ORE DEPOSITS OF THE RARE EARTHS

Primary deposits

North America

USA

• Mountain Pass (California)

• Music Valley (California)

• Pomona Tile Company (California)

• Green Cove Springs (Florida)

• Gem Park (Colorado)

• Iron Hill (Powderhorn, Cebolla Creek) (Colorado)

• Jamestown Distric (Colorado)

• Pikes Peak (Colorado)

• Wet Mountains (Colorado)

• Scrub Oaks (New Jersey)

• Hicks Dome (Illinois)

• Ravalli County (Montana)

• Snowbird (Montana)

• Bear Lodge (Wyoming)

• Bear Mountains (southern) (Wyoming)

• Little Big Horn River (Wyoming)

• Magnet Cove (Arkansas)

• Signal district (Arizona)

• Mineral X (Arizona)

• Gallinas Mountains (New Mexico)

• Pajarito Mountain (New Mexico)

• Petaca District (New Mexico)

• Wind Mountain (Cornudas Mtns) (New Mexico)

• Barringer Hill (Texas)

• Llano County (Williams Mine, others) (Texas)

• Little Friar Mountain (Massie) (Virginia)

• Elk Creek Deposit (Nebraska)

• Mineville (New York)

• Happy Hill Claims mining deposit (Okanogan County, Washington)

• Pea Ridge (Missouri)

• Blackfoot Bridge (Idaho)

• Caldwell Canyon (Idaho)

• Champ (Idaho)

• Conda (Idaho)

• Gay and South Forty (Idaho)

• Hall Mountain Group (Idaho)

• Henry (Idaho)

• Husky (Idaho)

• Indian Creek District (Idaho)

• Lemi County (Idaho)

• Lemhi Pass (Idaho)

• Maybe Canyon (Maybie) (Idaho)

• Mineral Hill District (Idaho)

• Mountain Fuel (Idaho)

• North Fork area (Idaho)

• North Henry (Idaho)

• Smoky Canyon (Idaho)

• Trail Creek (Idaho)

• Wooley Valley (Idaho)

• Diamond Creek (Idaho/Caribou)

• Bokan Mountain (Ross-Adams) (Alaska)

• Mount Prindle (Roy Creek) (Alaska)

• Salmon Bay (Alaska)

• Wolf Mountain (Alaska)

Canada

• Hoidas Lake

• Thor Lake (Northwest Territories)

• McArthur River (Saskatchewan)

• Nisikkatch-Hoidas Lakes (Saskatchewan)

• Topsails (Newfoundland)

• Atlin-Ruffner (Ontario)

• Bancroft-Haliburton area (Ontario)

• Haliburton (Ontario)

• Eldor Carbonatite Complex (Quebec)

• St. Honoré (Quebec)

• Strange Lake (Lac Brisson) (Quebec, Labrador)

• Flowers Bay (Labrador)

• Muskox

Greenland

• Gardiner complex

• Igaliko complex - Motzfeldt center, N & S Qoroq, Igdlerfigssalik

• Ilimaussaq Alkaline Complex (Gardar)

• Ivigut (South Greenland)

• Narsarsuaq

• Werner

• Kagsiarsuk?

• Kringlerne

• Kvanefjeld

• Motzfeldt Sø

  • Sarfartôq

• Trail ?

• Qaqarssuk (or Qeqertaasaq)

• Tikiusaaq

• Niaqornakavsak

  • Umiamako Nuna

Mexico

• Sierra de Tamaulipas

South America

Argentina

• Rodeo de los Molles

• Valle Fertil (San Juan)

Bolivia

• Cerro Manomo

Brazil

• Araxa (Minas Gerais)

• Cordislandia (Minas Gerais)

• Salitre I and II (Minas Gerais)

• Pocos de Caldas (Minas Gerais, Sao Paolo)

• Barra do Itapirapua (Sao Paolo)

• Morro Dos Seis Lagos (Amazonas)

• Pitinga (Amazonas)

• Madeira (Amazonas)

• Catalão I (Goias)

• Mineração Catalão, Catalão II (Goias)

• Maicuru (Pará)

• Maraconai (Pará)

