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Kola Peninsula
urtite
urtite A coarse-grained,
igneous rock consisting of
essential nepheline (about 85% of the rock) and
ferromagnesian minerals (
aegirine, aegirine-
augite, and soda-iron
amphibole). The rock is named from Lujaur-Urt, in the Kola Peninsula, Russia, and is a type of
undersaturated syenite.
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Kola Peninsula: The greatest mineral treasure of Russia today
Magazine article from: Mineralogical Record; 1/1/2001; ; 517 words
; ...been carried out on the minerals of the Kola Peninsula region of Russia for the past one hundred years. In the Kola region there is an abundance of unique...diversity. The list of minerals from the Kola Peninsula numbers about 1,000 species...
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Russia's Pechenganikel. (nickel mine in Kola Peninsula)
Magazine article from: Mining Magazine; 5/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...production comes from Pechenganikel on the Kola Peninsula, part of the Norilsk Nikel Kombinat...considerable speculation about the Kola operations (MJ, January 24, p...contained nickel for refining on the Kola Peninsula and the remainder was shipped...
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Anglo Platinum to increase stake in JV searching for PGM on Kola Peninsula in Q3.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 9/29/2008; 700+ words
; ...stake in JV searching for PGM on Kola Peninsula in Q3 LONDON. Sept 29 (Interfax...for platinum group metals on the Kola Peninsula to 60% in the third quarter...and West Imandra properties on the Kola Peninsula. The licenses for the...
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Russia: More nuclear power for Kola Peninsula.
News Wire article from: TendersInfo; 6/24/2008; 519 words
; Byline: prashant03 Kola NPP The construction of a second nuclear power plant in the Kola Peninsula might be completed before 2017, head of the Kola Nuclear Power Plant says. Construction works will...
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Renova discovers PGM deposit on Kola Peninsula.
Newspaper article from: Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire; 11/12/2008; 590 words
; Renova discovers PGM deposit on Kola Peninsula MOSCOW. Nov 12 (Interfax) - UralPlatinum...group metals (PGM) deposit on the Kola Peninsula. The holding said in a...of an alternative resource on the Kola Peninsula is of particular geological...
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Kola cleanup coming? (Russia).(Kola Peninsula)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Northern Fleet once sailed out from this bay on the Kola Peninsula to compete with U.S. subs for domination of the...the radioactive waste repositories [located on the Kola Peninsula]. The repositories for spent nuclear fuel are...
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Proterozoic zircon ages from lower crustal granulite xenoliths, Kola peninsula, Russia: Evidence for crustal growth and reworking
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 9/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...crust, garnet granulite xenoliths from the Kola-Karelian domain (Kempton et al. 1995...on Elovy Island off the south coast of the Kola Peninsula (Russia) represent the lower crust of the Kola-Karelian domain of the Fennoscandian shield...
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Report: Russian nuclear ministry recommends creating nuclear waste storage site on Kola Peninsula
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 11/29/2002; 346 words
; ...grade nuclear waste be built on the Kola Peninsula, an Arctic region bordering on Norway...construction plan for the storage site. The Kola Peninsula has one of the greatest...The report did not say how much the Kola site would cost. Rumyantsev also...
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Airline Russian off to Murmansk; Astraeus launches premier series of weekly flights from London to Kola Peninsula.
M2 Presswire; 3/14/2003; 700+ words
; ...of weekly flights from London to Kola Peninsula(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS...Gatwick to Murmanskon Russia`s famous Kola Peninsula- the first airline to...UKoperator to lead fishing groups to the Kola Peninsulain the early 1990s and the...
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Russian Official Denies Chemical Weapons on Kola Peninsula
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire; 7/19/1999; 390 words
; ...the reported presence of chemical weapons in the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, the Interfax news agency...army has a secrete store of chemical weapons in the peninsula. The Kola Peninsula projects eastward from Scandinavia between...
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Kola Peninsula
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Kola Peninsula , peninsula, c.50,000 sq mi (129,500 sq km), NW European Russia, in...mining and smelting operations. Near Murmansk is the ancient town of Kola, founded in 1264 by Slavs from Novgorod.
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Saami
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...in their ancient territory on the Kola Peninsula in the Murmansk Oblast of Russia...Sometimes the Saami are called the "Kola," after the peninsula. Recently...northern regions of Scandinavia, the Kola Peninsula, and a significant part...
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Norway, Relations with
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Norwegian settlers may have lived on the Kola Peninsula early on, and the Norwegians claimed...murmasky, referring to the northern Kola coast, is derived from nordmann...first Russian town in the region, Kola (near the present-day Murmansk...
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Sami
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...about 3 percent (1,600) in the Kola peninsula of the Russian Federation. They...is difficult to understand for the Kola (Kild) Sami, who are also unfamiliar...Greek Orthodoxy was imposed on the Kola Samis in the early 1500s, after...
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Northern Fleet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...assigned to the Northern Fleet at the Kola Peninsula. The others are based at Pacific...naval bases and shipyards on the Kola Peninsula to serve its nuclear vessels...The strategic importance of the Kola Peninsula became apparent to Russian...
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