Presentation on the world around "Mineral resources of the Altai Territory" (grade 2). Minerals of the Altai Territory: names, photos Polymetallic ores of Altai

Mining in Altai region

MBOU "Novoobintsevskaya secondary school"

Primary school teacher

Kavylina N.V.

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The subsoil of Altai is rich in minerals.

Known Zmeinogorskoe and Zolotushinskoe deposits polymetals which have ores of complex composition and contain copper, lead, zinc, silver, and gold. Tungsten-molybdenum deposits are in crystalline rocks. Sometimes they are located in limestones, cut by quartz veins with a variety of components consisting of wolf

They are confined to the faults of the Alpine era of mountain building. The main deposits of cinnabar (mercury ore) are located in the valley of the river. Chewie- Aktash and Chagan-Uzun. In the northern part of the Cherginsky Range, the Sarasinsky mercury zone was discovered.

There are several deposits in Altai iron ores. The main ones are located in the Kholzunsky ridge area - Inskoye and Beloretskoye with reserves of approximately 500 million tons magnetite ore with an iron content of 30 to 50%. In the Kulundinskaya steppe, iron ores are located near Lake Kuchuk, st. Kulund and s. Keys. Kulunda ores contain up to 20% iron. Iron ore deposits were found in the Sailyugem and Chuisky ridges, in the middle reaches of Charysh and Biya.

Deposits were discovered on the western slopes of the Salair Ridge bauxite And copper ore. Ores fly in at the junction of the Altai Mountains and Salair magnesium .

In lakes Kuchukskoye and Bolshoye Yarovoye there are healing mud. Radioactive sources have been found in the foothills of Altai, the Belokurikha ones are especially widely known. radon waters, on the basis of which it operates resort .

In the Kulundinskaya lowland, at a depth of 1200-1400 m, there are fresh and mineral underground waters. Fresh water is suitable for domestic and technical purposes, which is important for the arid Kulunda.

In the Kulundinskaya lowland there are more salt lakes than fresh ones, some of them are located on the Priobsky plateau. In Kuchuksky, Kulundknsky, Marmyshansky there is mirabilite- sodium sulfate). The brine of the Kuchuksky and Bolshoy Yarovoye lakes contains magnesium chloride , bromine salts. The reserves of table salt in Lake Kuchuk amount to 56.8 million tons; in Burlinsky - 30 million tons . In Mikhailovskoye, Tanatar 1, in Petukhovsky Lakes there is soda , salt, mirabilite. The total reserves of natural soda in the region are more than 6 million tons , which is approximately 96% of Russia's reserves (first place in the world). The region ranks first in Russia in terms of mirabilite reserves. Mirabilite is contained in the brine of Lake Kuchuk and lies in it in a layer up to three meters thick.

Construction material is available in almost all regions of the region. Reserves clay for brick production are unlimited. In the middle reaches of the Biya there is the Azhinskoe deposit of multi-colored coloring clays - red, blue, yellow, gray and other colors. Mineral paints are made from them. Cement refractory clays are located on the western slopes of Salair. Large Vrublevo-Agafonovskoye field in the area of ​​the station. Golukha has reserves of up to 35 million tons limestone and 11 million tons clay.

Various types of sand are widespread in the Altai Territory. Quartz sands used for the production of sand-lime bricks; glass is obtained from pure quartz sand. Place of Birth building sands located near Barnaul, Kamen-on-Obi. Sand-gravel mixtures are found in the Biya and Katun valleys, in upper reaches of the Alei.

Limestones- the most important building material. Their reserves in the region are practically inexhaustible. Large deposits of limestone for roasting are Tugainskoye (Gorno-Altaisk) and Manzherokskoye.

