Kovdor Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia

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Alkaline complex with olivinites, pyroxenites, melilitolites, ijolites and nepheline syenite. Contains two famous localities: the Kovdor Mine and the Kovdor Phlogophite Mine.

References

- Wilke, H.-J., S. N. Britvin & N. Widemann (1993): Kovdor: Seltene Phosphate von der russischen Kola-Halbinsel. Lapis, 18 (10), 15–24. (in German).
- Bayanova, T.B., Kirnarsky, Yu.M., and Levkovich, N.V. (1997): U-Pb isotope dating of baddeleyite from rocks of the Kovdor massif. Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk: 356: 509-511 (in Russian).
- Mitchell, R. H., Yakovenchuk, V. N., Chakhmouradian, A. R., Burns, P., Pakhomovsky, Y. A. (2000): Henrymeyerite, a new hollandite-type Ba-Fe Titanate from the Kovdor Complex, Russia. Canad. Mineral., 38: 617-626.
- Ivanyuk, G.Yu., Yakovenchuk, V.N., and Pakhomovsky, Ya.A. (2002) Kovdor. Laplandia Minerals, Apatity, Russia.

External Links

http://maurice.strahlen.org/kola/kovdor.htm

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Actinolite Aegirine Aegirine-augite Åkermanite Albite Allanite-(Ce) Anatase Ancylite-(Ce) Andradite var: Demantoid Anglesite Ankerite Antigorite 'Apatite' Aqualite Aragonite Arfvedsonite Azurite Baddeleyite Bakhchisaraitsevite (TL) Baryte Batisite Beidellite Bobierrite Bonshtedtite (TL) Bornite Brucite Burbankite Cafetite Calcite Cancrinite Catapleiite Cattiite (TL) Celestine 'Chabazite' Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Clinochlore Clinochrysotile Clinohumite Cobaltpentlandite Collinsite Corundum Covellite Crandallite

Cubanite Cymrite Delvauxite Diopside Djerfisherite Dolomite Eudialyte Feklichevite (TL) Fluorapatite var: Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite var: Francolite var: Staffelite Fluorite Forsterite Galena Geikielite Gibbsite Girvasite (TL) Gladiusite (TL) Glagolevite (TL) Goethite Golyshevite (TL) Gorceixite Goyazite Gypsum Halloysite Harmotome Hastingsite Hematite Henrymeyerite (TL) Hexahydrite Humite Hydrotalcite Ilmenite IMA2005-015a (TL) Jarosite Juanite Juonniite (TL) Khanneshite Koninckite Kovdorskite (TL) Krasnovite (TL) Labuntsovite-Fe Labuntsovite-Mg (TL) Labuntsovite-Mn

Lamprophyllite var: Barium-Lamprophyllite Lemmleinite-Ba Lemmleinite-K Lizardite Loparite-(Ce) Lorenzenite Lueshite Mackinawite Magnesio-arfvedsonite Magnesiohastingsite Magnesiokatophorite Magnesite Magnetite Malachite Manasseite Marcasite Messelite Microcline Mitridatite Mogovidite (TL) Molybdenite Monazite-(Ce) Nabalamprophyllite Nastrophite Natrolite Nepheline Nontronite Nordstrandite Norsethite Orthoclase Pakhomovskyite (TL) Pectolite Pentlandite Perovskite 'Phillipsite' Phlogopite Phosphoinnelite (TL) Pigeonite Priderite Pseudobrookite Pseudomalachite Pyrite Pyrochlore Group Pyrrhotite Quartz

Quintinite Rhabdophane-(Ce) Rhodochrosite Rimkorolgite (TL) Saponite Schorlomite Scolecite Shcherbakovite Shortite Siderite Sjögrenite Sodalite Sphalerite Spinel Stevensite Stistaite Strengite Strontianite Strontiowhitlockite (TL) Tacharanite Talc Ternovite Tetraferriphlogopite (TL) Thomsonite-Ca Thorianite Thorite var: Orangite Tin Titanite Tremolite Uranpyrochlore Valleriite Vermiculite Vesuvianite Vigezzite Vinogradovite Vivianite Wadeite Wavellite Wollastonite Zircon Zirconolite Zirkelite

184 entries listed. 166 valid minerals. 20 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

Russia Northern Region Murmanskaja Oblast' Kola Peninsula Kovdor Massif Kovdor Phlogopite mine (Mica Mine; Slyuda Mine; Kovdorslyuda Shaft) Zheleznyi Mine (Iron Mine)