Vesuvian from the Karmankulsky cordon

Abstract

Last summer, I managed to collect a small amount of material on the mineralogy of the surroundings of the Karmankulsky Cordon, located on the left bank of the River M. Irimel about 45 versts to the SW of the Miass station. Along the right bank of the River Irimel, there is a series of large pits, formerly mined, but now abandoned for the extraction of iron ore; on the left bank, however, there are only small prospecting pits. In the waste dumps of the previously mined pits, it was possible to find, in addition to chromite and rhodochrome, very poor kemmererite and small but well-formed crystals of uvarovite; both of the occur as crusts on chromium iron ore. In the survey pits (on the left bank of the Irimel River), in addition to chromite, small crystals of vesuvianite and magnetite were also found.

Read more

None