Cerro Impacto (Record #118) rare-earth element deposit in Bolivar, Venezuela

Carbonatite with residual enrichment rare earth element deposit in Bolivar, Venezuela

Woolley, A.R., 1987, Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of the world; Part 1, North and South America: London, United Kingdom, British Museum of Natural History, 216 p.

Deposit type	Carbonatite with residual enrichment
REE minerals	bastnäsite florencite monazite
Ore minerals	pyrochlore perovskite goyazite rutile thorium zinc barite niobium
Gangue minerals	kaolinite goethite quartz
Host rock types	laterite carbonatite fenite

Geologic map unit	-65.166666666667, 6
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Status	Potential resource
Resource estimates	0.1-11% REO

O'Driscoll, Mike, 1988, Rare earths--enter the dragon: Industrial Minerals, no. 254, p. 21-55.

Very deeply weathered.

Castor, S.B., 1994, Rare earth minerals, in Carr, D.D., ed., Industrial minerals and rocks, 6th edition: Littleton, Colorardo, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploratin, Inc., p. 827-839.
Woolley, A.R., 1987, Alkaline rocks and carbonatites of the world; Part 1, North and South America: London, United Kingdom, British Museum of Natural History, 216 p.
Mariano, A.N., 1989, Economic geology of rare earth minerals, in Lipin, B.R., and McKay, G.A., eds., Geochemistry and mineralogy of the rare earth elements: Washington, D.C., Mineralogical Society of America Reviews in Mineralogy 21, p. 309-348.
Aarden and others, 1973