NORILSK PARTNER

- Can Norilsk Nickel and Vladimir Potanin become your allies?

We had and still have good relations with Vladimir Potanin. We have worked together - and successfully - on a number of projects. A few years ago, various options for interaction with platinum were also discussed. They also talked about a possible partnership. They talked about the exchange option, relatively speaking, "tails". For us, the main product is platinoids, while for Norilsk Nickel it is nickel and copper. It was about changing nickel and copper for platinoids at some ratio. I am sure our dialogue will develop. In any case, Russian Platinum will not be an elephant in a china shop in Taimyr, we intend to work normally in cooperation with all interested parties.

- Would you like to see Norilsk Nickel as a partner with a share in the capital of Russian Platinum? Have such proposals been made to Potanin?

Everything is possible with mutual interest. Back in 2009, we discussed the possibility of Norilsk Nickel's shareholding in our platinum assets. When considering a partnership, we must understand what Norilsk Nickel can offer us. They have the infrastructure, we don't. We need to either create everything of our own from scratch, or negotiate with a neighbor. Of course, it is necessary first to understand the economics of this infrastructure, and on this basis to clarify the economics of the development of the entire project. We are ready to continue the dialogue.

- Still, are you ready to sell your stake in Russian Platinum?

In business, something is being bought and sold all the time. But today we do not sell anything to anyone.

- In Taimyr there is another interesting platinum-copper-nickel deposit, Maslovskoye, which is adjacent to the southern part of Norilsk-1. Norilsk Nickel has included it in its long-term strategy and expects to receive it without bidding as a pioneer.

The fact is that since January 2013, a law has been in force in Russia, according to which the rights to subsoil plots of federal significance can only be acquired at auctions. We will definitely take part in the auction. And I am sure that having a license for the southern part of Norilsk-1, we will be able to offer a larger premium for the Maslovskoye field than other companies. For us, taking into account logistics and other things, it will be a single complex with the Chernogorsk field and Norilsk-1. Ore from all three sites will be processed at one GOK.

- But your victory in the tender for Norilsk-1 provoked such a strong protest from Norilsk Nickel... What kind of reaction do you expect, declaring your interest in Maslovsky, which the MMC considers in fact its own?

I don't expect any response. We work in the legal field. If the state puts the site up for auction and I participate in them, I should not think what other companies will think. I'm just calculating my economy. Of course, this takes into account the possibility of interaction with other partners, including Norilsk Nickel.

OPPORTUNITIES WITHOUT PARTNERS

- Potanin said that Norilsk Nickel is negotiating with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto on the joint development of the Maslovskoye field. How interested are you in foreign partners in Taimyr projects?

We believe that we can master this project on our own. But if we see that we are not coping, no one prevents us from attracting global companies as minority shareholders with their management capabilities, metal extraction technologies, and logistics. We will discuss, because the task of the project is to make its economy as profitable as possible.

- Have you already received offers from foreigners?

There is a working dialogue.

- This summer, Russian Platinum announced that if it does not get access to the port of Dudinka, it will build its own terminal on the Yenisei?

In the Khabarovsk Territory, we transport products from Konder (a platinum deposit) along the winter road for more than 500 kilometers towards the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. There will be 230 kilometers in Norilsk. That is, the winter road will be more than two times shorter. If we fail to agree on Dudinka, we will build our own terminal. We are talking about investments of 20-30 million dollars, and the construction will take six months. So far, there has been no progress in the dialogue on Dudinka. However, every cloud has a silver lining: if we build a terminal in Igarka and a road from there, we will not only increase our own capitalization, but all the main settlements north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

- Russian Platinum acquired the Zimniy gas site in the Krasnoyarsk Territory to supply its projects. And you have already said that you can sell it if you agree with Norilskgazprom on supplies. How are the negotiations going?

Here, too, there is no specifics yet. The fact is that we bought the field, proceeding from the fact that we do not have energy sources. But if we come to an agreement with Norilskgazprom and we have guarantees of supplies for 50 years, then the rights to the field can be transferred as payment or sold on the market.

- Do you have any problems with the administration of the city of Norilsk in terms of access to infrastructure and obtaining building permits?