• Jacobina (Bahia)

• Morro do Ferro

• Mato Preto

• Igarape Bahia (Carajas)

Paraguay

• Chiriguelo

Venezuela

• Cerro Impacto (Bolivar)

• Churuata (Amazonas)

Asia

Afghanistan

• Khanneshin

China

• Bayan Obo (Inner Mongolia)

• Baerze (Inner Mongolia)

• Jarud Qi, no. 801 (Inner Mongolia/Jarud Qi)

• Weishan (Weishan) (Xinjiang)

• Chines Ion Adsorption Deposits

• Mianning (Sichuan)

• Wuhe (Guangdong)

• Xihuashan (Jiangxi)

• Cida (Sichuan/Miyi)

• Saima (Liaoning)

• Yangdun (Fujian)

• Weishan (Chisan, Xishan, 1010) (Shandong)

• Yinachange (Yenachang) (Yunnan)

• Zhijin (Guizhou)

• Xinhua ( Guizhou/Zhijin)

• Miaoya (Hubei)

• Kunyang (Yunnan)

• Maoniuping

• Xing'an

Iran

• Chador Malu (Bafq District, Central Iran)

• Esfordi (Bafq District, Central Iran)

• Choghart (Central Iran)

• Chahgaz

• Gazestan

• Shekarab

• Zarigan

Kazakhstan

• Amangeldy

• Borsuksay

• Karsakpai

• Kent

• Maykule

• Shok-Karagay

• Tleumbetskii

Kyrgyzstan

• Karaganskii

• Kutessai-II

• Kurgan

Mongolia

• Khaldzan-Buregtey

• Khan Bogdo

• Mushugay-Kuduk

• Halzan Buregtei

• Khan Bogd

• Lugeengol (Lugin Gol)

Saudi Arabia

• Ghurayyah

• Goudini

• Jabal Ar Rabuts

• Jabal Awja

• Jabal Kuara

• Jabal Sa'id (Jabal Sayid)

• Jabal Ebed

• Jabal Hamra'

• Jabal Tawlah

• Silsilah

• Umm al Birak

Sri Lanka

• Denegama (Balangoda)

• Teldeniya (Nugatenne)

• Nuwara Eliya

Tajikistan

• Darapioz

Turkmenistan

• Kalai-Mahmoud

Uzbekistan

• Tas Bulak

Vietnam

• Dong Pao

• Nâm Xe

Yemen

• Mahmoud

Australia and Oceania

Australia

• Brockman (Western Australia)

• Mount Weld (Western Australia)

  • Nolans Bore Deposit (Western Australia)

• Yangibana (Western Australia)

• Olympic Dam (South Australia)

• Port Pirie (South Australia)

• Mary Kathleen (Queensland)

• Alice Springs (Northern Territory)

Europe

Armenia

• Shvanidzorskii

• Bunduk

Belorussia

• Zhitkovichskoe

• Shchukinskoe

Bosnia Herzegovina

• Vlasenica

Bulgaria

• Pirin deposit

• Rila deposit

Finland

• Katajakangas

• Kimito

• Korsnäs

  • Lamujärvi

• Iivaara

• Sokli

• Virtasalmi

France

• The Beauvoir-La Bosse deposits (Échassières)

• The Trimouns deposit (Luzenac in the central Pyrenées)

• Morlaix (Brittany)

• Evisa region (Corsica)

• Cantal

Germany

• Delich

• Kaiserstuhl Volcanic Complex

Greece

• Marmara deposit

• Marmeiko deposit

• Nisi

• Mt Ghiona

• Mt Helikon (central Greece)

• Mt Parnassus

• Evia Island

Italy

• Baveno

• San Giovanni Rotondo

Kosovo

• Grebnik

Montenegro

• Liverovici deposit

• Nikšić

• Stitovo deposit

• Zagrad deposit (Niksicka Zupa)

Norway

• Evje

• Fen

• Kodal

• Kragerø

• Langesundsfjord District (Larvik)

• Lindvik- kollen

• Orkheia

• Ødegården

• Ramsgrønova

Portugal

• Serra de Monchique

• Vale de Cavalos-Portalegre

Russia

• Ilmenskoe (Ural)

