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HISTORY HISTORY
With a silvery sheen that during his childhood, in the 1950s, when descending
into the mines, people often felt bad. It was so bad that
Most likely, Demidov’s miners found some of the guys had to be taken out, or even carried out
this copper-silver deposit in the footsteps of the mines in their arms. Locals believed that carbon
of ancient mining, which was carried out dioxide was possibly accumulating underground in a
by a previously unknown people, called confined space.
Chudyu in the literature. Experts have
determined that already in the XIV century However, there are other explanations for
BC, the tribes that lived in the Kolyvan this phenomenon. Allegedly, in the late 1920s
region mined copper, silver and gold. and early 1930s, during collectivization,
when grain and animals were confiscated
Even now, in the light of the flashlight, from wealthy peasants, people hid their
the walls of the mine gleam with green, acquisitions in former mines. This became
which undoubtedly indicates the presence known to the authorities. It is said that
of copper ore. And if you look up, you can by a special decision the entrances to
distinguish a silvery sheen. After all, this some old mines were ordered to be
Administrative office of Kolyvano-Voskresensky deposit is also unique in that for the first blocked up.
factory time in Altai, they began to extract not
only copper, but also silver. And later, local residents
Modern researchers note the presence in the mine of signs of bore-holes - small depressions dumped the carcasses of dead
in the rock, into which gunpowder was poured, set on fire by a wick. Blasting operations made and infected animals there.
it possible to speed up the process of ore mining and field development. Incidentally, such work It cannot be ruled out that
was carried out at the Starovoskresensky mine for the first time in Russia, although gunpowder animals and livestock could accidentally fall into underground cavities.
has been used in mining in the world since 1627. Despite this, for almost three hundred years, interest in underground finds has not
weakened in Altai. In 2008, Honored Geologist of Russia Veniamin Chekalin, at a depth of more
It is known that in the mines located in Voskresenskaya Sopka, from 1727 to 1764, tens than 100 meters in the Rubtsovsky mine, discovered a huge piece of native copper, which he
of tons of copper and over 100 kilograms of silver were mined. Further work was stopped by a presented to the Altai State Museum of Local Lore.
terrible fire that destroyed not only the outbuildings on the slope of the Voskresenskaya Sopka,
but also the forest. And without charcoal at that time they still could not smelt ore. Modernity
In the 19th century, attempts were made to resume the extraction of the gifts of the Now mining production in the Altai Territory is developing at a powerful pace. According
Voskresensk subsoil. But unsuccessful, since all the rich copper deposits have already been to the recently deceased Russian Geologist Veniamin Chekalin, who recently left us, the rate of
depleted. ore mining in the region is incomparably higher than even in the Soviet period.
It is known that rich polymetallic ores occur on the territory of Zmeinogorsky, Rubtsovsky,
However, the miners were no longer very interested Loktevsky and other regions, where a dozen deposits are located - discovered, explored and
in copper. By that time, the Altai copper smelters were prepared for exploitation back in 1950-1980. High-quality ore contains copper, lead, zinc, gold,
rebuilt for the smelting of silver. No wonder the mining silver, a wide range of trace elements. The approved reserves are 60 million tons of polymetallic
and processing of this precious metal in Altai for a ore.
number of years reached 90 percent of the total volume Ten years ago, with the commissioning of the Rubtsovsky mine in Altai, after a long
of Russian silver mined. hiatus, the extraction of polymetallic ores resumed. It turned out to be within the power of
the Siberia-Polymetals joint-stock company, which is part of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical
Legends and finds Company holding. The company is developing the Zarechenskoye, Rubtsovskoye,
A lot of myths, legends and just human Korbolikhinskoye, Stepnoye and Talovskoye deposits. They produce copper,
observations are connected with the fate of the old Altai zinc, lead concentrates, gold, the volume of which exceeded half a million
mines, underground workings. tons in 2011.
Some of our contemporaries who use a digital apparatus
notice that when they take pictures Perhaps our generation will still find the times when in Altai, where
in the adit, some balls sometimes they have been engaged in mining for more than a century and a
flicker on the monitor. Different half, a boom in subsoil development will begin again. But we, of
in size - big, small. However, for course, must remember that the beginning of the modern history
Copper some reason they are absent in of the region was laid almost three centuries ago by our ancestors-
the frame. miners.
Sergei Egioe, Kuryinsky local
historian, was told by his uncle
Muravlev Anatoly
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