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Minerals, Volume 11, Issue 3

March 2021 - 105 articles

Cover Story: A high-resolution backscatter electron image of a polymineralic precious metal mineral extracted from till material sampled in Western Abitibi (Ontario, Canada) for gold grain counting. This composite PGM is mainly composed of a sperrylite cristal which partly includes other phases such as platarsite and hollingwortite. View this paper
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Articles (105)

  • Review
  • Open Access
142 Citations
10,651 Views
9 Pages

20 March 2021

Amphibole (Amp) plays a crucial role in the study of several earth and planetary processes. One of its most common applications is in thermobarometry, especially for volcanic-magmatic systems. However, many thermobarometers require the input of melt...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,067 Views
22 Pages

20 March 2021

Synchrotron high-resolution powder X-ray diffraction (HRPXRD) and Rietveld structure refinements were used to examine the crystal structure of single phases and intergrowths (either two or three phases) in 13 samples of the helvine-group minerals, (Z...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,256 Views
18 Pages

A Review on the Beneficiation Methods of Borate Minerals

  • Soehoe-Panhyonon Benedict Powoe,
  • Varney Kromah,
  • Mohammad Jafari and
  • Saeed Chehreh Chelgani

19 March 2021

The modern boron applications have adsorbed the mineral processors’ attention to improve typical boron mineral’s (BM) beneficiation methods. In this regard, dry treatment and pretreatment processes—such as magnetic separation and calcination as envir...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,732 Views
14 Pages

Theoretical Study on Thermal Release of Helium-3 in Lunar Ilmenite

  • Hongqing Song,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Yueqiang Sun,
  • Yongping Li,
  • Xianguo Zhang,
  • Dongyu Ma and
  • Jue Kou

19 March 2021

The in-situ utilization of lunar helium-3 resource is crucial to manned lunar landings and lunar base construction. Ilmenite was selected as the representative mineral which preserves most of the helium-3 in lunar soil. The implantation of helium-3 i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,647 Views
21 Pages

19 March 2021

In this study, the potential of copper tailing deposits in Chile for the sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) via ex-situ mineral carbonation integrating the recovery of valuable metals was assessed. An inventory of tailing deposits and CO2 sources...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,558 Views
30 Pages

Stable Abiotic Production of Ammonia from Nitrate in Komatiite-Hosted Hydrothermal Systems in the Hadean and Archean Oceans

  • Manabu Nishizawa,
  • Takuya Saito,
  • Akiko Makabe,
  • Hisahiro Ueda,
  • Masafumi Saitoh,
  • Takazo Shibuya and
  • Ken Takai

19 March 2021

Abiotic fixation of atmospheric dinitrogen to ammonia is important in prebiotic chemistry and biological evolution in the Hadean and Archean oceans. Though it is widely accepted that nitrate (NO3−) was generated in the early atmospheres, the stable p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,505 Views
17 Pages

19 March 2021

The equations of state of different phases in the CaSiO3 system (wollastonite, pseudowollastonite, breyite (walstromite), larnite (Ca2SiO4), titanite-structured CaSi2O5 and CaSiO3-perovskite) are constructed using a thermodynamic model based on the H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,264 Views
22 Pages

18 March 2021

This paper presents the results of consolidated and undrained (CU) triaxial cyclic tests related to the influence of tire waste addition on the strength characteristics of two different soils from Southern Poland: unswelling kaolin and swelling red c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,022 Views
13 Pages

18 March 2021

Acid bioleaching of a low-grade and polymetallic sulfide concentrate was studied, in order to determine suitable feed material particle size and pH for efficient leaching of valuable metals. The sulfide concentrate consisted of pyrite (50 wt %), pyrr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,474 Views
21 Pages

Reduction of Vanadium(V) by Iron(II)-Bearing Minerals

  • Edward J. O’Loughlin,
  • Maxim I. Boyanov and
  • Kenneth M. Kemner

18 March 2021

Fe(II)-bearing minerals (magnetite, siderite, green rust, etc.) are common products of microbial Fe(III) reduction, and they provide a reservoir of reducing capacity in many subsurface environments that may contribute to the reduction of redox active...

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