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Minerals, Volume 12, Issue 1

January 2022 - 107 articles

Cover Story: Accurate gemstone classification is crucial to the gem and jewellery trade, since identification is an important first step in the evaluation and appraisal of any gem. The significant progress in computer vision, now commonplace in areas such as medical imaging, can be applied to the classification of gems. There are many feature extraction algorithms and classifiers, which present a challenge when selecting one for a specific task. This paper compares 33 feature extraction techniques used in combination with different machine learning algorithms to classify images of gemstones across 68 categories. Compared to three human experts, the computer vision algorithms were much faster and provided, albeit marginal, higher accuracy. View this paper
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Articles (107)

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,160 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2022

The Oeyama ophiolite unit is one of the oldest components of the subduction orogenic belts in the Japanese Islands and is important for understanding the initiation of plate subduction in the proto-Japan region. This study performed U–Pb and Lu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,687 Views
15 Pages

Technological Characterization of Almohad Pottery Glazes from SW Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)

  • Daniel J. Albero Santacreu,
  • Jose C. Carvajal López and
  • Alejandro Ramos Benito

17 January 2022

In this paper, we addressed the chemical composition and main features of a glazed Almohad ceramic assemblage recovered from Puig de Sa Morisca, a rural Islamic site located in southwest Mallorca. The glazes were analyzed by means of scanning electro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,078 Views
22 Pages

Characteristics of Acoustic Emission Waveforms Induced by Hydraulic Fracturing of Coal under True Triaxial Stress in a Laboratory-Scale Experiment

  • Nan Li,
  • Liulin Fang,
  • Bingxiang Huang,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Chao Cai,
  • Yunpeng Zhang,
  • Xuan Liu,
  • Zhihuai Li,
  • Yaolin Wen and
  • Yanli Qin

16 January 2022

Hydraulic fracturing (HF) is an effective technology to prevent and control coal dynamic disaster. The process of coal hydraulic fracturing (HF) induces a large number of microseismic/acoustic emission (MS/AE) waveforms. Understanding the characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,643 Views
20 Pages

16 January 2022

Significant volumes of rhyolites and granites of the Pliocene-Pleistocene age are exposed in the collision zone of the Greater Caucasus, Russia. The volcanic history of the region includes ignimbrites and lavas associated with the Chegem caldera (2.9...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,357 Views
24 Pages

16 January 2022

In this study, the zonality method has been used to separate geochemical anomalies and to calculate erosional levels in the regional scale for porphyry-Cu deposit, Abrisham-Rud (Semnan province, East of Iran). In geochemical maps of multiplicative ha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,483 Views
12 Pages

Deep Gold Exploration with SQUID TEM in the Qingchengzi Orefield, Eastern Liaoning, Northeast China

  • Junjie Wu,
  • Qingquan Zhi,
  • Xiaohong Deng,
  • Xingchun Wang,
  • Xiaodong Chen,
  • Yi Zhao and
  • Yue Huang

16 January 2022

The Qingchengzi orefield is an important polymetallic ore concentration zone in the northern margin of the North China Craton (NCC). The region has significant metallogenic potential for deep mining. Many areas with gold mineralization have been foun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,794 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Siliceous Nodules in Western Kefalonia Ιsland Greece: An Initial Approach to Their Formation and Diagenetic Characteristics

  • Paraskevi Lampropoulou,
  • Vayia Xanthopoulou,
  • Małgorzata Wojtaszek-Kalaitzidi,
  • Petros Petrounias,
  • Elena Zoumpouli,
  • George Iliopoulos and
  • Stavros Kalaitzidis

15 January 2022

In this study, siliceous nodules from the world-famous Myrtos beach, as well as from Avithos beach, in the western flanks of Kefalonia Island in Greece are examined by means of petrographical, mineralogical, geochemical and micropaleontological metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,032 Views
11 Pages

15 January 2022

Manganese (Mn) is a major element in various aqueous and soil environments that is sometimes highly concentrated in mine water and other mineral processing wastewater. In this study, we investigated Mn removal from alkaline mine water (pH > 9) wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,785 Views
14 Pages

Bioleaching Process for Copper Extraction from Waste in Alkaline and Acid Medium

  • Ivica Ristović,
  • Darina Štyriaková,
  • Iveta Štyriaková,
  • Jaroslav Šuba and
  • Emilija Širadović

15 January 2022

Flotation wastes are becoming a valuable secondary raw material and source of many metals and semimetals worldwide with the possibilities of industrial recycling. The flotation tailings contain oxide and sulfide minerals that have not been sufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,472 Views
10 Pages

15 January 2022

The crystal structures of newly found minerals are routinely determined using single-crystal techniques. However, many rare minerals usually form micrometer-sized aggregates that are difficult to study with conventional structural methods. This is th...

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Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X