title: Ancient Mines of the South Urals
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metadata.value: Svistunov, Viacheslav M.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:05:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-09T11:05:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Svistunov V. M. Ancient Mines of the South Urals. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2021, vol. 66, issue 4, рp. 1317–1333.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2021.416
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35533
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article presents the intermediate results of a historical research, whose purpose is to determine
  the distribution of ancient mining operations (Chud mines) in the South Urals. Travel
  journals of the participants of academic expeditions of 1768–1774 — P. S. Pallas, I. I. Lepekhin,
  N. P. Rychkov and I. P. Falk — were taken as published written sources. The unpublished
  written sources mainly include archival documents from the period of owning mineral rights
  in Russia in 1739–1782 stored in the archives of Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. It was established
  that the copper mines of the 18th century were seasonally subdivided into “summer
  pits” and “winter mines”. The extraction of copper ore in winter was common, which allows
  extrapolating it to earlier periods of mining in the South Urals. A distinctive feature of ancient
  underground mining operations is the vaulted character of adits, while similar mines of the
  18th century are characterized by rock tunneling “under the support structures”. The “summer
  pits” of both periods without archeological exploration and archival documents do not have
  singular features. It was also established that the geography of the location of ancient mountain
  mines is not limited to the area of occurrence of cuprous sandstones of the Cisural area.
  Following the study by Grigory Spassky, the article states that ancient mining developments
  in the form of exploration pits and mines are in abundance in the Southern Trans-Urals. They
  stretch along the eastern slope of the Ural Mountains in a narrow strip from the Krasnokhty
  and Shartymka rivers to the left bank of the Ural River and go to the Mugodzhar region.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 66; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: сhud mines
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: copper mines of the 18th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kazan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Orenburg mining authorities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: mountain allotments
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: copper smelters of the South Urals in the 18th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Ancient Mines of the South Urals
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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