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Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 5

May 2023 - 126 articles

Cover Story: Agates from Chihuahua state in northern Mexico are some of the most beautiful and most expensive agates in the world. The most famous deposits exist in the Chihuahuan Desert mainly within the geological unit of Rancho el Agate andesite. The mixing of near-surface fluids produced by rock alteration with magmatic hydrothermal solutions caused agate mineralization. This mixing led to the accumulation of various elements and mineral inclusions within the SiO2 matrix of the agates, creating an impressive spectrum of vivid colors. Some hydrothermal fluids are presumably related to the residual solutions of rhyolitic volcanism, which followed latitic extrusions and probably caused the formation of polymetallic ore deposits in the Chihuahua area. View this paper
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Articles (126)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,104 Views
24 Pages

22 May 2023

The Liaohe Group, which is a significant lithostratigraphic unit within the Paleoproterozoic Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt situated between the Longgang and Liaonan-Nangrim blocks, comprises the Langzishan, Li’eryu, Gaojiayu, Dashiqiao, and Gaixian formati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,458 Views
23 Pages

22 May 2023

The Bodaibo gold-bearing district in the Lena gold province of Siberia is one of the largest and oldest placer gold-bearing provinces in the world. Approximately 1650 tons of gold has been extracted from the region. Precise studies on the source of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,587 Views
14 Pages

Estimating Perspectives of Oil and Gas in New Strata in the Southern and Surrounding Dayangshu Basin

  • Yanxu Liu,
  • Yanling Lai,
  • Wenyong Li,
  • Feng Luo,
  • Lijie Wang,
  • Anqi Cao,
  • Zhexin Jiang and
  • Shan Gao

22 May 2023

On the basis of elaborating on the regional geological background, this paper analyzes the lithological and sedimentary characteristics and explorative prospects of new strata with oil and gas in the southern and surrounding areas of Dayangshu Basin....

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,778 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2023

This study focused on the preparation, structural characterization and evaluation of some dynamic and rheological properties of a new type of mastic material, clay-mastic, which consists of bituminous binders mixed with mineral fillers. For this purp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,681 Views
14 Pages

Pink to Purple Sapphires from Ilakaka, Madagascar: Insights to Separate Unheated from Heated Samples

  • Stefanos Karampelas,
  • Ugo Hennebois,
  • Jean-Yves Mevellec,
  • Vincent Pardieu,
  • Aurélien Delaunay and
  • Emmanuel Fritsch

22 May 2023

The present study is focused on the analysis of zircon inclusions found in pink to purple sapphires from Ilakaka (Madagascar) with an optical microscope, Fourier-transform infrared (FTIR), and micro-Raman spectroscopy in order to update previous know...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,824 Views
13 Pages

21 May 2023

In this paper, a novel hydroxyl-containing quaternary ammonium surfactant N-(2-Hydroxyethyl)-N, N-dimethyl-3-[(1-oxododecyl)amino]-1-propanaminium (LPDC) was synthesized and introduced as a collector for the reverse cationic flotation separation of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,837 Views
11 Pages

In Situ High-Pressure Raman Spectroscopic, Single-Crystal X-ray Diffraction, and FTIR Investigations of Rutile and TiO2II

  • Xiaofeng Lu,
  • Shuchang Gao,
  • Peiyan Wu,
  • Ziyu Zhang,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Xiaoguang Li and
  • Xueqing Qin

21 May 2023

In ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphic rocks, rutile is an important accessory mineral. Its high-pressure polymorph TiO2II can be a significant indicator of pressure in the diamond stability field. In the present study, in situ high-pressure Raman s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,508 Views
17 Pages

Petrogenesis of Shihuiyao Rare-Metal Granites in the Southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China

  • Deyou Sun,
  • Shicheng Wang,
  • Jun Gou,
  • Duo Zhang,
  • Changzhou Deng,
  • Dongguang Yang and
  • Li Tian

21 May 2023

Shihuiyao Rb–Nb–Ta-rich granites from the Late Jurassic period are newly discovered rare-metal-bearing granites found in the southern Great Xing’an Range, NE China. Further research of these granites may contribute to better underst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,229 Views
12 Pages

Study on the Aeromagnetic System between Fixed-Wing UAV and Unmanned Helicopter

  • Yong-Zai Xi,
  • Gui-Xiang Liao,
  • Ning Lu,
  • Yong-Bo Li and
  • Shan Wu

20 May 2023

Based on the CH-3 and WH-110A unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms, we independently developed aeromagnetic systems for fixed-wing UAVs (FUAV) and modified unmanned helicopters (MUH), respectively. These systems overcome key technological challeng...

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Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X