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Minerals, Volume 13, Issue 7

July 2023 - 154 articles

Cover Story: The Pra Basin's crystalline aquifer plays a crucial role in the region's water supply systems, particularly in light of the ongoing pollution of surface water resources. This research employs combinatorial inverse and geochemical reaction path models under the assumption of local thermodynamic equilibrium to explore the possible mineral combinations responsible for groundwater chemical evolution. Three hypothetical flow paths were simulated based on the cluster analysis results. The results indicate that the weathering of silicate minerals comprising albite, anorthite, plagioclase, potassium feldspar, and chalcedony likely influences groundwater composition. The modelling techniques presented here can be applied to other regions with large heterogeneity in water chemistry. View this paper
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Articles (154)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,695 Views
22 Pages

24 July 2023

With the increasing exploitation of mineral resources by humans, exploring non-traditional areas for hidden resources such as deep earth and sediment-covered regions has become a significant challenge in the field of mineral exploration. Geochemical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,081 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

In this study, two types of cemented tailings backfill (CTB) were prepared by breaking up the waste clay bricks (WCB) from dismantled buildings and replacing part of the cement with brick powder and part of the tailings with brick aggregate. The mech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,395 Views
19 Pages

Integration of Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Induced Polarization for Characterization and Mapping of (Pb-Zn-Ag) Sulfide Deposits

  • Mosaad Ali Hussein Ali,
  • Farag M. Mewafy,
  • Wei Qian,
  • Fahad Alshehri,
  • Mohamed S. Ahmed and
  • Hussein A. Saleem

24 July 2023

The accurate characterization and mapping of low-grade ore deposits necessitate the utilization of a robust exploration technique. Induced polarization (IP) tomography is a powerful geophysical method for mineral exploration. An integrated survey usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,892 Views
17 Pages

24 July 2023

The Middle–Lower Yangtze Metallogenic Belt (MLYMB) hosts abundant porphyry–skarn–stratabound-type Cu–Au–Mo deposits. Despite extensive research, the origin of the stratabound-type deposits, which developed at the unconfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,394 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

The Ashele ore concentration area is an important area for polymetallic ore concentration in Xinjiang, China. Scholars have made progress in understanding the ore-controlling structures, ore-bearing horizons, and metallogenic age of this area. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,790 Views
13 Pages

24 July 2023

When there are multiple key strata in the overburden of a deep coal seam and the surface subsidence coefficient after mining is small, this indicates that the overlying key strata fail to break completely after mining. On this occasion, stress is eas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,514 Views
29 Pages

24 July 2023

Spatial prediction of orebody characteristics can often be challenging given the commonly complex geological structure of mineral deposits. For example, a high nugget effect can strongly impact variogram modelling. Geological complexity can be caused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,419 Views
26 Pages

Characteristics of Seismogenic Dust Particles from a Mountain and Their Significance for Paleoseismic Records in a Tufa Section: A Case Study of Jiuzhaigou, China

  • Shengwen Jing,
  • Fudong Wang,
  • Enrico Capezzuoli,
  • Guoqing Huang,
  • Junhao Li,
  • Hanchao Jiang,
  • Zijian Zhou,
  • Xueqin Zhao,
  • Faqin Dong and
  • Andrea Brogi

24 July 2023

The sedimentary characteristics of the special interlayer contained in the section of the Sparkling Lake dam revealed by the 8 August Jiuzhaigou earthquake in 2017 are obviously different from the tufa in the dam body, and they are considered to be h...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,476 Views
18 Pages

24 July 2023

Paleoproterozoic banded iron formation (BIF) iron ore of the Zhengjiapo region of the Changyi metallogenic belt, Eastern Block of North China Craton contains abundant coexisting antiperthite and mesoperthite textures. The antiperthite and mesoperthit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,816 Views
13 Pages

23 July 2023

Carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is one of the essential approaches to achieving permanent CO2 emission reduction. A new idea of absorbing and mineralizing CO2 with industrial wastewater and converting activated calcium into mi...

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