Dmitry Lisitsyn brought
remarkable radial aggregates of pectolite crystals from the Koashva Pit,
Khibiny,.
Igor V. Pekov just in a month
(August 12–September 12) managed to visit Kovdor, Monchegorsk - for the
first time (magnesiochromite!), as well as the Lovozero and Khibiny
massifs, and Afrikanda (perovskite as unusually large crystals, max. 4
cm.)
Here is a noteworthy fact: in
the middle of July Sergey Mironov, the Chairman of the RF Federation
Council and a geophysicist in the past, was driven to the famous
Eveslogchorr astrofillite deposit by a helicopter. His “prey” has been
magnificent: an astrophyllite “sun” against the white feldspar
background.
A propos, three connoisseurs
of the Khibiny massif independently chose astrophyllite as a symbol
mineral of Khibiny. Igor V. Pekov, a mineralogist, Sergey G. Gluboky,
senior geologist of the Vostochny mine, and Alexander S. Podlesny, a
blaster at the Kirovskii mine and a collector. In the same manner they
also chose lorenzenite as the mineral that symbolizes the Lovozero
Massif.
The Mineralogical museum of
the Apatity geological institute replenished its collection with one of
the best litvinskite samples, along with a large eveslogite sample. This
mineral was discovered this year at the Mt. Everslogchorr; Yury P.
Menshikov, the discoverer, donated it.
