Vuorijarvi
geology
The Vuorijarvi massif is a small intrusion on the border between Kola and
Karelia. The surrounding rock consists of archaen gneiss and granite gneiss of
the Belomorian terrane. The intrusion itself consists mainly of pyroxenites. A
small area in the west of the intrusion contains pervskite and titanomagnetite
ores. Around this ~5km diameter zone is a small zone of only a few hundred
meters of alkaline ijolite-urtite rock. At the contact of this urtite-ijolite
and the surrounding rock is a 0.1 to 1 km wide zone of fenite.
If this was all, you had defenitely not heard of Vuorijarvi. The most
interesting rocks occur as small isles of different kinds of carbonatites and
phoscorites. These rock lay mostly in the central pyroxenite zone, but in the
southeast carbonatite-phoscorite rock also interseects the urtite-ijolite zone.
It is in these carbonate-phosphate rich magmatic rocks that most interesting
minerals are found. Neskevaara hill is a sublocality of Vuoriyarvi and
type locality for Neskevaarite-Fe. The Neskevaara Hill sublocality is
interesting because it represents a hydrothermally altered pyrochlore bearing
carbonatite-phoscorite. Kapustin also mentions Namovaara as sublocality
geological sketch-map [Maurice de Graaf, sympliefied after Arzamastsev et al]
mineralogy
Alstonite Anatase Ancylite-(Ce) Anhydrite Ankerite Baddeleyite
Bariopyrochlore Barite Barytocalcite Belkovite Bohmite Bornite Boulangerite
Bournonite Brookite Brucite Burbankite-(Ce) Calcioburbankite Calcite
Calkinsite-(Ce) Carbocernaite Carbonate Fluorapatite Catapleiite Chalcopyrite
Clinohumite Cordylite-(Ce) Covellite Crandallite Dolomite Edingtonite Ewaldite
Fluorite Fluoroapatite Franconite Galena Georgechaoite Harmotome Hilairite
Hochelagaite Huanghoite-(Ce) Hydrotalkite Hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce) Ilmenite
Jamesonite Komkovite Korobitsynite Kukharenkoite-(Ce) Labuntsovite-Fe
Labuntsovite-Mg Lorenzenite Lueshite Magnesite Magnetite Manasseite
McKelveyite-(Y) Millerite Molybdenite Monticellite Natrofairchildite
Nenadkevichite Neskevaaraite-Fe Nordstrandite Normandite Norsethite Okenite
Pectolite Pentlandite Phlogopite Pseudo-Autunite Pyrite Pyrochlore Pyrrhotite
Quartz Rhodochrosite Schorlomite Shortite Siderite Sphalerite Spinel
Strontianite Ternovite Tetrahedrite Titanite Tumchaite Vaterite Vivianite
Vuoriyarvite-K Wollastonite Zirkelite
Minerals specially mentioned for Namovaara by Kapustin are:
Anatase Anglesite Ankerite Barytocalcite Galena Pyrite Quartz Rhodochrosite
Strontianite
Burbanite-(Ce) |
Magnetite |
Neskevaaraite-Fe |
reference
Kola Alkaline province in the Paleozoic: evaluation of primary mantle magma
composition and magna generation conditions. A.A. Arzamastsev et al
Neskevaarite-Fe, a new Labuntsovite group mineral, N.V. Chukanov et al,
New Data on Minerals, 2003 Vol 38
O.F. Tuttle and J. Gittins, 1966, Carbonatites, p503
Mineralogy of Carbonatites, Yu.L. Kapustin 1980