• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.39 no.1 s.176
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• pp.39-51
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• 2006

Rare earth elements(REEs) in transgressive shelf core sediments were analysed to identify constraints of REE distribution patterns and sediment provenances in the northern East China Sea(ECS). Sediments of Chinese and Korean rivers, such as Huanghe and Yangtz rivers, Keum and Yeongsan rivers that supply sediments to the northern ECS, were also analysed to figure out their typical REE distribution patterns. The distribution patterns of Chinese and Korean river sediments, which are normalized with upper continental crust (UCC) REE values, appear to be enriched in middle rare earth elements (MREEs) in Chinese river sediments, whereas in light rare earth elements (LREEs) in Korean river sediments. We assign the MREE-enriched convex-type distribution pattern in Chinese river sediments as 'C-type', and the LREE-enriched linearly decreasing pattern in Korean river sediments as 'D-type'. A major constraint of the REE concentration in northern ECS core sediments is interpreted to be LREE-enriched monazite $((Ce,\;La)PO_4)$ that is ubiquitous in and around the study area. Meanwhile, the distribution pattern of northern ECS sediments appears to be between the C-type and the D-type. We suggest that the nothern ECS sediments are the mixture of China and Korea riverine sediments that have been accumulated in paleo-river mouth, paleo-coast, and present-day shelf environment as well.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.535-550
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• 2014

The origins and varieties of natural radioactive materials, including uranium and radon-222, were examined in a drilled borehole extending to a depth of 120 m below the surface in the Goesan area. In addition to core samples, eight groundwater samples were collected at different depths, using a double packer system and bailer, and their geochemical characteristics were determined. Most of the rock samples from the drilled core consisted of granite porphyry, with sedimentary rocks (slate, carbonate, or lime-silicates) and pegmatite occurring in certain sections. The pH of samples varied from 7.8 to 8.4, and the groundwater was of a Na-$HCO_3$type. Uranium and thorium concentrations in the core were < 0.2-14.8 ppm and 0.56-45.0 ppm, respectively. Observations by microscope and an electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA) showed that the mineral containing the natural radioactive materials was monazite contained in biotite crystals. The uranium, which substituted for major elements in the monazite, appeared to have dissolved and been released into the groundwater in a shear zone. Concentrations of Radon-222 in the borehole showed no close relationship with levels of uranium. The isotopes of noble gases, such as helium and neon, would be useful for analyzing the origins and characteristics of the natural radioactive materials.

• The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1 s.47
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

CHIME (chemical Th-U-total Pb isochron) geochronology were made for Precambrian rocks from Goseong-Ganseong area, northeastern part of the Gyeonggi massif. Zircon and/or monazite grains from orthogneisses give $1672{\pm}69\;to\;1414{\pm}36Ma$ ages, and monazite grains from paragneisses yield similar ages ranging from $1703{\pm}70\;to\;1395{\pm}97Ma$ suggesting that $1.7{\sim}1.4Ga$ igneous intrusions and coeval metamorphisms were occurred over the area. Together with reported prevailing $1.9{\sim}1.8Ga$ igneous activities and regional metamorphism from the Cyeonggi massif, our age data from Goseong-Ganseong area would be potentially correlated with long-lived $(1.8{\sim}1.3Ga)$ global tectonotermal events in marginal outgrowth of supercontinent Columbia which was finally assembled by collisional orogenies at ${\sim}1.8Ga$. Petrological and geochmical studies, however, should be followed to confirm this tectonic interpretation.

• Journal of the Mineralogical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.193-213
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• 2018

Soil geochemical exploration to check anomalies related to mineralization was carried out targeting around Quy Hop area within Nghe An province, Northern Vietnam. The interval of sampling are horizontal 250 m with 13 line and longitudinal 300 m with 25 line, resulting in 325 soil samples. Based on the result of soil geochemical exploration, the pitting survey was carried out targeting the grid point with high TREO content, resulting in 73 soil samples within 8 pits. The geology of the survey area are consisted of Ban Chieng biotite granite complex intruding Bu Khang formation comprising of schist, gneiss and limestone. In order to elucidate the source rock of monazite and xenotime confirmed from heavy sand, soil geochemical exploration was carried out. By ICP-MS result of soil samples, total REE oxide content of background amount is about 1.4 times of crustal abundance, depleting the light rare earth (about 0.2 times) and enriching the heavy rare earth (about 1.5 times). By ICP-MS result of pit soil samples, we identified TREO more than 1,000 ppm in 6 pits. It may be considered that REE ore bodies may develop in NE-SW direction, compared with the geochemical results of Quy Chau area.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.272-278
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• 2008

