BafertisiteEast Mine, Bayan Obo deposit, Bayan Obo, Bayan Obo Mining District, Baotou League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China
Photo: Pavel M. Kartashov Latitude: 41°48'4"N
Longitude: 109°58'54"E
Late Palaeozoic granitoids are distributed in a large area southeast of the east open pit mine. They intruded directly into the ore-bearing dolomite and produced intense skarnization. Skarnized rocks were first encountered in a drill core in the south part of the mine.
References
- Kuifeng Yang, Hongrui Fan, Fangfang Hu, Xianghui Li, Jianyong Liu, Yonggang Zhao, Shuang Liu, and Kaiyi Wang (2007): Skarnization age in the giant Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe ore district, Inner Mongolia, China: Rb-Sr isochrone dating on single-grain phlogopite. Acta Petrologica Sinica 23(5), 1018-1022.
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