Lavrent'evskii (Record #216) rare-earth element deposit in Kola Peninsula, Russia

Lavrent'evskii

Alkalic igneous rare earth element deposit in Kola Peninsula, Russia

Geographic location

Country	Russia
State or province	Kola Peninsula
Geographic location:	37.016667, 67.266667
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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	Alkalic igneous
Age of deposit	Early Proterozoic- Karelian
REE minerals	aeschynite with yttrium fergusonite yttrium titanite thalenite britholite with yttrium gadolinite allanite chevkinite pyrochlore loparite monazite bastnäsite
Ore minerals	zircon
Gangue minerals	quartz amazonite
Host rock types	aegirine-arfvedsonite granite lepidomelane granite

Nearby scientific information

Geologic map unit	37.016666666667, 67.266666666667
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Economic information

Status	Occurrence

Comments

Lat-long for the town of Lavrentevskiy.

Bibliographic 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.
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.