Rare Earth Minerals

Rare Earth Minerals presents a current overview of this geologically and industrially important group of minerals. It presents a wide variety of formats, crystal structures, petrographic descriptions, analytical data and numerous illustrations from outcrop photos to SEM pictures and crystallographic models.

The rare earth elements - introduction and review; crystal chemical aspects of rare earth minerals; perovskites - a revised classification scheme for an important rare earth element host in alkaline rocks; rare elements in carbonate-rich melts from mantle to crust; formation of rare earth minerals in hydrothermal systems; rare earth mienrals from the syente pegmatites in the Oslo region, Norway; rare earth element mineralization in peralkaline systems - the T-Zonw REE-Y-Be deposit; rare earth minerals in carbonatites - a discussion centred on the Kangankunde Carbonatite, Malawi; REE distribution and REE carriers in laterites formed on the alkaline complexes of Araxa and Catalao (Brazil); authigenic rare earth minerals in karst-bauxites and karstic nickel deposits; rare earth deposits in China; yttrium and rare earth element minerals of the Kola Peninsula, Russia; analysis of rare earth minerals. Appendices: borates; corbonates, fluocarbonates and hydrocarbonates; oxides; halides; silicates; phosphates; arsenates, sulphates and vanadates; uranyl-carbonates and uranyl-silicates.