Deposit
A mineral deposit recorded by the USGS volcanogenic massive sulfide database, at East Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan. The compilation classifies it as a felsic volcanic host succession. Its reported host rocks are albitophyre, carbonaceous shale, felsic tuff, limestone, rhyolite porphyry subvolcanic, tuffaceous sandstone. Minerals reported present include actinolite, albite, altaite, ankerite, apatite, argentite, arsenopyrite, azurite.
Recognised on the basis of
Authoritative database
A curated deposit database published by a scientific institution, in which inclusion is itself a documented editorial decision with stated criteria.
A deposit is an occurrence of sufficient size and grade that it might, under the most favourable circumstances, be considered to have economic potential. Lithoen records that a named authority made that judgement. It is not a statement that anything here is recoverable, and it is not a resource or a reserve.
A deposit is not a mineral system. A source interprets it as an example of one, and interpretations change while the rock does not.
Interpreted as an example of Volcanogenic massive sulfide system
By — Membership of the USGS volcanogenic massive sulfide database, which is a compilation of deposits of this class.
Inclusion in a compilation of this deposit class is the compilation’s own interpretation of this deposit. It is not an independent genetic study.
Copper (commodity)documented association
The compilation reports a grade for this metal at this deposit. Lithoen records the documented association and infers nothing about how it would be worked.
Lead (commodity)documented association
The compilation reports a grade for this metal at this deposit. Lithoen records the documented association and infers nothing about how it would be worked.
Zinc (commodity)documented association
The compilation reports a grade for this metal at this deposit. Lithoen records the documented association and infers nothing about how it would be worked.
A sample assay, a deposit average, a compiler total and a reported reserve are different quantities. Each figure below carries which one it is; none of them is a current resource or reserve.
4.2 Mt
Compiler total, for modelling
A sum assembled by a database compiler from production plus reserves plus resources at the lowest available cut-off, so that deposits can be compared in a grade-and-tonnage model. It is not a resource, not a reserve and not production; it is a modelling quantity, and the USGS databases Lithoen reads define their tonnage exactly this way.
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports an ore tonnage of 4.2 million tonnes for Novo-Berezovskoe.
2.1 wt%m Copper
Deposit average
An average grade attributed to a whole deposit by a compiler, over a tonnage defined by that compiler at a stated cut-off. Not a measurement of anything: a summary of an estimate.
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a copper grade of 2.1 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
0.14 wt%m Lead
Deposit average
An average grade attributed to a whole deposit by a compiler, over a tonnage defined by that compiler at a stated cut-off. Not a measurement of anything: a summary of an estimate.
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a lead grade of 0.14 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
4.65 wt%m Zinc
Deposit average
An average grade attributed to a whole deposit by a compiler, over a tonnage defined by that compiler at a stated cut-off. Not a measurement of anything: a summary of an estimate.
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a zinc grade of 4.65 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
What one row of a published dataset was taken to mean, and why. The original record stays traceable after reconciliation.
Volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits of the world (USGS OFR 2009-1034), record 1573
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database states what one of its rows is, and this row is read as the deposit the compilers named. Its 500-metre rule means any separately named bodies within that distance are already combined here.
Read and refused
One published representation of where Novo-Berezovskoe is. Each is one interpretation, by one identified source, at one scale — not the shape of the thing itself.
A single position standing for something that is not a point. It exists so a feature can be shown on a map or listed by location, and it asserts NOTHING about extent. A representative point for a 2,000 km province is a label anchor, not a location.
A representative point for Novo-Berezovskoe from the USGS volcanogenic massive sulfide database. It marks where the compilation places the deposit; it is not a boundary, not a shaft, and implies nothing about the body's extent.
9 of 9 claims on this page cite at least one registered source. Counts describe how each statement is known, not how likely it is to be true.
Each claim states how it is known and cites its evidence.
How a source classifies it
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database classifies Novo-Berezovskoe as a felsic volcanic host succession, a classification of the volcanic host succession rather than of the mineralisation.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a copper grade of 2.1 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The rocks reported as hosting Novo-Berezovskoe are albitophyre, carbonaceous shale, felsic tuff, limestone, rhyolite porphyry subvolcanic, tuffaceous sandstone, tuffaceous siltstone, as named for this deposit by the USGS volcanogenic massive sulfide database.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Derived by Lithoen
Novo-Berezovskoe is carried by a compilation whose inclusion rule requires a deposit to be associated with submarine volcanic rocks in a sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks — lava flows, pyroclastics or volcaniclastic rocks, which need not be the deposit's only host. Its presence here is therefore a statement that it meets that test.
inclusion rule of the compilation AND presence of this deposit as a row in it ⟹ this deposit satisfies the inclusion ruleThe compilation states a test a deposit must meet to be carried, and it carries this deposit. The property is therefore not something the source reports of the deposit; it is what its inclusion implies. That step is Lithoen’s and it is a real one — a compiler can include a row in error, and a rule stated for a set is weaker evidence about any member than a statement made about that member. Recording it as a derivation is what keeps the claim from reading as an observation.
Evidence support: Derived from the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a lead grade of 0.14 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The compilation reports 63 distinct minerals present at Novo-Berezovskoe, of which the first twelve alphabetically are actinolite, albite, altaite, ankerite, apatite, argentite, arsenopyrite, azurite, malachite, barite, bismuth, bismuthinite. It records presence only: no abundance, no paragenesis and no assay follows from it.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
How a source classifies it
Novo-Berezovskoe is recorded as a deposit because the USGS volcanogenic massive sulfide database includes it, as record 1573. The compilation combines all mineralised rock within 500 metres into one deposit, so that its rows correspond to geological bodies rather than to commercial projects.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports an ore tonnage of 4.2 million tonnes for Novo-Berezovskoe.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Reported for this deposit
The usgs volcanogenic massive sulfide database reports a zinc grade of 4.65 weight percent for Novo-Berezovskoe.
Evidence support: Supported by the cited evidence 2 sources, single source
Evidence: D.L. 2009 Primary authority
Record last updated 2026-09-07. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.