Marble- valuable decorative building material. Along the Chui Valley, ridges stretch for tens of kilometers, the main rock of which is white, purple and gray marble. In the Oroktoy deposit (the middle reaches of the Katun), marble is of several colors and shades: fawn and snow-white marbles give way to pink and golden ones. The Taganskaya station of the Moscow Metro is lined with Oroktoy marble, and the columns of the Park of Culture and Rest station are lined with Pashtulim marble. The Pushtulim deposit is located in Salair. Korgon marble is known from Charysh.

gneisses And gypsum are used as building materials. The main deposit of gypsum is near Lake Dzhira in the Kulunda steppe.

Significant reserves granite, which is used in the construction of durable structures; it polishes well and is therefore used for cladding buildings and monuments.

Healing mud .

Altai Territory is one of the main mining regions of the country. Known here various types minerals: polymetallic ores, iron, bauxite, mineral salts, cement and building limestones, brick and tile raw materials, sand-gravel-pebble material, facing and ornamental stones.

Raw materials for non-ferrous and ferrous metallurgy

Polymetallic ores. They are concentrated mainly in Rudny Altai, which, together with its Kazakh part, is a large province of polymetallic ores. The Zmeinogorsk, Zolotushinsky and Rubtsovsky ore districts are distinguished. Further development In the region, the industry for the extraction of polymetallic ores is associated with the development of the Zarechenskoye, Korbalikhinskoye, Srednego, Stepnoye, Mayskoye and Novozolotushinskoye deposits.

Iron ores. Their deposits in the region form the Altai iron ore province. The Inskoye and Beloretskoye fields are of greatest practical interest. C ore reserves are up to 500 million tons, the content of useful components is from 33 to 45%. In the western part of the region (Blagoveshchenka village, Alexandrovsky village) the Kulundinskaya iron ore area is located. Iron content 23-37%. Approximate ore reserves 55Ts110 billion tons.

Mercury. On the northwestern outskirts Gorny Altai The Sarasin mercury-bearing zone is located. And within its borders are the Cheremshanskoye, Nochnoy Log, Sukhonkoye, and Lagernoye deposits.

Bauxite. Their deposits are geographically confined to Salair. In the Central part (in the upper reaches of the Berd River) there are the Berdsko-Maiskoye, Obukhovskoye, Oktyabrskoye and Novogodneye deposits. They have industrial significance, but are not exploited.

Tungsten. About 20 deposits are known. The Beloretskoye, Batunskoye, and Mulchikhinskoye fields are of practical interest.

Molybdenum. In the northwestern part of the Altai Mountains, the Talitskoye, Ognevoyamskoye, Plotbishchenskoye, Iskrovskoye, and Berezovskoye deposits are noted. The molybdenum content is low. The practical significance of the deposits is limited. Molybdenum is also found in tungsten deposits in the region.

Nickel. The Belininskoye, Aleksandrovskoye, Togulenok and Tyagunskoye deposits are known. The metal content in the ores is 0.5-1.1%. The deposits are not being developed.

Tin. There is a non-industrial Pervenets deposit in Rudny Altai. The average content is 0.17C0, 29%.

Brown coal. Its deposits are Mulnaiskoye, Novomulnaiskoye, Afoninskoye, Karaganskoye. The thickness of the layers is up to 4 m. Coal-bearing deposits have been traced in the Kulunda steppe. The forecast reserves of Ts are 130 billion tons, but according to the conditions of occurrence they are classified as off-balance sheet. In general, prospects for the industrial development of brown coal are limited.

Non-metallic and mineral raw materials

Mineral salts. In Kulunda, one of the largest salt-bearing areas in the country, there is a large number of drainless mineralized lakes, many of which contain bottom sediments of salts or industrial concentrations in brine. The exploitation of Kulunda salts began in 1768 (table salt from Lake Burlinsky). By the 90s of the XX century. The deposits of lakes Kuchuk, Kucherpak, Bolshoye Yarovoe, Burlinskoye and Petukhovskoye were developed.

Barite. Widely distributed in Rudny Altai as an accompanying mineral in polymetallic ores. From 1932 to 1967 it was extracted from dumps at the Zmeinogorsk deposit. Used in paint and varnish production.

