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Monazite from
Pulmoddai mine, Pulmoddai, Trincomalee District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Monazite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:REE(PO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Monazite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pulmoddai mine, Pulmoddai, Trincomalee District, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:645959
Long-form Identifier:1:3:645959:8
GUID (UUID V4):b7f9e48a-a4ba-4bc7-864f-1dc47c92277a
References
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Report (issue)
,~,; /,:t t. ji ILMENITE BEACH PLACER, PULMODDAI, CEYLON, AND I~IENITE RESOURCES OF THE PLEISTOCENE...--------------------- 9 IlMENITE PLACER AT PULMODDAI-- ---·------- ---------------------------- 10... 3. 6 Northern and southern limits of the Pulmoddai beach placer---------------------------------------------------A...as seen looking north from th~ northern end of Pulmoddai placer-------··---~-----------------------------------...Arisamali ridge from the southern end of the Pulmoddai placer. Note black sand on beach---~-------
Report (issue)
larger, than was established when the decision to mine was made. Experts with a sound knowledge of a deposit...Kingdom. No geologic definition of a deposit or district is used for compiling records for this report...records, for example those from the Guangdong Province in China, refer to districts that 2 R* IN SITU...in 1892. Originally identified in Brazil and Sri Lanka, baddeleyite may contain up to 1. 7 percent hafnium...baddeleyite is mined in Brazil, but none is mined in Sri Lanka. Baddeleyite is also mined in hard-rock deposits
Report (issue)
able.pdf. Cover. Upper left, Ilmenite open pit mine at Tellnes, Sokndal, Norway. Photograph courtesy.............................................. T15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ T16 Mine Closure...........................................charts showing percentage of estimated 2012 world mine production of ilmenite and rutile, and percentage...India, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Sri Lanka. The United States accounts for about 4 percent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit, Sri Lanka H. Wallace∗ The PQ heavy mineral sand deposit is located on the west coast of Sri Lanka...the town of Puttalam within the North Western Province. The PQ heavy mineral deposit was previously defined...Heavy mineral sands Introduction Regional geology Sri Lanka’s history of heavy mineral sand exploration...and zircon have been exported since 1962 as one of Sri Lanka’s three main mineral exports along with graphite...owned heavy mineral mine is in operation on the east coast near the town of Pulmoddai. This deposit is a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...Monument of Saguache and Alamosa Counties, Colo.—monazite, garnet, chlorite, pyroxene (augite, diopside...Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oí Columbia—On a recent visit to Washington, the...the peridotites near Fielden, Elliott Co., in Eastern Kentucky. Louisiana—Lovett Word, Box 1129, Leesville...Hampden Co., Mass. The best specimens occur at the Old Mine. Michigan—A nice dark grayish cephalopod from the
Report (issue)
production rates. Over 95 percent of the world's mine production of titanium-bearing minerals is used...Kingdom. No geologic definition of a deposit (or district) is used for compiling records for this report...larger, than was established when the decision to mine was made. Experts with a sound knowledge of a deposit...although in some deposits, such as the Otanmaki mine in Finland, underground methods are used. Secondary...ILMENITE) • <5 X 10 6 • D. 15/0/6 Unreported District Figure 2.-Location, geologic deposit type, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
north-south extension belts namely, the Central Belt and Eastern Belt (Hutchison and Tan, 2009). Fig. 1 shows the...andesitic-rhyolitic volcanic rocks and granitic plutons. The Eastern Belt contains Carboniferous marine shales, sandstones...granitoids are Stype granitoids while, the Central and Eastern Belts granitoids are both I-type granitoids. The...occurs most frequently in the Central Belt and Eastern Belt. In Peninsular Malaysia, the classification...earth minerals of brannenite, absite, zircon, monazite and allanite (Boyle, 1982). Th is widely distributed
Report (issue)
from the Palabora carbonatite deposit, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Photographs by Rob Lavinsky (www.............................................. V14 Mine Waste Characteristics.............................................................. V14 Volume of Mine Waste........................................................................................ V17 Mine Closure...........................................rutile (for titanium), chromite (for chromium), and monazite (for rareearth elements) in sedimentary systems
