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Burpala is a unique peralkaline pluton known to the world. Alkaline pegmatites of the pluton contain about 70 rare-metal minerals. A new scheme of rock crystallization is offered: shonkinite → nepheline syenite → alkali syenite → quartz syenite → vein rocks: mariupolite, rare-metal pegmatite, apatite-fluorite, and alkali granite. Investigation of fluid inclusions in fluorite from the apatite-fluorite rocks established the high temperatures (520–560°C) of homogenization of multiphase salt inclusions. Fluids from inclusions are dominated by hydrocarbonates and chlorides as anions and sodium and calcium as cations; microelements include strontium, barium, boron, iron, manganese, lithium, rubidium, and cesium, i.e., components characteristic of magmatogenic fluids. These rocks are analogous to foskorites of carbonatite complexes in the high calcium content, but calcite is replaced with fluorite along with other foskorite minerals such as apatite, magnetite, mica, and pyroxene.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Sotnikova, V.Yu. Prokofiev, N.V. Vladykin, 2011, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2011, Vol. 441, No. 5, pp. 682–684.
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Sotnikova, I.A., Prokofiev, V.Y. & Vladykin, N.V. Genesis of apatite-fluorite rock in the Burpala pluton. Dokl. Earth Sc. 441, 1703–1705 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X11120208
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