Asbestos. In South Salair there is the Komsomolskoye deposit of four asbestos-bearing zones with a thickness of up to 60 m. Reserves are 897 thousand tons.

Talc. Occurrences and non-commercial deposits are known in Salair. In the area of ​​the station. Tyagun there are small-sized Tyagun-Talovskoye and Anisimovskoye deposits. Talc can be used as a rubber filler. Due to the small size of the deposits, reserves were not calculated.

Piezo-optical raw materials. The massifs of its concentration are Tigirekskoye, Belokurikhinskoye, Savvushkinskoye.

Minerals in the Altai Territory list and received the best answer

Answer from Mikhail Makarovsky[guru]
Bosom Altai Territory rich in minerals. Rich deposits of polymetallic ores are located in Rudny Altai (Zmeinogorsky, Zolotushinsky, Rubtsovsky ore districts). The ores contain copper, lead, zinc, silver, and gold. Tungsten-molybdenum deposits are found in crystalline rocks. Sometimes - in limestones cut by quartz veins with various components consisting of tungsten, zinc, copper and rare metals.
Salair is rich in bauxite deposits (Berdskoye, Mayskoye, Obukhovskoye and other deposits). Magnesium ores occur at the junction of Salair and the Altai Mountains. Various types of sand are widespread in the Altai Territory. Quartz sands are used to produce silicate bricks; glass is made from pure quartz sands. Construction sand deposits are located near Barnaul and Kamen-on-Obi. In the valleys of the Biya and Katun rivers, as well as in the upper reaches of Aley, there are large reserves of sand and gravel mixtures. The reserves of the most important building material - limestone - are practically inexhaustible in the region, and such valuable decorative building material as marble is mined at the Pushtulim deposit, and in the Charysh valley - Korgon marble. The Beloretskoye quartzite deposit and the Revnevskoye and Goltsovskoye deposits of green and banded jasper enjoyed worldwide fame due to the high decorative and technical qualities of ornamental stones.
Gneisses and gypsum are used as building materials. The main deposit of gypsum is near Lake Dzhira in the Kulunda steppe. In the Kulunda Lowland there are more salt lakes than fresh ones (this is one of the largest salt-bearing areas in the country). The brine of the local lakes contains magnesium chloride, bromine salts, sodium sulfate, soda, and table salt. In terms of reserves of mirabilite (sodium sulfate), the Altai Territory ranks first in Russian Federation, and in terms of reserves of natural soda - first place in the world. Lakes Kuchukskoe and Bolshoye Yarovoe have healing mud. In the foothills of Altai, radioactive sources were found, on the basis of which the resort operates (the world-famous Belokurikha radon waters). In Altai there are many ornamental stones found only here, known since Demidov’s times. In the village Kolyvan is a grinding factory. Vases and bowls made here decorate the halls of various museums in our country and abroad. And the largest thing made here is the Colossal bowl, which weighs 11 tons, is located in the Hermitage of St. Petersburg. More often it is called the “Queen of Vases”, and it took 15 years to make it. It is no coincidence that the image of this vase is placed on the coat of arms of the Altai region.

