N.I. Krasnova, T.G. Petrov, E.G. Balaganskaya, D. Garcia, J. Moutte, A.N. Zaitsev, F. Wall (2004): Introduction to phoscorites: occurrence, composition, nomenclature and petrogenesis. Pp. 44-72 in F. Wall and A.N. Zaitsev (eds): Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine: the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province, Mineralogical Society Series, 10.

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Angola
Huíla Province Quilengues ⓘ Mount Bonga	Amores-Casals, S., Melgarejo, J. C., Bambi, A., Gonçalves, A. O., Morais, E. A., Manuel, J., ... & Molist, J. M. (2019). Lamprophyre-Carbonatite Magma Mingling and Subsolidus Processes as Key Controls on Critical Element Concentration in Carbonatites—The Bonga Complex (Angola). Minerals, 9(10), 601.

Australia
Queensland Diamantina Shire ⓘ Mulligan and Lake Machattie Intrusions	Collerson, K.D. 2014. Application of spinifex biogeochemistry to identify mineralisation targets in obscured basement terranes beneath the Simpson Deserts in South Western Queensland - Final Report. Queensland Digital Exploration Report 88754, Queensland Government. Carson, C. J., Hutton, L. J., Withnall, I. W., Perkins, W. G., Donchak, P. J. T., Parsons, A., ... & Lambeck, A. (2011). Joint GSQ–GA NGA geochronology project—Mount Isa region, 2009–2010. Geological Survey of Queensland, Record, 2011/03.
Western Australia Upper Gascoyne Shire Mount Augustus area ⓘ Gifford Creek Complex	Slezak, P., Spandler, C., & Blake, K. (2018). Ghosts of apatite past: using hyperspectral cathodoluminescence and micro-geochemical data to reveal multi-generational apatite in the Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex, Australia. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56(5), 773-797.

Brazil
Goiás Catalão ⓘ Catalão II carbonatite complex	Guarino, V. (2010) Petrogenesis of Alkaline-carbonatitic Complexes of Catalão and Ipanema, in Southern Brazil. Plinius n. 36:121-128 Bilal, E., De Mello, F. M., Soubiès, F., & Bounakhla, M. (2012). REE minerals in Catalão II, Goias, Brazil. Romanian Journal of Mineral Deposits, 85(1), 14-18.
Minas Gerais Araxá Barreiro ⓘ Araxá complex	Gomide, C. S. (2015). Geoquímica e química mineral de carbonatitos e isótopos estáveis em carbonatitos da província ígnea do alto Paranaíba. PhD thesis University of Brasilia
ⓘ Ipanema complex	Guarino, V. (2010) Petrogenesis of Alkaline-carbonatitic Complexes of Catalão and Ipanema, in Southern Brazil. Plinius n. 36:121-128

Canada
Ontario Thunder Bay District Killala Lake Area ⓘ Prairie Lake carbonatite	Savard, J. (2019). Petrology of ijolites from the Prairie Lake carbonatite complex (Masters thesis, Thunder Bay, Ontario]: Lakehead University).

Finland
Lapland Savukoski Tulppio ⓘ Sokli carbonatite complex	Kramm, U., Kogarko, L. N., Kononova, V. A., & Vartiainen, H. (1993). The Kola Alkaline Province of the CIS and Finland: Precise Rb Sr ages define 380–360 Ma age range for all magmatism. Lithos, 30(1), 33-44.

India
West Bengal Purulia District Purulia carbonatite ⓘ Beldih Dyke and phosphate quarry	Ghosh Roy, A. K., & Sengupta, P. R. (1993). Alkalic-carbonatitic magmatism and associated mineralisation along the Porapahar-Tamar lineament in the Proterozoic of Purulia District, West Bengal. Indian journal of earth sciences, 20(3-4), 193-200. Chakrabarty, A., Sen, A. K., & Ghosh, T. K. (2009). Amphibole—a key indicator mineral for petrogenesis of the Purulia carbonatite, West Bengal, India. Mineralogy and Petrology, 95(1-2), 105-112. Chakrabarty, A., & Sen, A. K. (2010). Enigmatic association of the carbonatite and alkali-pyroxenite along the Northern Shear Zone, Purulia, West Bengal: A saga of primary magmatic carbonatite. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 76(4), 403-413.

