Beryozovskoye deposit

<a href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Beryozovskoye_deposit¶ms=56.9114_N_60.7931_E_">56°54′41″N 60°47′35″E / 56.9114°N 60.7931°E / 56.9114; 60.7931</a>
Beryozovskoye deposit, Berezovskoe gold deposit, Berezovsky deposit, Berezovsk Mines, and some other names is the first known to primary deposit of <a href="/facts/Gold/1znknojp">gold</a> in <a href="/facts/Russia/jfkCwyxn">Russia</a>. It is located 13 km northwest of <a href="/facts/Yekaterinburg/PgF4pldC">Yekaterinburg</a> in the central <a href="/facts/Urals_Federal_District/AuQJWGvF">Urals Federal District</a>. It was discovered in 1745 by a <a href="/facts/Raskolnik/mTXtr4Dd">raskolnik</a> Yerofey Markov. The first mine was established in 1747. The deposit is named after the Beryozovka River (a tributary of <a href="/facts/Pyshma_River/RRh10hRb">Pyshma River</a>) and is associated with the settlement of Berezovsky, now the town of <a href="/facts/Beryozovsky%2c_Sverdlovsk_Oblast/AJmfYRVb">Beryozovsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast</a>.
The following minerals were discovered at the deposit: <a href="/facts/Aikinite/WcqBBsJx">aikinite</a> (1789), <a href="/facts/Vauquelinite/tSlWv9qA">vauquelinite</a> (1819), cassedanneite (1988), <a href="/facts/Crocoite/g7yja8z8">crocoite</a> (1766), <a href="/facts/Pyrophyllite/bfL8mrsA">pyrophyllite</a> (1829), <a href="/facts/Phenicochroite/dwYTfpfA">phenicochroite</a> (1839), embreyite (1972).
The discovery of crocoite by <a href="/facts/Johann_Gottlob_Lehmann_(scientist)/V9NIQIJy">Johann Gottlob Lehmann</a> in 1766 at the Berezovsk Mines was the starting point of the discovery of the element <a href="/facts/Chromium/6sVk6Uu7">chromium</a>. Berezovsk Mines were for a long time the only source for crocoite and therefore the only source of the pigment <a href="/facts/Chrome_yellow/n6Pb51jW">chrome yellow</a>.

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Beryozovskoye deposit