Bridge Hill Ridge

Bridge Hill Ridge (New South Wales)

Placer, shoreline rare earth element deposit in New South Wales, Australia

Deposit type: Placer, fluvial, shoreline

Principal minerals: Monazite

Ore minerals: zircon, rutile, ilmenite

Gangue minerals: quarz

Host rock types: dune sand

Average grade:

Status: REE Occurrence

Resource estimates:

Marine placer and wind-blown dunes.

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org

  2. https://books.google.cl/books?id=jPskAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA13&lpg=RA4-PA13&dq=Green+Cove+Springs+Mine+monazite&source=bl&ots=8xH_PV9MoG&sig=MkXPfqzQ6OM4zmU2OWc-eHL2-GQ&hl=ru&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj6-bG1mfbMAhUDE5AKHYGfCWsQ6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

  3. http://mrdata.usgs.gov/ree/show-ree.php?rec_id=380