Answer from Kindergarten №27 [newbie]
Altai Territory: location features On the border with Kazakhstan in the South Western Siberia this one is located unusually beautiful region- Altai. This region has amazingly diverse terrain: the world's largest plain gives way to the Altai Mountains. Because of such relief features, the area is rich in minerals. Still, most of the Altai Territory is a plain, gradually rising. It is bordered on one side by the Altai Mountains, and on the other by the Salair Ridge. It is easy to confuse it with ordinary hills, but this is not so: the ridge consists of low mountains three hundred kilometers long. The Altai Territory is also unique in that along its length there are many natural areas: taiga and mountains, forest-steppe and steppe. Concerning water resources, then there are several large rivers. Moreover, the largest of them, the Ob, occupies 70 percent of the entire territory. The territory is also rich in lakes: there are 11 thousand of those whose area is more than 1 kilometer. Extraction methods Mineral resources of the Altai Territory are extracted (photos of them will be presented in the article) in three main ways. First, the so-called open. In this case, a quarry no more than 500 meters deep is built directly in the deposit area and the extracted minerals are loaded onto specialized equipment. Secondly, they are building mines. This method is good when deposits are deep enough. In this case, first a so-called mine shaft, reminiscent of a giant well, is dug deep into the rock, and then the infrastructure is built on. Another method, innovative, using a jet high pressure. It is fed into the well, which is made in the fossil rock, crushes it. Next, pieces of rock are lifted up. By the way, this is the most ineffective method, but it is being finalized. Iron ore The most famous minerals of the Altai region are, of course, ores. There are 16 largest deposits in total. It should be noted that they are located in the southwestern part and have a very developed infrastructure. According to estimates, in the depths of Altai there are 70 and 490 tons of polymineral and iron ores, respectively. Iron ore mined in the Kulunda steppe. It is mainly used in ferrous metallurgy. Moreover, three types of it are industrially produced: separated (that is, crumbly), sinter ore (in the form of pieces) and pellets (liquid mass containing iron). There is such a thing as high-grade iron ore, which is one that contains more than 57% iron. It is from it that iron is smelted, and then steel. If the iron content in the ore is low, it is enriched by industrial methods. But the ore is used not only for these purposes; it is also included in ocher, a special dye of natural origin. Copper ore The mineral map of the Altai Territory is rich and copper ores. Their deposits are located mainly in the west of the Silair Ridge. These ores have been mined here since the 16th century, when in 1719 the discovered deposits began to be developed under the leadership of A. N. Demidov. It was then that the first factories appeared in these places. However, even 2.5 thousand years ago, ancient people mined copper here. What is copper ore? This is a special composition of minerals in which the content of the copper component makes it possible to process it during industrial process. This requires a minimum of 0.5% copper concentration in the rock. Most often, such ore is a combination of copper and nickel. Depending on the enrichment of the ore in copper, they are distinguished: chalcocite, bornite and copper pyrite. Ores are listed in descending order of useful metal content. Copper is widely used in various fields. For a long time, people have noticed its ability to conduct heat well, resistance to corrosion, and excellent electrical conductivity. Another obvious advantage is that copper melts at relatively low temperatures.

Answer from Bogdan Ignatov[newbie]

