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Mountain Pass rare earth element mine, California

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Mountain Pass rare earth element mine, California, June 2018. The ore body, called the Sulphide Queen deposit, is a large tabular carbonatite intrusion, thought to be the largest rare earth element deposit in the United States. The deposit was discovered in 1949.

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