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Minerals, Volume 12, Issue 11

November 2022 - 141 articles

Cover Story: Microbial mats are generally significant parts of earth ecosystems; they were found as fossils that are 3500 Ma old, and they commonly occur in extreme environments such as hot springs, alkaline, and hypersaline environments; they are also related to biomineralization processes, such as calcite, aragonite, iron-oxides, i.e., the typical mineral compounds of thermal spring depositions. Even if every microbial mat comprises several layers, the composition of each mat differs depending on the environmental conditions. Although different microorganisms dominate in each layer, relationships among them exist based on competition and cooperation. Additionally, extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) play an essential role in microbial mats since they keep the whole structure together. View this paper
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Articles (141)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,929 Views
10 Pages

21 November 2022

Fly ash (FA) and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) are the most widely used mineral admixtures in engineering. However, their roles in concrete under the equal strength grade, a common comparison method in engineering, were seldom reported....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,285 Views
11 Pages

The Electrochemical Response of Chalcopyrite and Galena to Degrading Water Quality

  • Nolihle Ndamase,
  • Margreth Tadie and
  • Kirsten Claire Corin

21 November 2022

Water is used as a liquid medium as well as a means of transportation during mining operations. Flotation, in particular, is a water intensive process where water makes up about 80–85% of the pulp phase. Process water contains organic and inorg...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,654 Views
18 Pages

Assessment of Potentially Toxic Element Contamination in the Philippi Peatland, Eastern Macedonia, Greece

  • Ioannis Zafeiriou,
  • Dionisios Gasparatos,
  • Ifigeneia Megremi,
  • Dafni Ioannou,
  • Ioannis Massas and
  • Maria Economou-Eliopoulos

21 November 2022

The Philippi peatland is considered the biggest peat deposit in the Balkan Peninsula and one of the deepest in the world. The purpose of this study was to access the impact of eight potentially toxic elements (PTEs), i.e., As, Se, Pb, Cr, Ni, Zn, Mn...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,942 Views
16 Pages

Magnetic Nanosorbents Based on Bentonite and CoFe2O4 Spinel

  • Nataliya Khodosova,
  • Lyudmila Novikova,
  • Elena Tomina,
  • Larisa Belchinskaya,
  • Alexander Zhabin,
  • Nikolay Kurkin,
  • Victoria Krupskaya,
  • Olga Zakusina,
  • Tatiana Koroleva and
  • Ekaterina Tyupina
  • + 2 authors

21 November 2022

New magnetic nanocomposite sorbents were obtained by doping natural bentonite with nanosized CoFe2O4 spinel (10 and 20 wt.%). Nanocrystals of cobalt ferrite were synthesized by a citrate burning method. The structure and physical-chemical properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,733 Views
22 Pages

21 November 2022

The Mallorca coastal caves present large amounts of speleothems that have been studied for decades. However, the sedimentary deposits also present in these cases have not been given the same attention. This work is the first study entirely focused on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,519 Views
13 Pages

20 November 2022

This paper presents the results of calorimetric and strength tests of mortars with ordinary Portland cement and two substitution rates (10 and 20%) of cement by siliceous fly ash. The prepared samples were cured under isothermal conditions at four di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,466 Views
16 Pages

Minerochemical and Microtextural Study of the Ungrouped Iron Meteorite Oglat Sidi Ali, Eastern Highlands, Morocco, and Geomorphological Characterization of Its Strewnfield

  • Hassane Nachit,
  • Abderrahmane Ibhi,
  • Mohamed En-nasiry,
  • Vanni Moggi Cecchi,
  • Giovanni Pratesi,
  • Christopher D. K. Herd and
  • Giorgio S. Senesi

20 November 2022

Fragments of a new iron meteorite were found in and collected from Oglat Sidi Ali, Maatarka region, Morocco, during a series of expeditions in the years 2013–2017. The physical characteristics of recovered fragments feature typical attributes o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,809 Views
16 Pages

Recovery of Uranium, Thorium, and Other Rare Metals from Eudialyte Concentrate by a Binary Extractant Based on 1,5-bis[2-(hydroxyethoxyphosphoryl)-4-ethylphenoxy]-3-oxapentane and Methyl Trioctylammonium Nitrate

  • Alfiya M. Safiulina,
  • Alexey V. Lizunov,
  • Aleksandr A. Semenov,
  • Dmitriy V. Baulin,
  • Vladimir E. Baulin,
  • Aslan Yu. Tsivadze,
  • Sergey M. Aksenov and
  • Ivan G. Tananaev

20 November 2022

Eudialyte-group minerals are of scientific interest as important concentrators of rare elements (mainly Zr and REE) in agpaitic alkaline rocks and a potential source of REE, Zr, Hf, Nb, and Ta for industrial use. Extraction of uranium(VI), thorium(IV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,598 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Enhanced Total Gradient (ETG) for Interpretation of Magnetic Data

  • Korimilli Naga Durga Prasad,
  • Luan Thanh Pham,
  • Anand P. Singh,
  • Ahmed M. Eldosouky,
  • Kamal Abdelrahman,
  • Mohammed S. Fnais and
  • David Gómez-Ortiz

20 November 2022

Edge detection techniques identify the horizontal extents of the underground geological bodies and work well in association with magnetic as well as seismic data. Even though the detected edges might not be a lithological contact, they offer first-ha...

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