Answer from Nikita Chizhikov[newbie]
The subsoil of Altai is very rich in minerals. For example, the Zmeinogorskoye and Zolotushinskoye deposits, which have ores of complex composition and contain copper, lead, zinc, silver, and gold. Tungsten-molybdenum deposits are found in crystalline rocks. Sometimes they are located in limestones cut by quartz veins with a variety of components consisting of tungsten, zinc, copper and rare metals.
There are several iron ore deposits in Altai. In the Kulundinskaya steppe, iron ores are located near Lake Kuchuk, st. Kulunda and s. Keys. Kulunda ores contain up to 20% iron. Iron ore deposits were found in the Sailyugem and Chuisky ridges, in the middle reaches of Charysh and Biya.
Deposits of bauxite and copper ore were discovered on the western slopes of the Salair Ridge. Bauxite, by the way, may well be of industrial importance for Altai. In the northeast of the region, in the foothills of Salair, there are several small bauxite deposits lying almost on the surface. At the junction of the Altai Mountains and Salair, magnesium ores are found. Lakes Kuchukskoe and Bolshoye Yarovoe have healing mud. Radioactive springs have been found in the foothills of Altai, the Belokurikha radon waters, on the basis of which the resort operates, are especially widely known.
In the Kulundinskaya lowland, at a depth of 1200-1400 m, there are fresh and mineral underground waters. Fresh water is suitable for domestic and technical purposes, which is important for the arid Kulunda.
In Kuchuksky, Kulundknsky, Marmyshansky there is mirabilite - sodium sulfate). The brine of the Kuchuk and Bolshoy Yarovoe lakes contains magnesium chloride and bromine salts. The region ranks first in Russia in terms of mirabilite reserves. Mirabilite is contained in the brine of Lake Kuchuk and lies in it in a layer up to three meters thick.
Various types of sand are widespread in the Altai Territory. Quartz sands are used for the production of silicate bricks; glass is obtained from pure quartz sands. Construction sand deposits are located near Barnaul and Kamen-on-Obi. Sand-gravel mixtures are found in the Biya and Katun valleys, in the upper reaches of Aley.
In the south of the Altai Mountains, approximately two km from the Tashanta-Novosibirsk highway, near the small village (ten houses in total) Chitan-Uzun, there is the Taldy-Yargun brown coal deposit. It can serve as a base for supplying the entire remote area.
We have a lot of iron ore. Including two very important deposits in the region - the Beloretskoye (named after the Belaya River) and Inskoye (along the Inya River, near the village of Tegerek) deposits. In the territory of the Altai Republic adjacent to our border there is a third large deposit- Kholzunskoe. It is the largest of the three. But the richest is Inskoye, where the iron content in the ore is up to 45 percent. Such ore is now rare in the world, because all the rich ores have long been mined, now they are most often mined by poorer ones. On the basis of the Beloretskoye and Inskoye deposits, it was planned a long time ago to create one Beloretsko-Inskoy mining and processing plant.
I should also say something about Altai stones. The Kolyvan stone-cutting plant was recently completely closed. But this was the pride of not only Altai, but of all of Russia. There are Remnev jaspers, other jaspers. There is the only deposit in the world of pinkish quartzite-belorechite, mined on the Belaya River. Pushtulim marble deposit. Oroktoy marble deposit in the Altai Mountains. Marble is a valuable decorative building material. Along the Chui Valley, ridges stretch for tens of kilometers, the main rock of which is white, purple and gray marble. In the Oroktoy deposit (the middle reaches of the Katun), marble is of several colors and shades: fawn and snow-white marbles give way to pink and golden ones.
Jasper, quartzite, porphyry and other ornamental stones, multicolored and high quality, are located in Kolyvansk

The eventful history of the formation of the earth’s crust in different areas of the Altai mountainous country and the flat part of the region provided diverse conditions for the formation of deposits rich in useful substances. mineral resources. Since ancient times, ores of non-ferrous and precious metals, building materials and semi-precious stones have been mined here. It has long been famous for its healing radon and thermal waters, mud and Glauber’s salts.

The only place for extracting combustible minerals here is the Munai brown coal mine in the Soltonsky district near the village of interesting name Suzop. Here, at the end of the 19th century, two horizontally lying 10-meter layers of humus brown coal were discovered at a depth of fifty meters. Since Altai coal is 2 times inferior in calorific value to nearby Kuzbass coal hard coals, the field was practically not developed.

Experts estimate the industrial potential of the Munai deposit at 1 million tons of brown coal annually, but since the opening of the mine in 1988 and the start of development by the Novosibugol concern, more than 120 thousand tons have not been mined here. Previously, coal from the Munai deposit fully met the needs of 14 districts of the Altai Territory and the energy needs of the Altai Republic.

In 2005, after changing several owners, mining here was carried out by Munaisky Razrez LLC, with owners in Kuzbass. From 2013 to 2015, the section was not developed. Later in 2016, the court declared the owner of Razrez Munaisky LLC, V. Pekarsky, bankrupt, and Rostekhnadzor declared the field completely mothballed.

Ore minerals

Polymetallic ores of Altai

Altai is a large mining base of the country, here, in accordance with its occurrence in earth's crust Based on the main geological structures, experts distinguish different ore zones. The main wealth of the local subsoil is polymetals in the industrial region, which is called Rudny Altai, cinnabar in the Katun anteclise, iron and tungsten-molybdenum in the Kholzun-Chuya anteclise, tin-copper and tungsten ores in the Kolbinsk geological zone.

