Platinum Crystals - Eastern Siberia - Mined from a crater - Kondyor Massif - in far eastern Russia

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Platinum Crystals - Eastern Siberia - Mined from a crater - Kondyor Massif - in far eastern Russia

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RMKRMR23–Kondyor Massif, Russia This is neither an impact crater nor a volcano. It is a perfect circular intrusion, about 10 km in diameter with a topographic ridge up to 600 m high. The Kondyor Massif is located in Eastern Siberia, Russia, north of the city of Khabarovsk. It is a rare form of igneous intrusion called alkaline-ultrabasic massif and it is full of rare minerals. The river flowing out of it forms placer mineral deposits. Last year 4 tons of platinum were mined there. A remarkable and very unusual mineralogical feature of the deposit is the presence of coarse crystals of Pt-Fe alloy, coa

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