Book
Sri Lanka's mineral resources can enrich country's coffers Prashan Francis B.Sc. Special (Geo.,SL)...Gem &Jewellery Research & Training Institute, Sri Lanka (Ministry of Mahaweli Development and Environment)...Jewellery Research & Training Institute, Sri Lanka 2018 Sri Lanka's mineral resources can enrich country's...Gem & Jewellery Research & Training Institute, Sri Lanka All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Sutharshan 2018. ISBN 978-955-8382-04-2 Preface Sri Lanka is gifted with many varieties of high quality
Report (issue)
- - - - -- ----- - ---- - - -- -- -- 13. Average mine and mill production costs per metric ton of ore...and value - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - Average mine and mill production costs in 1989 - - - - - - -...and Grey Christiansen 1 Abstract Bastnaesite, monazite, and xenotime are currently the most important...Bastnaesite occurs as a primary mineral in carbonatites. Monazite and xenotime also can be found in primary deposits...composition is 83 percent bastnaesite, 13 percent monazite, and 4 percent of 10 other minerals. Annual global
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
five major placer-forming regions (Brazil, India/Sri Lanka, southeastern Africa, southeastern United States...ilmenite, 100% of the zircon, and at least 50% of the monazite and xenotime (Towner, 1990). The dominant pro­...five major placer-forming regions (Brazil, India/Sri Lanka, southeastern Africa, southeastern United States...deposits. Titanium mineral-zircon-monazite placers dominate the coasts of eastern and western Australia, southeastern...southeastern and western Africa, India and Sri Lanka, Brazil, and the southeastern United States. Data from
Report (issue)
SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC.................................... 84 6.6.16. Sri Lanka ................................................of the mineral monazite, it seems appropriate at least to include information on monazite deposits and...common rare earththorium mineral is phosphate monazite, in which the thorium content can reach up to...the most frequent concentrations of thorium in monazite do not exceed 10%. Other common minerals, however
Report (volume)
ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. World production of monazite, short tons, 1893-1947-------2. Diagram illustrating...TABLE 1. VVorld production, in short tons, of monazite concentrates, 1948-1962_____________________...Atomic Energy Commission, 1959). The production of monazite, the principal source material of thorium and...1893-1947 and in table 1 for 1948-62. A few tons of monazite was produced in the United States in 1887 and...·after World War I. From 1921 to 1934, little monazite, used largely for its rare earth content, was
Report (issue)
14 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Asbestos ore Lead ore-Balmat Mine. N.Y. Chromit~-chromium ore. Wash. Zinc ore-Friedensville...not yet discovered or not presently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered...Engel and Engel ( 1958, 1960) ; the calculations are mine. Titanium oxide not present in the silicate phases...shown in table 9. In fact, the rutile sands of eastern Australia now being mined have Ti02 values well..., 1968, Titaniferous ores of the Sanford Lake District, New York, in Ridge, J. D., ed., Ore deposits
Report (Issue volume)
and visited the ilmenite beach-sand workings at Pulmoddai in Ceylon. Mr. A. J. G. Notholt went to Jordan...traverses over mineralised faults in the Coast Province of Kenya', by R. B. Evans. A Special Report entitled...he visited the ilmenite beach-sand workings at Pulmoddai and had dis­ cussions with the staff of the Geological...Government's ilmenite-monazite recovery plant, and the first substantial sample of eluvial monazite from Kangankunde...Malawi, which was upgraded from 90 to 98 per ce11t. monazite content. Petrographic work was less prominent
Book
major producing districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...eclipsing the mineral magnesite in some areas; the trona mine rather than the Solvay plant is now the main source...Canada, South Africa to Jordan, and Australia to Sri Lanka. Industrial Minerals also sponsors international...ultramafic rocks, including ophiolites (chrysotile of eastern North America and Califor- Determination of tensile
Report (issue)
.B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011......................F4. Pie chart showing percentage of world cobalt mine production in 2011, by country.................
