Minerals of the Urals are represented as diamond jewelry, and other minerals, as well as a variety of metals and non-metals.
The earliest fossils of the Urals, which began to be mined, copper ore is the story of their production began about four thousand years ago.
Much later, about V-III centuries BC.e., began to mine iron ore.Gold began to produce in the 1st millennium BCSince the field facing the surface, where the minerals of the Urals, quickly dried up, it was necessary to carry out more in-depth development.But sometimes this kind of human activity was in decline, as in the first millennium BCIt occupies the entire Southern Ural nomads that mining and metal smelting were not engaged.
1.5 Only after thousands of years, people have again started to extract minerals of the Urals, and began a new era of using these resources.
Minerals southern Urals
Ferrous metals
Since the end of XVIII century to the present day, extracted limonite.At the beginning of the last century at a faster pace began to develop iron ore deposit, and was built by the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Combine, but to date the ore reserves are almost exhausted.Not far from Magnitogorsk to develop deposits of magnetite and titanomagnetite ores, called Small Kuybas.
Minerals of the Urals are not only iron ore and other mined here ferrous metals, such as titanium, chromium, vanadium, manganese.
currently being zhelezotitanovanadievyh mining ore reserves are very large.They have a high iron content - up to 57% titanium - 6.5% vanadium - 0.4%.
ferrous metals
the South Urals there are many different non-ferrous metal ores.Already developed a large number of deposits of copper pyrite and sulphide ore deposits.Since they are on the small depth, then held open their development.Not far from the nature reserve "Arch" at the end of the last century is now being developed openly and zinc deposit.The main difference between pyrite ores is that they always have several components.If you are a major zinc and copper, that with them there is a fairly high amount of gold, lead, silver, as well as rare metals such as gallium, indium, scandium, mercury and others.Also obtained from said ores sulfur.
Along with pyrite ores are significant deposits of porphyry copper ores, in which a significant amount of molybdenum.
Ufaley deposits of nickel-cobalt ore are known far beyond the country.Part of the spent already, but held a constant search for new deposits of these ores.There are deposits of bauxite, from which aluminum is melted.
Precious metals
South Urals is the main supplier of gold in the coffers of the state.It was in the Urals found this nugget of metal weighing about 36 kilograms.Gold mining is carried out of the mines, depth reaches 700 meters. Also, the gold and silver mined in the processing of pyrite ores.
Rare metals
to this type of metals are tungsten, tin, tantalum, beryllium, and others.Held mining a rare mineral as columbite.It is because it is extracted niobium and zirconium ore mining is, in passing which produces ceramic feldspar raw material.There are deposits of iron ore of tungsten and beryllium.
A few kilometers from Satka has unique deposits of rare metals, namely, zirconium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, which is called Simbirka.This ore has an unusual mineral composition and very rich in tantalum and niobium, which is extremely rare.
Today a map of mineral deposits of the Urals, which is continuously refined since conducted search and development of new deposits.
