Geologically, Russia encompasses one of the most diverse and extensive geological frameworks on Earth. Major components include the Precambrian Baltic (Fennoscandian) Shield in the northwest, the East European Platform, the Ural Mountains marking the boundary between Europe and Asia, the West Siberian Basin, the Siberian Craton, and extensive Phanerozoic orogenic belts in southern Siberia and the Far East. These regions record a long and complex tectonic history involving craton formation, rifting, subduction, continental collision, and large igneous province emplacement.
Russia is exceptionally rich in mineral resources and classic mineral localities. It hosts major deposits of iron, nickel, copper, platinum-group elements, diamonds, gold, uranium, rare earth elements, and a wide range of industrial minerals. Notable mineralogical provinces include the Kola Peninsula, the Urals, the Norilsk region, the Aldan Shield, the Transbaikalia region, and the Far Eastern volcanic arcs. Many historically important mineral species were first described from Russian localities, and older specimen labels may reference former political entities such as the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union.
Administratively, Russia is subdivided into federal subjects of various types, including republics, oblasts, krais, and autonomous districts, which form the primary political subdivisions used in Mindat’s locality hierarchy.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded from this region.Mineral List
Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localitiesⓘ var. Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite
ⓘ var. Manganese-bearing Fluorapatite
ⓘ 'var. Ceriopyrochlore (of Hogarth 1977)'
ⓘ 'var. Plumbopyrochlore (of Skorobogatova et al.)' (FRL)
ⓘ 'var. Uranpyrochlore (of Hogarth 1977)'
2877 valid minerals. 923 (TL) - type locality of valid minerals. 33 (FRL) - first recorded locality of unapproved mineral/variety/etc. 12 erroneous literature entries.
Rock Types Recorded
Rock list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Select Rock List Type
Alphabetical List Tree Diagramⓘ 'Albite-chlorite-epidote-sericite schist'
ⓘ 'Amphibole-biotite hornfels'
ⓘ 'Anomalous IIE iron meteorite'
ⓘ 'Anomalous IIIE iron meteorite'
ⓘ 'Anomalous PMG pallasite meteorite'
ⓘ 'Anomalous mesosiderite meteorite'
ⓘ 'CH/CBb chondrite meteorite'
ⓘ 'Eucrite cumulate meteorite'
ⓘ 'Eucrite monomict breccia meteorite'
ⓘ 'Eucrite polymict breccia meteorite'
ⓘ Fine-grained ("volcanic") normal crystalline igneous rock
ⓘ 'Fine-grained metamafic-rock'
ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite granite'
ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite granodiorite'
ⓘ 'Hornblende-biotite microdiorite'
ⓘ 'Hyalo-olivine-diopside-phlogopite lamproite'
ⓘ 'Lamprophyric-pyroxene-calcite-biotite olivine-melilitite'
ⓘ 'Melanocratic nephelinolite'
ⓘ 'Pegmatitc agpaitic nepheline syenite'
ⓘ 'Pegmatitic nepheline syenite'
ⓘ 'Peralkaline alkali-feldspar-granite'
ⓘ 'Peralkaline-alkali-feldspar nepheline-syenite'
Other Databases
| Wikipedia: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia |
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| Wikidata ID: | Q159 |
| GeoNames ID: | 2017370 |
Mindat Articles
The Urals, Russia - Minerals, Gems and Adventure by Dmitry TonkacheevLocalities in this Region
- Adygea (Republic of Adygea)
- Altai Krai
- Altai Republic
- Amur Oblast
- Arkhangelsk Oblast
- Astrakhan Oblast
- Bashkortostan
- Belgorod Oblast
- ⭔Bryansk Oblast
- Buryatia
- Chechnya
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
- Chuvashia
- Dagestan
- ⭔Ingushetia
- Irkutsk Oblast
- ⭔Ivanovo Oblast
- Jewish Autonomous Oblast
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Kaliningrad Oblast
- Kalmykia
- Kaluga Oblast
- Kamchatka Krai
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Kemerovo Oblast
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Khakassia (Republic of Khakassia)
- Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
- Kirov Oblast
- Komi Republic
- ⭔Kostroma Oblast
- Krasnodar Krai
- Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Kurgan Oblast
- Kursk Oblast
- Leningrad Oblast
- Lipetsk Oblast
- Magadan Oblast
- ⭔Mari El Republic
- Mordovia
- Moscow
- Moscow Oblast
- Murmansk Oblast
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
- North Ossetia–Alania
- Novgorod Oblast
- Novosibirsk Oblast
- Ol’khon ophiolite
- Ol’khon Region
- Omsk Oblast
- Orenburg Oblast
- Oryol Oblast
- ⭔Penza Oblast
- ⭔Perm Governorate (1781-1923)
- Perm Krai
- Primorsky Krai
- Republic of Karelia
- Rostov Oblast
- Ryazan Oblast
- Sakha
- Sakhalin Oblast
- Samara Oblast
- Saratov Oblast
- Shirokaya Valley
- Smolensk Oblast
- Stavropol Krai
- Sverdlovsk Oblast
- Taiga (stone) meteorite
- Tambov Oblast
- Tatarstan
- Tomsk Oblast
- ⭔Transbaikal
- Tula Oblast
- Tuva
- Tver Oblast
- Tyumen Oblast
- Udmurt Republic
- Ulyanovsk Oblast
- ⭔Vladimir Oblast
- Volgograd Oblast
- ⭔Vologda Oblast
- Voronezh Oblast
- Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
- ⭔Yaroslavl Oblast
- Zabaykalsky Krai