In the book, data on geology, petrography of the rocks of the Khibiny massif, description of 70 mineral localities,
as well as a brief historical report about industrial development of the massif are given. The main section of the
book is devoted to the description of occurrences, morphology and properties of 436 minerals found within the
massif. In addition, brief information about 35 doubtful or insufficiently investigated minerals is given in a
separate section at the end of the book. The book includes 772 original microprobe analyses and contains
592 original colour and SEM-BSE photos, and also 342 references.