CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-03
   
Deposit name(s): Bayan Obo East Ore Body
Longitude / Latitude: 109.98472 / 41.80000
Political location(s): China; Province or state: Inner Mongolia; Nearest community: Bayan Obo
Deposit clan (type): Bayan Obo-type
Geologic province: Sino-Korean Craton
Geologic subprovince: Northern Marginal Belt
Deposit object located: open pit
Commodities: Fe
Geological ages: Late Mesoproterozoic (related magmatics)
References:
Chao, E. C. T. ; Back, J. M.; Minkin, J. A.; Tatsumoto, M.; Wang, J.; Conrad, J. E.; McKee, E. H.; Hou, Z.; Meng, Q.; Huang, S., 1997
The Sedimentary Carbonate-Hosted Giant Bayan Obo REE-Fe-Nb Ore Deposit of Inner Mongolia, China: A Cornerstone Example for Giant Polymetallic Ore Deposits of Hydrothermal Origin
Bulletin, United States Geological Survey, United States Geological Survey, Publication code 2143, 65 p.

Drew, L. J.; Meng, Q.; Sun, W., 1990
The Bayan Obo Iron-Rare Earth-Niobium Deposits, Inner Mongolia, China
Lithos, Volume 26, p. 43 - 65

Drew, L. J.; Meng, Q., 1990
Geologic Map of the Bayan Obo Area
United States Geological Survey, I-Mao 2057, Scale 1:50000

Hitzman, M. W.; Oreskes, N.; Einaudi, M. T., 1992
Geological Characteristics and Tectonic Setting of Proterozoic Iron Oxide (Cu-U-Au-REE) Deposits
Precambrian Research, Volume 58, p. 241 - 287

Zhang, F.; Liu, T.; Zhang, F-X., 1997
Age and Thermal History of the East Ore Section, Bayan Obo Deposit - A Fission Track Study
Chinese Journal of Geochemistry, Volume 16, p. 80 - 85

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 1990 ore - milled; Combined with production?: yes; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: probable reserve
Grade-commodity information:Fe: 35 percent
REE oxides: 6 percent
Nb: 0.13 percent
Weight-commodity information:Fe oxides: 1,500 million metric tons
REE oxides: 48 million metric tons
Nb: 1 million metric tons
Reference: Drew, L. J.; Meng, Q.; Sun, W., 1990: The Bayan Obo Iron-Rare Earth-Niobium Deposits, Inner Mongolia, China; Lithos, Volume 26, p. 43 - 65
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 30.0%

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