Kazakhstan). They are characterized in detail in many works...Karatau Range northwest of Dzhambul (Fig. 1). In this region, the northeastern limb of the ancient Kokdzhot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
beautiful strawberry quartz from Chimkent area of Kazakhstan. Red color of quartz and aventurescence are controlled...Godovikov et al, 1987). These are the specimens from Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia, Brazil, and other countries...twined crystals from Sokolovskoe deposit, North Kazakhstan was donated by L.Bulgak. Sphalerite (112 specimens)...its faces was obtained from Akchatau, Central Kazakhstan. This is the weightiest (about 80 pounds) specimen...Number of specimens Russia 1386 United States 368 Kazakhstan 148 Tajikistan 135 Australia 80 Canada 72 Brazil
Report (issue)
greisen deposits include the former Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Russia), China, Canada, and Mongolia, where...stages of a subsequent within-plate orogeny (Kazakhstan) or in association with isolated, anorogenic...Russia). Molybdenum-tungsten greisen deposits in Kazakhstan are found near the boundaries between Hercynian...deposition. Molybdenum-tungsten greisen deposits in Kazakhstan are present in areas with crustal thicknesses...periods: Hercynian in Australia, Austria, Canada, Kazakhstan, Norway, and Cimmerian in China, Mongolia, Republic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
neighboring Kounrad copper ore deposit (North Balkhash region). Its bulk consists of coarse-grained leucocratic...in Ortau and other granite massifs of central Kazakhstan. Grains of zircon and cyrtolite measure 0.01...amounts in some quartz greisens. Wolframite, rhodochrosite, and calcite are among the rare minerals in
Journal (issue)
Bisbee specimens, the extraordinary “Alma Rose” rhodochrosite specimen from the Sweet Home mine (pictured...identified from the material collected there were rhodochrosite, mangan-neptunite, natrolite, aegirine, serandite...Dawsonite Dolomite Donnayite-(Y) Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Rhodochrosite Siderite Strontianite Synchysite-(Ce) VUK 11... labuntsovite, mangan-neptunite, aegirine, rhodochrosite and pyrrhotite. In the contact-zone cavities...natrolite crystals associated with nenadkevichite, rhodochrosite, polylithionite, fluorite, aegirine and pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alakol’ Lake, southwestern Balkhash area, Zhambyl (Dzhambul) Region, Kazakhstan. This hydrothermal U deposit...zirsilite-(Ce), a burbankitegroup mineral, dawsonite, rhodochrosite, epididymite, galena, molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite... 1948 NEW MINERAL NAMES km east of Taltal, in Region II, Antofagasta Province, Chile. It occurs as rosette-shaped...crandallite-type region shows six-coordinated Al and four-coordinated P; the disordered region shows TO4 tetrahedra...occupied by Si, and is cross-linked to the crandallite region by tetrahedra predominantly occupied by Al. Corner
Book
series.. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Rhodochrosite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • •...• • • • Rhodochrosite- calcite isomorphous series. . . . .. • • • • S iderite-rhodochrosite isomorphous...marine Paleozoic limestones in the Ural-V<::>lga region contain CaS04 at depth (Vernadskii, 1933, 1934...V. D. Shutov [1955] in the western Verkhoyansk region and by N. V. Logvinenko [1956] in the Donbas. These...sedimentary strata in the zone of the western Verkhoyansk region and the adjoining marginal depression, embracing
Journal (issue)
ore-bearing area and the Akchagyl magnetite deposit near Balkhash are famous. In the last century, picturesque specimens...stepped - Ыосk su,face. Dzhezkazgan deposit, Kazakhstan. 2.5 ст. V.l. Stepanov specimen. Photo: А. Sverd/ov... Bertrandite crystal gгоир. Кша-ОЬа, Centra/ Kazakhstan. 7х 5 ст. VA. Krikov specimen. Photo: М. Leybov...The enlarged sign on the scl1ematic map shows а region large enough to accommodate several localized occurrences...pegmatites: bavenite. THEURALS 12. О The Aduy-Murzinka Region (Mokrusha, Murzinka, Sarapu\ka, Shaitaпka, Aduy
