Iron Horn is a cape on the southern coast of the Taman Peninsula , 10 km south of the village of Taman ( Krasnodar Territory ).
| Iron Horn | |
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| Water area | Black Sea |
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| The subject of the Russian Federation | Krasnodar region |
Cape stretches for 1.3 km and is located at an altitude of 65 m above sea level. The flat top area of the cape is planted with vineyards . There is a small beach on the south-west coast.
Iron Horn - the only place in the Kuban , where there is an output of iron ore to the surface of the earth. Iron was mined here until 1932 in an artisanal way; Now the thickness of the reservoir of brown iron ore , which cannot be eroded, is from 3.5 to 4 m.