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Minerals, Volume 11, Issue 7

2021 July - 130 articles

Cover Story: Garnet is cubic and optically isotropic par excellence. However, some garnets are optically anisotropic. Oscillatory compositional zoning occurs in some garnet samples. Monochromatic synchrotron high-resolution powder X-ray diffraction traces of grossular garnet samples show single cubic phases for isotropic samples, and two or more different cubic phases in anisotropic samples. The different phases in a crystal are resolved using X-ray elemental line scans, backscattered electron images, and elemental maps. Structural mismatch from the two cubic phases intergrown in the birefringent samples gives rise to strain-induced optical anisotropy. The formation of intergrowths in grossular occurs because of changes in the physical and chemical conditions during crystal growth. View this paper
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  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,085 Views
19 Pages

Phosphorus-Rich Ash from Poultry Manure Combustion in a Fluidized Bed Reactor

  • Zdzisław Adamczyk,
  • Magdalena Cempa and
  • Barbara Białecka

20 July 2021

The aim of this study was to examine the physico-chemical and phase characteristics of ash obtained in the process of the combustion of Polish poultry manure in a laboratory reactor with a bubbling fluidized bed. Three experiments, differing in the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,108 Views
19 Pages

Distribution, Separation and Characterisation of Valuable Heavy Minerals from the Brahmaputra River Basin, Kurigram District, Bangladesh

  • Aminur Rahman,
  • Mark I. Pownceby,
  • James Tardio,
  • Graham J. Sparrow,
  • Nawshad Haque and
  • Fuad Hasan

20 July 2021

Bangladesh’s heavy minerals deposits in river systems remain largely unexplored with past research restricted to beach placer deposits along the south-eastern coastline of the country. In this study, 64 samples were collected from stable sand bars fr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,043 Views
21 Pages

20 July 2021

The Terra Nova Intrusive Complex (TNIC) in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica, results from widespread magmatism during the Early Paleozoic Ross Orogeny. According to field relationships, geochemistry, and geochronology data, the northern part of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,340 Views
16 Pages

Estimation of Mining-Induced Horizontal Strain Tensor of Land Surface Applying InSAR

  • Wojciech T. Witkowski,
  • Magdalena Łukosz,
  • Artur Guzy and
  • Ryszard Hejmanowski

20 July 2021

Horizontal strains related to mining-induced subsidence may endanger infrastructure and surface users’ safety. While directional horizontal strains should be well determined, appropriate solutions for a complete assessment of the terrain surface defo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,661 Views
12 Pages

Characterization and Analysis of the Mortars in the Church of the Company of Jesus—Quito (Ecuador)

  • M. Lenin Lara,
  • David Sanz-Arauz,
  • Sol López-Andrés and
  • Inés del Pino

19 July 2021

The Church of the Company of Jesus in Quito (1605–1765) is one of the most remarkable examples of colonial religious architecture on the World Heritage List. This church has multiple constructive phases and several interventions with no clear record...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,474 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2021

The degradation effects of artificial aging on the “true” pigment color of Byzantine iconography are thoroughly investigated in this work. For this purpose, a multi-material palette is fabricated, consisting of various popular egg-tempera pigments, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,509 Views
15 Pages

19 July 2021

Precipitation of calcium carbonates in aqueous systems is an important factor controlling various industrial, biological, and geological processes. In the first part of this study, the well-known titration approach introduced by Gebauer and coworkers...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,555 Views
25 Pages

Worth from Waste: Utilizing a Graphite-Rich Fraction from Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries as Alternative Reductant in Nickel Slag Cleaning

  • Anna Dańczak,
  • Ronja Ruismäki,
  • Tommi Rinne,
  • Lassi Klemettinen,
  • Hugh O’Brien,
  • Pekka Taskinen,
  • Ari Jokilaakso and
  • Rodrigo Serna-Guerrero

19 July 2021

One possible way of recovering metals from spent lithium-ion batteries is to integrate the recycling with already existing metallurgical processes. This study continues our effort on integrating froth flotation and nickel-slag cleaning process for me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,417 Views
20 Pages

