U.S. Geological Survey
Fact Sheet 087-02

References

Australian Rare Earth News Letter: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~marcusr/aren/ [No longer available as of December 2002]

Cotton, S., 1991, Lanthanides and actinides: Oxford Univ. Press, 192 p.

Hedrick, J.B., 2001, Rare earths: U.S. Geological Survey Minerals Year-book, Metals and Minerals 1999, v. 1, p. 61.1–61.12.

High Tech Materials: http://rareearthsmarketplace.com/

Jones, A.P., Wall, F., and Williams, C.T., editors, 1996, Rare earth minerals; Chemistry, origin, and ore deposits: Chapman and Hall, 372 p.

Kilbourn, B.T., 1993, 1994, A lanthanide lanthology (Part 1, A–L; Part 2, M–Z): White Plains, New York, Molycorp, Inc., 61 p., 55 p. [Available in PDF at Molycorp website (http://www.molycorp.com)]

Lipin, B.R., and McKay, G.A., editors, 1989, Geochemistry and mineralogy of the rare earth elements: Reviews in Mineralogy, v. 21, 348 p.

Rossotti, H., 1998, Diverse atoms; Profiles of the chemical elements: Oxford University Press, 587 p.

U.S. Geological Survey: http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/rare_earths/

WebElements: http://www.webelements.com/

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