Enrichment of rare earth associated with phosphate ore is an important source to obtain rare earth resources. The phosphorite type rare earth deposits are widely distributed in China. The ore has high recovery value because of its high-content rare earth, which makes the deposits become the associated rare earth resources second only to the independent rare earth deposits. The article mainly does research on the rare earth distribution in the phosphate ore of Anning in Yunnan. The study shows that the total amount of rare earth oxides in the ores is between 72×10^-6 and 1 050×10^-6. The statistical comparison confirms that the concentrations of rare earth elements are positively correlated with the phosphorus content in the phosphate ore. In addition, observing by optical microscope and electron microscope, there are few independent rare earth minerals in Anning phosphate mine, and only independent rare earth minerals (probably monazite and allanite)are found in part of glauconite. The results of LA-ICP-MS indicate that the concentration of rare-earth elements in collophane is between 770×10^-6 and 920×10^-6, and the concentration of rare-earth elements in dolomite is lower than 34×10^-6. The average concentration of rare earth elements in quartz is about 180×10^-6. The concentration of rare earth elements in glauconite is as high as 2 947.27×10^-6~3 159.87×10^-6 due to the existence of independent rare earth minerals. The whole research results show that the rare earth elements in Anning phosphate deposits mainly exist in collophane in the form of isomorphic substitution.