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Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 2

February 2023 - 168 articles

Cover Story: Spodumene production generates a high volume of industrial by-products such as spodumene tailings, which occupied a lot of land for storage. This study focuses on using tailings to prepare phosphoric acid-activated metakaolin geopolymer. The compressive strength of geopolymer mortar was significantly improved with SFT as aggregates. In addition, the mechanical properties could also be enhanced by an increased concentration of phosphoric acid (H3PO4) solution or a decreased aggregate particle size. On the other hand, the properties of the geopolymer mortar could also be affected by the morphology of the aggregates. The major chemical structural units of geopolymer mortar were -P-O-Al- and AlPO4, which could be spontaneously generated according to the thermodynamic calculation results. View this paper
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Articles (168)

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,398 Views
14 Pages

Geochemical Modeling of Changes in Storage Rock Environments at CO2 Injection Sites

  • Monika Licbinska,
  • Lenka Mertova,
  • Nada Rapantova and
  • Katerina Stejskalova

20 February 2023

Geochemical modeling in TOUGHREACT code was used to simulate chemical processes in CO2–rock–brackish water systems in a pilot research environment of CO2 storage in the Brodske area (Czech Republic). Models studied mineralogical changes i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,710 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2023

The identification of reservoir fractures is essential as it is an important factor in the design of a field development plan, which in turn affects the efficiency of hydrocarbon production. Water flooding and water channeling are serious due to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,034 Views
12 Pages

Origins of Colour of Smithsonite from Yunnan, China

  • Wei Ding,
  • Quanli Chen,
  • Yan Li and
  • Xianyu Liu

20 February 2023

Smithsonite exhibits an extensive range of colours in nature. The internal features, spectral characteristic, and trace elements of several coloured smithsonites (e.g., white, blue, blue-green, yellow, orange, and pink) from Lanping District, Yunnan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,680 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2023

Mine tailings are typically deposited as slurry and stored in impoundment dams. These structures pose a serious geotechnical risk, and are difficult to successfully reclaim at the end of mining. An increasingly common alternative to traditional taili...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,838 Views
14 Pages

20 February 2023

During in situ leaching of ionic rare earth ore, the pore structure of the orebody changes due to the chemical replacement reaction between the leaching agent and the rare earth ore. To explore the influence of leaching agents on the pore structure o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,234 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2023

Eutrophication caused by excessive discharging of phosphorus is a global water pollution problem. To further improve the phosphorus adsorption capacity of natural palygorskite and easy separation from liquid, magnetic thermal modified palygorskite na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,781 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2023

The paper summarizes the results of an experimental study of the formation of K–Ba high-Ti (and Cr) oxides synthesized in the chromite–rutile/ilmenite–K2CO3/BaCO3–H2O–CO2 systems at 1.8–5.0 GPa. Experiments confirm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,464 Views
16 Pages

The Correlation of Colour and Iron Oxides in Yellow Seal Stones from Northern Laos

  • Jinglin Tian,
  • Tao Chen,
  • Jinyu Zheng,
  • Jiaxin Wu and
  • Yating Xu

19 February 2023

The yellow seal stone from northern Laos is one possible substitute for the Tianhuang Stone, the most famous Chinese seal stone, because of its similar yellow to orange-yellow appearance and the same main mineral composition. The colour causation of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,647 Views
20 Pages

Petrogenesis and Geochronology of A1-Type Rhyolites in the Late Late Triassic of the East Kunlun Orogenic Belt: Constraints on the End of the Paleo-Tethys Orogenic Event

  • Zuochen Li,
  • Xianzhi Pei,
  • Lei Pei,
  • Chengjun Liu,
  • Lili Xu,
  • Ruibao Li,
  • Hao Lin,
  • Mao Wang,
  • Shang Ji and
  • Li Qin
  • + 4 authors

18 February 2023

The rhyolites which are widely exposed to the northern margin of the East Kunlun orogenic belt were chosen as a research object to discern the post-orogenic tectonic evolution of the East Kunlun orogenic belt and reconstruct the post-collision orogen...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,292 Views
24 Pages

SO2-Induced Aging of Hematite- and Cinnabar-Based Tempera Paint Mock-Ups: Influence of Binder Type/Pigment Size and Composition

  • José Santiago Pozo-Antonio,
  • Daniel Jiménez-Desmond,
  • Lara De Villalobos,
  • Ana Mato,
  • Amélia Dionísio,
  • Teresa Rivas and
  • Carolina Cardell

18 February 2023

Hematite- and cinnabar-based paint mock-ups prepared with either rabbit glue or egg yolk binder were artificially aged in an SO2-rich atmosphere, as a model system for investigating the deterioration of tempera paints exposed to an industrial atmosph...

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