Abstract
The Mesoproterozoic Ilímaussaq alkaline complex located near the town of Narsaq in South Greenland is the type locality for agpaitic nepheline syenites and represents an enormous concentration of a number of rare elements, particularly Li, Be, Nb, Zr, REE, Y, U and Th. This explains the presence of about 220 minerals, 27 of these discovered in and first described from the complex, and nine only found there. In 1965 it was decided to collate papers on the mineralogy (in a broad sense) of the complex published in various scientific journals into a consecutively numbered series: Contributions to the mineralogy of Ilímaussaq. The first issue appeared in 1965, no. 102 in 1999, and the series has now reached no. 113. Issue no. 100 was reserved for the anniversary volume presented here. This volume contains a brief account of the geology of the complex and the history of exploration, a list of the minerals identified so far in the complex, and papers which review selected topics and present new information on the mineralogy and geochemistry of Ilímaussaq.
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