Microprobe analyses of rare earth element fractionation in meteoritic minerals

Geochemistry of Rare Earth Element in garnet group minerals in some regional metamorphic complexes - Central Iran Micro-Continent (CIMC)

This study focuses on the amount and concentration of trace elements and REEs pattern in garnet crystals which experienced regional metamorphism in the central Iran micro-continent, including the areas of Deh-Salm, Zaman Abad, Mishdowan, and Tanbour. Generally, garnet crystals are isolated from mica schists of greenschist to amphibolite facies. Mineralogical composition of garnets shows almandi...

A Re-examination of the Rare-earth-element Orthophosphate Standards in Use for Electron-microprobe Analysis

A re-examination of fourteen standards consisting of orthophosphates of the rare-earth elements, Sc and Y, grown at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1980s and widely distributed by the Smithsonian Institution’s Department of Mineral Sciences, reveals that some of the material is significantly contaminated by Pb. The origin of this impurity is the Pb2P2O7 flux that is derived from the therma...

Mineralogical Studies in Assisting Beneficiation of Rare Earth Element Minerals from Carbonatite Deposits

Rare earth elements (REE) are either housed in exotic REE minerals that sporadically populate the host rock or they occur as ionic substitutions in the crystal structure of existing rock-forming minerals. The genesis of REEs in carbonatite rocks can result in intricate mineralogical textures between REE minerals, host rock minerals, and minerals formed by later processes. Upfront mineralogical ...

Sorption and fractionation of rare earth element ions onto nanoscale zerovalent iron particles

Thulium anomalies and rare earth element patterns in meteorites and Earth: Nebular fractionation and the nugget effect

This study reports the bulk rare earth element (REEs, La–Lu) compositions of 41 chondrites, including 32 falls and 9 finds from carbonaceous (CI, CM, CO and CV), enstatite (EH and EL) and ordinary (H, L and LL) groups, as well as 2 enstatite achondrites (aubrite). The measurements were done in dynamic mode using multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (MC-ICPMS), allowing ...