Methods to separate 14 rare earth elements (REEs) and yttrium by the $AG^{(R)}$ 50W-X8 cation exchange resin, and to determine REEs by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrophotometry (ICP-AES) were described. Ion exchange capacities of REEs on the resin were so high that the REEs were quantitatively ion exchanged under the flow rate of 0.3~1.0 mL/min at pH 1~6. The breakthrough capacity curve of the REEs showed that ion exchange capacities of light REEs (Cerium group) were greater than that of the heavy REEs (Yttrium group). When $200{\mu}g$ of each REEs was ion exchanged on 100 mg of resin, most of the heavy REEs were quantitatively desorbed with 10 mL of 2.0 M of $HNO_3$, while most of the light REEs with 30 mL. The method was applied to the monazite sample. The REEs could be separated from matrix, since ion exchange capacities of matrix ions of Ca, Ti, Mg, Mn were much lower than that of the REEs. However the relative standard deviations of the analytical results by the present method were not improved, as high as 1~5%.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.113-122
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• 1982

The surveyed Boseong river, flows from south to north crossing Boseong gun Mirukg myon, Nodong myon, Yuleo myon, Bocgnae myon, Mundeog myon, and Seungju gun Nam myon, Jeonranam do. The geology of the surveyed area consists of age-unknown composite gneiss and schist, crystaline chlorite gneiss, porphyroblastic gneiss and granite gneiss, and metasediments of Myon Bong formation and Seologri formation. These metamorphic rocks are intruded by cretaceous biotite granite, granodiorite, and quartz diorite. The heavy sands occur in Quarternary alluvium and colluvium. The composition of the river bed is sand 60%, gravel 30%, and clay 10%. The gravel content of the river bed decreases as the increases. The average depth of auger boring is 0.87 m. The average heavy mineral composition of the heavy sand is monazite 6.83%, zircon 4.88%, ilmenite 11.36%, magnetite 8.36% and garnet 4.84%. The best heavy minerals separation procedure would be primary treatment of the sand by humphrey spiral and table, and retreatment of the table concentrate by magnetic separator. The minimum economically feasible capacity of gravity and magnetic separation plant would be 500 ton/hr when only the heavy minerals are recovered but it may be reduced to 100 ton/hr. capacity, if gravels and sands are added to the valuable products.

• Proceedings of the Mineralogical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.133-133
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• 2001

우리는 괴산 덕평리 지역의 소위 구룡산층과 대전 추부 지역의 창리층 흑색 점판암에 대한 납 동위원소 연대측정 결과를 보고한다. 덕평리 지역의 흑색 점판암은 270 Ma 내외의 Pb-Pb 연대를 보이고 U-Pb 연대는 정의되지 않는다. 그 Pb-Pb 연대는 같은 시료의 22개 uraninite 입자에 대한 CHIME 연대와 오차범위 내에서 일치한다. 이로 보아 uraninite는 형성 또는 변성작용에 의한 동위원소적 재평형 작용 이후 폐쇄계를 잘 유지하였지만 흑색 점판암이 지질학적으로 최근에 지표에 노출된 이후에는 전암 규모에서 개방계로 거동하였음을 알 수 있다. 박편 미조직 관찰에 의하면 흑색 점판암의 1차광물인 uraninite 외에 풍화기원 2차광물인 uranocircite, francevillite가 관찰된다. 덕평리 지역 흑색 점판암의 최고 변성온도 조건은 50$0^{\circ}C$ 내외이므로 (Kim et al., 2000) uraninite CHIME 연대의 폐쇄온도가 50$0^{\circ}C$ 이상이거나 uraninite의 형성시기와 변성시기 사이에 시간차가 거의 없었다고 판단된다. 덕평리 지역의 U 광화작용 시기는 이번 자료에 의해 고생대 말로 정의될 수 있으나 그 연대가 흑색 점판암의 모물질인 해저 흑색 유기질 퇴적물의 초기 속성작용과 관련 있는지 후기의 변성작용과 관련 있는지에 대해서는 광물학적인 연구가 더 진행되어야 한다. 옥천대 변성퇴적암의 일부가 고생대 말에 퇴적되었을 가능성은 황강리층 역의 xenotime 및 monazite에 대한 CHIME 연대측정 결과 (약 367 Ma; Adachi et al., 1996)에 의해서 지지된다. 추부 지역 흑색 점판암의 Pb-Pb 연대는 170 Ma 내외로서 인접한 쥬라기 화강암의 관입시기를 지시하는 것으로 생각된다. 이는 화강암체로부터의 거리로 볼 때 덕평리 지역과 추부 지역의 시료 채취 위치가 유사하지만 지하 천부에 관입한 백악기 속리산 화강암 (91$\pm$6 Ma, Cheong and Chang, 1997)에 의해서는 덕평리 지역 흑색 점판암의 납 동위원소계가 영향받지 않았다는 점과 대조적이다.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.599-612
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• 1995

