Discussion on Le Bas et al. (1997) 'oxygen, carbon and strontium isotope study of the carbonatitic dolomite host of the Bayan Obo Fe-Nb-REE deposit, Inner Mongolia, China', Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 531 -41

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 927-931

  Campbell, L S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayan Obo; Carbonatites; Fluorite; Rare earth mineralization; Replacement; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MINERALIZATION; NIOBIUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REPLACEMENT;

BAYAN OBO; CHINA; NEI MONGOLL;

EID: 0033374484     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.1999.063.6.12     Document Type: Article

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