Schist

Russia, Irkutsk region, watershed of the rivers Homolkho and Imnyakh, gold deposit "Golets Vysochayshy", north wall of the pit. Carbon quartz-mica schists. The first photo shows quartz veins in the pit wall. Schists contain veins, lenses, and impregnations of pyrite and pyrrhotite. Khomolkhinskaya series. Thickness 650 meters. Paleoproterozoic.