Source: Geology.com
Source: Geology.com
Nine Russian deposits are estimated, by Clarke and Harben, to have greater than 100,000 tonnes of lithium resources, although limited information is available on these deposits. Evans quotes Roskill Information Services, which identifies six large deposits, none of which produce lithium carbonate currently.
Russian lithium deposits (thousand tonnes of lithium)
Deposit
Kolmozerskoe
Polmostundrovskoe
Ulus (or Ulug)
Tanzek
Goltsovoe
Urikskoe
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Clarke/ Harben 2009
<844
139–278
139–278
139–278
139–278
139–278
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Evans 2008
288
144 –288
144 –288
144 –288
144 –288
144 –288
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The Altai–Sayan belt in Russia contains several large lithium-bearing pegmatite deposits. Lithium resources are found at Goltzovoe, an area rich in a variety of rare metals, including tantalum, with an estimated average grade of 0.37% Li. The Vishnyakovskoe deposit has been found to have a resource estimate of 42Mt averaging 0.49% Li. The Tastyq deposit consists of a group of spodumene-bearing pegmatites, 1-kilometre long and 20-metres thick, with an estimated average grade of 1.86% Li. Other lithium-bearing pegmatite deposits in Russia include the Belovechenskoye, Urikskoe and Zavitskoye deposits. Lithium is also present in tin- and tantalum-enriched, lepidolite-bearing peraluminous granite bodies at Orloskoe (Orlovka), Etykinskoe (Etyka) and Alakha. The Ukraine hosts pegmatites, including the spodumene-bearing deposits at Galetsky, Zaritsky and Knyazev.