At first, the city administration had a wary attitude towards our arrival in the Norilsk industrial region. Today, "the ice has broken", we are in dialogue. At a meeting in Krasnoyarsk on December 10, Alexander Uss, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and Oleg Kurilov, Mayor of the City of Norilsk, came up with an initiative to create a quadripartite working group with the participation of the region, the city, Russian Platinum and Norilsk Nickel to resolve urgent issues of interaction and determine areas for further cooperation in solving economic and social issues. We are ready for this work.

Once again, readers themselves throw up an interesting link to unique and incomprehensible places of our planet by origin. Blog Author gorynych1 shared a link to a ring-shaped mountain range in the Khabarovsk Territory. I propose to see all its unusualness.

Conder- a mountain range in the Ayano-Maisky district of the Khabarovsk Territory. It is composed of alkaline-ultrabasic igneous rocks.

The ridge is best known for its near-perfect ring shape, with a diameter of about 8 kilometers and an altitude of 1200 to 1387 meters. In the beliefs of the Evenks and Yakuts, the Konder ridge has long been considered a holy mountain called Urgula. It is located 75 km west of the village of Dzhigda and 100 km west-southwest of the village of Nelkan, downstream of the Maimakan River, and also 1,100 km north of Khabarovsk.

The ridge is located in a severely picturesque, and at the same time in a remote place. It does not belong to the number of tourist attractions precisely because there is a platinum deposit of national importance here.

Location coordinates on the map: 57°37’50.50″N and 134°39’22.92″E.

The official explanation for this massif geology is:

The ridge owes its origin to igneous intrusion. In other words, as a result of volcanic activity in the bowels of the earth, molten masses fell from the deep into the upper layers of the earth's crust. Since the igneous masses were pushed to the surface with insufficient force, they only uplifted the surface shale, thus forming a round ridge.

Another unique feature of the Konder Ridge is one of the world's largest platinum deposits located on its territory. Scientists came to this conclusion in the late 1970s, and before that they believed that this was an episodic phenomenon.

Since 1984, regular work on the extraction of platinum by the prospectors of the Amur artel has been started. As it turned out, platinum deposits are huge, as evidenced by nuggets weighing from one and a half to three and a half kilograms. In addition, there were also nuggets of crystalline form. In addition to platinum, a number of other platinoids were found on the territory of the ridge, which also began to be mined industrially, as well as deposits of nepheline, black garnet, monticellite, and blue calcite. There is also an endemic mineral - conderite.

At present, the Artel of prospectors "Amur" (part of the Russian Platinum group of companies) continues to develop the placer platinum deposit "Konder".

It's not a volcano. In favor of the version that the Kondyorskaya structure was not a volcano in the past is the fact that in the course of large-scale studies during the exploration period and subsequent during operation, no traces of volcano activity were found in the area of ​​the deposit - the so-called effusive (outflowing) rocks of various composition. On the contrary, all rocks studied on the massif, including rocks bearing platinum-metal mineralization, can form only at a pressure much higher than atmospheric, that is, they are intrusive (deep).

This video says that initially, platinum was found exactly inside the ring structure, but it ended and the miners switched to mining it in the river valleys.

So, having read the official information, let's look and think about this education from a different point of view.

Note that the ring ridge, which in itself is not natural in form and impossible in formation, is without forest cover on the slopes. It means that it is young in geological age. There can be no talk of any millions of years if even a layer of turf is not formed to fix the trees on the slopes.

But perhaps the height of the ridge does not allow vegetation to appear here due to the severity of the climate. This is observed in the massifs to the west.

A river flows out of the center of the massif, which indicates a large debit of water from the depths.

Perhaps I will join the opinion that this ring-shaped massif was a place where platinum was mined sometime in the past. Our advanced ancestors, "Gods", evil aliens ravaging planets. The picture emerges like this. It is possible that the extraction was underground, the dumps were brought to the surface in the form of a ring, which we now perceive as natural.

But the most main fact, screaming "for" the above explanation is the presence of platinum in that place on an industrial scale.

On the height map, the Kondyor ridge looks just as unnatural.

View from the top of the ridge.

As you can see, the rock from which the array is composed is a crushed rock.

Such platinum crystals are sometimes found in the deposit near Konder: native platinum, twin crystals of about 2 centimeters.

It is hard to imagine that quite recently our Earth was mercilessly developed. But many facts speak about it.

