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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



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