Geological Expedition

Mineralogical tour "Treasure-house of the Southern Urals”

June 2016 (7 days/6 nights)

1 day
Transfer from airport directly to Sanarka village 380km from Yekaterinburg
On the way: Sugomagskaya cave, Karabash, Miass, Zlatoust, National Park “Taganai”
Lunch + dinner
Overnight in wooden guest house in Sanarka village

2 day
Starting knowing with the Sanarsky pit – outcrop of the Sanarsky granite massif with rocks embeddings of the lower Proterozoic. Quartz veins with epidot, sphene. Pegmatit veins with beryl, columbite (5 km)
Breakfast + lunch + dinner
Overnight in wooden guest house in Sanarka village
Russian banya

3 day
Excursion to the Svetlinsky deposit of ore gold. Minerals: scheelit, pyrites, fahlerz (17 km)
Mineral pits excursion – Staurolite pit (staurolite)
Rutile pit (rutile-sagenit in quartz)
Pegmatite pit (amethyst, apatite, beryl, vorobyevit, morion, desmine, hydroxyl-herderite, muscovy glass, bismutotantalite, wolframite, hubnerite, galenobismuthite, white feldspar, columbite, lepidolite, lithiophorite, microlite, atomic tapiolite, tantalite, pucherite, saponite, churchite , todorokit, rabdofan (5 km)
Breakfast + lunch + dinner
Overnight in wooden guest house in Sanarka village

4 day
Excursion to the Old gold fields (20km)
Mineral mines of pink topaz (buergerite, pink topaz, fuchsite, rutile, chiastolite)
Eleninsky gold deposit. Minerals: anglesite, lead glance, scapolite, wollastonite, boulangerite, sulphur-ore, cerussite, gahnite, geocronite, goethite, hydrogoethite, seligmanite, illite, jordanite, bournonite, sphalerite, calcite, clinochlore, sulphur, tennantite, chrysoberyl, chrome tourmaline, citrine.
The Andreevsky lead-zinc mine. Minerals: arsenopyrite, strontium-containing barites, hydrozincite, pyromorphite, chillagite, plumboferrite, fluorapatite, cadmic sphalerite, marmatite, pyrites, smithsonite, ferrous cerusite, scheelite
The cyanite mine. Minerals: vanadic cyanite, turmaline, hematite, monazite, paragonite, fuchsite
The Melnikovsky mine. Minerals: beryl, columbite, romaneshite
Breakfast + lunch + dinner
Overnight in wooden guest house in Sanarka village
Russian banya

5 day
Excursion along the river Kabanka (30km)
The Eremkinsky mine (beryl, amethyst, columbite, gahnite
The Kuchinsky quarry . Minerals: anhydrite, bertrandite, wollastonite, corundum, ruby, norbergite, pargasite, uvarovite, phlogopite, chondrodite, scarlet spinelle
The Kochkarsky stone quarry. Minerals: magnetite, chrome iron ore, grossularia, titanite, clinochlore (20 km)
Breakfast + lunch + festive dinner
Overnight in wooden guest house in Sanarka village

6 day
Summarizing of the trip, preparation of your rocks for getting a permission for export
Transfer to Yekaterinburg
Breakfast + lunch
Overnight in 3 star hotel in Yekaterinburg

7 day
Breakfast
Transfer to the airport

Total amount if you book untill 15.02.2016
Per 2 persons: 122800RUB
Per 4 persons: 175000RUB
Per 6 persons: 230000RUB

Included: all transfers, mineralogist-guide, English interpreter, accommodation according to the program, Russian banya, meals according to the program, all equipment
Visa support – 45Euro/per
Express permission for rocks export – 75Euro/mineral collection