Sallanlatvi (Sallanlatvinskii) (Record #139) rare-earth element deposit in Russia

Sallanlatvi (Sallanlatvinskii)

Carbonatite with residual enrichment rare earth element deposit in , Russia

Geographic location

Country	Russia
Geographic location:	29.166667, 66.95
(click for info)

Location references

Kogarko, L.N., Kononova, V.A., Orlova, M.P., and Wooley, A.R., 1995, Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of the world; Part two, Former USSR: London, Chapman and Hall, 226 p.

Geologic characteristics

Deposit type	Carbonatite with residual enrichment
REE minerals	lueshite parisite ancylite burbankite bastnäsite cerite monazite huanghoite rhabdophane cordylite
Ore minerals	apatite barite siderite titanite magnetite zircon lueshite pyrochlore hydroxlapatite titanium magnetite strontianite sphalerite pyrite arsenopyrite
Gangue minerals	dolomite ankerite calcite phlogopite cancrinite natrolite aegirine chlorite
Host rock types	dolomitic carbonatite calcite carbonatite ijolite melteigite

Nearby scientific information

Geologic map unit	29.166666666667, 66.95
Other databases	Find additional scientific data near this location

Economic information

Status	Occurrence

Comments

Apatite, barite, and REE are concentrated in the weathered crust.

Bibliographic references

Chakhmouradian, A.R., 1996, On the development of niobium and rare-earth minerals in monticellite-calcite carbonatite of the Oka Complex, Quebec: The Canadian Mineralogist, v. 34, p. 479-484.
Kogarko, L.N., Kononova, V.A., Orlova, M.P., and Wooley, A.R., 1995, Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of the world; Part two, Former USSR: London, Chapman and Hall, 226 p.
Belolipetskii, A.P., and Voloshin, A.V., 1996, Yttrium and rare earth element minerals of the Kola Peninsula, Russia, in Jones, A.P., Wall, Frances, and Williams, C.T., eds., Rare earth minerals-- chemistry, origin and ore deposits: New York, Chapman and Hall, The Mineralogical Society Series 7, p. 311-326.