The paper summarizes the data on mineral assemblages, crystal morphology and chemical composition of zeolites (analcime, natrolite, gonnardite, paranatrolite, scolecite, mesolite, garronite-Na, phillipsite-K, harmotome, chabazite-Ca, heulandite-Ca, heulandite-Sr, heulandite-K, stilbite-Ca, brewsterite-Sr and cowlesite (?)) from zeolite-bearing pegmatites and late veinlets, which are located in miaskites of the NW contact of the Vishnevogorsky block and Sedlovidnaya miaskite block, which host vein ore bodies of the Vishnevogorsky Nb deposit at the South Urals. Garronite-Na is found for the frst time in Russia and this is the second fnding in the world. Some zeolites (brewsterite-Sr, heulandite-K, heulandite-Sr, mesolite, and phillipsite-K) are identifed for the frst time in the Vishnevye Mountains.

Figures 21. Tables 1. References 15.

Key words: zeolites, Vishnevye Mountains, South Urals.

V.I. Popova, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast, 456317 Russia; popov@mineralogy.ru

A.V. Kasatkin, FersmanMineralogical Museum of RAS, Leninsky pr 18/2, Moscow, 119071 Russia

V.A. Popov, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast, 456317 Russia

S.N. Nikandrov, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast, 456317 Russia

E.P. Makagonov, South Urals Federal Research Center of Mineralogy and Geoecology UB RAS, Institute of Mineralogy, Miass, Chelyabinsk oblast, 456317 Russia

A.M. Kuznetsov, ul. Oktyabrskaya 5-337, Chelyabinsk, 454071 Russia

R. Šhkoda, Masaryk University, Kotláršká 2, Brno, 61137 Czech Republic

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