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<journal-id journal-id-type="archive">gsminmag</journal-id>
<journal-title>Mineralogical Magazine</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="full">Mineralogical Magazine</abbrev-journal-title>
<issn pub-type="ppub">0026-461X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name>Mineralogical Society</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1180/minmag.1986.050.357.13</article-id>
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<subject>Mineralogy</subject>
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<article-title>Compositional Variation of Some Rare Earth Minerals from the Fen Complex (Telemark, SE Norway): Implications for the Mobility of Rare Earths in a Carbonatite System</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname>Andersen</surname>
<given-names>Tom</given-names>
</name>
<aff>Institutt for Geologi, Universitetet i Oslo, Boks 1047, Blindern, N0316 Oslo 3, Norway</aff></contrib></contrib-group>
<pub-date pub-type="ppub">
<month>9</month>
<year>1986</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>50</volume>
<issue>357</issue>
<fpage>503</fpage>
<lpage>509</lpage>
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<date date-type="received">
<day>14</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>1985</year>
</date>
<date date-type="rev-recd">
<day>30</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>1986</year>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#x00A9; 1986, The Mineralogical Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>1986</copyright-year>
<abstract>
<title>Abstract</title>
<p>Rare earth minerals in ankeritic ferrocar-bonatite and associated magnetite ore, as well as in hematite-calcite-(dolomite) carbonatite (r&#x00F8;dberg) derived from the ferrocarbonatite by post-magmatic alteration, have been studied by electron microprobe. The minerals found are monazite, parisite, and bastn&#x00E4;site (identifications confirmed by X-ray diffraction) as well as an aluminous silicate with allanite composition, and possibly, synchysite. The rare earth element (<italic>REE</italic>) distribution patterns of the minerals change from light rare earth (<italic>LREE</italic>)-enriched in magnetite ore and ferrocarbonatite to less <italic>LREE</italic>-enriched, or middle <italic>REE</italic>-enriched in the most strongly re-equilibrated carbonatites. Two distinct mineral varieties, monazite-(Ce,Nd) and a Nd-fluorocarbonate, have been found in r&#x00F8;dberg. The <italic>LREE</italic> were leached from their host minerals during re-equilibration of the carbonatite, most likely because of the influence of fluoride-bearing hydrothermal solutions.</p></abstract>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>rare earth minerals</kwd>
<kwd>monazite</kwd>
<kwd>allanite</kwd>
<kwd>carbonatite</kwd>
<kwd>r&#x00F8;dberg</kwd>
<kwd>Fen complex</kwd>
<kwd>Norway</kwd>
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