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Kitoy river, Buriatia (Buryatia) Republic, Transbaikalia (Zabaykalye), Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia

REE-bearing alkaline metasomatic rocks (quartz–albite–microcline–riebeckite–aegirine, quartz–albite–microcline–magnetite, and clinopyroxene–albite), occurring in the Main Sayan Fault zone at the boundary of Precambrian basement rocks of the Siberian platform with metamorphosed carbonatites and terrigeneous rocks of the Kitoy lithotectonic zone.



References:
- Savel’eva, V.B., and Karmanov, N.S. (2008): REE Minerals of Alkaline Metasomatic Rocks in the Main Sayan Fault. Geology of Ore Deposits 50(8), 681-696.





Mineral List:
Aegirine
Aegirine-augite
Albite
Allanite-(Ce)
Ancylite-(Ce)
Apatite-(CaF)
Bastnäsite-(Ce)
Biotite
Calcioancylite-(Ce)
Calcite
Chevkinite-(Ce)
'Diopside-Hedenbergite Series'
Epidote
Ferrorichterite
Fluorite
Fergusonite-(Y)
Gadolinite-(Y) ?
Ilmenite
var: Manganilmenite

Katophorite
Magnetite
Microcline
Monazite-(Ce)
Pyrochlore
Pyrophanite
Quartz
Riebeckite
Stilpnomelane
Synchysite-(Ce)
Thorite
var: Uranothorite

Titanite
Uraninite
Xenotime-(Y) ?
Zircon


33 entries listed. 29 valid minerals.

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