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Spodumene from rare-metal pegmatites of the Kolmozero lithium world-class deposit on the Fennoscandian shield: trace elements and crystal-rich fluid inclusions

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Lyudmila N. Morozova Open the ORCID record for Lyudmila N. Morozova [Opens in a new window] ,
Ekaterina N. Sokolova ,
Sergey Z. Smirnov ,
Viсtor V. Balagansky  and
Aya V. Bazai
Lyudmila N. Morozova*
Affiliation:
Geological Institute of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 Fersman St., Apatity184209, Russia
Ekaterina N. Sokolova
Affiliation:
V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Akademika Koptyuga Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Sergey Z. Smirnov
Affiliation:
V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Akademika Koptyuga Ave., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Viсtor V. Balagansky
Affiliation:
Geological Institute of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 Fersman St., Apatity184209, Russia
Aya V. Bazai
Affiliation:
Geological Institute of the Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 14 Fersman St., Apatity184209, Russia
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*Author for correspondence: Lyudmila N. Morozova, Email: morozova@geoksc.apatity.ru
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Abstract

The paper investigates trace elements and crystal-rich fluid inclusions in spodumene from rare-metal pegmatites of the Kolmozero lithium deposit in the Kola region, Russia. The main lithium mineral in the pegmatites is spodumene, which occurs in three generations, designated as Spd-I, Spd-II and Spd-III. Iron, Na and Mn are the most typical element impurities in spodumene. The Fe/Mn ratio is 7.1 in Spd-I, 12.3 in Spd-II and 13.2 in Spd-III. Spd-II contains fluid and crystal-rich fluid inclusions. The crystal-rich fluid inclusions in Spd-II originally trapped CO2-bearing aqueous fluids with dissolved alkali carbonates. The crystal-rich fluid inclusions contain zabuyelite (Li2CO3) and cristobalite (SiO2) as solid phases, which have not been reported previously from the Kolmozero rare-metal pegmatites. These minerals are assumed to have resulted from a reaction between a CO2-bearing aqueous fluid and host Spd-II and are not related to the mineral-forming system of pegmatites.

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albite–spodumene pegmatitesspodumenetrace elementscristobalitezabuyeliteinclusionsKolmozero lithium depositKola regionFennoscandian shield
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 149 - 160
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland

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Associate Editor: Edward Sturgis Grew

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