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

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.

- http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~w.steffens/kovdo.htm
- http://maurice.strahlen.org/kola/kovdor.htm