Some REE ore deposits are located in the middle part the of Korean peninsula. Geotectonically, the REE ore deposits situated on the Kyemyeongsan Formation of northern margin of the Okcheon geosynclinal belt and in the transitional zone between Kyeonggi massif and the Okcheon belt, with a deep-seated fracture separating the two tectonic units. The Kyemyeongsan Formation are different in lithology and metamorphic grade from the Gyeonggi massif and the Okcheon super group. The sequence of Kyemyeongsan Formation is dominantly composed of acidic metavolcanic and volcaniclastic rocks associated with alkaline igneous rocks which are related to volcano-plutonism. The REE ore deposits contain mainly Ce-La, Ta-Nb, Y, Y-Nd and Nd-Th group minerals. More than 15 RE and REE minerals have been found in the deposits, such as allanite, fergusonite, thorite bestnaesite, euxenite, polyclase, monazite, columbite, (Nb)-rutile, okanoganite, sphene, zircon, illmenite and some other unknown minerals. According to the characteristics of the mineral association, the REE ore deposits may be divided into 4 ore types; Zircon-REE, allanite-REE, feldspar-REE and fluorite-REE type. The Sm-Nd isochron age of the REE ore is 330 Ma, and the Sm-Nd model age is 1.11 Ga with ${\varepsilon}_{Nd(t)}$ being - 2.9. This data suggest that the REE ore deposit was formed in the early Carboniferous, and the ore-forming material came from the mantle. The REE ores show distinct light REE enrichment with strong negative Eu anomaly. The REE patterns of schistose rocks from Kyemyeongsan Formation are similar to felsic volcanics from rifts or back arc basins in or near continental crust. The genesis of the REE ore deposit is quite complicated. Different geologic processes are displayed in the studied area; sedimentation, volcanic activity, metamorphism and hydrothermal replacement. Alkali granite has suffered extensive post-magmatic metasomatism of a high temperature to produce alkali metasomatites. Geochemical charateristics show that metasomatism of alkaline fluid was probably the dominant ore-forming process in Chungju district.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.452-456
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• 1980

An anion exchange method for separating Y, La, Ce, Pr, and Nd element in monazites and into enriched fractions has been developed. The complexed rare earth ions with EDTA at pH 8.4 passed through the resin column of the various size and eluted with 0.0301 M EDTA as eluent at flow rate of 1 ml/min and 2 ml/min. The result of separation is good in the high column length rather than the low on using the resin of the same amount and the volume of eluent required in eluting all the rare earths at 2 ml/min flow rate is larger than that at 1 ml/min and the result of separation obtained here is unsatisfactory.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.37-45
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• 2014

Solvent extraction experiments have been performed to separate Nd and Pr from chloride leaching solution of monazite sand using single Cyanex272 and mixed extractants as PC88A+Cyanex272 and PC88A+TBP. For this purpose, the effect of the concentration of extractants on the extraction and separation of the two metals were studied by varying the pH of aqueous solution. In the experimental ranges conducted in this study, the distribution coefficients of Nd were higher than those of Pr. In Cyanex272 system, our results indicated that concentration of extractant and initial pH did not affect distribution coefficients, but separation factor was increased with increasing initial pH. In binary extractant system, distribution coefficients were lower than those of single PC88A system, whereas separation factor was similar in both mixed and single extractant system.