APPLICATIONS OF MICA AND LOCATIONS OF MUSCOVITE MINING AREAS IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL PERIOD IN THE KOLA PENINSULA AND NORTH KARELIA

• Published in: Proceedings of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Любовь Скамницкая, Марк Михайлович Шахнович, Ольга Васильевна Букчина, Lyubov' Skamnitskaya, Mark Shakhnovich, Olga Bukchina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2015
• Subjects: мусковит карело-кольского региона; история добычи; использование; структурные характеристики; физические свойства; кристаллы; типоморфные признаки; Science; Q; White Sea; Kola Peninsula; Chupa; karelia*; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17076/geo143; https://doaj.org/article/a9e5e39c5e514dd781e392c6cc6c5ec1

The development of the mining industry and mining technologies can be traced by assessing mica production in the northwestern Karelia-Kola region, which continued for many centuries. Mica pegmatite, which occurred in the Chupa-Louhi area and on the Kola Peninsula, has been a conventional source of m...