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Verkhnee Espe Massif (Verkhnee Espe deposit), Akzhaylyautas Mts (Akzhailyautas Mts; Akjaylautas Mts; Akzhalautas Mts), Tarbagatai Range, Eastern Kazakhstan Province (Shyghys Qazaqstan Oblysy; Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya Oblast'), Kazakhstan

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Verkhnee Espe Massif, Akzhaylyautas Mts, Tarbagatai Range, Eastern Kazakhstan Province, Kazakhstan

Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov

Latitude: 48°6'N
Longitude: 81°27'E

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массив Верхнее Эспе

Massif of agpaitic alkaline granites.
Apogranites lie at the northern end of the coeval Akzhaylyau massif.

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41 entries listed. 36 valid minerals. 6 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

- Mineev D.A. (1968) Geochemistry of apogranites and rare-metal metasomatites of North-Western Tarbagatai, - Moscow, Nauka, 276p. (in Rus.)
- Bailey, J. C: Formation of cryolite and other aluminofluorides: A petrologic review. Bull. geol. Soc. Denmark, vol. 29, pp. 1-45. Copenhagen, June 10th, 1980.
Cámara, F., Hawthorne, F.C., Ball, N.A., Bekenova, G., Stepanov, A.V., - - Kotel’nikov, P.E. (2010): Fluoroleakeite, NaNa2(Mg2Fe3+2Li)Si8O22F2, a new mineral of the amphibole group from the Verkhnee Espe deposit, Akjailyautas Mountains, Eastern Kazakhstan District, Kazakhstan: description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 74, 521-528.
- A. V. Stepanov, G. K. Bekenova, V. L. Levin and F. C. Hawthorne Natrotitanite, ideally (Na0.5Y0.5)Ti(SiO4)O, a new mineral from the Verkhnee Espe deposit, Akjailyautas mountains, Eastern Kazakhstan district, Kazakhstan: description and crystal structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 2012, v. 76, 37-44.

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