Cerro Manomo (Record #17) rare-earth element deposit in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Carbonatite rare earth element deposit in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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
Age of deposit	Cretaceous?
REE minerals	bastnäsite monazite cerianite la-nd phosphates and silicates
Ore minerals	barite apatite carbonate-hydroxlapatite carbonate-fluorapatite collophane thorium uranium scandium niobium
Gangue minerals	quartz goethite phosphorus
Host rock types	manomo carbonatite complex- silicified carbonatite tuff agglomerate

Geologic map unit	-60.716666666667, -15.5
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Status	Occurrence

Ama 25% P2O5 locally, ama 0.12% U. Part of the Velasco Alkaline Provine of eastern Bolivia. Area has been silicified.

British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1987, A world survey of phosphate deposits: London, The British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 274 p.
Litherland, M., and others, 1986, The geology and mineral resources of the Bolivian Precambrian shield: British Geological Survey Overseas Memoir 9, 153 p.
Wall, F., and Mariano, A.N., 1996, Rare earth mienrals in carbonatites: a discussion centred on the Kangankunde Carbonatite, Malawi, in Jones, A.P.,
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.
Fletcher, C.J.N., and Litherland, M., 1981, The geology and tectonic setting of the Velasco Alkaline Province, eastern Bolivia: Journal of the Geological Society, v. 138, p. 541-548.
Fletcher and others, 1981