ID: 25
rec_id: 25
depname: Maoniuping
deptype: 10
depage: 40.3±0.7 – 31.8±0.7|K-Ar, biotite and arfvedsonite
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The carbonatite contains ?9.06 ppb Pt. Vein zone controlled by strike-slip fault, consists of syenite stocks, carbonatite sills, granite porphyry and pegmatite dike swarm, and ore stockwork zone. Contains 71 economic ore bodies, en-echelon S-shaped layer ?1168 m long and ?32 m thick.","mineral":[{"role":"ore","name":"aenigmatite"},{"role":"ore","name":"aeschynite"},{"role":"ore","name":"allanite"},{"role":"ore","name":"apatite"},{"role":"ore","name":"ba-celestite"},{"role":"ore","name":"barite"},{"role":"ore","name":"bastnaesite"},{"role":"ore","name":"betafite"},{"role":"ore","name":"britholite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"celestite"},{"role":"ore","name":"cerianite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"chalcopyrite"},{"role":"ore","name":"chevkinite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"columbite"},{"role":"ore","name":"copper"},{"role":"ore","name":"cu-zn alloy"},{"role":"ore","name":"fergusonite"},{"role":"ore","name":"fluocerite"},{"role":"ore","name":"fluorite"},{"role":"ore","name":"galena"},{"role":"ore","name":"hematite"},{"role":"ore","name":"ilmenite"},{"role":"ore","name":"iron"},{"role":"ore","name":"kainosite-(y)"},{"role":"ore","name":"limonite"},{"role":"ore","name":"magnetite"},{"role":"ore","name":"maoniupingite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"molybdenite"},{"role":"ore","name":"monazite"},{"role":"ore","name":"parisite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"pyrite"},{"role":"ore","name":"pyrochlore"},{"role":"ore","name":"r\u00f6ntgenite-(ce)"},{"role":"ore","name":"rutile"},{"role":"ore","name":"samarskite-(y)"},{"role":"ore","name":"sphalerite"},{"role":"ore","name":"sr-barite"},{"role":"ore","name":"sn-cu alloy"},{"role":"ore","name":"strontianite"},{"role":"ore","name":"synchysite"},{"role":"ore","name":"thorite"},{"role":"ore","name":"titanite"},{"role":"ore","name":"tongxinite"},{"role":"ore","name":"uranothorite"},{"role":"ore","name":"wulfenite"},{"role":"ore","name":"xenotime-(y)"},{"role":"ore","name":"zircon"},{"role":"gangue","name":"aegirine"},{"role":"gangue","name":"aegirine-augite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"albite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"arfvedsonite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"augite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"biotite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"calcite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"epidote"},{"role":"gangue","name":"garnet"},{"role":"gangue","name":"gypsum"},{"role":"gangue","name":"microcline"},{"role":"gangue","name":"mg-riebeckite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"pectolite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"mn-pectolite"},{"role":"gangue","name":"quartz"}],"reference":["Hou, Z., Tian, S., Xie, Y., Yang, Z., Yuan, Z., Yin, S., Yi, L., Fei, H., Zou, T., Bai, G., and Li, X., 2009, The Himalayan Mianning-Dechang REE belt associated with alkaline complexes, eastern Indo-Asian collision zone, SW, China: Ore Geology Reviews, v. xx, p. xx\u0096xx, in press.","Hou, Z., Tian, S., Yuan, Z., Xie, Y., Yin, S., Yi, L., Fei, H., and Yang, Z., 2006, The Himalayan collision zone carbonatites in western Sichuan, SW, China\u0097Petrogenesis, mantle source and tectonic implication:Earth and Planetary Science Letter, v. 244, p. 234\u0096250.","Niu, H., Shan, Q., Chen, X., and Zhang, H., 2003, Relationship between light rare earth deposits and mantle processes in Panxi rift, China: Science in China (Series D), v. 46, Suppl., p. 41\u009649.","Tian, S., Ding, T., Mao, J., Li, Y., and Yuan, Z., 2006, S, C, O, H isotope data and noble gas studies of the Maoniuping LREE deposit, Sichuan province, China\u0097A mantle connection for mineralization: Acta Geologica Sinica, v. 80, no. 4, p. 540\u0096549.","Wang, D., Yang, J., Yan, S., Xu, J., Chen, Y., Pu, G., and Luo, Y., 2001, A special orogenic-type rare earth element deposit in Maoniuping, Sichuan, China\u0097Geology and geochemistry: Resources Geology, v. 51, no. 3, p. 177\u0096188.","Wu, C., Yuan, Z., and Bai, G., 1996, Rare earth deposits in China, in Jones, A.P., Wall, F., and Williams, C.T., eds., Rare earth minerals\u0097Chemistry, origin and ore deposits: New York, Chapman and Hall, The Mineralogical Society Series 7, p. 281\u0096310.","Xie, Y., Hou, Z., Yin, S., Dominy, S.C., Xu, J., Tian, S., and Xu, W., 2009, Continuous carbonatitic melt-fluid evolution of a REE mineralization system\u0097Evidence from inclusions in the Maoniuping REE deposit, western Sichuan, China: Ore Geology Reviews, v. xx, p. xx\u0096xx, in press.","Xu, C., Campbell, I.H., Kynicky. J., Allen, C.M., Chen, Y., Huang, Z., and Qi, L., 2008, Comparison of the Daluxiang and Maoniuping carbonatitic REE deposits with Bayan Obo Ree deposit, China: Lithos, v. 106, no. 1-2, p. 12\u009624.","Xu, C., Huang, Z., Liu, C., Qi, L., Li, W., and Guan, T., 2003, PGE geochemistry of carbonatites in Maoniuping REE deposit, Sichuan province, China\u0097Preliminary study: Geochemical Journal, v. 37, p. 391\u0096399.","Xu, C., Huang, Z., Liu, C., Qi, L., Li, W., and Guan, T., 2003, Geochemistry of carbonatites in Maoniuping REE deposit, Sichuan province, China: Science in China (Series D), v. 46, no. 3, p. 246\u0096256.","Xu, C., Qi, L., Huang, Z., Chen, Y., Yu, X., Wang, L., and Li, E., 2008, Abundances and significance of platinum group elements in carbonatites from China: Lithos, v. 105, p. 201\u0096207.","Xu, C., Zhang, H., Huang, Z., Liu, C., Qi, L., Li, W., and Guan, T., 2004, Genesis of the carbonatite-syenite complex and REE deposit at Maoniuping, Sichuan province, China\u0097Evidence from Pb isotope geochemistry: Geochemical Journal, v. 38, p. 67\u009676.","Yang, Z., and Woollley, A., 2006, Carbonatites in China\u0097A review: Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, v. 27, p. 559\u0096575"]}}
url: https://mrdata.usgs.gov/carbonatite/show-carbonatite.php?rec_id=25