Berezovsky gold deposit - a gold deposit located in the Urals , the city of Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk region , Russia .
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History
Opened in the 18th century, it has been developed since 1745 . With the beginning of development associated the emergence of the gold industry in Russia.
Berezovsky appeared in 1748 as a village near the mine. It got its name from the Berezovka River, the right tributary of the Pyshma River .
In these places in 1745, a resident of the village of Shartash Erofei Markov discovered a gold deposit. The discovery cost dearly to Erofei Markov himself. The search for gold in the place indicated by Markov at first yielded no results. He was suspected of hiding a real deposit, for a long time the discoverer of gold spent in custody.
However, after a couple of years, gold was still found. First, in 1748, the Shartashsky mine appeared here (later it was renamed Pyshminsky, and then to the Original). In 1752, the Berezovsky mine was opened. And in 1757, a gold-washing plant was launched.
Feature
The ore field is located within the Ural-Tobolsk anticlinorium in a lowered block limited by submeridional faults and large bodies of ancient gabbros and hyperbasites , Hercynian granitoids . The dikes are up to 20 km long, 2–40 m thick. Gold (sample 800–900) is unevenly distributed in the form of fine dispersed impregnation and larger clusters, sometimes in the form of small nuggets on the upper horizons.
Development Technology
The field is developed underground. Concentration of ore - flotation .