Rare mineralization from quartz-plagioclase veins of the Mariinsky deposit (Ural emerald mines)

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Record No. 8097

Rare mineralization from quartz-plagioclase veins of the Mariinsky deposit (Ural emerald mines)

Journal Article

Popov, M.P., Rassomakhin, M.A. and Demina, L.A. (2023) Rare mineralization from quartz-plagioclase veins of the Mariinsky deposit (Ural emerald mines). News of the Ural State Mining University, Vol. 71, No. 3, pp. 25–31.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21440/2307-2091-2023-3-25-31 | Sinkankas/Born No.: NIS/NIB | RWHL

gems, emerald, quartz, plagioclase, sphalerite, sulfide, Ural emerald mines, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, zinc greenockite, bismuthine, matildite, electrum, Mariinsky, Malyshev, Russia

A mineralogical study was carried out and the chemical composition of sulfide mineralization rare for the Ural emerald mines was studied. Previously, zinc greenockite and matildite were not described, so this is the first find of these minerals at the Mariinsky deposit.