Metals such as lithium (Li), beryllium (Be), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), rubidium (Rb) and cesium (Cs) are called rare metals because they are rare in rocks in the earth's crust. They have very important applications in atomic energy, aerospace, electronics, metallurgy and chemical industry. These metals are mainly contained in granite pegmatite.
In fact, Kazak herders in Cocotohai discovered beryl and other mineral crystals here a long time ago and collected them as jewelry decorations, but they didn't know at that time that these beautiful beryl with hexagonal columns, yellow-green and green were the most important beryllium-containing minerals.
The rare metal minerals in Keketuohai come from granite pegmatite veins, which are almost all over Altai Mountain. The rich and colorful mineral crystals in pegmatite not only produce rare metal minerals, but also create the hometown of gems in the western regions and northern Xinjiang. The most famous gemstones are beryl, aquamarine, spodumene, amethyst, hibiscus, garnet and various tourmalines formed from colored tourmalines. The cornucopia, famous for its rich mineral resources, is not a peaceful place. In the late geological period, it moved in a unique way, thus leaving another geological heritage for mankind. In the early morning of August 193 1 1, an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 occurred in the area south of the Cocoto Sea, which was called "Fuyun Earthquake" in history. The polar seismic belt starts from Amante Mountain in Qinghe River in the south and reaches Keketuohai Basin in the north, forming a fault rupture zone of 176 km. Strong earthquake waves spread all over the world quickly, and the strong sense of earthquake reached 2500 kilometers in diameter. Jiu Feng Station in Beijing and Xujiahui Station in Shanghai, as one of the few seismic stations in China at that time, recorded the seismic wave pattern of this earthquake. Hundreds of seismic stations around the world, including Cape Town, Australia, Sydney, Ottawa, Canada and Oxford, England, recorded the earthquake, and the seismic station in San Juan, South America, which is 12000 kilometers away from the earthquake zone, also recorded a shock wave of two and a half hours.
Earthquakes are not all bad for human beings. It is precisely because of the long-term activities of the Fuyun earthquake fault zone that a series of broad fault basins and lake basins have been formed along the fault zone, such as Keketuohai and Kekesuhai, which are rich in aquatic plants and fertile land and become a paradise for Kazakhs to live and multiply.