Highly fractionated granites: Recognition and research

FY Wu, XC Liu, WQ Ji, JM Wang, L Yang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2017 - Springer
Granite is one of the most important components of the continental crust on our Earth; it thus
has been an enduring studied subject in geology. According to present knowledge, granite …

Processing of lithium ores: Industrial technologies and case studies–A review

D Yelatontsev, A Mukhachev - Hydrometallurgy, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been a steady increase in demand for lithium (Li) and its compounds,
accounting for 10% over the past decade. The level of production and industrial use of …

Kaolin: Soil, rock and ore: From the mineral to the magmatic, sedimentary and metamorphic environments

HG Dill - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The kaolinite-group minerals kaolinite, dickite, nacrite, halloysite including its metaform and
their associates allophane and imogolite are phyllosilicates characterized by a rather simple …

Lithium isotope fractionation during fluid exsolution: Implications for Li mineralization of the Bailongshan pegmatites in the West Kunlun, NW Tibet

JJ Fan, GJ Tang, GJ Wei, H Wang, YG Xu, Q Wang… - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Granitic pegmatites are considered significant host rocks for the rare metal deposits.
However, the enrichment mechanisms for the rare metal elements (eg, Li, Be, Nb and Ta) …

Anatexis origin of rare metal/earth pegmatites: Evidences from the Permian pegmatites in the Chinese Altai

ZH Lv, H Zhang, Y Tang - Lithos, 2021 - Elsevier
The petrogenesis of the isolated pegmatites from granites is under debate. In the Chinese
Altai, massive isolated pegmatites have been regarded as derivatives of granitic melts …

Newly-recognized Triassic highly fractionated leucogranite in the Koktokay deposit (Altai, China): Rare-metal fertility and connection with the No. 3 pegmatite

P Shen, HD Pan, CH Li, HX Feng, LF He, YX Bai… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rare-metal granitic pegmatites are commonly associated with granites. However, for the
Koktokay No. 3 pegmatite in the Chinese Altai, hosting a giant Li–Be–Nb–Ta–Cs–Rb–Hf …

Granite–pegmatite connection and mineralization age of the giant Renli TaNb deposit in South China: Constraints from U–Th–Pb geochronology of coltan, monazite …

YQ **ong, SY Jiang, CH Wen, HY Yu - Lithos, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The recently discovered Renli Tasingle bondNb deposit in northeastern Hunan
Province is the largest known pegmatite Tasingle bond Nb deposit in South China. Previous …

Magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of rare metal pegmatites from the Mesoproterozoic Orange River pegmatite belt (Namaqualand, South Africa)

C Ballouard, MA Elburg, S Tappe, C Reinke… - Ore Geology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The 450 km long Orange River pegmatite belt intruded the Namaqua Sector of the
Mesoproterozoic Namaqua-Natal Province, Southern Africa, at ca. 1 Ga. The western part of …

Interpretation of the reflectance spectra of lithium (Li) minerals and pegmatites: A case study for mineralogical and lithological identification in the Fregeneda …

J Cardoso-Fernandes, J Silva, MM Perrotta, A Lima… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Reflectance spectroscopy has been used to identify several deposit types. However,
applications concerning lithium (Li)-pegmatites are still scarce. Reflectance spectroscopic …

Mineralogical and chemical evolution of tantalum–(niobium–tin) mineralisation in pegmatites and granites. Part 2: Worldwide examples (excluding Africa) and an …

F Melcher, T Graupner, HE Gäbler, M Sitnikova… - Ore geology …, 2017 - Elsevier
Columbite-group minerals (CGM) account for the majority of the production of tantalum, an
important metal for high-technology applications. Along with other Ta–Nb oxides such as …