Miass River, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Miass River | River |
| Chelyabinsk Oblast | Oblast |
| Russia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude:
54° North , 60° East (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~275km
Type:
Placer PGM-Au deposits in the upper Miass River over some 90km.
The exact localities for Miassite, Palladodymite and Polkanovite are unknown (they were found in precious metal concentrates).
The exact localities for Miassite, Palladodymite and Polkanovite are unknown (they were found in precious metal concentrates).
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Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities60 valid minerals. 5 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| ⓘ | Native Lead | 1.AA.05 | Pb |
| ⓘ | Native Tin (TL) | 1.AC.10 | Sn |
| ⓘ | Native Osmium | 1.AF.05 | (Os,Ir,Ru) |
| ⓘ | Rutheniridosmine | 1.AF.05 | (Ir,Os,Ru) |
| ⓘ | Native Ruthenium | 1.AF.05 | (Ru,Ir) |
| ⓘ | Native Osmium var. Iridosmine | 1.AF.05 | (Os,Ir) |
| ⓘ | Native Iridium | 1.AF.10 | (Ir,Os,Ru) |
| ⓘ | Native Platinum | 1.AF.10 | Pt |
| ⓘ | Native Iridium var. Platosmiridium | 1.AF.10 | (Ir,Pt,Os) |
| ⓘ | Isoferroplatinum | 1.AG.35 | Pt3Fe |
| ⓘ | Ferronickelplatinum | 1.AG.40 | Pt2FeNi |
| ⓘ | Tulameenite | 1.AG.40 | Pt2CuFe |
| ⓘ | Hongshiite | 1.AG.45 | PtCu |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Zaccariniite | 2.AA.50 | RhNiAs |
| ⓘ | Rhodarsenide | 2.AC.25b | (Rh,Pd)2As |
| ⓘ | Palladodymite (TL) | 2.AC.25c | (Pd,Rh)2As |
| ⓘ | Polkanovite (TL) | 2.AC.30 | Rh12As7 |
| ⓘ | Nipalarsite | 2.AC.50 | Ni8Pd3As4 |
| ⓘ | Geerite | 2.BA.05 | Cu8S5 |
| ⓘ | Digenite | 2.BA.10 | Cu9S5 |
| ⓘ | Heazlewoodite | 2.BB.05 | Ni3S2 |
| ⓘ | Pentlandite | 2.BB.15 | (NixFey)Σ9S8 |
| ⓘ | Fleetite (TL) | 2.BC. | Cu2RhIrSb2 |
| ⓘ | Miassite (TL) | 2.BC.05 | Rh17S15 |
| ⓘ | Keithconnite | 2.BC.20 | Pd20Te7 |
| ⓘ | Vasilite | 2.BC.25 | (Pd,Cu)16(S,Te)7 |
| ⓘ | Balkanite | 2.BD.15 | Cu9Ag5HgS8 |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Ferrotorryweiserite | 2.CC. | Rh5Fe10S16 |
| ⓘ | Stumpflite | 2.CC.05 | PtSb |
| ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ | Cherepanovite | 2.CC.15 | RhAs |
| ⓘ | Millerite | 2.CC.20 | NiS |
| ⓘ | Cooperite | 2.CC.35b | PtS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Cuprorhodsite | 2.DA.05 | (Cu+0.5Fe3+0.5)Rh3+2S4 |
| ⓘ | Xingzhongite | 2.DA.05 | Pb2+Ir3+2S4 |
| ⓘ | Bowieite | 2.DB.15 | Rh2S3 |
| ⓘ | Kashinite | 2.DB.15 | Ir2S3 |
| ⓘ | Iridarsenite | 2.EB. | (Ir,Ru)As2 |
| ⓘ | Erlichmanite | 2.EB.05a | OsS2 |
| ⓘ | Laurite | 2.EB.05a | RuS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Sperrylite | 2.EB.05a | PtAs2 |
| ⓘ | Vaesite | 2.EB.05a | NiS2 |
| ⓘ | Anduoite | 2.EB.15a | RuAs2 |
| ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
| ⓘ | Irarsite | 2.EB.25 | (Ir,Ru,Rh,Pt)AsS |
| ⓘ | Tolovkite | 2.EB.25 | IrSbS |
| Group 3 - Halides | |||
| ⓘ | Chlorargyrite | 3.AA.15 | AgCl |
| ⓘ | 'Khodnevite' | 3.CE.05 | Na2AlF5 (?) |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Chromite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Cr3+2O4 |
| ⓘ | Magnesiochromite | 4.BB.05 | MgCr2O4 |
| ⓘ | Corundum | 4.CB.05 | Al2O3 |
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ | Ilmenite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2+TiO3 |
| ⓘ | Corundum var. Sapphire | 4.CB.05 | Al2O3 |
| ⓘ | Rutile var. Ilmenorutile | 4.DB.05 | (Ti,Nb)O2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DB.05 | TiO2 | |
| ⓘ | Daubréeite | 4.F0.25 | BiO(OH) |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Forsterite | 9.AC.05 | Mg2(SiO4) |
| ⓘ | Edenite | 9.DE.15 | NaCa2Mg5(Si7Al)O22(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Albite | 9.FA.35 | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Iron-Platinum alloy' | - | (Pt,Fe) |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Rh-Ni Arsenide II)' | - | RhNiAs |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Rh Arsenide)' | - | Rh2As |
List of minerals for each chemical element
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References
Britvin, S. N., Rudashevsky, N. S., Bogdanova, A. N., Shcherbachov, D. K. (1998) Polkanovite Rh12As7 — the new mineral from a placer at the Miass River (the South Urals) Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 127 (2) 60-62
Brtivin, S. N., Rudashevsky, N. S., Bogdanova, A. N., Shcherbachov, D. K. (1999) Palladodymite (Pd,Rh)2As, a new mineral from a placier of the Miass River, the Urals. Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 128 (2) 39-42
Britvin, S. N., Rudashevsky, N. S., Bogdanova, A. N., Shcherbachev, D. K. (2001) Miassite Rh17S15, a new mineral from a placier of Miass River, Urals. Zapiski Vserossijskogo Mineralogicheskogo Obshchestva, 130 (2) 41-45
Barkov, Andrei Y., Tolstykh, Nadezhda D., Shvedov, Gennadiy I., Martin, Robert F. (2018) Ophiolite-related associations of platinum-group minerals at Rudnaya, western Sayans and Miass, southern Urals, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (3) 515-530 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.82
Barkov, Andrei Y., Bindi, Luca, Tamura, Nobumichi, Martin, Robert F., Ma, Chi, Winkler, Björn, Shvedov, Gennadiy I., Morgenroth, Wolfgang (2021) Fleetite, Cu2RhIrSb2, a New Species of Platinum-Group Mineral from the Miass Placer Zone, Southern Urals, Russia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 59 (2) 423-430 doi:10.3749/canmin.2000073






Central Miass placer, Miass River, Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia