The article presents the new data concerning the bounding zones of the Archean - Early Proterozoic Taratash block. It breaks the longitude structure of the Urals, squeezing all structural zones at a latitude of the town Miass. There were studied the meso- and microstructures of the boundary zones, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of faulted rocks and distribution of seismic waves velocities in to blastomylonites. We suggest that kinematic history of the Taratash block consists of two phases: 1) Middle Riphean exhumation of Taratash rocks in tension environ- ment; 2) Late Paleozoic formation of Indenter due regional shortening setting.

The Al and Ti paramagnetic impurity center concentrations in pre-ore and ore-bearing quartz at the Peschanka porphyry copper-molybdenum-gold deposit in the Western Chukchi Peninsula, Russia were determined using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR). The [AlO4-/ h+]0 concentration in pre-ore and ore-bearing quartz varies from 29 to 124 and from 13 to- + 0- + 0101 at. ppm, respectively. The contents of [TiO4 /Li ] - and [TiO4 /H ] -centers reach 20 and6,3 at. ppm, respectively. Pre-ore stage quartz associated with the formation of biotite-potassiumfeldspar-quartz alteration and quartz of the ore stage associated with the formation of quartz-sericite rocks followed by the ore deposition are substantially in content of the titanium centers,- + 0- + 0especially [TiO4 /H ] -centers: the [TiO4 /H ]concentration is much higher in the pre-orestage quartz (>2 at. ppm) than that in quartz related to copper mineralization (<2 at. ppm).+ 0The [TiO4-/Li ]concentration also decreases from pre-ore to ore-bearing quartz. Taking intoaccount the data obtained, the formation temperature of pre-ore and ore-bearing quartz estimatedfrom a titanium-in-quartz geothermometer is 590-470 °C (average 520 °C) and 510-310 °C (average 430 °C), respectively. The obtained temperature range of 590 to 310 °C is similar to that determined from homogenization of fluid inclusions in pre-ore and ore-bearing.

In the Schuchinskaya Zone of the Polar Urals granitoids of the Rechnoy and Yalya-Pe paleovolcanoes have been studied. They were mapped as Khoimpeysky Complex of Silurian age. In addition, granitoids of the Nganotsky-1 and Nganotsky-2 plutons mapped as Yunyaginsky Complex of Early Devonian age have been investigated. It was found that based on the mineral and chemical composition the rocks of all plutons studied correspond to island arc I-type granitoids. U-Pb (SIMS) concordant ages of zircons from granitoids of the Rechnoy and Yalya-Pe paleovolcanoes, and of the Nganotsky-1 pluton are 456±6, 454±4 and 463±3 Ma, respectively, which implies the existence of an island arc in the Schuchinskaya Zone as early as the Middle-Late Ordovician. Establishing the age of granitoids allows to refer volcanic rocks cut by plutons to Syadayskaya Formation, and to clarify the upper stratigraphic limit of its sedimentation as Middle-Upper Ordovician.

The article addresses to the main characteristics of Chulbatkan gold deposit. The deposit is a steeply dipping of bed and lenticular ore bodies with dessimination-veinlet mineralization in the late Cretaceous plagiogranites (Lower Amur complex), controlled by the NE and the NW faults. The host rock mineralization exposed hydrothermal and metasomatic processes (beresitization, silicification and carbonation). The only useful component of the low-graded and non-refractory ore is gold; silver grade is low. Resource potential of the deposit estimated as 50 tons.

Dzhusа volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit is characterized by a high concentration of dykes of basic and intermediate rocks. Thermal metamorphism of ore and recrystallization of ore minerals were caused by formation of post-ore dykes. It was shown that homogenization temperature regular increased from 156 °С at a distance of the dyke to 287-305 °С in its contact zone. Highly saline (6,4-15,7 wt.% eq. NaCl) water fluids saturated with CO2 suggest high pres- sure conditions (up to 1500 bars) and can result from contact and regional metamorphism.

The results of the first study, which aims to determine the age of landslides on the southern slope of the Psekhako ridge and northern slope of the Aibga ridge (Western Caucasus) using radiocarbon dating of organic material incorporated into the body of a landslide.

Sorption properties of the soil layer at the base of the ash disposal site of the Sakhalin GRES-2 at the design stage of the facility were determined. Water extracts of the ash from the coal that will be used at the facility were analyzed to identify the potential elements-pollutants able to migrate with atmospheric precipitation through the soil. The model solution was developed based on these data. The soil sorption capacity in relation to the identified pollutants and the level of their potential desorption have been determined in static and dynamic conditions.

The results of laboratory studies of the effect of thawing conditions (plane-parallel or three dimensional) on the deformation characteristics (thawing and compression coefficients) thaw- ing soils (sand, sandy loam, clay loam) with desired physical properties of massive and layered cryogenic textures presented in the article. It was found that the values of the thawing coefficient bigger after three dimensional thawing, and compression coefficient after plane- parallel thaw- ing. The obtained data allowed to establish the applicability of the experimental determination of thawing soils deformation characteristics regardless of thawing conditions.