Ural Mountains, the boundary line drawn by the nature with the help of mountains between Asia and Europe, It runs through Russia in the west and roughly northern south. The highest point in the Ural mountain range is Mountain Narodnaya around 6200 feet. The Ural Mountains basically runs between Kazakhstan and Russia. It is also named as Urals.
The Ural Mountains are mostly known as the stone belt in the history of Russia. The Mountain range having the age of more then 250 million years also believed to be the oldest Mountain range, covering the area of around 2500 KM’s, starting from the north of Kazakhstan till the Arctic Ocean. The major portion of the Mountain range of Urals is based in Russia; over 70 % of this mountain range belongs to Russia whereas the remaining is situated in Kazakhstan.
The mountain range also has the privilege to be full of resources and richest in wealth. It has been anticipated by the scientists well before 18th century and in 1800s a scientist worked properly on the Urals mountain range to explore its full capacity of resources and richness. He traveled thousands of miles to gather the big collection of minerals like platinum, topaz, gold, magnetite, perovskite, rutile, ilmenite, quartz, zircon, chromite, chrysoberyl, uvarovite, phenakite, and minerals and metals.
The scientist was the Russian mineralogist and his name was Ernst Karlovich hofmann. He was the man who studied the Urals mountain range and explored the richest wealth and let the world understand the importance of this mountain range for the region.
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