Features of the formation of mineral medicinal mud Suksun pond

Abstract

Therapeutic mineral muds are of great practical importance in balneology. The term therapeutic mud, according to international terminology, refers to peloids (pelos – from Greek mud, silt), which include peats, clays and other natural formations used for mud treatment. The Suksunsky pond, fed by the waters of the Suksunchik, Kiselevka and Sandushka rivers, receives water of high mineralization (up to 2 g/dm3) with the presence of hydrogen sulfide in the waters, which settles to the bottom, and under the influence of which, the silt deposits of the Suksunsky pond are transformed into therapeutic mud. Muds are dark gray and black silt low-mineralized medium-sulfide hydrocarbonate calcium peloids. The healing factor is mineralization, ion-salt composition, organically active components.