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Minerals, Volume 10, Issue 1

January 2020 - 85 articles

Cover Story: The paper presents new data on the internal structure of super-deep diamonds originating from different levels of sublithospheric mantle. These diamonds typically have complicated growth histories displaying alternating episodes of growth, dissolution, and post-growth deformation and crushing. It is shown that most crystals have endured both plastic and brittle deformation during their growth history. Abundant deformation and resorption/growth features suggest a highly dynamic growth environment for super-deep diamonds. High temperatures expected in the transition zone and lower mantle could explain the plastic deformations of super-deep diamonds with low nitrogen content. View this paper
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Articles (85)

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,427 Views
20 Pages

20 January 2020

Impacts of underground mining have been reduced by continuous environmental endeavors, scientific, and engineering research activities, whose main object is the behavior and control of the undermined rock mass and the subsequent surface subsidence. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,596 Views
31 Pages

20 January 2020

We present a new methodology for laser-induced steady-state photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy of Dy3+ that aims at a direct quantification of the amorphous fraction fa present in zircon (ZrSiO4), which undergoes a transition from a crystalline to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,840 Views
13 Pages

X-ray and Neutron Study on the Structure of Hydrous SiO2 Glass up to 10 GPa

  • Satoru Urakawa,
  • Toru Inoue,
  • Takanori Hattori,
  • Asami Sano-Furukawa,
  • Shinji Kohara,
  • Daisuke Wakabayashi,
  • Tomoko Sato,
  • Nobumasa Funamori and
  • Ken-ichi Funakoshi

20 January 2020

The structure of hydrous amorphous SiO2 is fundamental in order to investigate the effects of water on the physicochemical properties of oxide glasses and magma. The hydrous SiO2 glass with 13 wt.% D2O was synthesized under high-pressure and high-tem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,015 Views
20 Pages

Metasomatic Reactions between Archean Dunite and Trondhjemite at the Seqi Olivine Mine in Greenland

  • Laura Whyatt,
  • Stefan Peters,
  • Andreas Pack,
  • Christopher L. Kirkland,
  • Tonci Balic-Zunic and
  • Kristoffer Szilas

20 January 2020

A metasomatic zone formed between the contact of a 2940 ± 5 Ma intrusive trondhjemite sheet in the Archean dunite of the Seqi Ultramafic Complex, SW Greenland, consists of three distinct mineral zones dominated by (1) talc, (2) anthophyllite,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,919 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Graphite on Copper Bioleaching from Waste Printed Circuit Boards

  • Linlin Tong,
  • Qianfei Zhao,
  • Ali Reza Kamali,
  • Wolfgang Sand and
  • Hongying Yang

19 January 2020

The efficient extraction of copper as a valuable metal from waste printed circuit boards (WPCBs) is currently attracting growing interest. Here, we systematically investigated the impact of bacteria on the efficiency of copper leaching from WPCBs, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,759 Views
29 Pages

19 January 2020

We present comprehensive petrological, major-trace element, in situ zircon U-Pb dating and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic data for Muchen granitoid (western Zhejiang Province, Southeast China), to constrain the petrogenesis of alkaline A-type granites and the geo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,558 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2020

Synchysite-(Ce) at Cinquevalli occurs as fine needles intergrown with quartz in quartz-dikes and in association with altered K-feldspar and oxidized chalcopyrite as major constituents. Synchysite-(Ce) [Ca1.00(Ce0.43La0.26Nd0.17Y0.07Pr0.04Sm0.02Gd0.01...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,014 Views
8 Pages

Riesite, a New High Pressure Polymorph of TiO2 from the Ries Impact Structure

  • Oliver Tschauner,
  • Chi Ma,
  • Antonio Lanzirotti and
  • Matthew G. Newville

18 January 2020

This paper describes riesite, a new high-pressure polymorph of TiO2 from the Ries impact structure, Germany. Riesite occurs in shock-induced melt veins within xenoliths of bedrock in suevite. It is structurally closely related to srilankite from whic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
8,976 Views
36 Pages

The Petyayan-Vara Carbonatite-Hosted Rare Earth Deposit (Vuoriyarvi, NW Russia): Mineralogy and Geochemistry

  • Evgeniy Kozlov,
  • Ekaterina Fomina,
  • Mikhail Sidorov,
  • Vladimir Shilovskikh,
  • Vladimir Bocharov,
  • Alexey Chernyavsky and
  • Miłosz Huber

17 January 2020

The Vuoriyarvi Devonian carbonatite–ijolite–pyroxenite–olivinite complex comprises several carbonatite fields: Neske Vara, Tukhta-Vara, and Petyayan-Vara. The most common carbonatites in the Tukhta-Vara and Neske-Vara fields are calciocarbonatites, w...

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