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Melonite from
Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia


Classification
Species:Melonite
Formula:NiTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Melonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:845646
Long-form Identifier:1:3:845646:5
GUID (UUID V4):2cbdf7f1-13a2-4267-8529-e51212d643a7
Localities for Melonite in this Region
Monchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit, Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Nearest other occurrences of Melonite
2.7km (1.7 miles) ⓘMonchegorsk Cu-Ni Deposit, Monchegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
32.0km (19.9 miles) ⓘVolchetundra massif, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volchetundra Gabbro–Anorthosite Pluton, Kola Peninsula, Russia V. V. Chashchina and S. V. Petrovb a Geological...Sciences, ul. Fersmana 14, Apatity, Murmansk oblast, 184209 Russia b St. Petersburg State University,...Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia Received June 15, 2012 Abstract—The internal structure...tellurides (telargpalite, sopcheite, keithconnite, melonite, hessite), paolovite, and Pt–Fe alloy have been...combines the Pechenga–Allarechka Ni–Cu–PGE, Monchegorsk Ni–Cu–Cr–PGE, and Fedorov Pana Ni–Cu–PGE ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The occurrences are basically confined to the Monchegorsk pluton, to its rich vein ores and copper (chalcopyrite)... sometimes, veins of massive sulphide ores (Monchegorsk pluton). The northern zone has a north-west trend...includes the massifs of Pansky and Fedorova tundra, Monchegorsk and Monchetundra, Ulita, Generalsky mountain...East-Pechenga (Karikjavr, Generalskaya etc.); 5 Monchegorsk (Monchepluton, Monchetundra, Ostrovskoe etc.);6...(unnamed) Kotulskite Sb-kotulskite* Sobolevskite* Pd-melonite* Ni-merenskyite Merenskyite Moncheite Miehenerite
Report (issue)
= 5.288 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Monchegorsk deposit, Russia. 2.93 (100), 2.11 (80), 2.02 (70), 1...2 56.7 Total 100.0 100.4 100.0 (1) Monchegorsk deposit, Russia; average of microspectrographic analyses...97 Bi0.03 )Σ=2.00 . Mineral Group: Occurrence: Melonite group. Typically in small amounts in Pt–Pd-bearing...Cu–Ni sulfide deposits. Association: Merenskyite, melonite, sobolevskite, michenerite, kotulskite, froodite...chalcopyrite, pyrite. Distribution: In Russia, from the Monchegorsk deposit, Monche Tundra, Kola Peninsula
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulphide deposits of the Pechenga ore field, northwest Russia, occur in the Middle Proterozoic rocks of the gabbro-peridotite...intrusions of the Kola belt (Fedorovo–Pansky, Monchegorsk and Mt. Generalskaya intrusions). The deposits...sulpharsenides, maucherite, shandite, breithauptite, melonite, hessite, altaite, native Cu and Au and PGM. The...associated with chalcopyrite, hessite, altaite and melonite. The textural relationship between tellurides...Ir-enriched. Trace Pd is present in maucherite and melonite (0.09–0.21% and 2.8%, respectively).24,25 Distler
Report (issue)
Melonite NiTe2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group:...Mineral Group: Forms a series with merenskyite. Melonite group. Occurrence: With other tellurium minerals...In the Omai gold deposit, Guiana. From Russia, in the Monchegorsk deposit, Kola Peninsula. At the Zhanatyube...341. (2) Peacock, M.A. and R.M. Thompson (1945) Melonite from Quebec and the crystal structure of NiTe2
Report (issue)
sobolevskite. Association: Sobolevskite, merenskyite, melonite, michenerite, moncheite, braggite, many other...Some prominent localities include: in Russia, from the Monchegorsk Cu–Ni deposit, Kola Peninsula [TL];...Petersburg, Russia. Type Material: Geology Museum, Kola Branch, Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russia, 5966
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
7.22 gm/cc. The mineral is isostructural with melonite with which it forms a solid solution series. Kitkaite...hitherto unknown series of solid solution with melonite (NiTez) indicates that the supposednonexistenceof...of clausthalite which, sometimes, with selenian melonite forms a zone oI myrmekite-like intergrowth around...around the kitkaite core. The selenian melonite was found to contain notably less selenium than hitkaite...than those for pure melonite. Under the microscope,the color of the selenian melonite differs from that
Report (issue)
froodite, merenskyite, moncheite, kotulskite, melonite, sobolevskite, hollingworthite, sperrylite, hessite...Argentina. In Russia, at the Oktyabr mine, Noril’sk region, western Siberia; from the Monchegorsk deposit,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
