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  • Taras L. Panikorovskii
  • Julia A. Mikhailova
  • Yakov A. Pakhomovsky
  • Ayya V. Bazai
  • Sergey M. Aksenov
  • Andrey O. Kalashnikov
  • Sergey V. Krivovichev

The Lovozero peralkaline massif (Kola Peninsula, Russia) has several deposits of Zr, Nb, Ta and rare earth elements (REE) associated with eudialyte-group minerals (EGM). Eudialyte from the Alluaiv Mt. often forms zonal grains with central parts enriched in Zr (more than 3 apfu) and marginal zones enriched in REEs. The detailed study of the chemical composition (294 microprobe analyses) of EGMs from the drill cores of the Mt. Alluaiv-Mt. Kedykvyrpakhk deposits reveal more than 70% Zr-enriched samples. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) was performed separately for the Zr-rich (4.17 Zr apfu) core and the REE-rich (0.54 REE apfu) marginal zone. It was found that extra Zr incorporates into the octahedral M1A site, where it replaces Ca, leading to the symmetry lowering from R3m to R32. We demonstrated that the incorporation of extra Zr into EGMs makes the calculation of the eudialyte formula on the basis of Si + Al + Zr + Ti + Hf + Nb + Ta + W = 29 apfu inappropriate.

Original languageEnglish
Article number982
Number of pages18
JournalMinerals
Volume11
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Sep 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Geology
  • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

    Research areas

  • Arctic, Eudialyte, Eudialyte-group minerals, Lovozero alkaline massif, Mineralogy, Zirconium, PLUTON, GROUP MINERALS, ORE, ANALOG, eudialyte, CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE, ROCKS, mineralogy, ALKALINE COMPLEX, eudialyte-group minerals, zirconium

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