Template:Did you know nominations/Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits

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The result was: promoted by Vincent^LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 05:32, 29 December 2018 (UTC)

Regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits

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A regolith-hosted rare earth element deposit mine in South China

... that regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but ~~because they are cheap to extract, they are~~ economical to mine? Source: https://www.smedg.org.au/Hellman%20and%20Duncan%20REE%20Paper_2017.pdf

Reviewed: 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game
Comment: part of Regional Geology class at HKU

Created/expanded by Kevnmh (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 23:48, 19 November 2018 (UTC).

This article was new enough when submitted and is long enough. The image is appropriately licensed, the hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright/close paraphrasing issues. I have added some context to the article and made some improvements to the formatting of the references. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:53, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi I've come across this to promote but I find that the hook is not interesting enough. Is there anything else hookier? @Kevnmh: @Graeme Bartlett:? Vincent^LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 07:21, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

I thought that was interesting enough - poor quality but worthwhile. Anyway an alternative: Graeme Bartlett (talk) 23:42, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

alt1 that rare earth elements are concentrated in a zone between the completely weathered and strongly weathered layers of granite?
alt2 that regolith-hosted rare earth elements are hosted in bastnäsite, monazite and xenotime?
- (alt0 that regolith-hosted rare earth element deposits are mostly low grade, but economical to mine?) modified original hook ala Vincent60030

@Graeme Bartlett: Now that I thought of it, maybe I can shorten the original hook to make it have a dangling effect. I'll see if this can replace Raymond Arritt's hook since problems are being discussed at WT:DYK otherwise I'll promote to a later date.
Also, restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth. Vincent^LUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 06:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)