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Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 1

January 2023 - 130 articles

Cover Story: Mantle mineral inclusions in other minerals of mantle origin record different stages of the deep-seated rock formation and conditions in the mantle and allow identifying the parageneses of minerals crystallized at different P-T-fO2 conditions. Diamond is a concentrator of minerals whose compositions reflect a wide range of mantle conditions. Large megacrystals of olivine, garnet, and pyroxene grains in diamondiferous xenoliths of megacrystalline peridotites and eclogites, described previously, are characterized by the developed crack system. All diamonds which were found earlier in mantle minerals were placed in their cracks. There has been no evidence of diamond ever found as inclusion in primary olivine, garnet, or pyroxene from mantle xenoliths or in kimberlitic megacrysts. View this paper
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Articles (130)

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,195 Views
9 Pages

10 January 2023

We prepared solution-precipitated amorphous calcium carbonate by two similar methods and tracked structural changes over time as they crystallized. By cross-referencing mid-range infrared (400–4000 cm−1) with far-infrared (100–400 c...

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  • Open Access
3,924 Views
13 Pages

Crystal-Chemical and Spectroscopic Study of Gem Sphalerite from Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia

  • Peter Bačík,
  • Jana Fridrichová,
  • Olena Rybnikova,
  • Ján Štubňa,
  • Ľudmila Illášová,
  • Radek Škoda,
  • Tomáš Vaculovič,
  • Zuzana Pulišová and
  • Peter Sečkár

10 January 2023

A complex crystal-chemical investigation based on spectroscopic methods, Electron MicroProbe Analysis (EMPA), and Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) was made on sphalerite samples from the Terézia and Roz&a...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,285 Views
16 Pages

10 January 2023

Most of the previous studies focused on the mechanical characteristics before the stress peak of solid waste cemented backfill, but in the compression process of a solid waste cemented body, the phenomenon of post-peak stress rebound often occurs. Th...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,216 Views
20 Pages

9 January 2023

Sedimentary phosphate rocks are characteristically rich in organic matter, and contain sulfides and a high concentration of trace elements, including cadmium (Cd), which is harmful to the human body. The mining of phosphate rock and phosphogypsum at...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,254 Views
19 Pages

Biosorption of Aqueous Pb(II), Co(II), Cd(II) and Ni(II) Ions from Sungun Copper Mine Wastewater by Chrysopogon zizanioides Root Powder

  • Saba Madadgar,
  • Faramarz Doulati Ardejani,
  • Zohreh Boroumand,
  • Hossein Sadeghpour,
  • Reza Taherdangkoo and
  • Christoph Butscher

9 January 2023

In this study, a plant-based adsorbent was used in order to remove lead, nickel, cobalt and cadmium metals from a wastewater sample collected from Sungun mine real wastewater. The biosorbent was one of the most abundant native plants of the Sungun re...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,414 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2023

In order to achieve efficient resource utilization of metal tailings, taking the roasted clinker of silver tailings (RCST) as the object, the dissolution behaviors of Si, Al and Fe in the water–acid two-stage leaching process and the water leac...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,376 Views
17 Pages

Shortwave UV Blue Luminescence of Some Minerals and Gems Due to Titanate Groups

  • Maxence Vigier,
  • Emmanuel Fritsch,
  • Théo Cavignac,
  • Camille Latouche and
  • Stéphane Jobic

9 January 2023

This article reviews blue shortwave-excited luminescence (BSL) in natural minerals and synthetic materials. It also describes in detail the emission of seven minerals and gems displaying BSL, as well as three references in which BSL is caused by tita...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,610 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2023

The occurrence of rockburst can seriously impact the construction and production of deep underground engineering. To prevent rockburst, machine learning (ML) models have been widely employed to predict rockburst based on some related variables. Howev...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,151 Views
15 Pages

Structural Features of Oxyapatite

  • Natalia V. Bulina,
  • Leon A. Avakyan,
  • Svetlana V. Makarova,
  • Igor B. Orehov and
  • Vladimir S. Bystrov

9 January 2023

One of the most widely known representatives of the apatite family is hydroxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2. This mineral is a part of the human dental and bone tissues, and, therefore, is widely used in medicine. Less known is oxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6O, whi...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,345 Views
22 Pages

9 January 2023

The Jinzhuping and Changkeng granites are related to the Helong W–Sn ore field in southern Jiangxi Province, China. Three different phases can be found in the Jinzhuping pluton, and their LA-ICP-MS zircon U–Pb ages are 155.2 ± 0.68...

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