2026 August - 96 articles
Shanxi Province in China is one of the world’s major bauxite producers. The co-existence of coal and bauxite mining makes this province particularly prone to acid mine drainage (AMD) and, thus, a significant area for investigating heavy metal m...
The Lower Cretaceous fan-delta sandstones in the North Yellow Sea Basin underwent a distinctive polyphase burial trajectory, offering a natural laboratory to investigate path-dependent diagenesis and its impact on reservoir quality evolution in super...
The growing demand for lithium for lithium-ion batteries and energy storage systems has driven the exploitation of natural brines in the “Lithium Triangle” (Chile, Argentina, Bolivia). However, the presence of boron, which is highly solub...
Gold-vein deposits of the Nazca–Ocoña belt constitute an important economic resource for small- and medium-scale mining in Peru. However, the mineralogical and physicochemical controls governing gold distribution in these veins remain po...
This study integrates conventional sediment geochemistry with explainable machine learning to investigate the provenance of surface sediments from Wular Lake, Kashmir Valley, NW Himalaya. Twenty-two samples were analysed for 49 geochemical variables...
Mining project evaluation depends on geological resource models, yet these models remain inherently uncertain because they are constructed from sparse drillhole data, indirect geophysical observations, and incomplete geological knowledge. Conventiona...
Secondary raw materials (SRM) such as phosphogypsum, pyritic mining wastes, and metallurgical slags constitute increasingly important alternative sources of critical raw materials within circular economy strategies. However, these materials commonly...
To address the difficulty of synergizing multi-source spatial data with geological text and the limited spatial reasoning of large language models (LLMs), this paper proposes an intention-driven hybrid semantic–spatial retrieval–augmented...
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Coal combustion generates coal fly ash (CFA) as a solid byproduct, with nearly 16 million tons produced in 2023 alone. CFAs contain harmful trace metals, including arsenic (As), lead (Pb), chromium (Cr), and copper (Cu), whose mobility and environmen...
The newly discovered Caijiagou gold deposit is hosted in metasedimentary rocks of the Silurian Taiyangsi Formation in the West Qinling Orogen (WQO), central China. Three mineralization stages are recognized: (1) the quartz–sericite–pyrite...
The short-offset transient electromagnetic method (SOTEM) has become a popular research topic in recent years. In this paper, we present the vector finite element method based on model reduction, which greatly improves computational efficiency. Based...
Regional multi-isotope mapping provides an effective means of investigating deep crustal composition and crustal reworking processes. The western margin of the Yangtze Craton has experienced multiple episodes of magmatism, crustal reworking, and mine...
Neodymium (Nd) and dysprosium (Dy) are two critical rare earth elements for fabricating NdFeB permanent magnets, which have crucial applications in modern technologies. The increasing global demand for Nd and Dy emphasizes new efficient processes for...
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The scarcity of high-quality Paleozoic paleomagnetic data from the South China Block (SCB) has rendered the kinematic history of its rifting and drifting from Gondwana highly debated, consequently leaving the timing of opening and subsequent spreadin...
This study investigates the potential for recovering valuable minerals from feldspar tailings generated during industrial processing and commonly discarded as waste, causing both economic losses and environmental concerns. A hydrocyclone overflow sam...
This study investigates the effect of uranium in situ leaching using solutions containing an antiscaling inhibitor on the productivity and workover interval of technological wells. For the first time, the relationship between calcium ion (Ca2+) disso...
In this study, we explore the static and dynamic mechanical responses of layered cemented backfill subjected to blasting loads. Variable-rate uniaxial compression tests and Split Hopkinson Pressure Bar (SHPB) numerical simulations were performed on s...
Reaching the end of their lifecycle, lithium-ion batteries contain significant amounts of lithium residues as well as valuable metals such as Co, Ni, and Mn, presenting both environmental risks and opportunities for resource recovery. Recent advances...
The present work focuses on investigating U–Pb and Lu–Hf ages of zircon grains obtained from Au mineralized granitic rocks from Alta Floresta Gold Province (AFGP), in the Amazonia craton, Brazil. Also, detrital zircon grains from recent A...
Granitoids in North Bangka, Bangka Belitung Province, Indonesia, are an integral part of the Southeast Asian Tin Belt magmatism, yet their deformation history from crystallization through tectonic cooling remains incompletely documented. This study c...
Bauxite residue (red mud) is a highly alkaline byproduct of the alumina refining process generated in large volumes worldwide. Most alumina operations currently rely on long-term storage facilities due to the high costs and technical constraints of r...
Tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are among the largest engineered structures in the mining industry and, at the same time, among its most persistent sources of safety and environmental risk [...]
The origin and metallogenic role of pyrite in sandstone-hosted uranium deposits remain difficult to constrain because pyrite may record both early diagenetic reduction and later ore-fluid overprinting. Here, pyrite and associated uranium minerals fro...
Despite decades of intervention efforts, mercury amalgamation remains widespread in artisanal gold mining (AGM), yet no prior study has presented an integrated metallurgical balance quantifying gold (Au), silver (Ag), and mercury (Hg) simultaneously...
In recent years, data-driven mineral prospectivity mapping (MPM) has become a key technical approach for delineating exploration targets. Nevertheless, two major challenges persist. First, sampling is often sparse and irregularly distributed, making...
The Kalasayi tungsten deposit is a medium-sized quartz-vein scheelite tungsten deposit in the Western Tianshan, Central Asia Orogenic Belt. The Kalatawu pluton yielded Late Carboniferous zircon U–Pb ages (313.99–310.32 Ma), and molybdenit...
The nanoscale structural heterogeneity of carbons plays a crucial role in regulating the surface activity, catalytic performance, and wettability of substances. Herein, we quantitatively investigate the nanostructural evolution of a coal-derived carb...
Operational risk assessment in complex industrial systems like mineral processing plants is hindered by inherent uncertainty and incomplete information. This study presents an integrated grey system theory-based framework to address this challenge. C...
Emulsified collectors (ECs) have attracted increasing attention in coal slime flotation because of their superior dispersion characteristics and collecting performance compared with conventional hydrocarbon collectors. However, the relationship betwe...
The rapid increase in electric vehicles has increased the generation of spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and the need for efficient lithium recovery technologies. This study compared two distinct sulfation roasting routes, using sodium sulfate (Na2...
The conventional sulfidization–xanthate flotation of oxide copper minerals is often limited by reagent consumption and the mismatch between surface generation and sulfidization when sulfidization is carried out only during flotation conditionin...
Existing evaluations of sandstone-hosted uranium deposits commonly describe ore-controlling troughs and faults qualitatively, which limits the quantitative characterization of structural ore-controlling elements and the prediction of favorable minera...
Manganese is a raw material of increasing strategic importance owing not only to its fundamental role in steel production but also to its use in battery technologies, chemical processes, environmental applications, and advanced industrial fields. Wit...
Dixie Valley, located in west-central Nevada within the Basin and Range Province, is one of the most important geothermal systems in the western United States and an increasingly attractive target for critical-mineral exploration. The valley combines...
Ion-adsorption rare earth deposits (IADs) constitute the primary global source of medium-to-heavy rare earth elements. The sustainable exploitation of these resources hinges on the precise characterization of the weathered crust architecture and its...
The Niukutoudong deposit, in the Qimantage metallogenic belt, western East Kunlun Orogenic Belt, is a recently discovered cobalt-rich polymetallic deposit. This study integrates zircon U-Pb geochronology and whole-rock geochemistry of the ore-hosting...
This study investigates the effects of phosphorus (P) on the phases developed during sintering and their impact on the stability of key phases in iron ore sinter, particularly the silico-ferrite of calcium and aluminum (‘SFCA’) series of...
Limited sample diversity poses a major challenge for deep learning-based coal–gangue recognition using mineral laser speckle images under complex industrial conditions. To address this issue, we propose an improved data augmentation framework b...
The Lower Cambrian Yurtus Formation along the northwestern margin of the Tarim Basin has commonly been regarded as a regionally developed marine source-rock interval. However, the formation features strong internal source-rock heterogeneity, and the...
Re-establishing native plant communities is critical for restoring post-mine influenced sites. A major challenge is that mining activity can result in poor soil quality that is not conducive to plant growth. Various soil amendments can provide organi...
Ultra-deep dolomite formations exhibit pronounced mechanical heterogeneity governed by mineral composition, inter-particle cementation, and observation scale, complicating their mechanical characterization. Because intact downhole cores are difficult...
Tight reservoirs exhibit complex pore structures and strong heterogeneity, which complicate reservoir characterization. Although spectral induced polarization (SIP) is sensitive to pore structure, existing polarization models are formulated at the po...
Lacustrine shales are globally important both as archives of paleoenvironmental change and as unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs. The first Member of the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Songliao Basin, NE China, represents a prominen...
The characterization of geological materials through advanced mineralogical and geochemical approaches remains a cornerstone of geoscientific research, underpinning our understanding of Earth systems, the distribution and accessibility of natural res...
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