A rare-earth mineral contains one or more rare-earth elements as major metal constituents. Rare-earth minerals are usually found in association with alkaline...
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Rare-earth elements in the periodic table The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or rare earths or, in context, rare-earth oxides...
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Rare earth may refer to: Rare-earth elements, a group of elements on the periodic table Rare-earth mineral, a mineral substantively composed of these...
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in mining and refining rare earth metals. It has installed capacity to process about 10,000 MT of rare earth bearing mineral. As regards production,...
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Mountain Pass mine (redirect from Mountain Pass rare earth mine)
into gneiss. It contains 8% to 12% rare-earth oxides, mostly contained in the mineral bastnäsite. Gangue minerals include calcite, barite, and dolomite...
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This makes China the largest consumer of the minerals it refines. The rare earth elements (or rare earths) are 17 elements that have magnetic and conductive...
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centre. The dam is filled with tailings and waste slurry from nearby rare earth mineral refinery plants. Accounts of the tailings dam appeared in western...
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golden, and champagne Ruby Emerald Bastnaesite - rare earth mineral Xenotime - rare earth mineral Sphene Tourmaline Quartz of various types Diamond The...
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classified as a "rare-earth element". Yttrium is almost always found in combination with lanthanide elements in rare-earth minerals and is never found...
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Ore (redirect from Mineral Deposit)
50% carbonate minerals. They are produced from mantle derived magmas, typically at continental rift zones. They contain more rare earth elements than...
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previously unknown components, which he called holmia and thulia, from the rare-earth mineral erbia; these were the oxides of holmium and thulium, respectively...
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Hadean zircon (section Mineral inclusions)
crustal material from the Earth's earliest geological time period, the Hadean eon, about 4 billion years ago. Zircon is a mineral that is commonly used for...
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The rare earth industry in China is a large industry. Rare earths are a group of elements on the periodic table with similar properties. Rare earth metals...
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Virgil. In the 2009 film Avatar, "Unobtanium" is the common name of a rare-earth mineral found exclusively in the exomoon Pandora (where the movie takes place...
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major industry in the city. Today, Baotou refines over half of the rare-earth minerals produced in the world. This has led to environmental contamination...
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MP Materials (category Rare earth companies)
rare-earth materials company headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. MP Materials owns and operates the Mountain Pass mine, the only operating rare earth...
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and organic compounds. Most non-silicate mineral species are rare (constituting in total 8% of the Earth's crust), although some are relatively common...
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Bastnäsite (category Lanthanide minerals)
the rare earths in this class of minerals. Bastnäsite and the phosphate mineral monazite are the two largest sources of cerium and other rare-earth elements...
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Atlas. Retrieved 9 January 2022. Major, Tom (30 November 2018). "Rare earth mineral discovery set to make Australia a major player in electric vehicle...
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Samarskite-(Y) (category Uranium(III) minerals)
Samarskite is a radioactive rare earth mineral series which includes samarskite-(Y), with the chemical formula (YFe3+Fe2+U,Th,Ca)2(Nb,Ta)2O8 and samarskite-(Yb)...
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Mining (redirect from Mineral Extraction)
is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot...
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mineral demand". EUobserver. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 6 April 2021. "Greenland election shows divide over rare-earth...
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its content in the rare-earth mineral bastnasite as c244 = 1.0×10−18 g/g, which corresponded to the content in the Earth crust as low as 3×10−25 g/g (i...
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(IMA/CNMNC status). "?" – questionable/doubtful (IMA/CNMNC status). "REE" – Rare-earth element (Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb...
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Mining in Pakistan (redirect from Mineral resources of Pakistan)
precious and semi-precious minerals that are also mined. These include peridot, aquamarine, topaz, ruby, emerald, rare-earth minerals bastnaesite and xenotime...
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Lunar resources (redirect from Lunar minerals)
geochemical properties, rare-earth elements are typically dispersed and not often found concentrated in rare-earth minerals; as a result, economically...
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found or expected—including petroleum and rare minerals; the island has the largest deposits of rare earths outside China. Climate change may by 2030...
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Monazite (category Lanthanide minerals)
reddish-brown phosphate mineral that contains rare-earth elements. Due to variability in composition, monazite is considered a group of minerals. The most common...
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Mining in Japan (redirect from Mineral industry of Japan)
of mineral resources such as methane clathrate, natural gas, metallic minerals and rare-earth mineral reserves stored in Japan's EEZ. Seabed mineral resources...
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Uraninite (redirect from Mineral uranium dioxide)
the uranium causes the mineral to contain oxides of lead and trace amounts of helium. It may also contain thorium and rare-earth elements. Uraninite used...
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