Calcium Oxalates in Lichens on Surface of Apatite-Nepheline Ore (Kola Peninsula, Russia)

• Published in: Minerals
• Main Authors: Olga V. Frank-Kamenetskaya, Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk, Marina S. Zelenskaya, Alina R. Izatulina, Andrey O. Kalashnikov, Dmitry Yu. Vlasov, Evgeniya I. Polyanskaya
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: microbial biomineralization; calcium oxalates; lichens; apatite-nepheline ore; X-ray powder diffraction; scanning electron microscopy; EDX analysis; Kola Peninsula; Khibiny; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/min9110656

The present work contributes to the essential questions on calcium oxalate formation under the influence of lithobiont community organisms. We have discovered calcium oxalates in lichen thalli on surfaces of apatite-nepheline rocks of southeastern and southwestern titanite-apatite ore fields of the...