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Nikmelnikovite, Ca₁₂ Fe²⁺ Fe²⁺ ₃Al₃ (SiO₄)₆ (OH)₂₀: A New Mineral from the Kovdor Massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia)

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Department of Crystallography

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X19100143
Final published version

S. V. Krivovichev
V. N. Yakovenchuk
T. L. Panikorovskii
E. E. Savchenko
Ya A. Pakhomovsky
Yu. A. Mikhailova
E. A. Selivanova
G. I. Kadyrova
G. Yu Ivanyuk

Abstract: Nikmelnikovite, Ca₁₂Fe²⁺Fe₃ ³⁺AI₃(SiO₄)₆(OH)₂₀, a new mineral from the Kovdor massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia), is described. It is the first trigonal representative of the garnet supergroup. The mineral is named in honor of Academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Melnikov (1938–2018), an outstanding Soviet and Russia mining engineer, long-time (1981–2015) director of the Mining Institute of the Kola Science Center, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1200-1202
Number of pages	3
Journal	Doklady Earth Sciences
Volume	488
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X19100143
State	Published - 12 Nov 2019

Research areas

Aluminum compounds, minerals, Silicon compounds, Kola Peninsula, New mineral, Russian Academy of Sciences, Science centers, Iron compounds

Scopus subject areas

Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

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