Proceedings of the National Museum of Natural History, 2013, Nr 11, pages 55-62 The Geological and Industrial Types of Cooper Ore Deposits of Ukraine and Its Expositions in the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine. Patalakha, G. B., Derevska, K. I., Grytsenko, V. P., Rudenko, K. V. Summary:
There are two main geological and industrial types of copper ore deposits in Ukraine: metallic copper into volcanogenic rocks and stratiformic into cuprous sandstones and schists. Copper-nickel geologic and industrial type of ores is of minor importance. In Ukraine, copper occurrences are concentrated in formations of different ages. The oldest one was formed in Volhyn Series Vendian basalts and lavobreccias which contain dendrites and copper nuggets. Stratyformic deposits and ore occurrences of Prypyat–Dnieper–Donets copper zone are represented by the Upper Devonian and Lower Permian red sediments with copper mineralization. The youngest copper finds are concentrated in Neogene sandstones of Precarpathians. The collection of the Geological Museum of NNHM NAS of Ukraine contains the samples from different copper deposits and displays of Ukraine and the world, some of them can be attributed to the unique specimens. Keywords:
copper ore deposits, native copper, cuprous sandstones, Volyn’, Geological museum, Vendian, Devonian, Permian, Neogene. Address:
National Museum of Natural History of NAS of Ukraine, Bohdan Khmelnytsky St. 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine; e-mail: favosites@ukr.net, zimkakatya@gmail.com, rena-li@ukr.net summary ukr., summary ros., summary eng, pdf return
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