Addition.
For analogy, I will add photos of circular shafts. There is a similarity between the Konder ridge and circular ramparts.

As an example, the alleged volcano Xiko. It is located at the southernmost end of the Mexico City metropolitan area.

The scale, of course, is not the same, but the construction of such shafts with shovels ...
Labor costs are more than on a fortress, and efficiency is less. In general, there is such a version ...

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Conder- a mountain range in the Ayano-Maisky district of the Khabarovsk Territory. It is composed of alkaline-ultrabasic igneous rocks.

The ridge is best known for its almost perfect ring shape, about 8 kilometers in diameter at a height of 1200 m to 1387 m.

Location

It is located 75 km west of the village of Dzhigda and 100 km west-southwest of the village of Nelkan, downstream of the Maimakan River, and 1100 km north of Khabarovsk.

The ridge is located in a severely picturesque, but inaccessible place. It does not belong to the number of tourist attractions precisely because there is a platinum deposit of national importance here.

Geological structure

The range owes its origin to igneous intrusion. In other words, as a result of volcanic activity in the bowels of the earth, molten masses fell from the deep into the upper layers of the earth's crust. Since the igneous masses were pushed to the surface with insufficient force, they only uplifted the surface shale, thus forming a round ridge.

View of the Konder Ridge from a helicopter

The rocks of the massif are exposed among the Archean metamorphic complexes and overlying terrigenous sediments of the Upper Proterozoic age. The massif in plan view has a regular round shape with a diameter of about 7.5 km, broken by two diorite apophyses in the south and northeast. The structure of the massif is concentric-zonal, characterized by the presence of a central core and a rim surrounding it, consisting of concentrically closed rings formed by rocks of different composition. The central part, composed of dunites, dominating over the rest of the rocks, together with other ultrabasic rocks, makes up to 90% of the area of ​​the massif on the modern erosional section. The dunites form a stock-shaped body isometric in plan, the dimensions of which in cross section reach 6.5 km. Clinopyroxenites, peridotites, and melanocratic gabbroids of the normal alkalinity series form a relatively narrow annular zone around the dunite core, up to 500 meters thick. Numerous dike-like bodies of kosvites also form an annular zone along the periphery of the ultrabasic stock; in addition, they form a large field in the center of the massif and occur as isolated vein bodies among dunites, peridotites, and clinopyroxenites. Among the kosvites, there are areas of coarse-grained apatite-biotite-titanomagnetite-pyroxene rocks. Also, secant vein and dike formations, represented by alkaline nepheline-syenite pegmatites, are widespread throughout the massif. Along the periphery of the Konder intrusion, carbonatites are located in the form of veins with a thickness of 0.5 to 45 m. They fill two groups of cleavage cracks, one of which dips towards the center of the massif at angles of 35 ° - 50 °, forming a system of conical veins, and the other - from the intrusive at angles of 45° - 65°, creating a system of ring dikes. Sometimes carbonatites are intersected by veins of alkaline pegmatites. Faults of the Konderskaya intrusion are represented by radial and ring faults. According to E. Anderson's theory, radial (conical) faults arise with an increase in vertical pressure in a deep magma chamber, and are shear cracks along the surface of maximum pressure stress. Ring faults, on the contrary, arise when pressure decreases and are often accompanied by the subsidence of a section of rocks enclosed within the ring.

Water

In the northern part, where the circle of the ridge opens, the river of the same name flows out of it, a tributary of the Worgalan.

History of development

And do you know where is this "Mordor"? Not at all in a distant country, but in the Far East of Russia. We don't know much about our country. Let's say someone knows about or what it is?

Let me tell you more about what education is.

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The only ring-shaped mountain range - the Konder Range - is located in Russia. This unique geological structure is neither a volcano nor a meteorite impact crater - it is a mountain range of natural formation with a diameter of 9 km. On its territory there is one of the largest deposits of platinum in the world.

Location: Russia, Khabarovsk Territory, Ayano-Maisky district.
Coordinates: 57.5811, 134.6441

The ridge is best known for its almost perfect ring shape, about 8 kilometers in diameter at a height of 1200 m to 1387 m.
In the beliefs of the Evenks and Yakuts, Konder has long been considered a holy mountain called Urgula.

