Scandium-bearing minerals in the Bayan Obo Nb-REE-Fe Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China

Resource Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Shimazaki, Hidehiko ^a   Yang, Zhuming ^b   Miyawaki, Ritsuro ^a   Shigeoka, Masako ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

"Perriete (Ce)"; Aegirine; Bayan Obo; Ferrocolumbite; Scandium

Indexed keywords

AEGIRINE; BYPRODUCT; IRON ORE; ORE DEPOSIT; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RECOVERY; SAMPLING; SCANDIUM;

BAYAN OBO; CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 38949214666     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-3928.2007.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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