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Minerals, Volume 14, Issue 6

June 2024 - 105 articles

Cover Story: Leeman et al. present direct evidence of the presence of Meso-to-Neoarchean (~3.1 to 2.4 Ga) granulite basement terranes beneath the northern margin of the Snake River Plain (SRP), extending cratonic North America westward, from near the Yellowstone eruptive center to at least as far west as the Mountain Home area and, possibly, parts of the Owyhee Mountains in southwestern-most Idaho. This interpretation is based on the laser-ablation ICP-MS dating of zircons extracted from crustal metamorphic xenoliths carried to the surface by SRP volcanic eruptions. The photographs show (1) outcrops of a xenolith locality on Square Mountain (near Fairfield, Idaho), where clusters of xenoliths up to a 2–10 m dimension occur, and (2) cathodoluminescence images of selected zircons extracted there. View this paper
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Articles (105)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,869 Views
11 Pages

18 June 2024

Microwave-assisted rock breaking is a new and promising technology for the tunneling and drilling industry. Minerals in rocks have an important influence on the effect of microwave-assisted rock breaking. In this paper, common minerals in rocks such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,383 Views
18 Pages

Major, Trace and Rare Earth Elements Geochemistry of Bottom Sediments in the Retiro Baixo Reservoir after the B1 Tailings Dam Rupture, Paraopeba River (Brazil)

  • Diego S Sardinha,
  • Mateus Sala Pinto,
  • Paulo Henrique Bretanha Junker Menezes,
  • Gunther Brucha,
  • Jéssica Teixeira Silveira,
  • Letícia Hirata Godoy,
  • Deivid Arimatea Saldanha de Melo and
  • Fernando Verassani Laureano

18 June 2024

The rupture of an iron mining tailing dam in Brumadinho, Brazil, released around 10 million cubic meters of tailings, of which 1.6 Mm3 reached the Paraopeba River. In this work, a total of 30 samples from three bottom sediment cores were collected in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,046 Views
22 Pages

18 June 2024

There is a lack of published literature on coal deposits in Madagascar. The Imaloto Basin is a sub-basin of the Morondava Basin, Southwestern Madagascar, and hosts the Sakoa Coal Measures. The aim of this study was to increase our understanding of th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,708 Views
12 Pages

Concentration Plants of Construction and Demolition Waste for Coarse Aggregate Recycling

  • Carlos Hoffmann Sampaio,
  • Carlos Otávio Petter,
  • Luisa de Freitas Sampaio,
  • Josep Oliva Moncunill,
  • Weslei Monteiro Ambrós and
  • Artur Bressanelli Teixeira

18 June 2024

This paper presents simulations of different concentration plants that use Inert Construction and Demolition Waste as feed to generate coarse aggregates from old concretes. Different feed materials were studied: CDW generated in Spain; low-strength c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,953 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Al Substitution on Visible Short-Wave Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (VSWIR) of Goethite and Ferrihydrite

  • Keyan Chen,
  • Xiaorong Qin,
  • Jingwen Zhou,
  • Wei Tan,
  • Xiaoliang Liang,
  • Hongping He,
  • Jianxi Zhu,
  • Mengqi Han and
  • Lianying Luo

18 June 2024

Goethite and ferrihydrite are the two major iron hydroxides, essential mineral constituents in the terrestrial surface system. Aluminum (Al) is the most common substituent in iron hydroxides, and it may significantly change the bulk and surficial phy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,234 Views
19 Pages

17 June 2024

In order to better understand pore–throat structure characteristics, the coupling relationship between micropore–throat structure and macro reservoir quality and influencing factors caused by authigenic minerals were studied. Petrographic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,274 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2024

Fozi Mountain National Geopark is located in Zhenghe County in the northern region of Fujian Province, where the volcanic rocks of the Zhaixia Formation of the Shimaoshan Group are exposed. Zircon U-Pb dating and geochemical analysis were carried out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,977 Views
20 Pages

Distribution and Enrichment of Au, Hg, and Tl in the Lanmuchang Deposit, Guizhou, China

  • Songtao Li,
  • Jianzhong Liu,
  • Yong Xia,
  • Zepeng Wang,
  • Chengfu Yang,
  • Zhuojun Xie,
  • Qinping Tan and
  • Bingqiang Zhang

17 June 2024

Mineralization characterized by Au, Hg, and Tl enrichment is rare, and research on Au, Hg, and Tl mineralization is limited. The Lanmuchang Au–Hg–Tl deposit is located in the “Golden Triangle” of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi P...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,259 Views
20 Pages

15 June 2024

SE Anatolia is witnessing the final stage of the Wilson Cycle, where a continental collision between the Tauride–Anatolide block and Arabian platform occurred, and a 1.5 km Eastern Tauride mountain chain formed. We present new low-temperature t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,683 Views
27 Pages

Clay Minerals and Biopolymers in Film Design: Overview of Properties and Applications

  • Pollyana Trigueiro,
  • Juliane P. de L. Pereira,
  • Mirelly G. Ferreira,
  • Lucas B. Silva,
  • Luan Neves and
  • Ramón R. Peña-Garcia

15 June 2024

Research to replace petroleum-based plastics has been quite challenging. Currently, there is a lot of interest in biopolymers as an alternative. However, biopolymers do not have suitable mechanical properties when in film form, which limits their app...

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