Lovozero (Record #219) rare-earth element deposit in Russia

Lovozero

Alkalic igneous rare earth element deposit in , Russia

Geographic location

Country	Russia
Geographic location:	34.75, 67.783333
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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	386 ±12 Ma to 406 ± 12 Ma (K-Ar, neph, urtite-ijolite)
REE minerals	loparite eudidymite rinkite ancylite mosandrite monazite burbankite bastnäsite huanghoite rhabdophane synchysite carbonate-fluorapatite
Ore minerals	pyrochlore apatite zircon strontianite murmanite lamprophyllite villiaumite titanite lavenite ilmenite murmanite lamprophyllite lovozerite chinglusuite fluorite
Gangue minerals	nepheline microcline arfvedsonite analcime aegirine diopside analcime albite natrolite sodalite
Host rock types	lujavrite foyaite urtite syenite nepheline syenite; min also in alkaline pegmatites and hydrothermal veins

Nearby scientific information

Geologic map unit	34.75, 67.783333333333
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Economic information

Status	Nb producer w/ byproduct REE from loparite
Resource estimates	>1000. Mt @ 0.8-1.5% REO

Comments

Loparite min. is in urtite- foyaite-lujavrite rocks. Eudialyte lujavrite complex is being assessed for Zr and Y. Towner gives longitude as 35-05E.

Bibliographic references

Castor, S.B., 1994, Rare earth minerals, in Carr, D.D., ed., Industrial minerals and rocks, 6th edition: Littleton, Colorardo, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploratin, Inc., p. 827-839.
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.
Hedrick, J.B., and Templeton, D.A., 1991, Rare-earth minerals and metals: U.S. Bureau of Mines Minerals Yearbook, 1989, p. 825-844.
Mariano, A.N., 1989, Economic geology of rare earth minerals, in Lipin, B.R., and McKay, G.A., eds., Geochemistry and mineralogy of the rare earth elements: Washington, D.C., Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy 21, p. 309-348.