..., it is the main source of scandium in the Bayan Obo deposit, China, and the Zhovti Vody deposit in the Ukraine. In these deposits, the clinopyroxene typically contains between 200 and 400 ppm Sc. Locally, scandium concentrations in the clinopyroxene are in excess of 1 wt %. The associated amphibole also contains...

..., 2000 ; Fan et al., 2004 , 2006 ; Qin et al, 2007 ). The only other deposit of hydrothermal origin that has been mined for scandium is the Zhovti Vody deposit in Ukraine, in which the main ore mineral was also aegirine, which, as at Bayan Obo, was accompanied by apatite; the aegirine replaced...