DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF IULTINSKOYE TIN-TUNGSTEN DEPOSIT

• Published in: Proceedings of higher educational establishments. Geology and Exploration
• Main Author: V. V. Romanova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Sergo Ordzhonikidze Russian State University for Geological Prospecting 2018
• Subjects: крупное месторождение; музейные коллекции; вольфрамит; касситерит; первооткрыватель; горно-обогатительный комбинат; Geology; QE1-996.5; Chukotka
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.32454/0016-7762-2018-3-65-73; https://doaj.org/article/bb55e761f3c04bd3a917cd45ca52119d

The Iultinskoye deposit was discovered 80 years ago in the remote and unexplored region of Chukotka. Discovery and development of the deposit were accompanied by serious difficulties. A brief biographic data about the discoverer of the deposit V.N. Milyaev has been presented here. The Iultinsky mining processing plant, which was opened in 1959, was closed in 1994 due to the changing in the economic situation. The deposit was conserved, Iultinsky village was liquidated. Vernadsky State Geological Museum RAS has samples of cassiterite and wolframite, collected by geologists of the Second Chukotka Glavsevmorput expedition in the year of the deposit discovery.