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КАРАГАНДИНСКИЙ УГЛЕНОСНЫЙ БАССЕЙН. ВЫП. 2 : МАТЕРИАЛЫ К СТРАТИГРАФИИ, ГИДРОГЕОЛОГИИ, ЛИТОЛОГИИ И ПАЛЕОНТОЛОГИИ КАРАГАНДИНСКОГО УГОЛЬНОГО БАССЕЙНА. СБОРНИК СТАТЕЙ

Bibliographic Description

Карагандинский угленосный бассейн. Вып. 2 : Материалы к стратиграфии, гидрогеологии, литологии и палеонтологии Карагандинского угольного бассейна. Сборник статей. – Москва; Ленинград : Объединенное научно-техническое изд-во НКТП СССР, 1936.

Publisher
Объединенное научно-техническое изд-во НКТП СССР
Year of publication
1936
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Available to all

Description

The collection gives a well-grounded characterization of various aspects of the geology of the Karaganda basin. The Karaganda coal basin is one of the largest coal basins in the world. In terms of coal reserves it ranked third in the USSR after the Kuznetsk and Donets basins, with an area of about 3,600 km2. Extraction is carried out mainly by the underground method. The main centers of extraction are the cities of Karaganda, Saran, Abai, and Shakhtinsk. The consumers of coking coal are the metallurgical plants of Kazakhstan and Russia, while the consumers of power coal are railway transport, power stations and industrial enterprises. The history of the Karaganda coal basin began as far back as 176 years ago, when in 1833 the Kazakh shepherd Appak Baizhanov found the first pieces of coal. This happened in the Karagandy tract, south of the Nura River. This land had belonged since ancient times to two Kazakh clans - Sarmantai and Marat. In 1856 the deposit was purchased for 250 rubles by the Petropavlovsk merchant Nikolai Ushakov. In the same year the Ivanovsky open pit, called "Kara Zaboi", was put into operation. In 1868 coal was extracted at a depth of 8-14 sazhens, and 78 people worked at the pit. The coal was extracted for the needs of the small Spassky copper-smelting plant. By the end of the 19th century, Ushakov's heirs and company, who had long run the Karaganda coal mines, were completely ruined and leased these enterprises to Jean Carnot (the son of the President of France Sadi Carnot). In the spring of 1905, with the assistance of Nicholas II, Jean Carnot became the official owner, paying the previous owners 766 thousand rubles. In 1907 these enterprises passed into the ownership of the "Spassky Copper Ore Joint-Stock Company", founded in London by Jim Herbert.

On 11 May 1918, V. I. Lenin signed a decree nationalizing the Spassky copper-smelting plant and other enterprises. In 1920 the Geological Committee sent a group of specialists to Karaganda, headed by the eminent geologist Professor Gapeev, to carry out geological research. This expedition produced the first scientifically grounded study of the reserves of the Karaganda mines, which indicated that they amounted to 4 billion tons of coal over an area of 300 square kilometers

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