Tuesday 19 December 2017

SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES FOR SCANDIUM MINERALS






SIGNIFICANT LOCALITIES FOR SCANDIUM MINERALS:
Norway 25
Italy 18
USA 14
Germany 13

Madagascar 8
Austria 8
Czech Republic 7
France 7
Russia 6
Sweden 4
Switzerland 4
Australia 3
Japan 3
Canada 2
China 2
Romania 2
Kazakhstan 2
Mexico 1
Spain 1
Poland 1
Finland 1
New Caledonia 1
Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaïre) 1
Fiji 1
Brazil 1
Kenya 1
Portugal 1

A good mineral deposit is a rare find. Not every occurrence of minerals is a true mineral deposit.
For example, under the guise of REE deposits, they can sell an occurrence containing apatite, thorite, fluorite, brockite and many others. Such “deposits” are unpromising for the production of REE.

CLASSIFICATION OF SCANDIUM MINERALS

OXIDES: Allendeite, Heftetjernite

PHOSPHATES, ARSENATES, VANADATES: Kolbeckite, Pretulite, Juonniite

SILICATES: Thortveitite, Befanamite  (A variety of Thortveitite), Jervisite, Bazzite, Cascandite, Davisite, Scandiobabingtonite, Kristiansenite, Oftedalite, Magbasite


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© Ph.D. Natalia Petrovskaya, September 24, 2017

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