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Vuoriyarvi alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia

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Vuoriyarvi alkaline-ultrabasic massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia

Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov
Latitude: 66°47'N
Longitude: 30°10'E
Vuorijärvi Massif

This locality is not within the Karelia Republic, but rather, it is in the Murmanskaja Oblast', at the northern shore of Lake Vuoriyarvi. It is an alkali-ultrabasite massif with dunites, pyroxenites, ijolite-melteigites, phoscorites and carbonatites.

External Links

http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~w.steffens/vuori.htm

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Aegirine
Albite
Alstonite
'Amphibole Group'
'Ancylite'
Ancylite-(Ce)
Ankerite
Baddeleyite
Baryte
Barytocalcite
Belkovite (TL)
Brookite
Burbankite
Calcioburbankite
Calcite
Carbocernaite (TL)
Catapleiite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysotile
Cordylite-(Ce)
Diopside
Dolomite
Donnayite-(Y)
Edingtonite
Ewaldite
Fluorapatite
Fluorite
Forsterite
Franconite
Georgechaoite
Harmotome
Hilairite
Hochelagaite
Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) (TL)
Komkovite (TL)
Kukharenkoite-(Ce) (TL)
Labuntsovite-Mn
Limonite
Lorenzenite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Mckelveyite-(Nd)
Mckelveyite-(Y)
'Melilite'
Monazite-(Ce)
Monticellite
Natrofairchildite
Nenadkevichite
Neskevaaraite-Fe (TL)
Nordstrandite
Norsethite
Nyerereite
Okenite
Olekminskite
'Olivine'
Perovskite
var: Dysanalyte

Phlogopite
Pseudo-autunite
Pyrite
'Pyrochlore'
Pyrochlore Group
var: Bariopyrochlore (of Hogarth 1977)
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Remondite-(Ce)
Rhodochrosite
Richterite
Schorlomite
'Serpentine Group'
Shortite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Strontianite
Ternovite (TL)
Tetraferriphlogopite
Titanite
Tumchaite (TL)
Vaterite
Vermiculite
Vuoriyarvite-K (TL)
Zircon
Zirconolite
Zirkelite


92 entries listed. 72 valid minerals. 9 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Russia
  • Northern Region
    • Murmanskaja Oblast'

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