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Siderite from
Nâm Xe REE deposit, Mt Fansipan, Phong Tho District, Lai Châu Province, Vietnam


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Siderite
Formula:FeCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Siderite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Nâm Xe REE deposit, Mt Fansipan, Phong Tho District, Lai Châu Province, Vietnam
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:645954
Long-form Identifier:1:3:645954:3
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Siderite
55.5km (34.5 miles) ⓘDaping Au-polymetallic deposit, Yuanyang County, Honghe, Yunnan, China
84.4km (52.5 miles) ⓘKafang ore field, Gejiu Sn-polymetallic ore field, Gejiu City, Honghe, Yunnan, China
87.9km (54.6 miles) ⓘLaochang ore field (Laochang Mine), Gejiu Sn-polymetallic ore field, Gejiu City, Honghe, Yunnan, China
References
Gupta, Chiranjib Kumar, Krishnamurthy, Nagaiyar (2005) Extractive Metallurgy of Rare Earths (1st ed.). CRC Press.
Chi, N. T., Flower Martin, J. F., & Hung, D. T. (2008, August). Carbonatites in Phong Tho, Lai Chau Province, north–west Vietnam: Their petrogenesis and relationship with Cenozoic potassic alkaline magmatism. In The 33rd international geological congress in Oslo (Norway) (pp. 1-45).
Thi, T. N., Wada, H., Ishikawa, T., & Shimano, T. (2014). Geochemistry and petrogenesis of carbonatites from South Nam Xe, Lai Chau area, northwest Vietnam. Mineralogy and Petrology, 108(3), 371-390.
Tran, Hoa Trong, Polyakov, Gleb V., Tran, Anh Tuan, Borisenko, Alexander S., Izokh, Andrey E., Balykin, Pavel A., Ngo, Phuong Thi, Pham, Dung Thi (2016) Intraplate Magmatism and Metallogeny of North Vietnam - Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences No. 11. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25235-3
Woolley, Alan R. (2019) Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World. Part 4: Antarctica, Asia and Europe (excluding the former USSR), Australasia and Oceanic Islands. The Geological Society of London. doi:10.1144/mpar4p.234
 
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