Minerals, Volume 14, Issue 6

During the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian), significant disruptions in the carbon cycle, global warming, and episodes of oceanic anoxia occurred, leading to the deposition of organic carbon-rich sediments. In well BED2-3, located in the BED2 gas field w...

The study of the mineralogical and geochemical features of placer gold and the mechanisms of its distribution in the territory east of the Siberian platform, overlain by a thick cover of Mesozoic–Cenozoic deposits, where traditional methods of...

Innovation in comminution is expected to continue unabated to address the inefficiencies that are inherent in comminution circuits. The rotary offset crusher (ROC) is a new comminution device with a promising performance potential in terms of through...

Surface wettability is determined by the attraction of a liquid phase to a solid surface. It is typically quantified by using contact angle measurements at mineral surfaces in the case of the flotation of mineral particles. Contact angle research to...

The need for innovative catalysts and catalytic support materials is continually growing due to demanding requirements, stricter environmental demands, and the ongoing development of new chemical processes. Since about 80% of all industrial processes...

Deep learning has increasingly been used to identify minerals. However, deep learning can only be used to identify minerals within the distribution of the training set, while any mineral outside the spectrum of the training set is inevitably categori...

Pyrite is an important proxy used to reflect the redox state of a sedimentary environment. Currently available studies on pyrite focus on the process of sulfur cycles between an ocean and sediment. However, our understanding of the biogeochemical cyc...

Precious metals have long been considered as critical raw materials in many countries. There is a growing emphasis on recovering these metals from secondary sources such as automotive catalysts or WEEE (waste of electrical and electronic equipment)....

A new method for variable temperature infrared spectroscopy studies of minerals is presented. A sample heating/cooling apparatus incorporating a modified button sample holder with thermoelectric temperature control is described. By employing differen...

Mesoproterozoic (ca. 1.3 Ga) magmatism in the North China Craton (NCC) was dominated by mafic intrusions (dolerite sills) with lesser amounts of granitic magmatism, but our lack of knowledge of this magmatism hinders our understanding of the evolutio...