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Locality
53°30´ east longitude, 63°25´ north latitiude   [ map ]

Name
Yarega, Komi, Russia, Europa

Personal relationship of donor
Reference collection - Russia

Historical relevance of location
Enrichments of heavy minerals in sands are often of economic importance.

Geological relevance of location
Heavy minerals can be enriched in the sands along a coast. Such deposits are called \\\\\\\"placers\\\\\\\", local enrichments of heavy, resistant minerals (especially gold) that in some cases can be mined.

Classification of the earth
Structure sand
Colour reddish brown
Age Middle Devonian, 380 million years
other sandstone containing heavy minerals

Donor

Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
 Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
 Hannover,
 Germany

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