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Minerals, Volume 6, Issue 3

September 2016 - 41 articles

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Articles (41)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,701 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2016

The supply of rare earths in China has been the focus of significant attention in recent years. Due to changes in regulatory policies and the development of strategic emerging industries, it is critical to investigate the scenario of rare earth suppl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,519 Views
16 Pages

21 September 2016

Novel ether thionocarbamates, O-butoxy isopropyl-N-ethoxycarbonyl thionocarbamate (BIPECTC) and O-(2-butoxy-1-methylethoxy) isopropyl-N-ethoxycarbonyl thionocarbamate (BMIPECTC), were synthesized in this study. Their collecting efficiencies in the fl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
8,582 Views
16 Pages

15 September 2016

In situ laser ablation quadrupole inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry was used to measure Pb isotopes in galena. Data acquisition was optimized by adjusting spot size, energy density, and ablation time to obtain near steady-state low relativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,304 Views
16 Pages

Investigation of Platinum-Group Minerals (PGM) from Othrys Chromitites (Greece) Using Superpanning Concentrates

  • Basilios Tsikouras,
  • Elena Ifandi,
  • Sofia Karipi,
  • Tassos A. Grammatikopoulos and
  • Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou

12 September 2016

Platinum-group minerals were concentrated using superpanning from two composite chromitite samples, which were collected from two old mines within the Othrys ophiolite. This method allows for the recovery of a broad spectrum of these rare and fine-gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,825 Views
11 Pages

8 September 2016

The dispersion and flocculation behavior of muscovite suspensions in the presence of Ca2+ and Mg2+ are relevant for industrial processing of pre-concentrated muscovite from stone coal, a primary source of vanadium. In this study, the dispersion and f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,274 Views
11 Pages

The Effect of Chloride Ions on the Activity of Cerussite Surfaces

  • Qicheng Feng,
  • Shuming Wen,
  • Qinbo Cao,
  • Jiushuai Deng and
  • Wenjuan Zhao

6 September 2016

Chloride ions were found to potentially increase activity of cerussite surfaces. Dissolution experiments, zeta potential measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) studies, and density functional theory (DFT) computation were conducted in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,172 Views
22 Pages

The Cedrolina Chromitite, Goiás State, Brazil: A Metamorphic Puzzle

  • Yuri De Melo Portella,
  • Federica Zaccarini,
  • George L. Luvizotto,
  • Giorgio Garuti,
  • Ronald J. Bakker,
  • Nelson Angeli and
  • Oskar Thalhammer

1 September 2016

The Cedrolina chromitite body (Goiás-Brazil) is concordantly emplaced within talc-chlorite schists that correspond to the poly-metamorphic product of ultramafic rocks inserted in the Pilar de Goiás Greenstone Belt (Central Brazil). The chromite ore d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,892 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2016

Kyanite and sillimanite are two polymorphic minerals with the same formula of Al2SiO5, but different crystal structures. Despite their high economic values, selectively recovering them by flotation is a challenge. In this study, the flotation behavio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,863 Views
10 Pages

29 August 2016

Hydrometallurgical processing of chalcopyrite is hindered predominantly due to the passivation layers formed on the chalcopyrite surface. However, the effects of impurity cations released from the gangue are not yet well understood. Density functiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
11,991 Views
22 Pages

Marine Phosphorites as Potential Resources for Heavy Rare Earth Elements and Yttrium

  • James R. Hein,
  • Andrea Koschinsky,
  • Mariah Mikesell,
  • Kira Mizell,
  • Craig R. Glenn and
  • Ray Wood

29 August 2016

Marine phosphorites are known to concentrate rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) during early diagenetic formation. Much of the REY data available are decades old and incomplete, and there has not been a systematic study of REY distributions in mar...

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