Book
localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during...about 20 other quartz mines are operated in the region of the Subpolar Urals, northwest of Saranpaul,...collected intermittently from pegmatites of the region, associated with crystals of corundum, rutile,
Book
"Broadly regarded, the depth ta which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...Zn-Mn zone has mostly sphalerite veins with rhodochrosite gangue. An earlier (62 to 63 m.y.; Fig. 28-6)...NORTH LAKE BALKHASH (PRIBALKHASH) REGION, KAZAKHSTAN, U.S.S.R. This is an outstanding region of Permo-Carboniferous...ed., 1972; Nakovnik, 1968; Fig. 28-7). Central Kazakhstan is extremely complex in geological terms. It...trachytes, monzonites, syenites). In the North Balkhash area, intrusive Permo-Carboniferous plutons are
Book (volume)
discovered in the Bota-Burum U deposit, Southern Kazakhstan, was detected by characteristic bands in the...cm1 is called the fingerprint region. Usually IR spectrum in this region contains very complicated series...overlapping bands. The importance of the fingerprint region is that each mineral species produces a different...500 to 800 cm1 can be considered as “fingerprint region” sensitive to the composition and the topological...see Fig. 1.9), but generally IR spectrum in this region is characteristic of all these minerals. In IR
Report (issue)
(19/9). Microprobe analyses from Burultas deposit, Balkhash, Co 1.0%. ALAbANUlTE. Weinke et al., Meteoritics... no. 2, 8990 (1979). Analysis from Lake Baikal region, x-ray, infra-red data. ALUMINITE. Farkas and Werner...(not in abs.; from metamorphic rocks, Altai-Sayan region. AMPHlBULh. Lesnov et al., (Tr. Inst. Geol. Geofiz...92, no. 16, 132161 (1980). Zoned crystals, E. Kazakhstan with Fe2U3 0.47-1.14%. ANUALUSITE. Krarnm, (Contrib...optics, DTA, x-ray data from Kotpar deposit, Kazakhstan. APPLELITE. Ash, (Natl. Speleological Soc. Bull
Book (volume)
Manganase is also precipitated (as a carbonate (rhodochrosite) or hydroxide) when C0 2 is removed from the...alabandite and hauerite, the abundant carbonate rhodochrosite, and the silicates braunite, tephroite, and...reported from alluvial deposits of the centrat Aldan region, see pp. 11/2. Solid Salutions of Mn with Native...altered olivine-leucite basalt of the Koshmansai region, Kurama Range, Uzbekistan, an Mn-rich phase was...eruptive breccias near Volnovakha, eastern Asov Sea region, Ukraine. The steel gray silicides have a metallic
Book
"Broadly regarded, the depth to which a metalliferous region has been eroded affects its present characteristics...Zn-Mn zone has mostly sphalerite veins with rhodochrosite gangue. An earlier (62 to 63 m.y.; Fig. 28-6)...NORTH LAKE BALKHASH (PRIBALKHASH) REGION, KAZAKHSTAN, U.S.S.R. This is an outstanding region of Permo-Carboniferous...ed., 1972; Nakovnik, 1968; Fig. 28-7). Central Kazakhstan is extremely complex in geological terms. It...trachytes, monzonites, syenites). In the North Balkhash area, intrusive Permo-Carboniferous plutons are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stratigraphic sequence of Precambrian rocks of the region is favorable for the formation of thick highgrade...the great molybdenum-copper deposit at Kounrad, Kazakhstan, must appear twice in the descriptions, and the...geological province. The important mineral belts of Kazakhstan and Armenia furnish examples of both types. Of...mineralization predominates over veinlets. In Kazakhstan, there are both copper-molybdenum and quartz...mining began to develop in the Urals, Karelia Tula region, and Khoper River valley. A little later exploitation
 
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