Open pit apatite deposit. Alkaline massif with ultra-agpaitic pegmatites, urtite, as well as foidolites and apatite-nepheline rocks with aegirine-microcline, aegirine-nepheline-microcline and titanite-aegirine-nepheline veins, and olivine melanephelinite dikes.
References:
- Ivanyuk, G.Y., Pakhomovsky, Y.A., Konopleva, N.G., Yakovenchuk, V.N., Men’shikov, Y.P., and Mikhailova, Y.A. (2007): Spinel-Group Minerals in Rocks of the Khibiny Alkaline Pluton, Kola Peninsula. Geology of Ore Deposits 49(7), 599-606.
- Ivanyuk, G.Y., Pakhomovsky, Y.A., Konopleva, N.G., Yakovenchuk, V.N., Men’shikov, Y.P., and Mikhailova, Y.A. (2007): Spinel-Group Minerals in Rocks of the Khibiny Alkaline Pluton, Kola Peninsula. Geology of Ore Deposits 49(7), 599-606.
- Pekov, I.V., Chukanov, N.V., Kononkova, N.N., Zubkova, N.V., Rabadanov, M.K., and Pushcharovsky, D.Y. (2008): Elpasolite from Hyperalkaline Pegmatite of the Khibiny Pluton, Kola Peninsula. Symmetry of Elpasolite. Geology of Ore Deposits 50(8), 749-754.
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Map Reference: 67°37'N , 34°0'E
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