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Holmquistite from
Polmos deposit, Voron'i Tundry, Murmansk Oblast, Russia


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Holmquistite
Formula:◻Li2(Mg3Al2)(Si8O22)(OH)2
Comments:Holmquistite occurs as an accessory mineral in a fine grained aplite outside the intermediate zone of the pegmatite and in fine grained nests and veinlets towards the center of the pegmatite, which contains spodumene, albite and quartz.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Holmquistite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Polmos deposit, Voron'i Tundry, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1211945
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1211945:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
References
Gavrilenko, B.V. (2001) Ore potential of acidic rocks of the Achean Kolmozero-Voronya zone, NE Baltic Shield. in: Piestrzynski, A. et al. (ed.) (2001) Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century. Proceedings of the joint sixth biennal sga-seg meeting, Kraków, Poland, 26-29 August 2001.
Badanina, E.V.; Sitnikova, M.A.; Gordienko, V.V.; Melcher, F.; Gäbler, H.-E.; Lodziak, J.; Syritso, L.F. (2015) Mineral chemistry of columbite–tantalite from spodumene pegmatites of Kolmozero, Kola Peninsula (Russia). Ore Geology Reviews, 64. doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2014.05.009
Zozulya, Dmitry, Morozova, Lyudmila N., Kullerud, KÃ¥re, Bazai, Ayya (2024) Nb-Ta-Sn Oxides from Lithium-Beryllium-Tantalum Pegmatite Deposits of the Kolmozero–Voronja Belt, NW Russia: Implications for Tracing Ore-Forming Processes and Mineralization Signatures. Geosciences, 14 (1) doi:10.3390/geosciences14010009
 
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