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  • Monazite sands on earth, the current source of thorium, are typically about 6-12% thorium oxide, I understand.

    Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch 2009

  • Monazite is found in igneous and other rocks but the richest concentrations are in placer deposits, concentrated by wave and current action with other heavy minerals.

    Thorium 2009

  • Operation Monazite is a police initiative targeted at reducing crime.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Pretoria as part of the police's Operation Monazite.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Monazite is a mineral consisting of phosphates of cerium, lanthanum, thorium, and other rare earths in varying proportions.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Monazite, together with a small amount of gold, is also known in the stream gravels of the Boise Basin, Idaho, where a large granitic batholith evidently carries the mineral sparsely distributed throughout.

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • _See also_ Monazite, Platinum, Tin, Tungsten, and other minerals. use in tracing mineral outcrops, 316-317

    The Economic Aspect of Geology 1915

  • Monazite has been extensively mined, most of the mineral going to Europe.

    North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896

  • Minerals like Monazite and Bentonite are the usual sources but to get just the Lutetium out, for example, you end up having to purify them all out.

    The Register 2010

  • Cerium comes from deposits of radioactive element, therefore many deposits of Monazite in which Cerium is found are highly radioactive.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2010

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