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Monazite sands on earth, the current source of thorium, are typically about 6-12% thorium oxide, I understand.
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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
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Operation Monazite is a police initiative targeted at reducing crime.
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Pretoria as part of the police's Operation Monazite.
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Monazite is a mineral consisting of phosphates of cerium, lanthanum, thorium, and other rare earths in varying proportions.
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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.
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_See also_ Monazite, Platinum, Tin, Tungsten, and other minerals. use in tracing mineral outcrops, 316-317
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Monazite has been extensively mined, most of the mineral going to Europe.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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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
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Cerium comes from deposits of radioactive element, therefore many deposits of Monazite in which Cerium is found are highly radioactive.
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