Polymetals occur here in ancient Devonian volcanic rocks; copper-barite and lead-zinc pyrite layers of volcanic origin are genetically combined with them. The richest deposits of the Stepnoye and Korbalikhinskoye, Belousovskoye and Talovskoye, Nikolaevskoye and Berezovskoye deposits are very significant in the production of lead, copper and zinc ores. The deposits of the Ridder-Sokolny and Zyryanovsky deposits have become the most important for the extraction of zinc ores and lead compounds.

The polymetallic deposits of the Zolotushinsky and Zmeinogorsky deposits are quite complex in their composition, and at the same time contain silver and gold, compounds of copper and lead, zinc and other metals in the ore. Tungsten-molybdenum ores are mainly found in ancient volcanic rocks. Fewer of them are concentrated in limestone strata, which were cut by quartz veins containing rare earth metals, molybdenum, tungsten, copper and zinc compounds.

Cinnabar deposits belong to new tectonic faults of Cenozoic age. Among the explored manifestations of cinnabar were deposits in the valley of the high-mountain river Chuya - the Chagan-Uzunskoye and larger Aktashskoye deposits. In the north of the low Cherginsky ridge, the Sarasin mercury zone was recently discovered.

Iron ores of Altai

The territory contains high-quality iron ores. The main ones are Beloretskoye and large Inskoye in the Kholzunsky ridge with reserves of up to 500 million tons of high-quality ore with a share of useful iron of up to 50%. Rich iron ore deposits in the flat part are deposits near the village of Klyuchi, Kulunda station and Lake Kuchuk. Kulunda ores have a smaller share of useful iron, up to only 20%. There are iron ore deposits in the Chuisky ridge and Sailyugem, in the basins of the Charysh and Biya rivers. Salair contains high-quality copper ores, aluminum containing bauxite and magnesium.

Gold-bearing Altai

Gold has been mined here for a long time, it is even reflected in the name of this area; if you translate the ancient Turkic word “alt”, it literally means “gold”. In the 18th-19th centuries, the Altai mountains were the rightful possessions of the Demidov breeders. Silver and gold were smelted here in large quantities for the treasury. After the revolution, industrial production was never established; only small artels worked. For the needs of the Great Patriotic War Only high-quality placer gold was mined here.
Production was resumed by a few artels in the 80s and until 1993 it grew to 70 kg per year. In 1993, the number of artisanal artisans increased to 12, and gold mining increased to 135 kg per year. At the same time, geological exploration of gold-bearing ore fields is being carried out at the Murzinsky, Novofirsovsky and Topolinsky deposits.

Rock gold in Altai mountains runs the well-known enterprise OJSC “Vesely Mine” in the village of Seika. It has been developing the famous Sinyukhinskoye gold deposit since 1953. Sinyukhinsky ores are very rich in gold content and easy to process. They occur in garnet-wollastonite skarns to a depth of 500 meters. Every year, the mine produces up to 400-450 kg of high-quality, highly ductile gold.

Hydromineral minerals

On the vast and arid Kulundinskaya plain, underground up to 1500 meters there is a large artesian basin fresh water. When a freshwater basin was discovered, the Kulunda waters turned out to be quite suitable for industrial and domestic needs, which is very significant for this region.

Warm springs have long been known in the foothills; when a chemical analysis was carried out, it was found that a small amount of radioactive radon gas was dissolved in them. Today, an all-Russian mountain-climatic resort operates on the radon waters of Belokurikha. Associated with Cenozoic faults thermal waters Abakansky Arzhan, Dzhumalinsky and Rakhmanovsky springs.

