4edfe95c-ed0f-a7dc-e063-3050940a3301 English dataset British Geological Survey +44 115 936 3100 Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth NOTTINGHAM NOTTINGHAMSHIRE NG12 5GG United Kingdom enquiries@bgs.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-01 UK GEMINI 2.3 http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608664 WGS 84 (EPSG::4326) Bulk rock geochemical analyses of rock and soil samples from the Miaoya carbonatite-syenite complex, China (2024 - 2025) 2026-03-26 creation http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608664 This dataset contains bulk rock geochemical analyses of rock and soil samples from the Miaoya carbonatite-syenite complex in China, generated as part of the SCREED: Supergene enrichment of carbonatite-hosted rare earth element (REE) deposits project. Full sample locations and descriptions are available at https://doi.org/10.5285/83819b57-4754-4da3-9336-955e817573ed. Samples were analysed between September 2024 and October 2025 to determine the chemical change on weathering, and the degree of enrichment of the REE relative to bedrock concentrations. The analysis were carried out by teams from the School of Applied Sciences, University of Brighton. Professor F Wall University of Exeter Camborne School of Mines Tremough Campus Penryn TR10 9EZ not available originator Martin Smith University of Brighton School of Environment and Technology Brighton BN2 4GJ not available originator Sam Broom-Fendley University of Exeter Camborne School of Mines Tremough Campus Exeter Cornwall not available originator Martin Yan He Li University of Brighton not available originator Laura Evenstar University of Plymouth not available originator Pankaj Kumar University of Brighton not available originator Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available pointOfContact notApplicable https://resources.bgs.ac.uk/images/geonetworkThumbs/4edfe95c-ed0f-a7dc-e063-3050940a3301.png Geology GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Rare earth elements Carbonatite Laterites BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences 2022 revision NGDC Deposited Data Citable Data dataCentre NERC_DDC otherRestrictions restricted The dataset has been formally approved by BGS for access by external clients under a BGS Digital Data Licence, issued via BGS's IPR Section. 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English geoscientificInformation British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation CHINA [id=501000] ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision CHN ISO 3166_1 alpha-2 2009 revision CN 109.8800 109.9000 32.4900 32.5100 2024-09-09 2025-10-31 Comma-Separated Values (CSV) file (.csv) Enquiries British Geological Survey United Kingdom not available distributor https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item191948 Data download https://doi.org/10.5285/7263e36f-8738-4106-ba46-3d50523c8dd4 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Citation Information - Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Kumar, P., Li, M. Y. H., Smith, M., Broom-Fendley, S., Wall, F., Evenstar, L. (2026). Bulk rock geochemical analyses of rock and soil samples from the Miaoya carbonatite-syenite complex, China (2024 - 2025). NERC EDS National Geoscience Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/7263e36f-8738-4106-ba46-3d50523c8dd4 information dataset dataset INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology 2011 publication See the referenced specification false Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF false Bulk rock or soil samples were crushed either using a ball mill, or agate pestle and mortar. Approximately 1g of sample as weighed accurately and then heated to 550°C to determine loss on ignition. Then 0.1g was fused with 0.4g lithium borate flux in a Fluxana induction furnace, and the resulting glass dissolved in 100ml 10% nitric acid and then diluted to 2% nitric acid for analysis. Solution analyses were conducted using an Agilent 7900 ICP-MS at the University of Brighton, using online addition of 100ug/L rhenium solution as internal standard. The data was calibrated against calibration curves constructed with a calibration blank and Agilent multi-element standards diluted to different concentrations. The relative standard deviation was <10% for all elements analysed. Major elements for samples from Miaoya were analysed by XRF using a Panalytical Epsilon 4 at the University of Brighton.