Abstract

We provide the results of study of the extremely enriched in Y-REE carbonate-fluorine isolations from biotite-arfvedsonite granite of the Katugin rare metal deposit. New chemical data of isolations mineral phases - gagarinite-(Y), tveitite-(Y), fluocerite-(Ce), basnaesite, fluornatropyroclore, are delivered. Carbonate-fluoride globule in quartz of hosting granite gives possibility to estimate crystallization order. This finding might be the evidence of silicate-fluorine immiscibility suggested before for Y-REE segregations in the Katugin granites. Fluorine melt segregation took likely place at the magmatic stage of biotite-arfvedsonite granite formation. It causes host granite depletion with fluorine and redistribution of REE and Y in fluorine salt melt.

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