Russia
Krasnoyarsk Krai Maimecha and Kotui Rivers Basin ⓘ Gulinskii massif (Guli)	Sorokhtina, N. V., Kogarko, L. N., Zaitsev, V. A., Kononkova, N. N., & Asavin, A. M. (2019). Sulfide Mineralization in the Carbonatites and Phoscorites of the Guli Massif, Polar Siberia, and Their Noble-Metal Potential. Geochemistry International, 57(11), 1125-1146.
Murmansk Oblast ⓘ Khibiny Massif	Kogarko et al. (1995) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World, Part 2 Former USSR
Kolsky District ⓘ Seblyavr Massif	Kogarko, L.N. et al (1995) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World Vol 2.
ⓘ Kovdor Massif	Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ayya V. Bazai, Pavel M. Goryainov, Julia A. Mikhailova, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, and Nataly G. Konopleva. 2017. "Subsolidus Evolution of the Magnetite-Spinel-UlvöSpinel Solid Solutions in the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia" Minerals 7, no. 11: 215. https://doi.org/10.3390/min7110215 Sokolov, S. V. (2014). Portlandite in rocks of carbonatite massifs. Geochemistry International, 52(8), 698-701. Mikhailova, Julia A., Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ayya V. Bazai, Taras L. Panikorovskii, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Nataly G. Konopleva, and Pavel M. Goryainov. (2018) "Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite–Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: I. Forsterite" Minerals 8, no. 6: 260. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8060260 Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Taras L. Panikorovskii, Julia A. Mikhailova, Andrei O. Kalashnikov, Ayya V. Bazai, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Nataly G. Konopleva, and Pavel M. Goryainov. (2018) "Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: II. Sulfides" Minerals 8, no. 7: 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8070292 Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Taras L. Panikorovskii, Julia A. Mikhailova, Andrei O. Kalashnikov, Ayya V. Bazai, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Nataly G. Konopleva, and Pavel M. Goryainov. (2018) "Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: II. Sulfides" Minerals 8, no. 7: 292. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8070292 Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Nataly G. Konopleva, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Taras L. Panikorovskii, Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Vladimir N. Bocharov, Ayya A. Bazai, Julia A. Mikhailova, and Pavel M. Goryainov. (2018) "Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: III. Pyrochlore Supergroup Minerals" Minerals 8, no. 7: 277. https://doi.org/10.3390/min8070277
ⓘ Kovdor Zheleznyi Mine	Yakovenchuk, V.N., Ivanyuk, G.Yu., Pakhomovsky, Ya.A., Panikorovskii, T.L., Britvin, S.N., Krivovichev, S.V., Shilovskikh, V.V., Bocharov, V.N. (2018): Kampelite, Ba3Mg1.5Sc4(PO4)6(OH)3·4H2O, a new very complex Ba-Sc phosphate mineral from the Kovdor phoscorite-carbonatite complex (Kola Peninsula, Russia. Mineralogy and Petrology: 112: 111–121
ⓘ Phoscorite-carbonatite pipe	Mikhailova, J. A., Kalashnikov, A. O., Sokharev, V. A., Pakhomovsky, Y. A., Konopleva, N. G., Yakovenchuk, V. N., ... & Ivanyuk, G. Y. (2016). 3D mineralogical mapping of the Kovdor phoscorite–carbonatite complex (Russia). Mineralium Deposita, 51(1), 131-149. Ivanyuk, Gregory Yu., Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Yakov A. Pakhomovsky, Ayya V. Bazai, Pavel M. Goryainov, Julia A. Mikhailova, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, and Nataly G. Konopleva. (2017) "Subsolidus Evolution of the Magnetite-Spinel-UlvöSpinel Solid Solutions in the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia" Minerals 7, no. 11: 215. https://doi.org/10.3390/min7110215 Gregory Ivanyuk, Andrei Kalashnikov, Julia Mikhailova, Yakov Pakhomovsky, Nataly Konoplyova, Victor Yakovenchuk, Ayya Bazai (2018) 3D mineralogical mapping of the Kovdor phoscorite-carbonatite pipe. in abstracts of the 22nd IMA Meeting Melbourne p101
Turii Cape ⓘ Turii alkaline massif (Turiy massif)	Liferovich, R. P., Mitchell, R. H., Zozulya, D. R., & Shpachenko, A. K. (2006). Paragenesis and composition of banalsite, stronalsite, and their solid solution in nepheline syenite and ultramafic alkaline rocks. The Canadian Mineralogist, 44(4), 929-942.
Sakha ⓘ Arbarastakh complex	Kruk, M. N., Doroshkevich, A. G., Prokopyev, I. R., & Izbrodin, I. A. (2021). Mineralogy of Phoscorites of the Arbarastakh Complex (Republic of Sakha, Yakutia, Russia). Minerals, 11(6), 556. Doroshkevich, A., Prokopyev, I., Kruk, M., Sharygin, V., Izbrodin, I., Starikova, A., ... & Nugumanova, Y. (2022). Age and petrogenesis of ultramafic lamprophyres of the Arbarastakh alkaline-carbonatite complex, Aldan-Stanovoy shield, South of Siberian Craton (Russia): evidence for ultramafic lamprophyre-carbonatite link. Journal of Petrology, 63(9), egac073.

South Africa
Limpopo Mopani District Municipality Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality Phalaborwa ⓘ Palabora Mine	Giebel, R. Johannes, Marks, Michael A.W., Gauert, Christoph D.K., Markl, Gregor (2019) A model for the formation of carbonatite-phoscorite assemblages based on the compositional variations of mica and apatite from the Palabora Carbonatite Complex, South Africa. Lithos: 324-325: 89-104.

Ukraine
Zaporizhia Oblast Pryazovske Raion ⓘ Chernigovskiy Massif (Chernigovka Massif; Novopoltavskiy Massif)	Ryabchikov, I.D., Kogarko, L.N., Krivdik, S.G., and Ntaflos, T. (2008): Constraints of the Formation of Carbonatites in the Chernigovka Massif, Azov Region, Ukraine. Geology of Ore Deposits 50(6), 423-432.

Zambia
Southern Province Mazabuka District Munali Intrusive Complex ⓘ Munali nickel project	Holwell, D. A., Mitchell, C. L., Howe, G. A., Evans, D. M., Ward, L. A., & Friedman, R. (2017). The Munali Ni sulfide deposit, southern Zambia: A multi-stage, mafic-ultramafic, magmatic sulfide-magnetite-apatite-carbonate megabreccia. Ore Geology Reviews, 90, 553-575. Blanks, D. E., Holwell, D. A., Barnes, S. J., Schoneveld, L. E., Boyce, A. J., & Mbiri, L. (2022). Evolution of the Munali Intrusive Complex: host to a carbonate-rich Ni-(Cu-PGE) sulfide deposit. Ore Geology Reviews, 105109.

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