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Shomiokitovoe pegmatite body, Umbozero Mine, Alluaiv Mt, Lovozero Massif, Kola Peninsula, Murmanskaja Oblast', Northern Region, Russia

(Шомиокитовое)

A very large agpaitic pegmatite body discovered in 1996 on the northern flank of the Umbozero mine on Alluaiv Mt.
Intensely hydrothermally reworked, extremely Na-rich, CO2-rich and relatively Si-rich pegmatite.
Exceptionally large crystals of many minerals are known from the body (for example up to 20 cm long shomiokite-(Y) crystals).

Ref.:
http://webcenter.ru/~minbooks/lov_193.html





Mineral List:
Adamsite-(Y)
Aegirine
Albite
Anatase
Arfvedsonite
Belovite-(Ce)
'Bitumen'
Bonshtedtite
Burbankite
Calcite
Catapleiite
Elpidite
Epididymite
Eudialyte
Galena
Korobitsynite
Leifite
Löllingite
Lorenzenite
Microcline
Murmanite
Nahpoite
Natrolite
Natron
Natroxalate
Nenadkevichite
Polylithionite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Shomiokite-(Y)
Shortite
Sidorenkite
Sodalite
var: Hackmanite
Sphalerite
var: Cleiophane
Tainiolite
Thermonatrite
Trona
Vinogradovite


42 entries listed. 39 valid minerals.

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