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Minerals, Volume 11, Issue 1

2021 January - 94 articles

Cover Story: This paper deals with salt weathering of limestones by capillary water and water lixiviated from pigeon droppings. Formation of gypsum, hexahydrite, halite, aphthitalite, and arcanite is associated with capillary water, and niter, hydroxyapatite, brushite, struvite, weddellite, oxammite, and halite with pigeon droppings. Humberstonite is related to the interaction of both types of waters. Analysis of crystal shapes reveals different saturation degree conditions. Single salts show non-equilibrium shapes, implying higher crystallization pressures. Single salts have undergone dissolution–dehydration processes enhancing the deterioration process. Double salts have crystals corresponding to near-equilibrium form, implying lower crystallization pressures. This geochemical study suggests salts precipitate via incongruent reactions. View this paper
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Articles (94)

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,243 Views
21 Pages

3D Geological Model of the Touro Cu Deposit, A World-Class Mafic-Siliciclastic VMS Deposit in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula

  • Mónica Arias,
  • Pablo Nuñez,
  • Daniel Arias,
  • Pablo Gumiel,
  • Cesar Castañón,
  • Jorge Fuertes-Blanco and
  • Agustin Martin-Izard

16 January 2021

The Touro volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit is located in the NW of the Iberian Variscan massif in the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone, an amalgamation of several allochthonous terrains. The Órdenes complex is the most extensive of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,779 Views
24 Pages

15 January 2021

It is of great significance to study the effect of solid contents (SC), binder-to-tailings (b/t) ratio, types and dosage of fly ash (FA) on the viscosity (V) and uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) of backfill. It can improve filling efficiency and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,751 Views
32 Pages

Eoarchean to Neoproterozoic Detrital Zircons from the South of Meiganga Gold-Bearing Sediments (Adamawa, Cameroon): Their Closeness with Rocks of the Pan-African Cameroon Mobile Belt and Congo Craton

  • Nguo Sylvestre Kanouo,
  • Arnaud Patrice Kouske,
  • Gabriel Ngueutchoua,
  • Akella Satya Venkatesh,
  • Prabodha Ranjan Sahoo and
  • Emmanuel Archelaus Afanga Basua

15 January 2021

The core of detrital zircons from the southern Meiganga gold-bearing placers were analyzed by Laser Ablation Split Stream analytical techniques to determine their trace element abundances and U-Pb ages. The obtained data were used to characterize eac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,003 Views
15 Pages

Synthesis of Hydronium-Potassium Jarosites: The Effect of pH and Aging Time on Their Structural, Morphological, and Electrical Properties

  • Elías Hernández-Lazcano,
  • E. Cerecedo-Sáenz,
  • J. Hernández-Ávila,
  • Norman Toro,
  • T. V. K. Karthik,
  • D. Mendoza-Anaya,
  • M. E. Fernández-García,
  • V. Rodríguez-Lugo and
  • E. Salinas-Rodríguez

15 January 2021

Structural and morphological properties of hydronium-potassium jarosite microstructures were investigated in this work, and their electrical properties were evaluated. All the microstructures were synthesized at a very low temperature of 70 °C wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,051 Views
18 Pages

15 January 2021

As part of an extensive research program exploring the potential benefits of using air-entraining admixtures in mine backfill, the experimental study presented in this paper investigates the effect of cement and entrained air dosages on mine backfill...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,562 Views
20 Pages

The Charge State of Pt in Binary Compounds and Synthetic Minerals Determined by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Calculations

  • Polina V. Evstigneeva,
  • Alexander L. Trigub,
  • Dmitriy A. Chareev,
  • Max S. Nickolsky and
  • Boris R. Tagirov

15 January 2021

The binary synthetic compounds of Pt with chalcogens (O, S, Se, Te), pnictogens (As, Sb, Bi), and intermetallic compounds with Ga, In, and Sn of various stoichiometry were studied via X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). The partial atomic charges of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,324 Views
14 Pages

15 January 2021

At present, the filling mining method is widely used. To study strength evolution laws of cemented tailings backfill (CTB) under different curing ages, in the experiment, mine tailings were used as aggregates, ordinary Portland cement (PC32.5) was us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,131 Views
23 Pages

15 January 2021

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge belongs to slow-spreading ridges. Hannington predicted that there were a large number of mineral resources on slow-spreading ridges; however, seafloor massive sulfide deposits usually develop thousands of meters below the seafl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
14,712 Views
22 Pages

The Lavrion Mines: A Unique Site of Geological and Mineralogical Heritage

  • Panagiotis Voudouris,
  • Vasilios Melfos,
  • Constantinos Mavrogonatos,
  • Adonis Photiades,
  • Eugenia Moraiti,
  • Branko Rieck,
  • Uwe Kolitsch,
  • Alexandre Tarantola,
  • Christophe Scheffer and
  • Stefanos Zaimis
  • + 11 authors

14 January 2021

The Lavrion area corresponds to the western part of the Attic-Cycladic metamorphic belt, in the back-arc region of the active Hellenic subduction zone. Between the Eocene and the Miocene, metamorphic rocks (mainly marbles and schists) underwent sever...

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