Surface Mines in Russia - Kargaly, Mir Mine, Udachnaya Pipe, Ruskeala (Paperback)

PMChapters: Kargaly, Mir Mine, Udachnaya Pipe, Ruskeala. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kargaly is a copper mining-metallurgical facility in the southern Urals of Russia is a large and unique complex, especially when compared to its neighboring metal production centers or the more remote ancient centers that emerged on the vast territory of the northern half of the Eurasian continent. File:///D:/001/Wikipedia/Kargaly figs/Kargaly-fig-1.jpg The name Kargaly is connected with the small river Kargalka in the Ural big river basin . The center of Kargaly is situated in the southern Urals, within the borders of the Orenburg Administrative Region of the Russian Federation. Kargaly is located in the northern zone of the Great Eurasian steppe (the Eurasian Steppe Belt). The ore deposit is surrounded by typical steppe landscape, characterized only by an occasional forest consisting of willow, alder, birch, and aspen trees near springs and deep ravines. The closest true forests appear as far as 200250 km northeast of Kargaly, where they form part of the mountainous-taiga zone of the southern Urals. Kargaly ore deposits cover a large, oval territory of about 50 by 10 km in size. This oval ore deposit is oriented northwest to southeast. The main outlying groups of mine production in Kargaly are located both southeast of the deposit N 52' 16,186 / E 54' 36, 980 and N 52' 11, 114 / E 55' 14,848 in the southeast corner of the ore field. Kargaly embraces an extremely vast territory (nearly 500 km sq) characterized by copper mineralization. In terms of geology, the center belongs to the category of extensive ore fields. The discovery and subsequent frequent extractions of ores at Kargaly occurred either near the end of the fourth millennium or at the turn of th...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=101246