Russia - The Ilmensky mountains

The Ilmensky mountains are located in the Southern Urals between 54 58 - 55 21 northern latitude and 60 07 – 60 22 eastern longitude in the Chelyabiskaya oblast on the administrative territory of the Miass city in Chebarkulsky and Argayashsky districts. The nearest railway track is in Miass, and the nearest international airport is 100 km to the East, in Chelyabinsk. Geo-mineralogical characteristics of the Ilmenogorsky complex The Ilmensky mountains are a unique geological phenomenon famous for its semiprecious and rare-metal mineralisation of the pegmatite lodes and wine spread of the rare for the Urals alkaline rocks - nepheline syenites. Different metamorphic and plutonic rocks, to this or that degree modified by deformational and metasomatic processes, are host to them. The diversity of Ilmensky mountain rocks are known as the "Ilmenogorsky complex". The Pegmatites of the Ilmenogorsky complex