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Minerals, Volume 11, Issue 4

April 2021 - 103 articles

Cover Story: Abundant twins in lawsonite were observed in lawsonite blueschists. The effect of lawsonite twinning on crystal preferred orientation (CPO) and seismic anisotropy of lawsonite was studied using the lawsonite blueschists from Alpine Corsica (France) and Sivrihisar Massif (Turkey). It was found that {110} twin in lawsonite produces a weak CPO of both [100] and [010] axes, but a strong alignment of [001] axes, inducing substantial seismic anisotropy reduction, especially for the maximum S-wave anisotropy in lawsonite and whole rocks by up to 3.67% and 1.46%, respectively. Lawsonite twinning needs to be considered when determining seismic anisotropy in the subducting oceanic crust in cold subduction zones. View this paper
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Articles (103)

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,229 Views
12 Pages

20 April 2021

In this study, we investigate a low-grade oxidized lead ore containing noble metal silver, with complex mineralogy. The sulfurization behaviors of different types of lead-silver minerals at different pH values were analyzed using the chemical phase a...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,512 Views
11 Pages

20 April 2021

A simultaneous partition experiment of divalent metal ions was performed between sphalerite and 1 mol/L (Ni, Mg, Co, Fe, Mn)Cl2 aqueous solution under supercritical hydrothermal conditions of 500–800 °C and 100 MPa. The bulk partition coefficient tha...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,038 Views
18 Pages

Down to the Crust: Chemical and Mineralogical Analysis of Ceramic Surface Encrustations on Bronze Age Ceramics from Békés 103, Eastern Hungary

  • Mark Golitko,
  • Alyssa McGrath,
  • Attila Kreiter,
  • Ian V. Lightcap,
  • Paul R. Duffy,
  • Györgyi M. Parditka and
  • Julia I. Giblin

20 April 2021

Békés 103, a primarily Middle Bronze Age (c. 1600–1280 calBC) cemetery and settlement on the Great Hungarian Plain, has been investigated by the BAKOTA project since 2011. Ceramics from the site are covered in dense white concretions, and it has been...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,310 Views
16 Pages

Extraction of REEs (Ce, Tb, Y, Eu) from Phosphors Waste by a Combined Alkali Roasting–Acid Leaching Process

  • Bing-Xuan He,
  • Yong Liang,
  • Lue-Wei Xu,
  • Long-Bin Shao,
  • De-Gang Liu,
  • Fei Yang and
  • Guan-Jie Liang

20 April 2021

Rare Earth (RE) phosphors waste contains valuable rare Earth elements (REEs), such as cerium, terbium, yttrium, and europium. In industry, the process of NaOH roasting followed by acid leaching is usually used to extract the REEs from the waste in Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,463 Views
13 Pages

Carbon-Assisted Bioleaching of Chalcopyrite and Three Chalcopyrite/Enargite-Bearing Complex Concentrates

  • Keishi Oyama,
  • Kyohei Takamatsu,
  • Kaito Hayashi,
  • Yuji Aoki,
  • Shigeto Kuroiwa,
  • Tsuyoshi Hirajima and
  • Naoko Okibe

19 April 2021

Overcoming the slow-leaching kinetics of refractory primary copper sulfides is crucial to secure future copper sources. Here, the effect of carbon was investigated as a catalyst for a bioleaching reaction. First, the mechanism of carbon-assisted biol...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,196 Views
9 Pages

19 April 2021

Among the marble-hosted ruby deposits in the Himalayan tectonic belt, which yields the highest-quality rubies in the world, the Yuanjiang deposit is the only economically viable one located in China. More attempts are necessary to put constraints on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,266 Views
22 Pages

18 April 2021

Firing is a crucial step in the production of pottery, as it irreversibly transforms the clay into ceramic. Clay sintering and subsequent vitrification occur during firing, together with other transformations undergone by specific minerals and rock i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,997 Views
17 Pages

Quadratic Mathematical Modeling of Sustainable Dry Beneficiation of Kaolin

  • Muhammad Badar Hayat,
  • Muhammad Danishwar,
  • Amna Hamid,
  • Mirza Muhammad Zaid and
  • Muhammad Zaka Emad

18 April 2021

Clay minerals are one of the most utilized minerals among non-metals. These are hydrous aluminum silicates with a layer (sheet-like) structure. Kaolin is a hydrous aluminosilicate mineral with a thin platelet structure. Kaolin is extensively used in...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,220 Views
20 Pages

18 April 2021

The geologic and petrologic study of the Kattadake pyroclastics (around 10 ka) from the Zao volcano (NE Japan) revealed the structure of the magma plumbing system and the mixing behavior of the shallow chamber. The Kattadake pyroclastic succession is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,295 Views
18 Pages

18 April 2021

The Ossa-Morena Zone (OMZ), SW Iberia, has numerous Lower Carboniferous compositionally zoned plutons that formed in a Variscan intra-orogenic extensional setting. This magmatism shows a wide compositional variation comprising alkaline, transitional,...

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