A multinational collaboration with European and Russian colleagues in the acquisition and analysis of a 500-km deep seismic reflection profile across the Uralian orogen in central Russia

Structure, evolution and geodynamics of the Urals.
Participation of the GFZ  (GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam, Germany) to the URSEIS project.

A coordinated, interdisciplinary investigation into the nature and history of the Uralide orogen
EUROPROBE project

Urals Project field workshop, Anglesey, North Wales, 14– 18 October 2001 - "Geodynamic settings of the VMS deposits in the south Urals and comparisons with other belts in Europe"
Organised by Richard Herrington (the NHM)

The Russian Mining Magazine

Official website of the Ural State Academy of Mining and Geology

Eurasia Mining PLC, a mineral exploration and development company specialising in Platinum Group Metals (PGMs), holds substantial licences in two of the world's largest platinum producing provinces: the Central Urals of Russia and the Bushveld Complex of South Africa.

Based on the book "THE RUSSIAN GOLD" (Moscow, 1994).
Edited by Vladimir Kroupnik

Sazonov V.N., van Herk A.H., de Boorder H. (2001) Spatial and temporal distribution of gold deposits in the Urals. Economic Geology, vol. 96, pp. 685-703.
(pdf file of the publication)

Anderson W.B., Martineau M.P. New discoveries of Platinum and Palladium in the Central Urals of Russia. Abstract from the 9th Pt-Pd Symposium
(pdf file)

R. Hellmies (Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Berlin, Germany)
Origin of sediment hosted deposits in the Upper Proterozoic strata of the western Urals/Russia.
Short descriptions of this anticline which hosts several types of stratabound deposits.

Levin V., Menke W., Park J.
Shear-Wave Splitting in the Appalachians and the Urals: A Case for Multilayered Anisotropy.
Shear-wave splitting studies measure and describe the anisotropy of the Earth. In this paper, it is interpreted in terms of multilayered anisotropy, implying either complex deformation in a past collisional event or, more plausibly, a mix of active and fossil deformations.

Semenov V.B.
English summary and illustrations about jasper in the Urals

Demantoid garnet is mined in the Central Urals of Russia, where it is found in alluvial gold washings of the Sissersk District, Nizhni-Tagil, and from the Bobrovka River.
Published in The Gem Spectrum (Pala International’s free newsletter)

This tale is the most famous one from the book The Malachite Casket, written by P.Bazhov, who based his stories on miners' tales from the Ural Mountains.

The Tourist Company of the Southern Urals is working out the international project URALTERRA, that is dedicated to professionals, amateurs, students, rockhounds and stonecutters from all the countries who are interested in the Urals as a unique geological mineralogical region.
This site presents interesting presentations and illustrations about geology and mineralogy of th Southern Urals.

ENVIURALS CLUSTER - GUIDING PRINCIPLES

COPERNICUS PROJECTS: ENVIMAN AND MINURALS

1. The 2 projects will form a cluster under the acronym ENVIURALS or any other acronym proposed by the coordinators or the scientific officer. This cluster will provide a focus on research in Europe regarding exploitation of mineral resources, origin, development and environmental impacts as well as assessment of risks, groundwater modelling and rehabilitation technologies at waste disposal sites mainly in the Urals area but also in other areas of Russia and Ukraine.
2. Coordination and administrative aspects related to the cluster management will be assured by a coordination committee, which will be supervised by the EC officer. Members of this committee are Prof. I. Paspaliaris and Dr. K. Komnitsas on behalf of ENVIMAN and Dr. J. M. Leistel and Dr B. Willimason on behalf of MINURALS. Funding by the EC of major potential future activities, such as common workshops and other dissemination activities, may be considered.
3. Cluster activities include at a minimum, a common meeting of the project coordinators for the remaining period (Sep. 2002 – August 2003), exchange of deliverables (such as sampling, analysis, environmental assesment and risk protocols), plans and results, a cluster workshop towards the end of the projects probably at the Urals area (in order apart from disseminating project results to inform Russian authorities and public/private organisations on FP6), coordinated approach of IPR and dissemination actions(such as linking of web pages, cluster newsletters, cluster brochures etc).
4. Project coordinators under the supervision of the scientific coordinator will further develop cluster objectives and define additional cluster activities to be undertaken. To facilitate this process, an additonal meeting between project coordinators and EC officer should be held in Brussels (date to be defined by the scientific coordinator), in order to evaluate the cluster and plan future activities where possible benefits are forseen. Both project coordinators are free to propose cluster activities and the level of participation of their group in such activities. To avoid as far as possible initially non-scheduled expenses, potentially costly cluster activities (i.e. travels) will try to fit the normal progress of both projects.
5. Cluster activities would be included in 6 month, annual, final and TIP reports issued. In addition, cluster activities will be available at both projects web pages.
6. Intellectual property rights (IPR) would be discussed to ensure mutual understanding and agreement between all participants (represented by project coordinators). Any limits to IPR would be clearly stated and defined in advance.
7. The ENVIURALS cluster would be open to other EU funded projects (particularly in any dissemination, scientific workshop and conference activities). Any such participation would not be funded by the cluster. Furthermore, requests from other European research projects, or projects from overseas countries (USA, Canada, Australia) or national funded projects, to participate in these activities, would be looked at favourably (on a self funded basis).

ENVIURALS POTENTIAL CLUSTER ACTIVITIES

• Exchange of methodologies and experimental and legislative protocols (NTUA has already send to BRGM the Environmental Characterisation deliverable)
• Materials and methods
• Synergies in sampling and data gathering campaigns
• Database intercomparison/links
• Dissemination mechanisms
• Cluster management
• IPR
• Submission of a joint NoE or IP in the forthcoming FP6 calls