Mushgai Khudag (Mushgia Khudag, Mushugai Khuduk, Mushugai-Hudag) (Record #60) rare-earth element deposit in South Govi, Mongolia

Carbonatite rare earth element deposit in South Govi, Mongolia

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1999, Geology and mineral resources of Mongolia: New York, United Nations, Atlas of Mineral Resources of the ESCAP Region, v. 14, 192 p.

Deposit type	Carbonatite
Age of deposit	Late Mesozoic
REE minerals	apatite bastnäsite
Ore minerals	strontium phosphorus fluorite thorium barite lead magnetite
Host rock types	magnetite-apatite rock potassic alkaline volcanic rocks carbonatite melanephelinite melaleucitite

Geologic map unit	104, 44.333333333333
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Status	Occurrence
Resource estimates	200 Mt @ 1.5% RE 6.1 Mt @ 1.37% REO

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1999, Geology and mineral resources of Mongolia: New York, United Nations, Atlas of Mineral Resources of the ESCAP Region, v. 14, 192 p.
Singer, D.A., 1998, Revised grade and tonnage model of carbonatite deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0235, 7 p.

Apatite has high REE.

Singer, D.A., 1998, Revised grade and tonnage model of carbonatite deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0235, 7 p.
Möller, P., 1989a, Rare earth mineral deposits and their industrial importance, in
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Kovalenko, V.I., and Yarmolyuk, V.V., 1995, Endogenous rare metal ore formations and rare metal metallogeny of Mongolia: Economic Geology, v. 90, no. 3, p. 520-529.
Samoylov, V.S., Kovalenko, V.I., Sengee, D., Ivanov, V.G., Smirnova, Ye.V., Konusova, V.V., and Pakhomova, N.N., 1988, Geologicheskoye stroyeniye, sostav i genezis odnogo iz redkozemel'nykh mestorozhdeniy Mongolii [Geologic structure, composition, and genesis of a rare earth deposit in Mongolia]: Geologiya Rudnykh Mestotozhdeniy, v. 30, no.2, p. 62-74.
Mariano, A.N., 1998, Report on field trip to the Mushgai Khudag carbonatite complex, Gobi Desert, Mongolia: confidential report to Norsk Hydro ASA.