Datolite from Lipovsky copper mine, Nizhnii. Tagil district

Abstract

The copper ore deposit of the Lipovskii mine (not in operation) was the result of the influence of intrusive masses of syenite magma on the strata of sedimentary rocks—limestones. Along with an insignificant accumulation of copper and iron ores, PbS and ZnS, in the contact area there is a number of typical contact-metamorphic minerals—garnet, augite, diopside, actinolite, etc., and, as a product of pneumatolysis, datolite.