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

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(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.

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

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Mineral List:

Actinolite
Aegirine
Albite
Alstonite
Ancylite-(Ce)
Ankerite
'Apatite'
Apatite-(CaF)
Baddeleyite
Bariopyrochlore
Baryte
Belkovite (TL)
Brookite
Burbankite
Calcioburbankite
Calcite
Carbocernaite (TL)
Catapleiite
Chalcopyrite
'Childrenite-Eosphorite Series'
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysotile
Cordylite-(Ce)
Diopside
Dolomite
Donnayite-(Y)
Edingtonite
Ewaldite
Fluorite

Forsterite
Franconite
Georgechaoite
Harmotome
Hilairite
Hochelagaite
Hydroxylbastnäsite-(Ce) (TL)
Kolfanite (TL)
Komkovite (TL)
Kukharenkoite-(Ce) (TL)
Labuntsovite-Mn
Laueite
Limonite
Löllingite
Lorenzenite
Magnesite
Magnetite
Mckelveyite-(Nd)
Mckelveyite-(Y)
Melilite
Mitridatite
Monazite-(Ce)
Monticellite
Natrofairchildite
Nenadkevichite
Neskevaaraite-Fe (TL)
Nordstrandite
Norsethite
Nyerereite

Okenite
'Olivine'
Perovskite
var: Dysanalyte
Phlogopite
Pseudo-autunite
Pyrite
Pyrochlore
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Richterite
Schorlomite
'Serpentine Group'
Shortite
Siderite
Sphalerite
Strontianite
Ternovite (TL)
Tetra-ferriphlogopite
Titanite
Tumchaite (TL)
Vaterite
Vermiculite
Vuoriyarvite-K (TL)
Zircon
Zirconolite
Zirkelite

91 entries listed. 74 valid minerals. 10 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region:


Russia
Northern Region Murmanskaja Oblast' Kola Peninsula Vuoriyarvi alkaline-ultrabasic massif Neskevaara Hill
Vasin-Myl'k Mt.

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