Book
I sell my uranium ore?" "Do I need a license to mine uranium?" "How do I stake a mining claim?" As a...Colorado Plateau Area Markets Markets for for Monazite and Other Rare Earth Ores Minerals and Ores Other...Commission and its predecessor, the Manhattan District, had of a ores. been the sole searchers for...a by-product of the processing of the mineral monazite for a variety of rare elements called rare earths...movements of thorium-bearing materials, including monazite ore, is maintained by the Commission, pursuant
Report (issue)
Occurrence Of Monazite GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 530 The Geologic Occurrence Of Monazite By WILLIAM...of monazite and of the geologic A review controls affecting the amount of thorium in monazite UNITED...________________ - ___ -_-_------Description of monazite __ ---- _____________ -----Discovery, synonymy...Age relations _________________ ----_-_-_--------Monazite localities ___ --- _______ -- ____________ -----_Africa...___________________ _ Cape of Good Hope Province ___________ _ Transvaal Province ____ -_-_------------Natal __
Book
marble large 6-8 km muscovite uraninite-muscovite monazite-muscovite Conditions of origin and country rocks... Depth of origin very large orthite (> 8 km) monazite titano-tantalo-niobates Other useful minerals...chiefly clay minerals, Pe oxides and hydroxides, mine- 38 rals of bauxites, less often carbonates (e...type, particularly of beach placers of diamond, monazite, sillimanite, kyanite, andalusite, garnet and...Czechoslovakia, gypsum in the Opava area and halite in eastern Slovakia, are also of late Miocene age· They were
Report (issue)
holdings. Prior to 1978, the development of complete mine property cost evaluations was impeded by still evolving...tool. Systems design work also continued on the mine simulation (MINSIM) program, an economic evaluation...reserves. These include implications that because a mine is operating it is profitable, that reported reserves...prices, which are variable over the life of the mine. Economic evaluation is complicated by the presence...and economic variables on viability of individual mine properties (17-18). Nonproducing deposits Producing
Journal (issue)
rope and twine industr)" is mainly located in the Province .of Ontario ,vll1cl1 accounts for So per cent...Edaphic req_uireme1its. In the mastic growing district of Chios i.e. the south-east corner of the island...average annual rainfall in the mastic growing district is said to be 75 cm. A notable phenomenon is the...grown for mastic production outside the south-eastern part of the island, as it is said that planted...}11t soil pl 11tift1l in the mastic g1·0,\rino- district ( ratl1er similar t th ,, 1 ,vl1it ' ' Ha\ a1·a
Report (volume)
controls for volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits in eastern Canada and for carbonate-hosted zinc in east Tennessee...rock types 133 Cross section through the Kalavos district Cyprus showing relationship of massive sulfide...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...represents an individual deposit (or, rarely, a district), cumulated in ascending grade or tonnage. Where
Report (volume)
Shallow ground water in the Zamin Dawr area, Helmand Province, Afghanistan: U.S. Geol. Survey open-file rept... Hamilton, Warren, 1972, The Hallett volcanic province, Antarctica: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 456-C...mineral deposits of the San Cristobal district, Villa Martin Province, Potosi, Bolivia: U.S. Geol. Survey... Geology and mineral resources of the Alegria district, Minas Gerais, Brazil: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof...Geochemical investigations in the Boquira lead district, Bahia, Brazil (abs.): Soc. Brasileira Geol.,
Book
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basin and Range Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....sphene Pyrochlore-1nicrolite, euxenite-polycrru;e, monazite, xenotin1e, gadolinite, thalenite Brannerite,...Phosphuranyli te-renarcli te, beta-uranophane Renardite Monazite, cheralite, thorite, w·anophane, apatite, xenotime...fluorite. The nuclei minerals a.re chiefly zircon, monazite, xenotime, apatite, allanite, and sphene; but...deposit, Great Bear Lake, Canada; Gold.fields district, Canada) (Fig. '2.7). Brecciated pitchblende 111ay
 
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