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Rock type: 
Age: 
185 millions years

Russia, Magadan region, starboard side of the valley of the Sturmovoy creek. The alternation of siltstones and sandstones with quartz veins and lenses containing gold mineralization. Low Jurassic.

Rock type: 
Age: 
2300 millions years

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.