18 July 2021

Coal fly ash (CFA), which is generated in huge quantities in coal-fired power plants, is a problem worldwide. Mixtures with ash and sewage sludge alter morphological and biochemical characteristics of plants. In this experiment, the response of pine,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,176 Views
22 Pages

Damage Evolution of Granodiorite after Heating and Cooling Treatments

  • Mohamed Elgharib Gomah,
  • Guichen Li,
  • Salah Bader,
  • Mohamed Elkarmoty and
  • Mohamed Ismael

18 July 2021

The awareness of the impact of high temperatures on rock properties is essential to the design of deep geotechnical applications. The purpose of this research is to assess the influence of heating and cooling treatments on the physical and mechanical...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,277 Views
15 Pages

Nitrogen under Super-Reducing Conditions: Ti Oxynitride Melts in Xenolithic Corundum Aggregates from Mt Carmel (N. Israel)

  • William L. Griffin,
  • Sarah E. M. Gain,
  • Martin Saunders,
  • Olivier Alard,
  • Jeremy Shaw,
  • Vered Toledo and
  • Suzanne Y. O’Reilly

18 July 2021

Titanium oxynitrides (Ti(N,O,C)) are abundant in xenolithic corundum aggregates in pyroclastic ejecta of Cretaceous volcanoes on Mount Carmel, northern Israel. Petrographic observations indicate that most of these nitrides existed as melts, immiscibl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,662 Views
13 Pages

17 July 2021

To achieve the goal of preventing serious injuries and fatalities, it is important for a mine site to analyze site specific mine safety data. The advances in natural language processing (NLP) create an opportunity to develop machine learning (ML) too...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,560 Views
15 Pages

17 July 2021

Article concerns problem of jig beneficiation of mineral aggregates and focuses especially on problem of separation of hard-enrichable materials. Investigative programme covered tests in laboratory and semi-plant scale and material with different con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
5,874 Views
17 Pages

16 July 2021

The increasing development of industries, resulting in a large volume of mining, smelting, and combustion wastes, and intense agricultural activities, due to demand for food and energy, have caused environmental hazards for food quality and ecosystem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,830 Views
12 Pages

16 July 2021

The paper presents the practical use of a solidifying hydro-mixture based on ashes from fluidized bed boilers under hard coal mine conditions for filling an incline connecting the headgate and tailgate of a longwall running along the strike with roof...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,552 Views
15 Pages

Revealing Artists’ Collaboration in a 14th Century Manuscript by Non-Invasive Analyses

  • Michela Perino,
  • Lucilla Pronti,
  • Lucrezia Gaia Di Forti,
  • Martina Romani,
  • Cecilia Taverna,
  • Lola Massolo,
  • Francesca Manzari,
  • Mariangela Cestelli-Guidi,
  • Alessandro Nucara and
  • Anna Candida Felici

16 July 2021

In the last decades, the working methods of late medieval illuminators have been widely discussed by art historians and codicologists. Non-invasive analyses are able to characterise the painting methods of illuminators as well as investigate artistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,940 Views
22 Pages

16 July 2021

In 1990, the Sopcheozero Cr deposit was discovered in the Monchegorsk Paleoproterozoic layered mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion (Monchepluton). This stratiform early-magmatic deposit occurs in the middle part of the Dunite Block, which is a member...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,715 Views
32 Pages

Trace-Element Geochemistry of Sulfides in Upper Mantle Lherzolite Xenoliths from East Antarctica

  • Alexandre V. Andronikov,
  • Irina E. Andronikova and
  • Tamara Sidorinova

16 July 2021

Sulfides in upper mantle lherzolite xenoliths from Cretaceous alkaline-ultramafic rocks in the Jetty Peninsula (East Antarctica) were studied for their major and trace-element compositions using SEM and LA-ICP-MS applied in situ. Modal abundance of s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,788 Views
19 Pages

Characterization of the Physical, Chemical, and Adsorption Properties of Coal-Fly-Ash–Hydroxyapatite Composites

  • Eleonora Sočo,
  • Dorota Papciak,
  • Magdalena M. Michel,
  • Dariusz Pająk,
  • Andżelika Domoń and
  • Bogdan Kupiec