addition to the Fedorov–Pana intrusive complex, Monchegorsk Pluton, and Mount General’skaya Massif, which...Monche tundra Massif is separated from the Monchegorsk Plu ton by a wide zone of blastocataclasites...are confined to the Monchetundra Massif and Monchegorsk Pluton areas. According to different researchers...Academy of Sciences, ul. Fersmana 14, Apatity, 184209 Russia email: tamara@geoksc.apatity.ru The geological–petrographic...during several stages syn chronously with the Monchegorsk Pluton and Fedorov–Pana Massif [4, 7]. The lithological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a member of the isomorphous series NiTe-NiTez (melonite). Alioys of composition NiTe:, NiTer.zr, NiTe1...(10) (melonite 2.81, NiTe 2.84), 1.583 (5), (melonite 1'586, NiTe 1'56)' 3 10 the Monchegorsk region...seerns to be a tellurium-deficient member of the melonite solid solution series. Monohydrocalcite E. I.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Street 3, Office 3a, RU–195030 St. Petersburg, Russia BO JOHANSON AND LASSI PAKKANEN Geological Survey...undefined Pd-bearing Bi–Ni telluride resembling melonite. Iridarsenite, irarsite and hollingworthite were...Tarkian et al. 1991). At Lukkulaisvaara, Karelia, Russia (Barkov & Lednev 1993), a phase with an empirical...mackinawite (Peltonen et al. 1995). At Monchegorsk, Kola Peninsula, Russia, a sulfide with similar chemical...Lukkulaisvaara layered intrusion, northern Karelia, Russia. Eur. J. Mineral. 5, 12271233. EKSTRÖM, M. & HÅLENIUS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper-nickel deposits as those at Sudbury _(Canada), Monchegorsk (USSR), and Merensky Reef (Transvaal), in addition...sylvinite, calaverite, tellurobismuthite, and melonite — a number of natural compounds of tellurium with...the interplanar spacings of kotulskites from Monchegorsk and Rustenberg and of synthetic PdTe. The X-ray...X-ray diffraction patterns of Oktyabr and Monchegorsk kotulskites are almost identical. The powder pattern...from PdTe to kotulskites from the Oktyabr' and Monchegorsk deposits (table 4). Chemical composition of
Book (edition)
dicular to elongation Hongshiite Aurostibite Melonite Sobolevskite polysynthetic Stannopalladinite...Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/OberthĂŒr); PPL D Fine-grained...Soimon Valley, Karabash, Chelyabinsk Oblast’, Southern Urals Region, Russia Au-Cu alloys, native Copper, native...(Sakha Republic; Yakutia), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia native Antimony, native Cadmium, native Copper...Wilui) River Basin, Saha (Sakha) Republic, Yakutia, Russia Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, native Copper
Journal (volume)
the central part of the Lukkulaisvaara intrusion, Russia. In this deposit, the ore components occur predominantly...series (Fig. 6.23.A), 2) phases of the merenskyite-melonite-moncheite solid solution series (Fig. 6.23.B)...groups: 1) members of the merenskyite-moncheite-melonite solid solution series (Fig. 6.23.F), 2) hessite...series, michenerite and the merenskyite-moncheite-melonite series are illustrated in the Bi-PGE+Ni+Sb-Te...stoichiometric phase. Within the merenskyite-moncheite-melonite solid solution, the grains of the MS appear to
Report (issue)
number of type species from the Noril'sk Complex in Russia. Twenty (20) valid type species so far remain unique...district, Northern Cape Province and from Karelia, Russia (Hugo, 1961; Zhirov et al., 1961 ). Additional...the Talnakh deposit, Noril'sk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia (Begizov et al., 1981 ). Etymology: The unnamed...(1877). The phase maslenitskovite from Noril'sk, Russia (YushkoZakharova et al., 1973) is identical with...unidentified phase from the Noril'sk ore region, Russia, by Yushko-Zakharova et al. (1970) and indexed
Book
in the Amur oblast, 01 'khovskoye and Kostantinovskoye in Khakasskaya autonomous oblast), and cobalt-selevii...deposits (Verkhnye-Seimchanskoye in the Magadanskaya oblast). Under directions from the author, IMGRE workers...designed in 1888 by the physicist Ulyanov of Kazan, Russia. Selenium is also of substantial importance as...sclt>ni111n replacing (erroselite. Tuvenskaya auton. oblast X 320 (without analyzer). In the zone of oxidation...for1nation in certain regions of the 1.~uvinskaya auton. oblast in the sandstones of the Zhivctskii horizon, ,vhere
