The copper ore deposit of the Lipovsky mine (not in operation) resulted from the action of intrusive masses of syenitic magma on strata of sedimentary rocks — limestones. Alongside a minor accumulation of copper and iron ores, PbS and ZnS, a number of typical contact-metamorphic minerals are observed in the contact zone — garnet, augite, diopside, actinolite, and others — and, as a product of pneumatolysis, datolite.