16 July 2021

(1) Hydroxyapatite (HAp), which can be obtained by several methods, is known to be a good adsorbent. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a commonly reused byproduct also used in environmental applications as an adsorbent. We sought to answer the following question...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,031 Views
20 Pages

16 July 2021

The Cocos Ridge, which is subducted beneath the Central American Volcanic Arc, has a complex tectonic evolution history due to plume-ridge interaction between the Galápagos plume and the Cocos—Nazca spreading center. This study presents major and tra...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,098 Views
16 Pages

15 July 2021

Chert concretions in thick limestone successions preserve a more complete paragenetic sequence of diagenetic minerals than their host limestone and interbedded shale. The goal of this study was to test the possible presence of a high-temperature mine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,528 Views
14 Pages

Competing Sorption of Se(IV) and Se(VI) on Schwertmannite

  • Bouchra Marouane,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Martin Obst and
  • Stefan Peiffer

15 July 2021

Schwertmannite (SHM) is a naturally occurring mineral that has been shown to effectively scavenge oxyanions from contaminated water. In this study, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques in combination wi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,416 Views
16 Pages

15 July 2021

The Takatori hypothermal tin–tungsten vein deposit is composed of wolframite-bearing quartz veins with minor cassiterite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and lithium-bearing muscovite and sericite. Several wolframite rims show replacement textures, which are a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,483 Views
25 Pages

15 July 2021

Ancient ceramics recovered after a long burial period have probably undergone several alterations and contaminations, introducing a chemical variability, affecting the ceramic’s natural variability. That is, the chemical and the mineralogical composi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,939 Views
26 Pages

15 July 2021

Two isotropic grossular (ideally Ca3Al2Si3O12) samples from (1) Canada and (2) Tanzania, three optically anisotropic grossular samples (3, 4, 5) from Mexico, and one (6) anisotropic sample from Italy were studied. The crystal structure of the six sam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,945 Views
12 Pages

Thermally Assisted Grinding of Cassiterite Associated with Pollimetallic Ore: A Comparison between Microwave and Conventional Furnaces

  • Chunlin He,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Xiujuan Su,
  • Shaojian Ma,
  • Toyohisa Fujita,
  • Yuezhou Wei,
  • Jinlin Yang and
  • Zongwu Wei

15 July 2021

We investigated the influence of microwave and conventional heating pretreatments on the grinding of cassiterite associated with pollimetallic ore. The minerals that exhibited a stronger microwave absorption ability crushed first, which is the main d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,647 Views
29 Pages

14 July 2021

The central part of the Namaqua Metamorphic Province was subjected to intense deformation under high-grade metamorphic conditions up to granulite facies, but also shows greenschist facies overprints denoting the metamorphic nature during the 1.2–1.0...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,298 Views
33 Pages

Halogens in Eclogite Facies Minerals from the Western Gneiss Region, Norway

  • Lewis Hughes,
  • Simon Cuthbert,
  • Alex Quas-Cohen,
  • Lorraine Ruzié-Hamilton,
  • Alison Pawley,
  • Giles Droop,
  • Ian Lyon,
  • Romain Tartèse and
  • Ray Burgess

14 July 2021

Ultra-high-pressure (UHP) eclogites and ultramafites and associated fluid inclusions from the Western Gneiss Region, Norwegian Caledonides, have been analysed for F, Cl, Br and I using electron-probe micro-analysis, time-of-flight secondary ion mass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,015 Views
16 Pages

What Affects Dewatering Performance of High Density Slurry?

