摘要
A New Mineral, Dingdaohengite is a new member of the chevkinite group minerals from the world-known Bayan Obo REE-Nb-Fe mine in China. The mineral occurs as euhedral or subhedral, short columnar or thick tabular// (001) crystals in the magnesian skarn rocks, located mainly in the exocontact between granite and dolomitic marble. Most individual crystals are 0.2 ~ 1.0 cm long, the largest one is > 1. 5 cm in size. Associated minerals are diopside, tremolite, richterite, allanite- (Ce), magnetite, ilmenite, spinel, titanite, pyrochlore, F-rich phlogopite, fluorapatite, quartz, fluorite, etc. The mineral is black with a brown streak and a submetallic-metallic luster, translucent in thin fragments being brownish-black in colour. It is brittle with conchoidal fractures.