Summary: The minor elements Li, Sc, V, Cr, Co, Ni, Ga, Rb, and Sr have been determined in a number of diopsides and horneblendes from ultramafic rocks of the Gussevogorsk, Baranchinsk, and Nizhne-Tagilsk massifs in the Urals. Actinolite and anthophyllite are rare contact metamorphic products ; they too were analysed. The diopside and hornblende from the earlier-formed rocks, richer in olivine, contain more Cr and less V and Ti than those from the later-formed rocks.