  • Yunhui Li,
  • Heather Kaminsky,
  • Xue Yuki Gong,
  • Yijia Simon Sun,
  • Mohammed Ghuzi and
  • Ardalan Sadighian

14 July 2021

The dewatering of flocculated high density slurry presents a significant challenge to most mining industries. The new technologies to treat high density slurry require a consistent and robust flocculation method in order to enter the market of tailin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,219 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2021

The article contains detailed petrographic studies, which covered a coarse and medium-grain gravel fraction of two layers of glacial till (units ŁS II and ŁS IV) and two layers of sand-gravelly outwash deposits (units ŁS I and ŁS III) related to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,413 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2021

Continuously operating decanter centrifuges are often applied for solid-liquid separation in the chemical and mining industries. Simulation tools can assist in the configuration and optimisation of separation processes by, e.g., controlling the quali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,684 Views
20 Pages

13 July 2021

In situ major, trace and rare-earth element composition of Ti-rich garnets from Ambadungar-Saidivasan alkaline carbonatite complex (ASACC) are presented to constrain its likely genesis. The garnets are characterized by high andradite (42.7–57.3), sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,597 Views
33 Pages

Ex and In Situ Reactivity and Sorption of Selenium in Opalinus Clay in the Presence of a Selenium Reducing Microbial Community

  • Nele Bleyen,
  • Joe S. Small,
  • Kristel Mijnendonckx,
  • Katrien Hendrix,
  • Achim Albrecht,
  • Pierre De Cannière,
  • Maryna Surkova,
  • Charles Wittebroodt and
  • Elie Valcke

13 July 2021

79Se is a critical radionuclide concerning the safety of deep geological disposal of certain radioactive wastes in clay-rich formations. To study the fate of selenium oxyanions in clayey rocks in the presence of a selenium reducing microbial communit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,637 Views
20 Pages

Ore Minerals and Metal Distribution in Tailings of Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Copper Deposits from Poland and Kazakhstan

  • Agata Duczmal-Czernikiewicz,
  • Adilkhan Baibatsha,
  • Alma Bekbotayeva,
  • Gulnara Omarova and
  • Akmaral Baisalova

12 July 2021

This study, carried out in tailings from two sediment-hosted stratiform copper deposits in the Lublin-Głogów Copper District in Poland (Kupferschiefer-type deposit) and Zhezkazgan (cupriferous sandstone-type deposit) in Kazakhstan, analysed the miner...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,625 Views
16 Pages

12 July 2021

This paper presents the results of an extensive experimental study on the effect of the addition of two types of fly ash produced during fluidized bed combustion of bituminous coal and lignite, which differ substantially in their chemical and mineral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,939 Views
18 Pages

12 July 2021

Coupled physical processes will take place in a multibarrier disposal system for spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste. The knowledge of these processes (thermal, hydraulic, mechanical, chemical, microbiological, etc.) as well as the sc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,707 Views
20 Pages

11 July 2021

The Oligocene–Miocene Maykop Group sediments, mainly composed of illite–smectite, store mercury in strongly variable concentrations from 10 to 920 μg/kg. Extremely high Hg levels (98–920 μg/kg) coupled with abnormal mercury-to-total organic carbon (T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,454 Views
16 Pages

Spectroscopy and Microscopy of Corundum from Primary Deposits Found in Greece

  • Vilelmini Karantoni,
  • Stefanos Karampelas,
  • Panagiotis Voudouris,
  • Vasilios Melfos,
  • Lambrini Papadopoulou,
  • Triantafyllos Soldatos and
  • Constantinos Mavrogonatos

10 July 2021

Corundum primary deposits in Greece occur in four locations: Paranesti in Drama and Gorgona in Xanthi, both belonging to the wider Rhodope Massif, as well as, Ikaria island and Kinidaros in Naxos island, both belonging to Attic-Cycladic Massif. Eight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,455 Views
29 Pages

Production Technologies of Ancient Bricks from Padua, Italy: Changing Colors and Resistance over Time

  • Elena Mercedes Pérez-Monserrat,
  • Lara Maritan,
  • Enrico Garbin and
  • Giuseppe Cultrone

9 July 2021

Representative and very uneven texturally bricks having yellow/beige or pale or dark red colors from the Renaissance walls (16th century) of Padua, Northeast Italy, were studied by means of colorimetric, petrographic (MOP), chemical (XRF), mineralogi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,377 Views
21 Pages

9 July 2021

Qamdo basin is located between the suture zone of Jinsha River (Ailao Mountains) and that of Ban Gong Lake (Nujiang) in the eastern Tethys. Part of the Jingxing Formation is deposited in the southwest of the basin. In this study, two profiles were in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,775 Views
25 Pages

