Sandstone

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Age: 
2050 millions years

Russia, Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Tabornoye gold deposit, upper Usu river. Metasomatically modified polymictic sandstones of the olonnokon series with quartz veins. Contain gold. Paleoproterozoic. 

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Age: 
172 millions years

Russia, Magadan region, starboard side of the valley of the river Burkhala. Siltstones with interbeds of sandstones with quartz veins, lenses. Quartz contains gold mineralization. Susumanskaya series??? Fossil: Inoceramus sp. indet. Middle Jurassic. Aalenian.

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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.

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Age: 
168 millions years

Russia, Magadan region, creek watershed Assault (Shturmovoy) and Chess (Shakhmatnyy). Siltstones with interbeds of sandstones with quartz veins, lenses. Quartz contains gold mineralization. Susumanskaya series. Fossil: Inoceramus sp. indet., I. ex gr. porrectus Eichw. Middle Jurassic.

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Age: 
1300 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Carbon-containing sandstones with pyrite phenocrysts. Angarskaya series, upper pack. Mesoproterozoic.

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Age: 
1200 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, valley of the Big Chanchik creek. Calcareous metamorphosed sandstones. Iligirskaya series. Mesoproterozoic.

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Russia, Irkutsk region, the upper reaches of the creek of Alexander Nevsky, gold deposit - "Nevskoe". Gold ore.Quartz sulfide mineralization in paleoproterozoic quartz sandstones.Mineralization includes: pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite, their oxides, gold, quartz and carbonate-quartz veins.

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Age: 
2350 millions years

Russia, Irkutsk region, the upper reaches of the creek of Alexander Nevsky, gold deposit - "Nevskoe". Quartz sandstones with quartz and quartz-arbonatic veins. Fine grained. Cement - quartz-sericite, with carbonaceous matter. Aunakitskaya series. Host rocks for gold ore mineralization of the Nevskoye deposit. Paleoproterozoic.

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Age: 
338 millions years

Kazakhstan, the valley of the river Ssmall Ulba. Sandstones. Ul'binskaya series. Carboniferous. Visean.

Rock type: 
Age: 
1200 millions years

Russia, Republic of Buryatia, Taksimo. Brownish-lilac and greenish large-pebble conglomerates with interbeds of sandstones. Pebbles and boulders in conglomerates up to 80 centimeters in size. Formed by sandstones, shales, granites and various effusive rocks. Sandy cement is metamorphosed to a saussurite-sericite aggregate, with feldspars, quartz, epidote and iron hydroxides. The interlayers of sandstones are green, greenish-gray, polymictic and quartz. Polymictic sandstones are formed by quartz, plagioclase and potassium feldspar. Mukhtunnaya series. Thickness 1300 meters.