Miaoya (Record #57) rare-earth element deposit in Hubei, China

Carbonatite rare earth element deposit in Hubei, China

Zhang Peishan, Yang Zhuming, Tao Kejie, and Yang Zueming, 1995, Mineralogy and geology of rare earths in China: Beijing, China, Science Press, 209 p.

Deposit type	Carbonatite
Age of deposit	231-278 Ma
REE minerals	monazite bastnäsite parisite burbankite
Ore minerals	apatite fluorite columbite niobium rutile
Gangue minerals	calcite iron dolomite biotite
Host rock types	syenite carbonatite

Geologic map unit	110.2, 32.25
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Status	Potential resource
Resource estimates	average grade of ~ 1.7% REO, 0.12% Nb2O5

Lat-long for Miaoya population center. Syenite-carbonatite complex intruding Late Proterozoic metavolcanics and Devonian carbonaceous schist.

Wen Lu, 1998, Chinese industrial minerals: Worcester Park, United Kingdom, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., 210 p.
Wu, C., Yuan, Z., and Bai, G., 1996, Rare earth deposits in China, in Jones, A.P., Wall, Frances, and Williams, C.T., eds., Rare earth minerals-- chemistry, origin and ore deposits: New York, Chapman and Hall, The Mineralogical Society Series 7, p. 281-310.
Zhang Peishan, Yang Zhuming, Tao Kejie, and Yang Zueming, 1995, Mineralogy and geology of rare earths in China: Beijing, China, Science Press, 209 p.