Economic deposits associated with the alkaline and ultrabasic complexes of the Kola Peninsula

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Petersen, O. V., Khomyakov, A. P., & Henning. (2001). Natrophosphate from the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex, South Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 190, 139-141. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v190.5184 _______________ The rare mineral natrophosphate has been identified for the first time in the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex in a drill core from the Kvanefjeld area. It occurs sparsely in zoned veinlets with cores of natrophosphate and borders of fibrous trona. The natrophosphate is more or less smoky, transparent and unaltered. The refractive index n = 1.448 ± 0.005 is low compared to that given for the material from the type locality, Khibina alkaline complex, Kola Peninsula; the unit cell parameter a = 27.76 ± 0.05 Å is in excellent agreement with that given for the material from the type locality. The veins occur in hyper-agpaitic naujakasite lujavrite; villiaumite is an associated mineral. Only a few water-soluble minerals have so far been found in the Ilímaussaq alkaline complex compared to the wealth of such minerals in the Khibina and Lovozero alkaline complexes. This is possibly at least partly due to lack of necessary precautions during sampling.

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Migration of Heavy Metals from Polluted Soil to Plants and Lichens under Conditions of Field Experiment on the Kola Peninsula

Russian Journal of Ecology ◽

10.1134/s1067413620060053 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 51 (6) ◽

pp. 528-540

Author(s):

I. V. Lyanguzova ◽

M. S. Bondarenko ◽

A. I. Belyaeva ◽

M. N. Kataeva ◽

V. Sh. Barkan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Field Experiment ◽

Kola Peninsula ◽

Polluted Soil

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Mobility and retention of heavy metals, arsenic and sulphur in podzols at eight locations in northern Finland and Norway and the western half of the Russian Kola Peninsula

Journal of Geochemical Exploration ◽

10.1016/s0375-6742(97)00014-9 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 59 (3) ◽

pp. 175-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 33

Author(s):

Marja Liisa Räisänen ◽

Galina Kashulina ◽

Igor Bogatyrev

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Kola Peninsula ◽

Western Half

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Chirvinskyite, (Na,Ca)13(Fe,Mn,□)2(Ti,Nb)2(Zr,Ti)3-(Si2O7)4(OH,O,F)12, a New Mineral with a Modular Wallpaper Structure, from the Khibiny Alkaline Massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)

Minerals ◽

10.3390/min9040219 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 219

Author(s):

Victor Yakovenchuk ◽

Yakov Pakhomovsky ◽

Taras Panikorovskii ◽

Andrey Zolotarev ◽

Julia Mikhailova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Kola Peninsula ◽

Empirical Formula ◽

Inorganic Compounds ◽

Structure Type ◽

New Mineral ◽

State University ◽

Mohs Hardness ◽

Alkaline Massif ◽

Khibiny Alkaline Massif ◽

White Streak

Chirvinskyite, (Na,Ca)13(Fe,Mn,□)2(Ti,Nb)2(Zr,Ti)3(Si2O7)4(OH,O,F)12, is a new wöhlerite–related zirconotitano–sorosilicate. It is triclinic, P1, a = 7.0477(5), b = 9.8725(5), c = 12.2204(9) Å, α = 77.995(5), β = 82.057(6), γ = 89.988(5)°, V = 823.35(9) Å3, Z = 1. The mineral was found in albitized alkaline pegmatites in a foyaite of the Mt. Takhtarvumchorr (Khibiny alkaline massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia, N 67°40’, E 33°33’). Chirvinskyite forms sheaf–like and radiated aggregates (up to 6 mm in diameter) of split fibrous crystals hosted by saccharoidal fluorapatite and albite. The mineral is pale cream in color, with a silky luster and a white streak. The cleavage is not recognized. Mohs hardness is 5. Chirvinskyite is biaxial (–), α 1.670(2), β 1.690(2), γ 1.705(2) (589 nm), 2Vcalc = 80.9°. The calculated and measured densities are 3.41 and 3.07(2) g·cm−3, respectively. The empirical formula based on Si = 8 apfu is (Na9.81Ca3.28K0.01)∑13.10(Fe0.72Mn0.69□0.54Mg0.05)∑2.00 (Ti1.81Nb0.19)∑2.00(Zr2.27Ti0.63)∑2.90(Si2O7)4{(OH)5.94O3.09F2.97}∑12.00. Chirvinskyite belongs to a new structure type of minerals and inorganic compounds and is related to the wöhlerite-group minerals. Its modular “wallpaper” structure consists of disilicate groups Si2O7 and three types of “octahedral walls”. The mineral is named in honor of Petr Nikolaevich Chirvinsky (1880–1955), Russian geologist and petrographer, head of the Petrography Department of the Perm’ State University (1943–1953), for his contributions to mineralogy and petrology, including studies of the Khibiny alkaline massif.

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