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Title: RUSSIAN KARELIA?S INDUSTRIAL MINERAL POTENTIAL: NEW WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT
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RUSSIAN KARELIA?S INDUSTRIAL MINERAL POTENTIAL: NEW WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT
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A large group of commercial minerals known as ?industrial minerals? is used worldwide. Industrial minerals are understood as useful mineral deposits, i.e. all minerals extracted from the earth, except for energy raw materials, metals, water and gemstones, and used for industrial purposes owing to their physical, chemical and mechanical properties. The geological structure of the continental eastern Fennoscandian Shield (Karelian Region), the basement of the East European Platform, is controlled by its long geological evolution from 3.5 Ga to the present. The extraction and use of mineral resources in what is now Russian Karelia began in the Old Russian state founded in the 9th century, when large-scale mica production was launched followed by salt production in salt works on the White Sea shore. The late 18th century saw the production of Tivdian-Belogorsk and Ruskeala marbles, Olonets gabbro-diabase, Shoksha crimson quartzite and Serdobol granite in stone quarries. The first attempts to study shungite were made in the 19th century. Long-term studies of Karelia?s industrial minerals have shown that Karelia?s mineral potential comprises a variety of essential multi-purpose industrial minerals such as diamond, graphite, shungite, kyanite, garnet, fluorite, quartz, pegmatitic and magmatic feldspar, muscovite, talc, alkaline asbestos and others. Of great importance are Precambrian dimension stone and crushed stone used in civil engineering. It is important to update technological methods for optimum processing of priority industrial minerals such as graphite, kyanite, fluorite, high-purity quartz, soapstone and shungite rocks. Dimension stone and aggregate stone production has a good outlook for the future comparing Karelian resources with a similar one in Finland.
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20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2020
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20th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2020, 18 - 24 August, 2020
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Proceedings Paper
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STEF92 Technology
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International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference-SGEM
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SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Russian Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; C
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279-286
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18 - 24 August, 2020
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cdrom
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6845
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industrial minerals; prospecting; exploration; Precambrian; deposits; Russian Karelia
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