Eclipse Metals’ recently completed 705m of diamond drilling at its Grønnedal rare earths deposit within the company’s Greenland’s mineral exploration licence has confirmed continuous carbonatite-style mineralisation from surface to 190m depth.

The geology observed in the diamond core supports the interpretation of Grønnedal as a large, vertically-extensive carbonatite complex containing magnetite-rich zones and carbonatite-hosted rare-earth oxides of neodymium-praseodymium-dysprosium-terbium (Nd-Pr-Dy-Tb), with accessory niobium and yttrium.

Eclipse Metals’ diamond core from ~104m depth in its Greenland rare earths deposit confirms patchy red bastnäsite in a beige carbonate matrix. Bastnäsite is a rare fluorocarbonate mineral that is a primary source of rare earth elements.

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