Non-metallic minerals

In Altai, construction and facing materials are mined everywhere. Deposits of various clays for making building bricks are practically unlimited here. Salair contains fire-resistant clays containing natural cement. The famous Azhinskoe deposit is located in the Biya basin; multi-colored clays occur here. At the station Golukha is the Agafonovskoe clay deposit with total reserves of up to 11 million tons.

For the production of glass and silicate building bricks, high-quality quartz sand is mined, as well as construction sand near Barnaul. In the Aleya, Biya and Katun basins sand and a sand-gravel mixture are mined. Limestone deposits in Altai are unlimited; for roasting it is mined near the city of Gorno-Altaisk (Tugainskoye), near Manzherok (Izvestkovy village).

The most valuable material is marble; Altai is famous in the country for its marbles. The marble here is fine-grained, easy to process, and comes in all sorts of shades from golden yellow to black. Along the valleys of the Chuya and the rivers flowing into it, mountain ranges stretch for kilometers, composed of gray, purple and snow-white marble.

The Katun basin is famous for its deposits of snow-white, fawn, golden, blue and pink marbles. The underground metro station called “Taganskaya” in Moscow is lined with Oroktoy marbles, and the columns at the “Park Kultury i Otdykha” and “Avtozavodskaya” metro stations are processed with Pushtulim marbles. The Korgon marble deposit on Charysh is also famous. For the construction and cladding of durable building structures and monuments, there are large deposits of gneiss and granite.

Thick layers of gypsum lie on the Kulundinskaya plain near a salt lake reservoir called Dzhira. In the large Kuchukskoye and Kulundinskoye lakes there are deposits of natural mirabilite. The strong salty brine of the Kulunda lakes contains magnesium chloride and various bromine salts. At the bottom of Lake Kuchukskoe, deposits of sodium chloride are estimated by experts at 56 million tons, at the bottom of Lake Burlinskoye up to 30 million tons.

The salty Mikhailovskoye Lake and the Petukhovsky Lakes, quite famous in the region, have large reserves of natural soda, mirabilite and table salt. In terms of the amount of mirabilite and natural soda, Altai ranks 1st in the world, up to 96% of all reserves of the entire country. In lakes Kuchukskoye and Bolshoye Yarovoye there are medicinal muds with remarkable properties; a popular health resort operates on their basis.

Gemstone fossils

A lot of semi-precious and semi-precious stones are mined in the Altai Mountains. In the village of Kolyvan, at the foot of the Kolyvan ridge and mountain, a stone-cutting grinding plant has been located and has been operating since 1802. Vases and stone panels, bowls and balls, floor lamps and cameos produced in Kolyvan today decorate the exquisite halls of various palaces and museums in Russia and many foreign countries. The Colossal Cup or “Queen of Vases,” weighing 11 tons, is kept today in the city of St. Petersburg in one of the halls of the Hermitage.

Altai stones have high decorative properties. The famous Beloretskoye deposit, where high-quality quartzites are mined, and the Revnevskoye deposit of mainly green, but also other multi-colored striped jasper, are very famous in the country. Multi-colored ornamental Altai stones, jasper, porphyry, quartzite and porphyrite are mined in the Tigiretsky, Korgonsky and Kolyvansky ridges. Carnelians, opals, chalcedony and rock crystal are found in the mountains. Salair is home to graphite and graphite shales.

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SUMMER PHOTO COMPETITION “MY LANDSCAPE: MAN AND NATURE” Nomination: “ Natural resources my region" Mineral resources of the Altai region Author: Lyamkina Tatyana Mikhailovna Exhibits of the museum of the city of Zmeinogorsk, the nature of Belokurikha and Barnaul (the world of stone museum)

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The Altai Territory is located in the southeast of Western Siberia, on the border of continental Asia, 3419 km from Moscow. The territory of the region is 168 thousand square meters. km, in terms of area it ranks 24th in the Russian Federation and 10th in Siberia federal district. In the north the region borders Novosibirsk region, in the east – from Kemerovo region, the south-eastern border runs with the Altai Republic, in the south-west and west there is the state border with the Republic of Kazakhstan with a length of 843.6 km. Mineral resources On the territory of the region there are deposits of brown coal, iron, polymetallic and nickel-cobalt ores, bauxite, primary and placer gold, mineral salts (sodium and magnesium sulfate, table salt, natural soda), cement raw materials, gypsum, facing and colored stones, healing mud, mineral and drinking groundwater. The most significant types of minerals for the regional economy at present are polymetallic ores, gold and sodium sulfate.

