Novodvorskoye basalt and tuff deposit
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus
150.5
Concession agreement on services provision (works execution)
Tender
General characteristics
2.75 km (straight line) south-west of the centre of Novy Dvor village, and 11 km north-west of the centre of Soshno village
InfrasructureThe Gomel-Kalinkovichi-Kobrin-Brest highway and a railway line of the same direction run 14 kilometers south of the deposit center. The Yaselda River, a left tributary of the Pripyat River, flows 10 kilometers south of the deposit center through the city of Pinsk, where there is a river port.
General description of concession objectMineral resources at the deposit are basalts and tuffs, associated minerals are fine- and fine-grained feldspar-quartz sands, glauconite-quartz siltstones. The average thickness of basalts and tuffs is 30 m, the average thickness of overburden rocks is 53.6 m. Practically the entire overburden thickness is heavily watered. Based on the results of studying the quality of geological types of raw materials and depending on the directions of use, three technological (industrial) types of raw materials have been established: 1T (tholeiitic basalt), 2T (altered basalt, intrusive dolerite breccia), 3T (tuff, saponite-bearing tuffite). Mineral reserves are estimated by categories B+C1+C2 in the amount of 86 million 92 thousand tonnes and tuffs - 13 million 683 thousand tonnes, of which commercial reserves are 54 million 501 thousand tonnes of basalts and 8 million 53 thousand tonnes of tuffs.