Fluid—Melt and Fluid Inclusions in Mianning REE Deposit,Sichuan Southwest Cina

Abundant fluid-melt inclusions are found in the aegirine-augite-barite pegmatite and carbonatite veins in the Mianning REE deposit,Sichuan,They were trapped in early stage fluorite and quartz from a salt-melt system at temperatures higher than 5000℃,Meanwhile,fluid inclusions are also present in alrge amounts in bastnaesite.Homogenized between 150 and 270℃,these inclusions are thought to be representative of the physico-chemical conditions of REE mineralization.These results show that the Mianning REE deposit is of typical hydrothermal origin developed from a salt-melt system.