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quantitiesin cobaltite,gersdorffite,insizwaite,maucherite,melonite,moncheite, nickeline,and niggliite; Pt occursin...PdBiTe Pt Te.., PdBiTe PdSb NiSb‱ -- -- -- Pd-melonite PdBiTe -- -- NiSb‱ PdBiTe PdBiTe NiSb._...Platinian micheneritewas first reported from Monchegorsk as 0.3 mm across. Michenerite usuallyoccursas...sampleMU 023294from the Creighton ite, palladian melonite, sudburyite,or unnamed mine (sulfidestreaksin...chalcopyrite.liessite (dark gray) containing inclusionsof melonite (white) is attached to the cbt-gf grain. Frood
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
33 - galena 34 - tellurobismuthlte 35 - melonite-I 36 - melonite-II 37 - altaite 38 - sylvanite 39 - calaverite...ASSOCIATIONS IN THE COPPERNICKEL DEPOSITS OF THE MONCHEGORSK REGION AND THE ROLE OF SELENIUM AND TELLURIUM
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
superfluous name for an unanalysed member of the melonite-NiTe solid solution series, possibly near the...NiTe end, from the Nittis-Kmnuzhya deposit, Monchegorsk. )~amed for the Institute of Mineralogy, Geochemistry...variety of selenide minerals, including seleniar~ Melonite and the isostructural trigona] Kitkaite, l~iSeTe...Millerite, occurring with Clausthalite and selenian Melonite at Kuusamo, north-east Finland. Named for E. M/ikinen...Hintze, Handb. Min. Erg.-Bd. II, p. 834). Selenio-melonite. Y. Vuorelainen and A. Hiikli, 1964. Geologi (Helsinki)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arsenopyrite group: - Nickeline group: - Pyrite Group: - Melonite Group: Cobaltite group: osarsite and ruarsite...malanite-cuproiridsite-cuprorhodsite 8. moncheite-merenskyite-melonite 9. platinum-iridium 10. osmium-ruthenium 11. ...Tellurides: altaite (PbTe), hessite (Ag2Te) and melonite (NiTer), unidentified species #1 (Ni2T%), #2 (Ni3Te4)...existing PG-minerals; these include melonite-merenskyite and melonite-moncheite. The presence of up to 7...Cobaltite Copper Gersdorffite Gold Hessite Maucherite Melonite Nickeline Pentlandite Pyrrhotite Rammelsbergite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusions from other areas of the world (e.g., Monchegorsk Complex: Grokhovskaya 2010; Ferguson Lake deposit:...platinum-group minerals in the merenskyite– moncheite(–melonite) join in different hosts from the Amy Lake PGE...deposit (Campos-Alvarez et al. 2012) and the Monchegorsk Complex (Grokhovskaya 2010). These deposits share...moncheite – (Pt,Pd)(Bi,Te)2 michenerite – PdBiTe melonite – NiTe2 n/d Discrete acicular grains in zones...deposits of the Paleoproterozoic Monchegorsk Complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. In: Jugo PJ, Lesher CM, Mungall
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
POTENTIAL OF THE BURAKOVSKY LAYERED INTRUSION, KARELIA, RUSSIA Laurent BAILLY§ and Thierry AUGÉ BRGM, Mineral...Pushkinskaya Street 11, Petrozavodsk 185610, Karelia, Russia Andrey TKACHEV and Sergei CHERKASOV Vernadsky...Museum, RAS, Mokhovaya Street 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia Daniel CASSARD BRGM, Mineral Resources Division...Burakovsky layered complex, located in Karelia, Russia, is one of the largest layered Fennoscandian intrusions...platinum-group minerals, secondary epidote, Karelia, Russia. Sommaire Le complexe litĂ© du Burakovsky, en CarĂ©lie
Journal (volume)
ores The chemical composition o f the ores The Monchegorsk area Geological characteristics of the area 0...mineralizations The disseminated ore deposits of the Monchegorsk pluton . .. ... .... Nested-disseminated ore...contact . . . . .. ... Deposits outside the Monchegorsk pluton ...................... . .. The Imandra-Varzuga...fractures has developed in the north along the Murmansk shoreline. The crystalline basement has 2 been...crust and structural elements such as megablocks: Murmansk, Kola-Norwegian, Belomorean, Karelian and others
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization hosted in the giant Noril’sk deposits (Russia) in relation to the Permian–Triassic mass extinction...PGEbearing As and Te sulfosalts (irarsite, gersdorïŹƒte, melonite) are disseminated in the sulïŹde mass throughout...sulïŹde mineralization of the Monchegorsk Igneous Complex, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Miner. Depos., 1–19. http://dx
Book (edition)
vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country names are always included in...divisions inside those countries, e.g in Spain, UK, Russia, some African countries, etc. Several repeated...SSSR, ser. geologiya, now Doklady Akademii nauk of Russia EJM - European Journal of Mineralogy EG - Economic...at Burumskoye, Vitim River Valley, all Siberia, Russia. In many localities in New Zealand. Deer et al...Aegirine in charoite, xx I 5 111111,Munm massif, Russia, G Lanion in blueor palegreenglobulesandblueor
 
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