• Vishnevogorskoe (Ural)

• Mironovka (Ural)

• Altyntash (Ural)

• Kundybay (Ural)

• Longot-Yugan (Ural)

• Lebyazhye (Ural)

• Volkovskoye (Ural)

• Sibirka (Ural)

• Slyudgora (Ural)

• Kundybay (Ural)

• Mironovka (Ural)

• Altyntash (Ural)

• Kachar (Ural)

• Kachkanar (Ural)

• Kovdor (Kola Peninsula)

• Afrikanda (Kola Peninsula)

• Voronia (Kola Peninsula)

• Strelna (Kola Peninsula)

• Saharioka (Kola Peninsula)

• Lovozero (Kola Peninsula)

• Keivy (Kola Peninsula)

• Gremyakha-Vyrmes (Kola Peninsula)

• Arbarastah (Aldan shield)

• Gornoe ozero (Aldan shield)

• Konder (Aldan shield)

• Yllymah (Aldan shield)

• Rybinoviy (Aldan shield)

• Emeldzhak (Aldan shield)

• Leglier (Aldan shield)

• Kurumkan (Aldan shield)

• Torgovoe (Aldan shield)

• Billy (Aldan shield)

• Birikeen (Aldan shield)

• Mean (Aldan shield)

• Mustolaah (Aldan shield)

• Seligdar (Aldan shield)

• Tagnarar (Aldan shield)

• Taiga (Aldan shield)

• Ukduska (Aldan shield)

• Ust-Tyungere (Aldan shield)

• Emeldzhak (Aldan shield)

• Katallah (Aldan shield)

• Kuranah (Aldan shield)

• Elkonka (Aldan shield)

• Emeldzhak (Aldan shield)

• Vishnyakovka (Sayan)

• Golzy (Sayan)

• Aryskan (Sayan)

• Beloziminskoe (Sayan)

• Sredneziminskoe (Sayan)

• Bolshetagninskoe (Sayan)

• Rasvumchorra (Khibiny)

• Yukspor (Khibiny)

• Eveslogchorrna (Khibiny)

• Sangilen (Tuva)

• Ulug-Tanzek (Tuva)

• Dahunura (Tuva)

• Tastyga (Tuva)

• Karasugukskoe (Tuva)

• Guley (Taimyr)

• Vuoriyarvi (Taimyr)

• Talnikovoe (Taimyr)

• Gelu (Amur region)

• Kumir (Altai)

• Mayorca (Altai)

• Barshchouka (Baikal)

• Zavitaya (Baikal)

• Mama (Baikal)

• Orlovka (Baikal)

• Katugin (Baikal)

• Tzipa (Baikal)

• Burpala (Baikal)

• Akit (Baikal)

• Abchada (Baikal)

• Olkhon (Baikal)

• Slyudyanka (Baikal)

• Abchada (Baikal)

• Tommot (Yakutia)

• Seligdarskoye (Yakutia)

• Tomtor (Yakutia)

• Muhal (Vilyuya)

• Uchur (Habarovskoy Territory)

• Melovoye (Mangyshlak)

• Grachevka (Caucasus)

• Ergeni (Kalmykia)

• Stepnovskoe (Kalmykia)

• Yaregi (Komi)

• Kya-Shaltyrskoe (Kuznetsk Alatau)

• Chuktukonskoe (Krasnoyarsk Territory)

• Kiyskoe (Krasnoyarsk Territory)

• Katuginskoe (Chita region)

• Norilsk (Siberia)

• Chadobets

Romania

• Ditro (Transsylvania)

Spain

• El Hoyazo Volcanic Complex (EHC)

• Esquinzo Complexes (Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands)

• Puerto de la Peña-Cueva de Lobos (Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands)

• Galiñeiro Complex (Iberian Massif)

• Zamanes

Sweden

• Alnö

• Bastnäs deposit (Bastnes deposit)

• Kiirunavaara (Kiruna)

