Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 12

The Upper Velhas River Basin, in the mining region of the Iron Quadrangle, is one of the most polluted basins in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The region has been exploited for gold and iron, among other substances of interest. In addition to abandoned mines...

Evaluation of soil sustainability should take into account chemical and mineralogical changes due to cultivation. Potassium (K) application is a key farming practice that may potentially affect phyllosilicate composition and soil properties. Irrigati...

Through detailed drill-core description, petrography, cathodoluminescence imaging, and geochemistry analysis, sedimentary deposits with a high content of volcanogenic components (27.6%) were discovered in the Shanxi Formation of the Daniudi Gas Field...

The Miocene Columbia River Basalt Group (CRBG) of the Pacific Northwest of the United States is the world’s youngest and smallest large igneous province. Its earliest formations are the Imnaha, Steens, and now the Picture Gorge Basalt (PGB), an...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the technical feasibility of using a calcined aggregate with mining residue in different pavement layers, including the base, subbase, and wearing course layers. For this purpose, physical characterization...

The current study sought to investigate the physiochemical conditions and fluid evolution within the Yolindi Cu-Fe skarn mineralization located in the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey. This was accomplished through a comprehensive investigation of geologica...

Mineral phase transformation (MPT) of hematite to magnetite by reduction roasting is a viable means of developing refractory iron ore resources. However, conventional coal-based reductants are prone to high carbon emissions and environmental pollutio...

This study reports on experimental observations during fungi–mineral substrate interactions. Selected mineral substrates of biotite, muscovite, bauxite, chromite, galena, malachite, manganite, and plagioclase were exposed in vitro to free funga...

Detecting the boundaries of geologic structures is one of the main tasks in interpreting gravity anomalies. Many methods based on the derivatives of gravity anomalies have been introduced to map the source boundaries. The drawbacks of traditional met...

The mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) from Mesozoic intermediate-acid magmatic rocks, widely developed along the Fujian coast, are considered to be the results of large-scale crust–mantle interaction by magma mixing. This paper is based on zi...