Gumeshevskii Cu Mine
Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
One of the oldest mines in Russia, working a copper deposit near the town of Polevskoy.
Supplier of huge amounts of decorative Malachite – with decorative malachite from the site having been used to decorate the Winter Palace in Russia and Versailles in France, as well as others.
Mindat lists nearly 40 minerals from the site, so it isn’t just Malachite, but I suspect thats all I’ll see from the site anytime soon!
There are a few different names associated with this site, possibly due to different anglicisations of the cyrillic name.
- Gumyoshevsky mine/ Гумёшевский рудник
- Gumeschevsk
- Gumeshki
- Gumeshevsky
- Gumishevskoye mine
- Gumeshevskii Cu Mine
Some specimens may be labelled ‘Russia’, ‘CCCP’, ‘USSR’ depending on the year they were extracted.
Further reading
- https://www.mindat.org/loc-20030.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumyoshevsky_mine
- https://geo.web.ru/druza/l-Gumeshev.htm
If you are interested in other classic Russian locales we may have stock from the following locales.
Russian locales
- Gumeshevskii Cu Mine, Polevskoy, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
- Lovozero Massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
- Ploskaya Mt, Western Keivy Massif, Keivy Mountains, Lovozersky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
For the rest of our Russian stock, see below.
Russia
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