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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
4 Citations
3,298 Views
14 Pages

15 April 2021

A preliminary beneficiation study of low-grade skarn phosphate rocks from Mactung tungsten deposit, along the Yukon and Northwest Territories border in Canada, was carried out through standard Bond Work Index, grinding test and laboratory batch flota...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,702 Views
32 Pages

14 April 2021

Ophiolites of the Alpine belt derive from the closure of the Mesozoic Tethys Ocean that was interposed between the palaeo-Europe and palaeo-Adria continental plates. The Alpine orogeny has intensely reworked the oceanic rocks into metaophiolites with...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,156 Views
19 Pages

14 April 2021

Acid mine tailings may affect several environmental matrices. Here, we aimed to stabilize acid-generated mine tailings using several alkaline and cementitious amendments, which were tested in columns for 361 days. The alkaline amendments consisted of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,288 Views
24 Pages

Gold in the Farallones Block of the Shale-Hosted, Clastic-Dominated Castellanos Zinc-Lead Deposit (Northwest Cuba)

  • David Gómez-Vivo,
  • Fernando Gervilla,
  • Rubén Piña,
  • Rebeca Hernández-Díaz and
  • Antonio Azor

14 April 2021

The Zn-Pb ores of the Castellanos shale-hosted, clastic-dominated deposit in northwest Cuba average nearly 1 g/t Au, with local maximum concentrations up to 34 g/t Au. This deposit is stratiform with respect to the bedding in the host black shales an...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,340 Views
18 Pages

14 April 2021

The thermodynamic properties of carbonate minerals suggest a possibility for the use of the abundant materials (e.g., magnesite) for removing harmful divalent heavy metals (e.g., Pb2+). Despite the favourable thermodynamic condition for such transfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,716 Views
22 Pages

Comprehending the Causes of Presence of Copper and Common Heavy Metals in Sediments of Irrigation Canals in Taiwan

  • Shih-Han Huang,
  • Tien-Chin Chang,
  • Hui-Chen Chien,
  • Zih-Sin Wang,
  • Yen-Chen Chang,
  • Ying-Lin Wang and
  • Hsing-Cheng Hsi

14 April 2021

In 2019, Taiwan completed its first thorough heavy metal investigation of irrigation canal sediments by this study with the support of Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration. Box-and-whisker plots were used to analyze the sediment distributio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,211 Views
15 Pages

Application of Optimization Method for Calibration and Maintenance of Power-Based Belt Scale

  • Kanishk Bhadani,
  • Gauti Asbjörnsson,
  • Erik Hulthén,
  • Kristoffer Hofling and
  • Magnus Evertsson

14 April 2021

Process optimization and improvement strategies applied in a crushing plant are coupled with the measurement of such improvements, and one of the indicators for improvements is the mass flow at different parts of the circuit. The estimation of the ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,688 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2021

The disposal of industrial and mineral processing residues represents a major concern for human health and the environment as a whole. In order to reduce the impact on soil and groundwater due to the waste leachability, the implementation of environm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,793 Views
23 Pages

Moisture Damage in Ancient Masonry: A Multidisciplinary Approach for In Situ Diagnostics

  • Noemi Proietti,
  • Paola Calicchia,
  • Francesco Colao,
  • Sara De Simone,
  • Valeria Di Tullio,
  • Loredana Luvidi,
  • Fernanda Prestileo,
  • Martina Romani and
  • Angelo Tatì

13 April 2021

San Nicola in Carcere, one of the minor basilicas in the historical center of Rome, was the location of a wide investigation campaign of the water-related deterioration causes, present in the lower sector of the apse and adjacent pillars, affected by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,140 Views
24 Pages

First Steps towards Understanding the Non-Linear Impact of Mg on Calcite Solubility: A Molecular Dynamics Study

  • Janou A. Koskamp,
  • Sergio E. Ruiz Hernandez,
  • Nora H. De Leeuw and
  • Mariette Wolthers

13 April 2021

Magnesium (Mg2+) is one of the most common impurities in calcite and is known to have a non-linear impact on the solubility of magnesian calcites. Using molecular dynamics (MD), we observed that Mg2+ impacts overall surface energies, local free energ...

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Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X