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Rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and hingganite-(Ce) in syenite gneisses from the Sushina Hill Complex, India: occurrence, compositional data and petrogenetic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2018

A. Chakrabarty ,
R. H. Mitchell ,
M. Ren ,
A. K. Sen  and
K. L. Pruseth
A. Chakrabarty*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Durgapur Government College, Durgapur, West Bengal, 713214, India
R. H. Mitchell
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1
M. Ren
Affiliation:
Department of Geoscience, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
A. K. Sen
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand-247667, India
K. L. Pruseth
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, Uttarakhand-247667, India Department of Geology and Geophysics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, 721302, India
*
* E-mail: aniket_chakrabarty@rediffmail.com
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Abstract

Accessory rare earth element (REE) minerals occur in small quantities in agpaitic and miaskitic nepheline syenite gneisses of the Sushina Hill Complex, India. The REE-rich minerals restricted mainly to the agpaitic rocks are rinkite, cerianite-(Ce), and cerian thorite. Rinkite, formed at the ortho-magmatic stage predates other REE-rich phases and is the most Nd-F-rich rinkite (6.62–7.45 wt.% Nd2O3; 8.75–9.74 wt.% F) with very high Nd/Ce (>2.46) ratios reported to date. Hydrothermal cerianite-(Ce), formed by the decomposition of eudialyte in the agpaitic rocks, occurs as small rounded crystals rich in Ce (∼63–74 wt.% CeO2) and Y (6.03–11.69 wt.% Y2O3). The presence of cerianite-(Ce) indicates formation in an evolving hydrothermal fluid in an oxidizing milieu. Hingganite-(Ce) is present in the miaskitic unit and is considered to represent the superposition of an agpaitic mineral on an initial miaskitic assemblage. Hingganite-(Ce) is characterized by elevated contents of Ce (18.03–21.94 wt.% Ce2O3), and Nd (13.90–15.40 wt.% Nd2O3). Experimental data, coupled with the observed assemblage, suggest that the hingganite-(Ce) precipitated from the hydrothermal fluid between 400 and 300°C followed by cerianite-(Ce) (<∼300°C). This conclusion implies that eudialyte decomposition was probably initiated above 400°C.

Keywords

rinkitecerianite-(Ce)hingganite-(Ce)eudialyteagpaitic systems
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Research Article
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Mineralogical Magazine , Volume 77 , Issue 8 , December 2013 , pp. 3137 - 3153
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2013

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