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⇱ Monazite Group from Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA

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Monazite Group from
Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA

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Locality type:Valley
Classification
Species:'Monazite Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:REE(PO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Monazite Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:694200
Long-form Identifier:1:3:694200:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Monazite Group in this Region
Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Ajax prospect, Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Peerless Nuclear Minerals deposits (Hansen No. 2 prospect; Uranus No. 2 prospect), Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
U-Thor claims (Unnamed U deposit; U-Thor deposit), Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Uranus No. 4 prospect, Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Uranus No. 6 prospect, Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Monazite Group
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘMusic Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) ⓘAjax prospect, Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ⓘPeerless Nuclear Minerals deposits (Hansen No. 2 prospect; Uranus No. 2 prospect), Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) ⓘU-Thor claims (Unnamed U deposit; U-Thor deposit), Music Valley deposit (Music Valley Rare Earth deposit), Music Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) ⓘUnnamed REE occurrence [5], Negro Hill, Riverside County, California, USA
25.3km (15.7 miles) ⓘHomestretch Mines (Homestretch claims; Homestead claims; Homestead group of claims; Homestretch group of claims), Copper Mountain, Twentynine Palms Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
37.3km (23.2 miles) ⓘSteiner claims, Landers, San Bernardino County, California, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) ⓘDesert View claim, Cactus City, Little San Bernardino Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) ⓘPomona Tile Quarry, Calumet Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
63.9km (39.7 miles) ⓘBlack Dog prospect (Black Dog claim), Rock Corral, Landers, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
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Report (issue)
of all the 14 naturally occurring members of the group, but commonly the assemblage in any one species...regularly in the American Mineralogist. Rare-earth group of elements [Includes the lanthanide elements and...a naturally occurring member of the rare-earth group Glossary of rare-earth minerals Name Composition...- - Resembles bastnaesite Belovite- - - Apatite group - (Sr, Ce, Na, Ca)5 (P04)a (OH)- - - RE varieties...- Erikite - - - - - - Probably rhabdophane or monazite - - - - - - Eschynite - - - - - (Ce, Ca, Fe, Th)
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Ercit (with 21 Figures) . . . . . . 27 Pyrochlore Group Minerals from the Qaqarssuk Carbonatite Complex...fractures in altered greenstones from San Benito County, California, is reported with 20.57 wt.% RE2 0 3 , being...International Mineralogical Association (IMA). A group name, bastnaesite, for instance, is proposed for...element to the group name: bastnaesite-(La), bastnaesite-(Y) etc. Table 1 gives these group names with the...the different predominating elements. Table 1. Group names ofrare-earth minerals Halides Fluocerite
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