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Characteristics of resources Polymetallic ores constitute the main value of the subsoil of the Altai Territory. In the southwestern part of the region (the Russian part of Rudny Altai), 16 deposits have been explored. The balance reserves of all deposits amount to 70 million tons of ore. The most in demand are the reserves of ten fields: Korbalikhinskoye, Rubtsovskoye, Zarechenskoye, Sredney, Talovskoye, Stepnoye, Zakharovskoye, Yubileiny, Lazurskoye and Mayskoye. The total reserves of these deposits are 60.7 million tons of ore containing 799 thousand tons of copper, 1602 thousand tons of lead, 4806 thousand tons of zinc, 40 tons of gold, 3543 tons of silver. Museum of Zmeinogorsk

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1. Magnesium salts are contained in four deposits: lakes Kuchuk, Bolshoye Yarovoe and Maloe Yarovoye in the amount of 15,776 thousand tons, as well as in the Malinovskoye deposit of magnesium brines in the amount of 12,600 m3/day. The development of this type of raw material in the region is currently not carried out. 2. Five deposits - lakes Burlinskoye, Kuchuk, Bolshoye Yarovoe, Kochkovatoe and Malinovoye contain reserves of table salt in the amount of 69.7 million tons. The Burlinskoye deposit is being developed. 3. Reserves of natural soda in the amount of 2247 thousand tons are contained in two deposits: Mikhailovskoye and Petukhovskoye. Mining is carried out at the Mikhailovskoye deposit. 4. Within the Altai Territory, three deposits of cement raw materials have been explored - Vrublevo-Agafievskoye, Neverovskoye and Samara with reserves of this type of mineral in the following quantities, million tons: clayey rocks - 57.8; limestones – 166.7. The Vrublevo-Agafievskoye deposit is being developed by Cement OJSC, which produces a significant amount of cement products. 5. From deposits building materials The Dzhirinskoye deposit stands out, which contains gypsum reserves in the amount of 8.919 million tons. The deposit is in the stage of preparation for development. 6. Explored reserves of facing stones concentrated in seven deposits (Elandinsky, Dukovsky, Pushtulimsky, Kamensky, Baikalsky, Beloretsk and Korgonsky) amount to 4008.7 thousand m3. The development of deposits is carried out at an insufficient pace due to low demand from consumers. 7. Colored stones are represented by two deposits of decorative jasper - Lugovsky and Revnevsky with total balance reserves of 62.8 thousand tons. The Revnevsky deposit is currently being prepared for industrial development. 8. Reserves of medicinal mud in the amount of 10,629 thousand m3 are accounted for in five deposits - Chernokuryinskoye, Lake Mormyshanskoye, Lake Maloye Yarovoye, Lake Gorkoe-Peresheichnoye (Western section) and the North-Eastern Estuary section (Lake M. Yarovoye). The Chernokuryinskoye deposits, Lake Mormyshanskoye, Lake Maloye Yarovoe, Lake Gorkoe-Peresheichnoe (Western section) and the North-Eastern estuary section (Lake M. Yarovoe) are being developed. 9. On the territory of the region there is the only deposit of sodium sulfate being developed in the Russian Federation, the Kuchukskoye deposit, the reserves of which amount to 179 million tons. In 2014, polymetallic ores, gold, silver, mineral salts, medicinal mud, as well as non-metallic minerals: cement raw materials and facing stone.

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