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Minerals, Volume 3, Issue 2

2013 June - 5 articles

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Articles (5)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,873 Views
11 Pages

Autolysis of Bacterial Cells Leads to Formation of Empty Sheaths by Leptothrix spp.

  • Tomoko Suzuki,
  • Hiromichi Ishihara,
  • Kazuhiro Toyoda,
  • Tomonori Shiraishi,
  • Hitoshi Kunoh and
  • Jun Takada

20 June 2013

The aquatic, Fe-oxidizing bacteria Leptothrix spp. produce uniquely shaped extracellular sheaths composed of organic bacterial polymers encrusted with inorganic elements from its aquatic environments. At the initial stage of sheath formation, bacteri...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
12,314 Views
55 Pages

16 May 2013

Documentation of contaminant source and dispersal pathways in riverine environments is essential to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of contaminants on human and ecosystem health, and is required from a legal perspective (particularly where t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Taking Health and Safety in the Mining Industry into the 21st Century - Innovative solutions to difficult problems)
  • Review
  • Open Access
67 Citations
19,080 Views
27 Pages

Extremely Re-Rich Molybdenite from Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Prospects in Northeastern Greece: Mode of Occurrence, Causes of Enrichment, and Implications for Gold Exploration

  • Panagiotis Voudouris,
  • Vasilios Melfos,
  • Paul G. Spry,
  • Luca Bindi,
  • Robert Moritz,
  • Melissa Ortelli and
  • Tamara Kartal

2 May 2013

Extremely Re-rich molybdenite occurs with pyrite in sodic–calcic, sodic–sericitic and sericitic-altered porphyritic stocks of granodioritic–tonalitic and granitic composition in the Sapes–Kirki–Esymi, Melitena and Maronia areas, northeastern Greece....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,527 Views
20 Pages

Research Using Virtual Reality: Mobile Machinery Safety in the 21st Century

  • James P. Dickey,
  • Tammy R. Eger,
  • Ryan J. Frayne,
  • Giselle P. Delgado and
  • Xiaoxu Ji

15 April 2013

Whole-body vibration is a significant health risk for between 4% and 7% of the work force in North America. In addition, many factors compound the health risks of heavy machinery operators. For example, twisted trunk and neck postures stiffen the spi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Taking Health and Safety in the Mining Industry into the 21st Century - Innovative solutions to difficult problems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
18,575 Views
24 Pages

Mineralogy and Trace Element Chemistry of Ferberite/Reinite from Tungsten Deposits in Central Rwanda

  • Simon Goldmann,
  • Frank Melcher,
  • Hans-Eike Gäbler,
  • Stijn Dewaele,
  • Friso De Clercq and
  • Philippe Muchez

2 April 2013

Tungsten mineralization in hydrothermal quartz veins from the Nyakabingo,Gifurwe and Bugarama deposits in central Rwanda occurs as the iron-rich endmember ofthe wolframite solid solution series (ferberite) and in the particular form of reinite, which...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Economic Minerals)
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