It is located 75 km west of the village of Dzhigda and 100 km west-southwest of the village of Nelkan, downstream of the Maimakan River, and 1100 km north of Khabarovsk.

The ridge is located in a severely picturesque, but inaccessible place. It does not belong to the number of tourist attractions precisely because there is a platinum deposit of national importance here.

The ridge owes its origin to igneous intrusion. In other words, as a result of volcanic activity in the bowels of the earth, molten masses fell from the deep into the upper layers of the earth's crust. Since the igneous masses were pushed to the surface with insufficient force, they only uplifted the surface shale, thus forming a round ridge.

Another unique feature of the Konder Ridge is one of the largest platinum deposits in the world located on its territory. Scientists came to this conclusion in the late 1970s, and before that they believed that this was an episodic phenomenon.

Since 1984, regular work on the extraction of platinum by the prospectors of the Amur artel has been started. As it turned out, platinum deposits are huge, as evidenced by nuggets weighing from one and a half to three and a half kilograms. In addition, there were also nuggets of crystalline form. In addition to platinum, a number of other platinoids were found on the territory of the ridge, which also began to be mined industrially, as well as deposits of nepheline, black garnet, monticellite, and blue calcite. There is also an endemic mineral - conderite.

At present, the Artel of prospectors "Amur" (part of the Russian Platinum group of companies) continues to develop the placer platinum deposit "Konder".

It's not a volcano. In favor of the version that the Kondyorskaya structure was not a volcano in the past is the fact that in the course of large-scale studies during the exploration period and subsequent during operation, no traces of volcano activity were found in the area of ​​the deposit - the so-called effusive (outflowing) rocks of various composition, on the contrary, all rocks studied on the massif, including rocks bearing platinum-metal mineralization, can form only at a pressure much higher than atmospheric, i.e. are intrusive (deep).

But everything is a little more complicated: several million years ago, molten magma was pushed out of the earth's interior in the upper layer of the earth's crust. The pressure was not strong enough for it to flow out to the surface of the Earth, but it was enough to break and lift up the shales that built this even massif. When magma gets too high on the Earth's surface, it inevitably cools. But the surrounding layers do not allow it to cool too quickly, due to which it turns into rocks with a full-crystalline structure, which are called plutonic in honor of the Roman god Pluto, king of the underworld. Geologists call this process "magmatic intrusion."

In a similar way, the notorious Devil's Tower was formed (here we are in detail). It also has an unusually regular shape - an even pillar almost 400 meters high, consisting of a bunch of individual stone pillars. But in this case, there was a magmatic melt - the red-hot mass rose up and froze on the surface in the form of elegant columns.

Like the Indians who lived in the vicinity of the Devil's Tower, the indigenous peoples Far East- Yakuts and Evenks - considered the mountain sacred. They called her Urgula. The origin of the Russian name for this unusual array is also interesting. Konder is a rich camping soup, in which it has long been customary to put as many ingredients as possible: meat, potatoes, vermicelli, rice, peas. Most likely, this ridge reminded geologists of a huge cauldron that contained the same wide variety of ingredients - precious metals and minerals.

Tourists, unfortunately, are not allowed to enter the territory. Therefore, you can only enjoy the view from the air. But this is not so bad - from a height, the unusual shape of the mountain is even better visible.

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The Konder Ridge is a regular ring-shaped mountain range in the Khabarovsk Territory, located 1,100 kilometers north of Khabarovsk, 75 kilometers west of the small village of Dzhigda. He is in a harsh, but at the same time very picturesque place, characterized by its extreme inaccessibility. In the ancient beliefs of the Yakuts and Evenks, Konder was called the holy mountain Urgula. This unique mountain range would have become a tourist attraction long ago if it were not for one of the world's largest platinum deposits found on its territory in the 1970s. In 1984, the Amur artel began mining this valuable metal. Today, the artel is part of the Russian Platinum group of companies, which continues the industrial development of deposits.

The Konder Ridge, as mentioned above, has a regular annular shape with a diameter of about eight kilometers. Its height ranges from 1.200 meters to 1.387 meters. The mountain range owes its origin to magmatic intrusion. In the northern part, the ring of mountains is broken. In this place, the river of the same name flows out of the ridge.