[HTML][HTML] A review of the genesis of the world class Bayan Obo Fe–REE–Nb deposits, Inner Mongolia, China: Multistage processes and outstanding questions

MP Smith, LS Campbell, J Kynicky - Ore Geology Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bayan Obo Fe–REE–Nb deposit is the world's largest rare earth element (REE)
resource and with the increasing focus on critical metal resources has become a focus of …

Carbonatite-related REE deposits: An overview

ZY Wang, HR Fan, L Zhou, KF Yang, HD She - Minerals, 2020 - mdpi.com
The rare earth elements (REEs) have unique and diverse properties that make them function
as an “industrial vitamin” and thus, many countries consider them as strategically important …

The Bayan Obo (China) giant REE accumulation conundrum elucidated by intense magmatic differentiation of carbonatite

K Yang, H Fan, F Pirajno, X Li - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Bayan Obo deposit in China is endowed with the largest rare earth element
(REE) resource in the world. The mechanism resulting in this REE enrichment has been the …

[HTML][HTML] The giant Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe deposit, China: controversy and ore genesis

HR Fan, KF Yang, FF Hu, S Liu, KY Wang - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
Bayan Obo ore deposit is the largest rare-earth element (REE) resource, and the second
largest niobium (Nb) resource in the world. Due to the complicated element/mineral …

Formation of carbonatite-related giant rare-earth-element deposits by the recycling of marine sediments

Z Hou, Y Liu, S Tian, Z Yang, Y **e - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Carbonatite-associated rare-earth-element (REE) deposits are the most significant source of
the world's REEs; however, their genesis remains unclear. Here, we present new Sr-Nd-Pb …

Giant rare earth element accumulation related to voluminous, highly evolved carbonatite: a microanalytical study of carbonate minerals from the Bayan Obo deposit …

XC Li, HR Fan, JH Su, DI Groves… - Economic …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The giant Bayan Obo deposit in China represents the largest rare earth element
(REE) resource in the world, but the mechanisms for its highly anomalous REE enrichment …

Genesis of the Bayan Obo Fe-REE-Nb formation in Inner Mongolia, north China craton: a perspective review

X Yang, X Lai, F Pirajno, Y Liu, L Mingxing, W Sun - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bayan Obo deposit in Inner Mongolia, North China Craton (NCC) is the largest
rare-earth element (REE) resource in the world. Due to the complex element and mineral …

[PDF][PDF] Ca isotope systematics of carbonatites: Insights into carbonatite source and evolution

J Sun, XK Zhu, NS Belshaw… - Geochemical …, 2021 - geochemicalperspectivesletters.org
Geological reference materials including carbonatite (COQ-1), basalts (BHVO-2, BCR-2,
GSR-3), andesite (AGV-2), granite (GSP-2), seawater (IAPSO) and carbonate (NIST SRM …

The formation of the ore-bearing dolomite marble from the giant Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe deposit, Inner Mongolia: Insights from micron-scale geochemical data

W Chen, HY Liu, J Lu, SY Jiang, A Simonetti, C Xu… - Mineralium …, 2020 - Springer
The genesis of Earth's largest rare earth element (REE) deposit, Bayan Obo (China), has
been intensely debated, in particular whether the host dolomite marble is of sedimentary or …

A precise zircon Th-Pb age of carbonatite sills from the world's largest Bayan Obo deposit: Implications for timing and genesis of REE-Nb mineralization

SH Zhang, Y Zhao, Y Liu - Precambrian Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bayan Obo in the northern North China Craton (NCC) is the world's largest light
rare earth element (LREE) deposit and is hosted in carbonatite sills emplaced into …