Vesuvianite-garnet rock from Magnitnaya Mount

Abstract

The presence of vesuvianite, this characteristic contact mineral, together with garnet, makes the rock particularly interesting from the point of view of the genesis of the Magnitnaya Mount ore deposit. It is hardly possible to attribute a hydrochemical origin due to weathering processes to such a rock as described; on the contrary, we see clear traces of contact metamorphism in it.