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Kola Peninsula, Russia
GO TO: Part II In August 2009 we visited Kola Peninsula. Apparently the report came with a considerable delay but hope it will be interesting. We went to russia by train from Warsaw, what took 2 days. During our 3 weeks long trip we explored an alcalic magmatic rocks Lovozero Massif. It is about 25 km wide, there are no roads for cars and it is nessesary to go everywhere on foot bringing a tent, food, all other staff (hammer, pickaxe etc.) and, of course, found speciments on a back! During our stay at the Kola Peninsula we had 3 trips to the mountains, 5 days long each. Each time we started from and came back to Revda, the only town near Lovozero Massif, located 5 km to the north from it. There are shops and one hotel in Revda so it is possible to supply in food and rest there. The fall begins at Kola Paninsula in August. The temperature during day is 10-15 Celsius degrees, during night 5-10. The most positive side of traveling in this time is the lack of mosquitoes that make life there a real hell. In August there were some rainfalls and dense fog lasting for a few days which made trekking extremly difficult, but such conditions can also occure at any other time in the year. The Lovozero massif was shaped by glaciers. It is over 1000 m high Massif and furrowed with U-shaped valleys, serveral glacial amphitheatres are present. In the central part of the Massif a big lake – Seidozero occurs.
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Railway station on the way to Murmansk. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
It is possible to buy regional delicacies at the station. Fot. K. Dembicz.
View to Murmansk. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Murmansk. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Murmansk. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Rievda. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Geological museum in Revda. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Karnasurt mine and Kedykverpakhk mountain (on the right side of the photo), Lovozero Massif.
Karnasurt mine. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Viev to the Karnasurt mine and Karnasurt mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
REE ore with small loparite crystals, exploited in the Karnasurt mine. Fot. K. Dembicz.
The northern slopes of the Kedykverpakhk mountain keep under wrap frequent pegmatite bodies. Fot. K. Dembicz.
The area on the northern slopes of the Kedykverpakhk mountainh with pegmatite bodies.
Small pegmatite body, Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Small pegmatite with eudialith, Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Big pegmatite body, 23x2m, Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Pegmatite with big aegirine crystals, eudialyte, laprophyllite and lomonosovite.
Aegirine star with eudialyte and lorenzenite, Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. G. BIjak.
Lomonosovite (brown) within the aegirine (green), Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. G. Bijak.
Lamprophyllite/aegirine stars, Kedykverpakhk Mt. Fot. G. Bijak.
Remains of the geological station built by the Russians in 50., Kedykverpakhk mountain.
Drill cores left in the geological station, Kedykverpakhk mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Remains of the road built to provide geological station with all the equipment,
Closed mine Umbozero and it`s dumps (NW Lovozero). Fot. K. Dembicz.
View from Umbozero mine to Umbozero lake and northern slopes of Khibiny Massif.
Pithead of the Umbozero mine. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
A piece of pegmatite with aegirine stars, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Aegirine, Ubmozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Lamprophyllite stars, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Mangan-neptunite, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Lorenzenite and aegirine in eudialyte, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Lamrophyllite in eudialyte, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Pegmatite with aegirine and eudialyte, Umbozero mine dumps. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Autumn on the slopes of the Lovozero Massif. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Autumn on the slopes of the Lovozero Massif. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Autumn on the slopes of the Lovozero Massif. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Boxes with drill cores, slopes of the Alluaiv mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Boxes with drill cores, slopes of the Alluaiv mountain. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Setting the camp in a strong wind, slopes of the Alluaiv mountain. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Makeing an attampt to light a campfire using remains of woody boxes left by geological expeditions. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Crossing the top of the Alluaiv mt. Fot. K. Dembicz.
View to the Umbozero lake from the Geologists col. Fot. K. Dembicz.
The Geologists col, Lovozero Massif. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Rock crevice over the Raslaka glacial cirque, Lovozero Massif. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Glacial Raslak cirque. Fot. K. Dembicz.
A lake in the Raslak cirque. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Kedykverpakhk mt. covered with a rock debris. Fot. K. Dembicz.
It is extremely difficoult to find the pegmatites described in the literature. Fot. M. Bogucki.
The outcrop of the pegmatite body, Kedykverpakhk mt. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Aegirine stars, Kedykverpakhk mt. Fot. G. Bijak.
Upper reaches of the Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Tyulbnyunuai river valley. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Waterfalls near to the stratified pegmatite, Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Murmanite from the stratified pegmatite, Tyulbnyunuai valley. Fot. G. Bijak.
Waterfall, Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Pegmatite in the middle part of the Tyulbnyunuai valley, left river bank. Fot. A. Leszczuk.
Aegirine, eudialyte and lamprophyllite with impressions of big lomonosovite crystalls,
Lamprophyllite, eudialyte, mangan-neptunite and aegirine, Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Big aegirine crystalls, Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Zone with a product of decomposition of minerals that are unstable in epigenic conditions, Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
Mouth of the Tyulbnyunuai river. Fot. K. Dembicz.
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