Global rare earth element deposits - a compilation

Herein the results of a global compilation of rare earth element (REE) deposits (available in Excel format) are presented. The deposits were selected as they have substantial endowment (i.e., pre-mining mineral resource) and/or detailed geological information is available. For each deposit (or, in some cases, district) the dataset includes information on:


1. Name (including synonyms) and location;

2. Tectonic province that hosts the deposit;

3. Type(s) and age(s) of mineralising events that produced/affected the deposit (including metadata on ages);

4. The metal/mineral endowment of the deposit;

5. Host rocks to the deposit;

6. Spatially and/or temporally associated magmatic rocks;

7. Spatially and temporally associated alteration assemblages (mostly proximal, but, in some cases, regional assemblages);

8. Rare earth element mineralogy;

9. The Fe-S-O minerals present in the deposit and relative abundances where known;

10. Sulfate minerals present;

11. Peak metamorphic grade;

12. Data sources; and

13. Comments.


This document presents more detailed descriptions of the metadata presented in the compilation. The

dataset is presented in Appendix A.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2023-10-07T05:00:00
Date (Publication)
2024-05-30T22:55:56
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/148953

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/148953

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Publisher

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Author

Huston, D.

 Internal Contact
Name

GA Record

Issue identification

GA Record 2024/03

Purpose

Global compilation of rare earth element deposits as part of CMMI

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

 External Contact
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Cloutier, J.

 Internal Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol

FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Description

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project

  • CMMI

Keywords

  • Mineral deposit

Keywords

  • rare earth elements

Keywords

  • global compilation

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf

  • Resource geoscience

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Addressee
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
User

Any
Use constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

© Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia) 2024

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Classification system

Australian Government Security Classification System

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice facsimile
OnLine resource

Download Report (pdf) [814.5 KB]

Download Report (pdf) [814.5 KB]

Distribution format

  • pdf

    File decompression technique

    nil

OnLine resource

Download Appendix A (xlsx) [419.2 KB]

Download Appendix A (xlsx) [419.2 KB]

Distribution format

  • xlsx

    File decompression technique

    nil

Resource lineage

Statement

<div>The record reports the results of a global compilation of rare earth element deposits that was undertaken in 2023.</div>

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/bd8553a2-5150-45b3-920f-0ae8d92476bf

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
Point of contact

Huston, D.

 Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA Record

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/148953

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/bd8553a2-5150-45b3-920f-0ae8d92476bf

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/js/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/bd8553a2-5150-45b3-920f-0ae8d92476bf

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/static/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/bd8553a2-5150-45b3-920f-0ae8d92476bf

Date info (Creation)
2025-03-14T01:09:45.437Z
Date info (Creation)
2024-05-29T21:51:26
Date info (Revision)
2025-03-14T01:14:05.239Z

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W


Keywords

CMMI
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
Resource geoscience

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