Ural Mountains, here mine

The ore is mined by opencast methods. Two centuries, as the scalp with Sulei. Shovels, picks, shovels and now Kolupaev people of the mountain. Previously the ore were taken at Kata-Ivanovo foundry-mechanical plant in the winter, on horseback. Summer because of the rains did not pass. Now the horses have replaced trains. Year by year, the ore being taken away more and more. Before the revolution, two and a half thousand tons produced per year, and now - two or three hours. How much more iron around the tank! And how much of it in the Urals! How many minerals! They lie beneath every mountain. High-quality bauxite in the area Katav-Ivanovo and elms. Magnesite reserves of global significance in Satka, directly beneath the plant. Layers thick vesmidesyati meters. Coal around Chelyabinsk. Cement mineral - marl - in Katav-Ivanovo, Heman-Szelinski. Marble in Medvedivka and near Chelyabinsk. Deposits of jasper - a wonderful ornamental stone, petrified fairy tale nature of all the colors from green to cherry-stretched over five hundred kilometers from Miassa to the south. "No area of ??the Earth, except Madagascar, can not compare to the Urals in diversity and richness of precious stones" - wrote Fersman. If bazhovsky goat, "Silver Hoof", "where topnet - there trail gems, rode along the forest dales and ridges. Strange, unnatural, such a wealth of the region. That is why so many legends, tales of flying around every mountain. Science brings us back to the childhood of the Earth. Urals - the oldest terrestrial mountains. 'Derived' from their green-stone dunites, they were going to chromium compounds, iron and nickel. From the molten mass rose easily dissolved, cool down - they are sulfur compounds, lead, zinc, copper and cobalt. Then emerged from the depths of granite, was delayed in the cracks of the magma and transformed in pegmatite veins. In the voids grew crystals, gemstones tourmaline, topaz, crystal. As a result, the displacement of rocks Ural gathered the more than eight minerals. In short, almost everything that is on our planet.