Description
Postponed to July 2021
- 13th July 2020 – Day of Arrival
- Meeting at Moscow airport, leaving to Yekaterinburg.
- Check in at Green Park Hotel – http://www.greenhotel.ru
- Getting ready for the mineralogical tour.
- Optionally-visiting the mineralogical shops and the mineralogical club.
- *self arrival is possible, we can arrange a transfer to the hotel upon request for extra fee.
- 14th July 2020 – Day 1
- Visiting the Malysheva Emeralds mines! Get ready for emeralds, alexandrite and phenakite.
- Asbest-Bajenovskoe mine (uvarovite, serpentine, diopside, grossular).
- Private mineralogical museum.
- Coming back to Green Park hotel for the night – http:/ /www.greenhotel.ru/
- Drive distance about 300 km
- 15th July – Day 2
- Now moving to the Southern Urals through the Karkodino demantoid, topazolite and andradite mine.
- Complimentary picnic at the mine.
- Panoramic Ufalei quarry (chrysoprase, quartz, calcite, opal etc)
- Night at Lesnoye Pomestie – http://www.vlesu74.ru
- Drive distance 280 km
- 16th July – Day 3
- Untouched beauty and mineral diversity – llmen Nature Reserve Park
- Miass. Visiting the Miass Mineralogical Museum.
- Kara bash Golden hill or Magnitka looking for epidote, clinochlore, titanomagnetite.
- Coming back to Yekaterinburg – http://www.greenhotel.ru/
- 17th July – Day 4
- Nijniy Tagil. Visiting the Mednorudnyanskoe malachite quarry – historical Russian cuprum deposit
- Night at Yekaterinburg http://www.greenhotel.ru/
- Drive distance 250 km
- 18th July – Day 5
- Visiting the Geological museum in Yekaterinburg
- ‘Vertier’ demantoid boutique – best choice of Ural demantoids. Find your own “horse tail”!
- Transfer and flight back to Moscow.
- Included
- All the hotel accommodation on the BB base
- Visiting all the mines, quarries, deposits
- All transport services (inc.group transfers from and to the airport at Yekaterinburg)
- Guide services
- Entrance tickets to Malysheva mine and all the museums
- Complimentary picnics (2) and Russian banya on the Akakul lake!
- Extra
- Internal flight Moscow-Yekaterinburg-Moscow (about $270)
- Russian Visa is required and is responsibility of participant to inquiry in country of residence.
- Letter of invitation for Russian Visa is available for $40 per person