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Rare Earth Minerals in the Rare-Metal Greisens of the Verkhnee Deposit in the Khingan–Olonoisky District of the Amur Region, Russia

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Rare minerals represented by oxides, fluorides, F-carbonates and REE arsenates in association with monazite-Ce, monazite-Th, xenotime-Y and zonal REE fluorite were identified in the rare-metal ores of the Sn–W deposits of Lesser Khingan, Amur region. Rare lanthanide minerals are described, including fluocerite, bastnaesite, and gasparite-Ce, which was found for the first time in Russia in the Sn–W greisens, and chernovite-Y, the second find in the greisens of the Russian Far East. The influence of arsenic fluids at the late hydrothermal stage caused the replacement of xenotime-Y and monazite-Ce by diverse REE minerals with different lanthanide proportions. It is found that these minerals differ in chemical composition from the same minerals described in other deposits elsewhere. Due to the variable valence state of arsenic and the complete isomorphism between rare earths, arsenates can be used as indicators of redox conditions of their deposition.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to the Academician N.S. Bortnikov for useful discussion of isomorphism of REE minerals and valuable advices during manuscript preparation. We are grateful to reviewers for careful reviewing of our work and valuable comments.

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This work was made in the framework of the government-financed project of the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences “Structural-Chemical Heterogeneities and Paragenetic Mineral Assemblages as Reflection of Rock and Ore genesis” no. 121041500220-0. XRF and EPMA studies were carried out at the Analytica Center for Collective Use of the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS), 119017, Moscow, Russia

    N. V. Gorelikova, V. I. Taskaev & F. V. Balashov

  2. Far East Geological Institute, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690022, Vladivostok, Russia

    B. I. Semenyak & P. G. Korostelev

  3. Fedorovskii All-Russia Institute of Mineral Resources (VIMS), Moscow, Russia

    V. A. Rassulov

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This paper is dedicated to the memory of Pavel G. Korostelev, a great expert in and enthusiastic researcher of tin deposits in the Russian Far East

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Gorelikova, N.V., Semenyak, B.I., Korostelev, P.G. et al. Rare Earth Minerals in the Rare-Metal Greisens of the Verkhnee Deposit in the Khingan–Olonoisky District of the Amur Region, Russia. Russ. J. of Pac. Geol. 16, 608–623 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1819714022060033

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