Rare Earth Element Projects Seabrook and Big Beaver House
Rare Earth Element Projects Seabrook and Big Beaver House
Rare Earth Element Projects Seabrook and Big Beaver House
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Primary REE Source - Carbonatite<br />
• A Carbonatite is an<br />
igneous rock<br />
comprising at least<br />
50% carbonate<br />
minerals.<br />
• Usually occur as<br />
small plugs within<br />
concentrically<br />
zoned alkalic<br />
intrusive<br />
complexes.<br />
• Greatly enriched in niobium,<br />
rare-earth elements, barium,<br />
strontium, phosphorus, <strong>and</strong><br />
fluorine<br />
Idealized carbonatite pipe (modified from<br />
Jébrack <strong>and</strong> Marcoux, 2008)
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