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Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 10

October 2023 - 119 articles

Cover Story: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is emerging as a practical technology for real-time in situ geochemical analysis in the field. LIBS is a form of optical emission spectroscopy that is simultaneously sensitive to all elements with a single laser shot so that a broadband LIBS spectrum can be considered as a diagnostic geochemical fingerprint. LIBS spectra were collected for seven obsidian centers across north-central California, with data processed using multivariate statistical analysis and pattern recognition techniques. Different regional obsidian sources were effectively discriminated via partial least squares discriminant analysis. Obsidian artifacts from seven archaeological sites were matched to their putative sources with a high degree of confidence. View this paper
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Articles (119)

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,001 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2023

The Dahai Pb-Zn mining area is located in the northwestern Pb-Zn district in northeastern Yunnan Province in the Sichuan-Yunnan-Guizhou Pb-Zn metallogenic triangle (SYGT), east of the Xiaojiang fault. Numerous Pb-Zn deposits (spots) occur in clastic...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,660 Views
13 Pages

20 October 2023

Feldspar, which is one of the main inputs of the ceramic and glass industries, has widespread sources in Turkey and thus forms a large component of the country’s mineral exportation. In addition to this, potassium feldspars are one of the raw materia...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,939 Views
21 Pages

Geochemistry, Zircon U–Pb Geochronology, and Geological Significance of Late Mesozoic Magmatic Rocks in Guangxi Region (Southeastern China)

  • Qing-Gang Mao,
  • Sai-Sai Li,
  • Xing-Yuan Liu,
  • Jiang-Bo Wu,
  • Chun-Jiang Yan,
  • Kun Liu and
  • Wen-Qiang Huang

20 October 2023

The geodynamic mechanisms that controlled magmatic activity in South China during the late Mesozoic have been a cutting-edge focus of recent research. Southeastern Guangxi, which is located at the juncture between the Pacific and Neo-Tethyan tectonic...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,895 Views
20 Pages

19 October 2023

Shale oil and gas, as source-reservoir-type resources, result from organic matter hydrocarbon generation, diagenesis, and nanoscale pore during the evolution processes, which are essential aspects of shale gas enrichment and reservoir formation. To i...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,399 Views
19 Pages

Genesis of the Daliuhang Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, Eastern China: Constraints from H-O-S-Pb-He-Ar Isotopes, and Geochronology

  • Jiepeng Tian,
  • Junjian Li,
  • Xuan Wu,
  • Chao Fu,
  • Zhicai Dang,
  • Pengpeng Zhang,
  • Jiangtao He,
  • Wenlong Tang and
  • Ruicong Tian

19 October 2023

The Daliuhang gold deposit in the Qipengfu (Qixia–Penglai–Fushan) ore concentration area is a typical gold deposit of medium-low temperature hydrothermal veins. Uncertainties regarding the primary sources of ore-forming fluids, as well as...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,570 Views
13 Pages

Determination of Geographic Origin of Turquoise by Combining Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Chemometrics

  • Shuoyun Tong,
  • Guodong Chen,
  • Weikang Hu,
  • Shiyang Pan,
  • Dan Zhu,
  • Shuang Liu,
  • Li Lu,
  • Shunchao Zhou and
  • Wanfeng Zhou

19 October 2023

Microsampling elemental analysis is widely used for gemstone and mineralogy traceability. Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry combined with chemometrics, the contents of 56 elements in turquoise samples from 5 distinct p...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,297 Views
17 Pages

Preparation and Characterization of Mercapto-Functionalized Calcined Attapulgite and Its Removal of Pb (II) and Cd (II) Solution

  • Jiaqian Zhang,
  • Zhe Wang,
  • Ying Luo,
  • Zhenlong Zhang,
  • Xiyang Feng,
  • Qiuping Zeng,
  • Duan Tian,
  • Chao Li,
  • Yongde Zhang and
  • Shu Chen

17 October 2023

To enhance the sorption efficacy of attapulgite for heavy metals, mercapto-functionalized attapulgite (ATP-SH) was synthesized with mercaptan functional groups. When the mass-to-volume ratio of calcined attapulgite (ATP-C) to 3-Mercapropyltrimethoxys...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,169 Views
20 Pages

17 October 2023

The Middle Permian Maokou Formation in the Sichuan Basin has huge resources and is an important target for natural gas exploration. In recent years, significant exploration breakthroughs have been made in the dolomite field of member Mao-2 in central...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,646 Views
18 Pages

16 October 2023

This article presents data on the composition of biotite from igneous rocks of the Shakhtama complex, which are associated with various types of mineralization in Eastern Transbaikalia: Au-Cu-Fe-skarn, skarn-porphyry, Mo-porphyry, rare-metal–gr...

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Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X