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- noun geology Any
intrusive igneous rock having a majority ofcarbonate minerals
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Examples
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Among the major developments over the past year, the council, had, through a new airborne survey using high-density aeromagnetic data, discovered some "very significant" deposits of clear alkaline carbonatite complexes near Nooitgedacht in the Northwest Province, signaling copper deposits that "looked very similar to Palaborwa," he revealed.
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FMR refers to the major mineral constituents of the highly oxidized, former carbonatite dikes that occur in the depth range between the surface and 300 - 500 feet 91 - 152 meters
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REE mineralization in the Bull Hill SW resource area is contained within intrusive dikes, veins, and stockwork of FMR, transitional carbonatite, and carbonatite that invade heterolithic intrusive breccia of the Bull Hill diatreme.
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The main exploration target at the project is carbonatite hosted rare earth elements mineralization.
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The drilling results continue to demonstrate that the target FMR and carbonatite bodies exhibit strong REE mineralization over a strike length of more than 1400
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Bear Lodge is special because of the concentrations of rare earths in the carbonatite dikes.
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After holes were drilled, Rare Element determined these carbonatite dikes were plentiful and the area's mining would be robust.
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The Aley property is host to a carbonatite intrusion which was discovered by Cominco between 1983 and 1986.
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Bear Lodge has high grade rare earths in carbonatite and oxidized carbonatite dikes.
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A zone of partly oxidized carbonatite, termed transitional carbonatite has variable thickness and occurs beneath the FMR zone and above the deeper zone of unoxidized carbonatite.
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