Rare-Earth Carbonates
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2017) | Viewed by 39841
Special Issue Editor
Interests: geochemistry; crystallisation; mineralogy; carbonates; rare-earths; synchrotron; biomineralisation; geology
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Dear Colleagues,
Rapid technological development is demanding the use of ever-greater numbers of rare-earth elements. These elements are present at trace concentrations in the Earth’s crust and are being identified by many countries as being of high strategic importance, not only in terms of exploration and extraction, but also in determining their natural cycling and primary industrial sources to the environment. Most naturally-occurring rare earths are associated with the exotic carbonate minerals found in carbonatite deposits (e.g., Mountain Pass in California and Bayan Obo in China). These are broadly defined as igneous rocks with greater than 50% carbonate minerals. Carbonatites encompass a range of compositions and mineral assemblages, including those dominated by calcite, dolomite, ankerite and alkali carbonate minerals.
This Special Issue aims to publish papers on recent progress in the study of rare-earth carbonates. Papers providing data on synthesis, crystallography, structure, spectroscopies, thermodynamics and kinetics of crystallisation, as well as their behaviours in surface, subsurface, and ore-forming processes are welcome. Contributions combining novel experimental and computational approaches are also encouraged, as well as field-based studies.
Dr. Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- rare-earths
- carbonates
- carbonatite
- ancylite
- bastnasite
- kozoite
- tengerite
- lanthanite
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