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Minerals, Volume 10, Issue 9

September 2020 - 109 articles

Cover Story: 226Ra is an important contributor to naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) and also relevant in some safety cases related to the disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository. Recrystallization and solid solution formation with sulfates are regarded as an important retention mechanism for 226Ra. Here, we have investigated the (Ba,Sr)SO4 solid solution at the Ba-rich end with regard to the 226Ra uptake kinetics and solubility. It is remarkable how already low amounts of Sr have an impact on the 226Ra solubility and the recrystallization kinetics of the solid solution–aqueous solution system (Ba,Sr,Ra)SO4 + H2O. The experimental findings confirm a theoretically predicted minimum of the 226Ra solubility in this system that is lower than that in the (Ba,Ra)SO4 binary solid solution. View this paper
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Articles (109)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,166 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2020

In this study, copper slag reprocessing tailings (CSRT) were synthesized into geopolymers with 40%, 50% and 60% metakaolin. The evolution of compressive strength and microstructures of CSRT-based geopolymers in a marine environment was investigated....

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,901 Views
18 Pages

22 September 2020

The 320 Ma Ghareh Bagh mica mine is the only active mica mine in northwest Iran, and hosts Mg-bearing biotite (phlogopite) with apatite, epidote, and calcite. Chemical investigation of apatite infers the high abundances of the rare earth elements (RE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,583 Views
17 Pages

22 September 2020

The Tethys Sea extended into the Kuqa Depression from the Paleocene to the late Eocene and provided an abundant provenance for the deposition of evaporite sequences. Until now, detailed research on the history of transgressions during the late Paleoc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,004 Views
12 Pages

22 September 2020

This article examines the process for the synthesis of forsterite–spinel (2MgO·SiO2/MgO·Al2O3) refractory ceramics from fly ash and alumina as sources of aluminum oxide. Raw materials were milled, mixed in different ratios and sin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,574 Views
28 Pages

22 September 2020

The Late Paleozoic–Early Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Changchun-Yanji suture (CYS) was mainly associated with the Paleo-Asian and Mudanjiang tectonic regimes. However, the spatial and temporal overprinting and variations of these two regi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,718 Views
19 Pages

21 September 2020

The occurrence of hydrocarbon gases (HCG) in unusually high concentrations for magmatic complexes, in the Lovozero and some other alkaline massifs, is of both geochemical and practical interest. The nature of these gases, despite the long history of...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,332 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2020

Knowledge of the formation and evolution of cratonic subcontinental lithospheric mantle is critical to our understanding of the processes responsible for continental development. Here, we report the deformation microstructures and lattice preferred o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,231 Views
21 Pages

Synthesis of Fly Ash-Based Geopolymers: Effect of Calcite Addition and Mechanical Activation

  • Alexander M. Kalinkin,
  • Basya I. Gurevich,
  • Mikhail S. Myshenkov,
  • Mikhail V. Chislov,
  • Elena V. Kalinkina,
  • Irina A. Zvereva,
  • Zara Cherkezova-Zheleva,
  • Daniela Paneva and
  • Vilma Petkova

20 September 2020

Blends of fly ash and natural calcite, mechanically activated for 0–400 s in a planetary mill, were used to synthesize geopolymers at ambient temperature. The calcite content in the blends was 0–10 wt.%. Sodium hydroxide solution was used...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,913 Views
18 Pages

Fluid Infiltration and Mass Transfer along a Lamprophyre Dyke–Marble Contact: An Example from the South-Western Korean Peninsula

  • Jungrae Noh,
  • Changyeob Kim,
  • Vinod O. Samuel,
  • Yirang Jang,
  • Seung-Ik Park and
  • Sanghoon Kwon

20 September 2020

In this contribution, we report the metasomatic characteristics of a lamprophyre dyke–marble contact zone from the Hongseong–Imjingang belt along the western Gyeonggi Massif, South Korea. The lamprophyre dyke intruded into the dolomitic m...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,710 Views
19 Pages

Magma Mingling in Kimberlites: Evidence from the Groundmass Cocrystallization of Two Spinel-Group Minerals

  • Jingyao Xu,
  • Joan Carles Melgarejo,
  • Qiuli Li,
  • Lisard Torró i Abat and
  • Montgarri Castillo-Oliver

20 September 2020

We present the results of a detailed petrographic study of fresh coherent samples of the Menominee kimberlite sampled at site 73, located in Menominee County, MI, USA. Our objective is to account for its unusual and complex paragenetic sequence. Seve...

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