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    (Ce, La)CO3F, bastnäsite-(La) with a formula of (La, Ce)CO3F, and bastnäsite-(Y) with a formula of (Y, Ce)CO3F. Some of the bastnäsites contain OH− instead...
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    and require mining. Bastnäsite is a carbonate mineral, that is primarily mined for its many purposes. Magnets made of bastnasite are used to create speakers...
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  • (700 m) long. To process bastnäsite ore, it is finely ground and subjected to froth flotation to separate the bulk of the bastnäsite from the accompanying...
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    other rare-earth elements in minerals such as those of the monazite and bastnäsite groups, cerium is easy to extract from its ores, as it can be distinguished...
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    It is present in significant quantities in the minerals monazite and bastnäsite. Neodymium is not found naturally in metallic form or unmixed with other...
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    elements are found in the minerals bastnäsite, loparite-(Ce), xenotime, and monazite in mineable quantities. Bastnäsite is a group of related fluorocarbonates...
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    lanthanum(III) cations and carbonate anions. It is an ore of lanthanum metal (bastnäsite), along with monazite. Lanthanum carbonate is used as a starting material...
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    in minerals from Bastnäs in 1839 by Carl Gustav Mosander. The mineral bastnäsite is named after Bastnäs. Transmission house at Bastnäs mines Mechanism...
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    bastnäsite (MIIICO3F), where M refers to all the rare earth metals except scandium and the radioactive promethium (mostly Ce, La, and Y). Bastnäsite is...
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    monazite, bastnäsite, cerite, gadolinite and samarskite; monazite (in which samarium occurs at concentrations of up to 2.8%) and bastnäsite are mostly...
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    material. The principal sources of rare-earth elements are the minerals bastnäsite (RCO3F, where R is a mixture of rare-earth elements), monazite (XPO4,...
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    volumes of bastnäsite processed relative to the ion-adsorption clays, a significant proportion of the world's terbium supply comes from bastnäsite. In 2018...
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    LREE bastnäsite ((Ce, La, etc.)(CO3)F) contain on average 0.1% yttrium compared to the 99.9% for the 16 other REEs. The main source of bastnäsite from...
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  • yet confirmed to exist in the nature, but Ce-bearing carbonates (mainly bastnäsite group) stand for an ore of cerium metal, along with monazite. The molecular...
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    small; Hoffman et al. estimated its content in the rare-earth mineral bastnasite as c244 = 1.0×10−18 g/g, which corresponded to the content in the Earth...
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    and 5% praseodymium, with the balance being the other lanthanides. When bastnäsite started being processed for rare-earth content in about 1965, it too was...
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  • Baratovite Barrerite Barstowite Baryte (barite) Barytocalcite Bassanite Bastnäsite (mineral group) Baumhauerite Bavenite Bayldonite Bayleyite Bazzite Becquerelite...
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    than in bastnäsite. The visual difference is apparent in unseparated mixtures: monazite-derived products have pink tinges, while bastnäsite-derived products...
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    Zhonghuacerite-(Ce); 15 Cebaite-(Nd), 15 Cebaite-(Ce); 20a Bastnasite-(Ce), 20a Bastnasite-(La), 20a Bastnasite-(Y), 20a Hydroxylbastnasite-(Ce), 20a Hydroxylbastnasite-(La)...
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    concern over the disposal of the radioactive daughter products of thorium, bastnäsite came to displace monazite in the production of lanthanides in the 1960s...
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    applications, corrosion protection (La and Ce are the most widely applicable) Bastnäsite (REECO3F; for Ce, La, Pr, Nd) in carbonatites; monazite (REEPO4; for La...
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    phosphate, silicate and carbonate minerals, such as monazite (MIIIPO4) and bastnäsite (MIIICO3F), where M refers to all the rare-earth metals except scandium...
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    never found as a free element in nature but is found in monazite and bastnäsite ores. It has historically been very difficult and expensive to separate...
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    1886. Gadolinium is a constituent in many minerals, such as monazite and bastnäsite. The metal is too reactive to exist naturally. Paradoxically, as noted...
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  • monazite and bastnäsite. Monazite sands usually contain all the lanthanide elements, but the heavier elements are lacking in bastnäsite. The lanthanides...
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    fergusonite, gadolinite, euxenite, polycrase, blomstrandine, monazite and bastnäsite, often with erbium and holmium or other rare earth elements. No dysprosium-dominant...
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  • NdCl3·6H2O. Neodymium(III) chloride is produced from minerals monazite and bastnäsite using a complex multistage extraction process. The chloride has several...
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    in San Bernardino County, California, Mountain Pass mine consists of a bastnäsite ore-body with significant concentrations of rare earth elements. The mine...
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  • plutonium and may exist with primordial 244Pu in the rare earth mineral bastnäsite. In particular, plutonium and unbihexium are predicted to have similar...
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    processing of bastnäsite is important, as it is the most commonly mined cerium mineral. When heated in air or oxygen at over 500 °C, bastnäsite oxidises and...
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