• Långban deposit

• Luossavaara

• Norra Kärr

• Tassie

• Tuolluvaara

• Ytterby

Turkey

• Eskişehir-Beylikahir district

• Çanakli

• Doğankuzu

• Karasu

• Kizilçaören

• Mortaş

  • Sofular

Ukraine

• Stremigorodok

• Yastrebetskoe

• Azovskoe

• Petrovo-Gnutovskoe

• Anadolskoe

• Zeltaya rechka

• Novopoltavskoe

• Octyabrskoe

• Nikolaevskoe

• Sabarovskoe

• Uspenskoe

• Lozovatskoe

• Kalinowskoe

• Yuznoe

• Balka korabelnaya

• Malotersyanskoe

• Perzhanskoe

• Proskurovskiy

• Antonovskiy

• Khaschevatskoe

• Chernigovskii (Novopoltavskii)

United Kingdom

• North Pennine orefield (England)

• Loch Loyal syenite complex (Scotland)

• Northern Arran granite (Scotland)

• Mourne Mountains (Northern Ireland)

• Beara-Allahies (Ireland)

Africa

Angola

• Bailundo

• Bonga

• Capuia

• Coola

• Longonjo (Mt. Chibilundo)

• Lutala (Serra da Neve)

• Lupongola (Lupulonga, Chitado)

• Monte Verde

• Nejoio

• Tchivira (Chivara, Quicuco)

Burundi

• Karonge (Gakara)

• Kasagwe

Cameroon

• Kribi

Congo (DRC, Zaire)

• Bingu

• Kirumba

• Kipushi

• Manono

• Saulia

Egypt

• Abu-Tartur

• Wadi el Sahrm

Gabon

• Mabounie (Moyen-Ogooue)

Ghana

• Kpong area

Guinea

• Los Archipelago (Los Islands, Iles de Los)

Kenya

• Buru

• Mrima Hill

• Ruri Complex

• Sokolo

Libya

• Jabal Archenu

Madagascar

• Ambatofinandrahana igneous complex

• Ampasindava area- Bezavona complex

• Ifasina

• Itremo

• Nosy Komba

• Tantalus

Malawi

• Kangankunde

• Kapiri

• Nsengwa

• Songwe Syenite

• Tundulu

Mali

• Anezrouf

Mauritania

• Bou Naga

• Tiguesmat el Akhdar (Tigsmat)

• Bofal-Loubboira (Wadi Guellouar)

Morocco

• El Hammam

• Tamazert (Oued Tamazert, Tamazeght, Bou Agrao)

Mozambique

• Alto Ligonha

• Cone Negosa (Negoza)

• Guilherme Group

• Ile (Namatacatue)

• Luicuisse (Lucuisse)

• Macotaia

• Meponda

• M'Tomoti

Namibia

• Agate Mountain

• Amis Complex

• Brandberg Complex

• Eureka

• Kalkfeld (Etaneno)

• Lofdal-Bergville (Damaraland)

• Marinkas Quellen (Marinkas Kwela)

• Okorusu Complex

• Ondurukurme Complex (Ondumakorume, Kameelberg)

Somalia

• Dalkainle

• Boorama

South Africa

• Buffalo Fluorspar (Transvaal)

• Glenover (Northern Transvaal)

• Goudini (Northern Transvaal)

• Pilansberg Complex (Pilanesberg, Pilaan's berg) (Transvaal)

• Nooitgedacht (Gelukshoek, Nooitgedagt)

• Palabora (Phalaborwa)

• Sandkopsdrif (Zandkops Drift)

• Steenkampskraal

• Wangu Hill

• Welgevonden

Tanzania

• Ilomba

• Makonde

• Mbeya (Panda Hill)

• Ngualla

• Sangu Carbonatite Group

• Songwe Scarp

• Wigu Hill

Uganda

• Bukusu Complex (Busumbu, Busumu, Busuku)

• Lolekek

• Sukulu

Zambia

• Chilembwe (Petauke)

• Kaluwe

• Keshya

• Kitumba

• Nkwombwa Hill Carbonate Deposit

• Sugar Loaf (Mumbwa North, NW Mumbwa)

Zimbabwe

• Bikita (Mdara)

• Great Dyke

• Kapfrugwa (Gungwa)

© Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya

June, 2016

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