The field has a size of 22 km x 11 km. On the territory of the deposit are located the village Tolvuya and several other villages, including abandoned. Layers of shungite rocks interspersed with tuffs, dolomite and siltstone. Within the Zazhoginskoe field are sills and dikes of metadiabases and metagabbro. Thickness of the sills is typically less than 50 m, but at the upper base sills reach thicknesses of over 150 m. In general, igneous rocks make up about 30% of the productive series. Rocks of the upper base felt weak regional metamorphism (initial stage greenschist facies). A significant part of the deposits developed with metasomatic replacement of primary minerals by carbonate, sericite, albite and quartz. Currently 25 deposits have been identified and explored in varying degrees, containing from 0.2 to 58.0 million tons of high-carbon shungite rocks.
