Bayan Obo Mining District
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| Bayan Obo Mining District 白云鄂博矿区 Baiyun-Obo Baiyun'ebo Baiyun |
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 Baiyun
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| Coordinates: 41°46′58″N 109°58′25″E / 41.78278°N 109.97361°ECoordinates: 41°46′58″N 109°58′25″E / 41.78278°N 109.97361°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Inner Mongolia |
| Prefecture-level city | Baotou |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
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Bayan Obo Mining District, (Mongolian: "rich"+"ovoo"; simplified Chinese: 白云鄂博矿区; traditional Chinese: 白雲鄂博礦區; pinyin: Báiyún Èbó Kuàngqū), or Baiyun-Obo or Baiyun'ebo, is a mining town in the west of Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of Baotou City, more than 120 kilometres (75 mi) to the south.
The mines north of the town are the largest deposits of rare earth metals yet found and, as of 2005, responsible for 45% of global rare earth metal production.[1][2][3]
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- ^ Lawrence J. Drewa, Meng Qingrunb and Sun Weijun (1990). "The Bayan Obo iron-rare-earth-niobium deposits, Inner Mongolia, China". Lithos 26 (1-2): 43–65. doi:10.1016/0024-4937(90)90040-8.
- ^ Xue-Ming Yang, Michael J. Le Bas (2004). "Chemical compositions of carbonate minerals from Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia, China: implications for petrogenesis". Lithos 72 (1-2): 97–116. doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2003.09.002.
- ^ Chengyu Wu (2007). "Bayan Obo Controversy: Carbonatites versus Iron Oxide-Cu-Au-(REE-U)". Resource Geology 58 (4): 348. doi:10.1111/j.1751-3928.2008.00069.x. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121496988/abstract.
- "Bayan Obo (Bayun-Obo; Baiyunebo) deposit, Bayan Obo, Darhan Muminggan United Banner, Baotou League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China". http://www.mindat.org/loc-720.html.
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