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WALL, F. & ZAITSEV, A. N. (eds) 2004. Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine: the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province.

The Mineralogical Society Series no. 10. xv + 498 pp. London: The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Price £89.00 (hard covers); introductory price £49.00. ISBN 0 903056 22 4.

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Phoscorites are rare plutonic igneous rocks that until recently have been largely unheard of outside the Russian literature. They essentially contain magnetite, apatite, forsterite/diopside or phlogopite and an array of unusual accessory mineral phases (e.g. baddelyite, zirconolite, calzirtite). Phoscorites are commonly associated with carbonatite complexes. Their main occurrences are in the Kola and the Maymeicha-Kotui alkaline provinces but their recent recognition in the international literature will almost certainly result in new identifications from global carbonatite complexes. Phoscorites and Carbonatites from Mantle to Mine, the Key Example of the Kola Alkaline Province, edited by Frances Wall (Natural History Museum, UK) and Alexandra Zaitsev (St Petersburg State University, Russia), is the tenth volume in the Mineralogical Society Series of publications. The book is an up-to-date coherent compilation of carbonatite complexes in the Kola alkaline province. It consists of 14 thoroughly reviewed and edited chapters, predominantly written by Russian scientists.

In Chapter 1, Bulakh et al. provide an historical overview of the discovery and prospecting of carbonatites complexes in the Kola alkaline province. Some of this relates to the . . . [Full Text of this Article]