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The Pyrkakay mine was a large open pit mine located in the Shelag Range, Chukotka Mountains, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, North-eastern Russia. Pyrkakay represented one of the largest tin reserves in Russia having estimated reserves of 228.5 million tonnes of ore grading 0.23% tin. The Krasnoarmeysky
settlement, built to house the miners, was determined to no longer be economically viable in 1998 and is now a ghost town.
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