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Pyrochlore Group from
Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland


Locality type:Complex
Classification
Species:'Pyrochlore Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:A2Nb2(O,OH)6Z
Age information
Maximum recorded age:347 Ma
Minimum recorded age:247 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
1347 to 247 MaPhanerozoic - U-Th-Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Vartiainen, H., Woolley, A.R. (1974) The age of the Sokli carbonatite, Finland, and some relationships of the North Atlantic alkaline igneous province. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 46 (1). 81-91 doi:10.17741/bgsf/46.1.010
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrochlore Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:143281
Long-form Identifier:1:3:143281:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Pyrochlore Group in this Region
Jammi, Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
Kaulus, Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrochlore Group
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘKaulus, Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
5.2km (3.3 miles) ⓘJammi, Sokli carbonatite complex, Tulppio, Savukoski, Lapland, Finland
55.4km (34.4 miles) ⓘKovdor Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor Massif, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
58.7km (36.5 miles) ⓘKovdor Massif, Kovdorsky District, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
90.9km (56.5 miles) ⓘSallanlatvi Massif, Northern Karelia, Murmansk Oblast, Russia
References
Vartiainen, H. and Woolley, A. R. (1976): The petrography, mineralogy and chemistry of the fenites of the Sokli Carbonatite massif, northern Finland. Geological Survey of Finland Bulletin 280.
Vartiainen, Heikki 1980. The petrography, mineralogy and petrochemistry of the Sokli karbonatite massif, Northern Finland. Geological Survey of Finland Bulletin 313
Albers, K.-H., Woolley, A.R., Garcia, D. & Sonnet, P. 1998. Development of new technology for utilisation of the unique Nb deposit at Sokli, Finland, for the European super-alloy industry.
Proceedings of the First Annual Workshop (Eurothen '98), Athens, Greece, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, 449-472.
Vartiainen, H., Woolley, A.R. (1974) The age of the Sokli carbonatite, Finland, and some relationships of the North Atlantic alkaline igneous province. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 46 (1). 81-91 doi:10.17741/bgsf/46.1.010
Kononova, V.A., Shanin, L.L., Arakelyants, M.M. (1974) Times of formation of alkaline massifs and carbonatites. International Geology Review, 16 (10) 1119-1130 doi:10.1080/00206817409471765
MÃĪkelÃĪ, Markky, Vartiainen, Heikki (1978) A study of sulfur isotopes in the Sokli multi-stage carbonatite (Finland) Chemical Geology, 21 (3) 257-265 doi:10.1016/0009-2541(78)90048-7
Vartiainen, H., Kresten, P., & Kafkas, Y. (1978). Alkaline lamprophyres from the Sokli complex, northern Finland. Bull. Geol. Soc. Finland, 50(1-2), 59-68.
Vartiainen, H., Paarma, H. (1979) Geological characteristics of the Sokli carbonatite complex, Finland. Economic Geology, 74 (5) 1296-1306 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.5.1296
HeinÃĪnen, K., & VARTIAINEN, H. (1981). Magnetite in Sokli carbonatite Massif and in Tulppio olivinite. Bull. Geol. Soc. Finland, 53, 83-90.
Lapin, A.V., Vartiainen, H. (1983) Orbicular and spherulitic carbonatites from Sokli and VuorijÃĪrvi. Lithos, 16 (1) 53-60 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(83)90034-8
Vartiainen, H. (1989). The phosphate deposits of the Sokli Carbonatite Complex, Finland. In Phosphate deposits of the world. Phosphate rock resources (pp. 398-402).
Kramm, Ulrich (1993) Mantle components of carbonatites from the Kola Alkaline Province, Russia and Finland: A Nd - Sr study. European Journal of Mineralogy, 5 (5) 985-990 doi:10.1127/ejm/5/5/0985
Kramm, U., Kogarko, L.N., Kononova, V.A., Vartiainen, H. (1993) The Kola Alkaline Province of the CIS and Finland: Precise Rbî—ļSr ages define 380–360 Ma age range for all magmatism. Lithos, 30 (1) 33-44 doi:10.1016/0024-4937(93)90004-v
Ingrid, H.-K. (1998) Rare earth elements in sÃķvitic carbonatites and their mineral phases. Journal of Petrology, 39 (11). 2105-2121 doi:10.1093/petroj/39.11-12.2105
Lee, M. J., Garcia, D., Moutte, J., Wall, F., Williams, C. T., Woolley, A. R., & Stanley, C. J. (1999). Pyrochlore and whole rock chemistry of carbonatites and phoscorites at Sokli, Finland. Pp. 651-653 in: Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing (CJ Stanley et al., editors), 1.
Lee, M. J., Garcia, D., Moutte, J., Williams, C. T., & Wall, F. (2004). Carbonatites and phoscorites from the Sokli Complex, Finland. Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine: the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province”, eds. F. Wall and AN Zaitev, The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London, 133-162.
LEE, MI JUNG, LEE, JONG IK, GARCIA, DANIEL, MOUTTE, JAQUES, WILLIAMS, C. TERRY, WALL, FRANCES, KIM, YEADONG (2006) Pyrochlore chemistry from the Sokli phoscorite-carbonatite complex, Finland: Implications for the genesis of phoscorite and carbonatite association. GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, 40 (1) 1-13 doi:10.2343/geochemj.40.1
Rukhlov, A. S., Bell, K. (2010) Geochronology of carbonatites from the Canadian and Baltic Shields, and the Canadian Cordillera: clues to mantle evolution. Mineralogy and Petrology, 98 (1) 11-54 doi:10.1007/s00710-009-0054-5
O’Brien, H.; HyvÃķnen, E. (2015) The Sokli Carbonatite Complex. In Mineral Deposits of Finland. Elsevier. p.305-325. doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-410438-9.00012-1
Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4
 
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