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Medvezhya (russian: Медве́жий; ja, 茂世路岳, ''Moyoro-dake'') is a volcanic complex located at the northern end of Iturup Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. Rheniite, a
rhenium Rhenium is a chemical element with the symbol Re and atomic number 75. It is a silvery-gray, heavy, third-row transition metal in group 7 of the periodic table. With an estimated average concentration of 1 part per billion (ppb), rhenium is one ...
sulfide mineral (ReS2), was discovered and approved in 2004. It is found in active hot
fumarole A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or other rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids. Fumaroles are characteristic of the late stages of volcani ...
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volcano A volcano is a rupture in the Crust (geology), crust of a Planet#Planetary-mass objects, planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Ear ...
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See also

* Fumarole mineral *
List of volcanoes in Russia This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Russia. European Russia Kamchatka Volcanoes of the Kamchatka Peninsula of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and the Russian Far East. Kuril Islands Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands The Kuri ...


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* Iturup Active volcanoes Volcanoes of the Kuril Islands Calderas VEI-7 volcanoes {{SakhalinOblast-geo-stub