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Urals with Young Spirifer
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As every year in the summer the group of kids that take part in the geology lessons run by our society together with some older "spirifer kids" set off for a geological trip. Read more about our activity HERE. Andrzej Korzekwa See our Russian specimens for sale
Area of our trip. Google Earth.
First part of the trip - from Warsaw to Oka River. Google Earth.
Waiting at the border between Poland and Belarus. A. Korzekwa photo.
Oka river - the first place we stopped to have a rest after about 2000 km drive. A. Korzekwa photo.
Camping by the Oka River. A. Korzekwa photo.
It was an extremely hot summer so we used every opportunity we had to get into water. M. Wikiera photo.
Are you sure that mud enhances the skin? M. Wikiera photo.
Fun in the water. M. Wikiera photo.
Next step of the trip was Samara. Google Earth.
Camping somewhere on our way. A. Korzekwa photo.
Smoked fish store near Samara. M. Wikiera photo.
Area of Samara (Vodinskoye) with several quarries famous for sulphur crystals. Google Earth..
All quarries are abandoned and partly overgrown. A. Korzekwa photo.
Overgrown outcrop. A. Korzekwa photo.
Digging between trees. M. Wikiera photo.
Sulphur has to be somehwere here! M. Wikiera photo.
Eroded, broken into small fragments crystalline sulphur. A. Korzekwa photo.
Sulphur. M. Wikiera photo.
Chips of sulphur. M. Wikiera photo.
Short break in digging for some food... M. Wikiera photo.
... and rest. M. Wikiera photo.
Another quarry. K. Dembicz photo.
Note the waste covering almost the whole bottom of the quarry - imagine smell in a hot day... K. Dembicz photo.
One of the few places with fresh rock. P. Ducki photo.
Digging for sulphur. K. Dembicz photo.
Sulphur in situ. K. Dembicz photo.
Small pockets with sulphur and bitumen. K. Dembicz photo.
Sulphur crystal in gypsum. A. Korzekwa photo.
Bonfire at the evening. A. Korzekwa photo.
Next stop on our way - Miass Town. Google Earth.
Big part of Urals in this area looks like this... No real mountains. A. Korzekwa photo.
Old traditional house. A. Korzekwa photo.
Shoe store in Miass. M. Wikiera photo.
Another old building. M. Wikiera photo.
Some parts of town look like ruins. M. Wikiera photo.
Funny door. M. Wikiera photo.
Monument of Lenin - they are still everywhere in Russia. M. Wikiera photo.
Mini mineral show in front of the Museum. M. Wikiera photo.
Mini mineral show in front of the Museum. A. Korzekwa photo.
Looking for pegmatites in an old quarry. A. Korzekwa photo.
Next stop was - Magnitogorsk. Google Earth.
Magnitogorsk is a famous industrial-mining town. Note Agapovaka quarry on the south and Malyi Kuibas quarry on the North. Google Earth.
Magnitogorsk is definitely not the world`s most beautiful town... K. Dembicz photo.
Industrial view. K. Dembicz photo.
And of course Lenin in fron of the ironworks. K. Dembicz photo.
Socialist realism art showing the miners. K. Dembicz photo.
Industry everywhere. K. Dembicz photo.
Shaft. A. Korzekwa photo.
Giant dumps of the Malyi Kuibas iron mine. K. Dembicz photo.
Closer view on the dumps - note the tracks on the top. K. Dembicz photo.
Dump. M. Wikiera photo.
The fun has begun - collecting on huge dump. M. Wikiera photo.
Collecting on dumps. P. Ducki photo.
Collecting in flowers. M. Wikiera photo.
Skarn mineralization. A. Korzekwa photo.
Skarn mineralization. A. Korzekwa photo.
Skarn mineralization. A. Korzekwa photo.
Big block with calcite vein... P. Ducki photo.
... with pyrite crystals. P. Ducki photo.
Pyrite octahedrons frozen in calcite. P. Ducki photo.
Freshly collected garnets. A. Korzekwa photo.
Freshly collected garnets. A. Korzekwa photo.
Big epidote crystal. K. Dembicz photo.
Specimen with epidote and garnet cryatsls we found. G. Bijak photo.
Colse-up of the specimen from above. Crystals up to 2 cm. G. Bijak photo.
Andrzej [author of this report] returning to the camp after collecting day. M. Wikiera photo.
Watermelon for dinner :-) M. Wikiera photo.
Flower in the quarry. M. Wikiera photo.
View to the hill built by limestones. M. Wikiera photo.
Dumps of Agapovka limestone quarry - famous for calcite. K. Dembicz photo.
Fossiliferous limestone in Agapovka. A. Korzekwa photo.
Fossiliferous limestone in Agapovka. A. Korzekwa photo.
Calcite vugs in Agapovka quarry. A. Korzekwa photo.
Calcite vugs. A. Korzekwa photo.
Next stop was in Yuzhny. Google Earth.
Sign with Yuzhny name in Cyrillic script at the entrance to the town. K. Dembicz photo.
Old building of quarry headquater. A. Korzekwa photo.
Old quarry - partly flooded - in Yuzhny - famous for quartz crystals. M. Wikiera photo.
Old quarry in Yuzhny. A. Korzekwa photo.
Our mini-buses in the quarry. A. Korzekwa photo.
Andrzej with a fragment of big quartz crystal. M. Wikiera photo.
Water in hot day... K. Dembicz photo.
... make choice difficoult - collecting or swimming? K. Dembicz photo.
Soon there was number of followers. K. Dembicz photo.
Clean quartz crystal from Yuzhny. K. Dembicz photo.
Clean quartz crystal. K. Dembicz photo.
Me with big quartz owned by one of the old miners. A. Leszczuk photo.
Krzysztof and me with big quartz crystals. A. Leszczuk photo.
Agata hugging quartz. A. Korzekwa photo.
To heavy? A. Korzekwa photo.
And really huge one at exhibition in Yekaterinburg museum. P. Ducki photo.
From Yuzhny we drove to Slyudorudnik. Google Earth.
We visited there a local, very special museum of stones. A. Korzekwa photo.
Entrance to the museum. A. Korzekwa photo.
Part of the museum. A. Korzekwa photo.
"Art" with minerals. M. Wikiera photo.
Showcases in the museum. M. Wikiera photo.
Disco-quartz. M. Wikiera photo.
Sculpture with black tourmalines. M. Wikiera photo.
Mineral art :-) M. Wikiera photo.
Probably the most valuable specimen in the museum :-) M. Wikiera photo.
Old traditional house. M. Wikiera photo.
Entrance to the old house. M. Wikiera photo.
Old house. M. Wikiera photo.
Old house. M. Wikiera photo.
Old house. M. Wikiera photo.
Old house. M. Wikiera photo.
Beautiful sculptures around the window. K. Dembicz photo.
Cat. M. Wikiera photo.
Quarry in Slyudorudnik. M. Wikiera photo.
Big biotite collected in Slyudorudnik quarry. L. Modzelewski photo.
Break for watermelon. M. Wikiera photo.
We had quite an interesting adventure when we were leaving the town - we found a car in a ditch with a completely drunk driver. M. Wikiera photo.
We decided to help him to put his car back on the road. M. Wikiera photo.
It took a while but finally... M. Wikiera photo.
... we did it. M. Wikiera photo.
We were afraid that the drunk driver will kill himself and his girlfriend so we put some stones in front of his wheels. He was so drunk that he did not manage to figure out what happened... when we drove the same road after a few hours the guy was in the dithc again. M. Wikiera photo.
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