The Colors of the Circus Mosaic from Barcino (Roman Barcelona): Characterization, Provenance, and Technology Issues

  • Lluís Casas,
  • Roberta Di Febo,
  • Carme Boix,
  • Albert Egea,
  • Oriol Vallcorba,
  • Ignasi Queralt,
  • Anna Anglisano,
  • Isabel Moreno and
  • Lorena Andino

9 July 2021

Archaeometric studies on mosaics often concentrate only on glass tesserae, while comprehensive studies including both stone and glass tesserae are scarce; however, both types of tesserae can sometimes bring relevant data to elaborate archaeological k...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,155 Views
26 Pages

The Late Jurassic–Palaeogene Carbonate Platforms in the Outer Western Carpathian Tethys—A Regional Overview

  • Justyna Kowal-Kasprzyk,
  • Anna Waśkowska,
  • Jan Golonka,
  • Michał Krobicki,
  • Petr Skupien and
  • Tadeusz Słomka

9 July 2021

The present work focuses on palaeogeographic reconstruction of shallow-water carbonate deposition in the Outer Western Carpathian Tethys. Platform deposits are preserved only as a component of turbidites and olistostromes, and reconstructions of thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,672 Views
20 Pages

9 July 2021

Greenschist facies metabasite (chlorite schist) and metasediments (banded iron formation (BIF)) in the Wutai Complex, North China Craton recorded extensive fluid activities during subduction-related metamorphism. The pervasive dolomitization in the c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,510 Views
33 Pages

Post-Depositional Alteration of Calcium Carbonate Phases in Archaeological Ceramics: Depletion and Redistribution Effects

  • William D. Gilstrap,
  • Jennifer L. Meanwell,
  • Elizabeth H. Paris,
  • Roberto López Bravo and
  • Peter M. Day

9 July 2021

The final stage in the life history of prehistoric pottery prior to archaeological recovery is usually the longest, and frequently the most dynamic. The remains of archaeological ceramics spend hundreds to thousands of years deposited within the uppe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,634 Views
19 Pages

8 July 2021

In order to apply the fiber reinforced cement stabilized waste construction slurry more widely, it is crucial to evaluate its mechanical behavior under freeze and thaw (F–T) cycles. The mechanical properties of fiber cement-modified waste constructio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,794 Views
30 Pages

The Disappearance of Coal Seams Recorded in Associated Gangue Rocks in the SW Part of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, Poland

  • Justyna Ciesielczuk,
  • Monika J. Fabiańska,
  • Magdalena Misz-Kennan,
  • Dominik Jura,
  • Paweł Filipiak and
  • Aniela Matuszewska

7 July 2021

Coal seams in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin vanish within the Carboniferous Upper Silesian Sandstone Series and below an unconformity marking the Carboniferous top surface. Changes in the geochemical, mineralogical, petrological and palynological cha...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,284 Views
13 Pages

7 July 2021

In an aggregate crushing plant, the crusher performances will be affected by the variation from the incoming feed size distribution. Collecting accurate measurements of the size distribution on the conveyors can help both operators and control system...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,494 Views
19 Pages

Mineral Inactivation of Zinc in Polluted Soil—Sustainability of Zeolite, Bentonite and Blends

  • Jean Diatta,
  • Agnieszka Andrzejewska,
  • Witold Grzebisz,
  • Leszek Drobek and
  • Zbigniew Karolewski

7 July 2021

The study outlines a novel and traceable procedure for inactivating zinc polluted soil (an Anthrosols) adjacent to a former zinc (Zn) ore mine “Orzel Biały” in Bytom (Poland), where the total content of Zn amounted to 3988.0 mg kg−1. This pollution l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,968 Views
10 Pages

7 July 2021

The Shazi deposit is a newly discovered, potential large-scale scandium deposit located in Qinglong, southwestern Guizhou Province, China. The iron isotopic composition of magnetite in fresh basalt, weathered basalt, and mineralized laterite was inve...

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