St. Honoré (Record #87) rare-earth element deposit in Quebec, Canada

St. Honoré

Carbonatite rare earth element deposit in Quebec, Canada

Geographic location

Country	Canada
State or province	Quebec
Geographic location:	-71.066667, 48.55
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Location references

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.

Geologic characteristics

Deposit type	Carbonatite
Age of deposit	Late Proterozoic-- 629-656 Ma (various)
REE minerals	bastnäsite pyrochlore parisite monazite
Ore minerals	pyrochlore apatite pyrite molybdenum titanite barite sphalerite chalcopyrite pyrrhotite
Gangue minerals	dolomite ankerite calcite melanite monticellite nepheline cancrinite melanite phlogopite
Host rock types	carbonatite syenite nepheline syenite ijolite

Nearby scientific information

Geologic map unit	-71.066666666667, 48.55
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Economic information

Status	Nb producer; Potential REE resource
Company	Soquem
Resource estimates	16 Mt @ 0.0088% REO ama 4.5% LREE

References for resource estimates

Singer, D.A., 1998, Revised grade and tonnage model of carbonatite deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0235, 7 p.
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.

Comments

REE range from 0.1-1.7%. Complex is 8 km x 6.5 km. Carbonatite core is surrounded by syenite and other alkaline rocks.

Bibliographic references

Notholt, A.J.G., Sheldon, R.P., and Davidson, D.F., 1989a, North America and Greenlandintroduction, in Notholt, A.J.G., Sheldon, R.P., and Davidson, D.F., eds., Phosphate deposits of the world; Volume 2Phosphate rock resources: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 90-94.
Harben, P.W., and Kuzvart, M., 1996, Industrial minerals - a global geology: London, Industrial Minerals Information Ltd., p. 330-340.
Singer, D.A., 1998, Revised grade and tonnage model of carbonatite deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-0235, 7 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.
Pell, Jennifer, 1996, Chapter 13- Mineral deposits associated with carbonatites and related alkaline igneous rocks, in Mitchell, R.H., ed., Undersaturated alkaline rocks: Mineralogy, petrogenesis, and economic potential: Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course 24, p. 271-310.
Wall, F., and Mariano, A.N., 1996, Rare earth mienrals in carbonatites: a discussion centred on the Kangankunde Carbonatite, Malawi, in Jones, A.P.,
British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 1987, A world survey of phosphate deposits: London, The British Sulphur Corporation Limited, 274 p.