Datolite from the Lipovsky copper mine, Nizhny Tagil district

Abstract

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.

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