REE Daughter Minerals Trapped in Fluid Inclusions in the Giant Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China

International Geology Review

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 638-645

  Fan, Hong Rui ^a   Xie, Yi Han ^a   Wang, Kai Yi ^a   Tao, Ke Jie ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; FLUID INCLUSION; ORE DEPOSIT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REPLACEMENT;

ASIA; BAYAN OBO; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 3543051153     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.46.7.638     Document Type: Article

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