Structural state of rare earth elements in eudialyte-group minerals

• Published in: Mineralogical Magazine
• Main Authors: Borst, Anouk M., Finch, Adrian A., Friis, Henrik, Horsburgh, Nicky J., Gamaletsos, Platon N., Goettlicher, Joerg, Steininger, Ralph, Geraki, Kalotina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2020
• Subjects: Science & Technology; Physical Sciences; Mineralogy; critical metals; eudialyte-group minerals; peralkaline igneous rocks; rare earth elements; partitioning models; lattice strain theory; XANES; EXAFS; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; high-field-strength elements; SOUTH GREENLAND IMPLICATIONS; MONT SAINT-HILAIRE; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURE; ALKALINE COMPLEX; ILIMAUSSAQ COMPLEX; REE; SPECTROSCOPY; EVOLUTION; XAS; MINERALIZATION; 0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural); 0403 Geology; Geochemistry & Geophysics; 3705 Geology; Greenland; Hayward; Ilimaussaq
• Online Access: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/20.500.12942/688894; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12942/688894; https://lirias.kuleuven.be/retrieve/f3a3a189-878e-42f6-8248-a227a66062a5; https://doi.org/10.1180/mgm.2019.50

sponsorship: This work was carried out under the NERC-funded SOS RARE consortium [grant NE/M010856/1 to AMB, NJH and AF]. We thank Diamond Light Source and KIT Karlsruhe Light Source for beam time at I18 [grants SP14793 and SP15903] and SUL-X, respectively. PG was funded by the People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) in the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), REA grant agreement no. 609405 (COFUNDPostdocDTU), and wishes to dedicate this contribution to the memory of Dr Takeshi Kasama, his late mentor at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy. We thank Chris Hayward for assistance with EMPA analyses, Martin Smith, Peter Nason and Athanasios Godelitsas for assistance at I18 and SUL-X and Charlie Beard for discussions on lattice strain models. We thank the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Lynn Boatner (ORNL, USA), National Museum Scotland, the Hunterian Museum and SOSRARE partners for providing samples and standards. We thank three anonymous reviewers for constructive reviews and Roger Mitchell and Helen Kerbey for editorial handling. (NERC|NE/M010856/1, KIT Karlsruhe Light Source|SP14793, KIT Karlsruhe Light Source|SP15903, People Programme (Marie Curie Actions) in the EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), REA|609405, Natural Environment Research Council|NE/M010856/1, Natural Environment Research Council|NE/M011429/1, NERC|NE/M011429/1, NERC|NE/M010856/1) status: Published