LITHIUM IN THE SUBSOIL OF UKRAINE Part 1. Distribution and forms of finding lithium in mineral complexes of Ukraine

Abstract

In order to consistently highlight the distribution and forms of finding lithium in the subsoil of Ukraine, its geochemistry and mineralogy, genetic types of deposits and ore occurrences, mineralogical criteria and methods of their search and evaluation, the authors have planned a series of articles. The first part quantitatively and qualitatively analyzed the distribution and forms of Li occurrence in existing and prospective objects — the Volyn deposit, the Perzhansky ore district, rare-metal granites of the Azov region and the Korosten pluton, rare-metal pegmatites of the Azov region and the Shpolyansk-Tashlytsky ore region (Inguletsky megablock), hydrothermal of the Nagolny ridge (Donbas). The lithium-concentrating minerals in these objects, according to our data, are the following: spodumene, petalite, evcryptite, tourmaline, holmquistite, Li-Al micas of the isomorfic series (muscovite-lepidolite), Li-Fe micas of the isomorphic series (anite (lepidomelan) or siderophyllite, protolithionite, zinnwaldite, cryophyllite, lepidolite), margarite, donbasite, kukeite, polylithionite (?), tainiolite, tryphyllite, amblygonite, simferite.