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Minerals, Volume 7, Issue 6

2017 June - 21 articles

Cover Story: We report on a tuff derived from alkali mafic volcanic ash with relatively high concentrations of critical metals, including Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf, rare earth elements, and Y in southwestern China. The clay mineralogy of the tuff profile changes vertically due to the change in the depositional environment. Although the original volcanic ash was mainly deposited in a continental environment, marine water may have percolated to the uppermost layers of the ash bed during early diagenesis, leading to the formation of concretions of concentric rings of kaolinite and illite. View the paper
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Articles (21)

  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
9,546 Views
10 Pages

20 June 2017

Microorganisms play an important role in weathering sulfide minerals worldwide and thrive in metal-rich and extremely acidic environments in acid mine drainage (AMD). Advanced molecular methods provide in-depth information on the microbial diversity...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biogeochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,868 Views
12 Pages

Heterotrophic Microbial Stimulation through Biosolids Addition for Enhanced Acid Mine Drainage Control

  • Omy T. Ogbughalu,
  • Andrea R. Gerson,
  • Gujie Qian,
  • Roger St. C. Smart,
  • Russell C. Schumann,
  • Nobuyuki Kawashima,
  • Rong Fan,
  • Jun Li and
  • Michael D. Short

19 June 2017

The effective control and treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) from sulfide-containing mine wastes is of fundamental importance for current and future long-term sustainable and cost-effective mining industry operations, and for sustainable managemen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biogeochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,227 Views
12 Pages

17 June 2017

The promotion of strengthening of vanadium oxidation by compound additive of sodium salts is described from the changes of the vanadium valence state and mineral phase. The results are as follows: during the roasting process, dehydroxy mica converts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,623 Views
12 Pages

The Influence of Ca2+ and pH on the Interaction between PAHs and Molybdenite Edges

  • He Wan,
  • Wei Yang,
  • Tingshu He,
  • Jianbo Yang,
  • Lin Guo and
  • Yongjun Peng

17 June 2017

Nonpolar hydrocarbon oils are widely used as collectors for floating molybdenite. However, they can only adsorb on molybdenite faces and not on molybdenite edges, resulting in limited molybdenite recovery, especially in processed water containing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,833 Views
14 Pages

Flotation Separation of Scheelite from Fluorite Using Sodium Polyacrylate as Inhibitor

  • Ying Zhang,
  • Youyu Li,
  • Rong Chen,
  • Yuhua Wang,
  • Jiushuai Deng and
  • Ximei Luo

16 June 2017

The depressing properties of sodium polyacrylate (PA-Na) for scheelite and fluorite were studied by micro-flotation tests, infrared spectroscopy (IR), zeta potentials, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and density functional theory (DFT). The f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,613 Views
19 Pages

15 June 2017

Among the Zn–Hg–S and Hg–Se–S series minerals, Hg-bearing sphalerite and metacinnabar are uncommon in ore deposits, but they are useful indicators of temporal variation of ore forming fluids, as well as presenting metallurgical implications for Hg-be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,256 Views
30 Pages

The Hydrothermal Fluid Evolution of Vein Sets at the Pipeline Gold Mine, Nevada

  • Nigel J.F. Blamey,
  • Andrew R. Campbell and
  • Matt T. Heizler

13 June 2017

The origin of sediment-hosted Nevada gold deposits has been highly debated, especially regarding the relative contribution of multiple mineralizing events, particularly relating to the Cretaceous. We examined the Pipeline gold mine in north-central N...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid Inclusions: Study Methods, Applications and Case Histories)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,433 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2017

Mineralogical and geochemical analyses of the Dopolan karstic bauxite ore were performed to identify the characteristics of four bauxite horizons, which comprise from top to bottom, bauxitic kaolinite, diaspore-rich bauxite, clay-rich bauxite, and py...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Organo-Mineral Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,191 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Additives on Arsenic, Boron and Selenium Leaching from Coal Fly Ash

  • Sri Hartuti,
  • Farrah Fadhillah Hanum,
  • Akihiro Takeyama and
  • Shinji Kambara

10 June 2017

The establishment of an inexpensive leaching control method to prevent the leaching of trace elements from fly ash is required for the utilization of large-scale fly ash as an embankment material. This study examined the effects of the additives on s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,145 Views
16 Pages

9 June 2017

The reduction roasting ammonia leaching process (RRAL) originally defined by Caron (1950) has been extensively applied to treat low grade nickel laterite and a large amount of slag-containing some valuable metals, has been generated and accumulated o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,882 Views
19 Pages

Mechanism of Surrounding Rock Failure and Crack Evolution Rules in Branched Pillar Recovery

  • Gaojian Hu,
  • Tianhong Yang,
  • Jingren Zhou,
  • Qinglei Yu,
  • Lianku Xie,
  • Honglei Liu and
  • Yong Zhao

8 June 2017

To study the mechanism of surface collapse and crack evolution in a roadway chain failure process in the pillar recovery of Hongling lead zinc ore in Inner Mongolia Province, China, microseismic monitoring technology, moment tensor theory, and numeri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,079 Views
27 Pages

8 June 2017

The precipitation of carbonate minerals induced by halophilic bacteria has aroused wide concern. The study aimed to investigate the characterization and process of biomineralization in high salt systems by halophilic Chromohalobacter israelensis LD53...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,524 Views
11 Pages

Characterization and Separation Studies of a Fine Sedimentary Phosphate Ore Slime

  • Xin Liu,
  • Yimin Zhang,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Zhenlei Cai and
  • Kun Sun

7 June 2017

Detailed characterization and recovery of apatite from a sedimentary phosphate ore slime of a gravity plant of Yichang, China, were investigated. The phosphate ore slime consisted mainly of apatite, quartz, dolomite, and clay. To start with, the ore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,904 Views
10 Pages

6 June 2017

Lead citrate is a key precursor for the green recycling of spent lead acid battery paste in a citric acid/sodium citrate (CA/SC) solution. In this study, the main paste component, PbSO4, was leached and crystallized to yield lead citrate. Results sho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,800 Views
21 Pages

Origin of Minerals and Critical Metals in an Argillized Tuff from the Huayingshan Coalfield, Southwestern China

  • Lei Zhao,
  • Qin Zhu,
  • Shaohui Jia,
  • Jianhua Zou,
  • Victor Nechaev and
  • Shifeng Dai

5 June 2017

This paper reports the minerals in an argillized tuff from the Lvshuidong mine, Huayingshan Coalfield, southwestern China. The clay assemblages of the samples are mainly kaolinite, varying proportions of illite and trace chlorite. Other minerals incl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
11,566 Views
56 Pages

4 June 2017

Selenium mineralization in the Příbram uranium and base-metal district (Central Bohemia, Czech Republic) bound to uraninite occurrences in calcite hydrothermal veins is extremely diverse. The selenides antimonselite, athabascaite, bellidoite, berzeli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Se-Bearing Minerals: Structure, Composition, and Origin)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,607 Views
17 Pages

1 June 2017

This study focused on the formation of the jarosite-alunite solid solution at relatively low temperature, 90 °C. It was found that the transition from jarosite to alunite results in significant changes in the powder X-ray diffraction pattern, the inf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nucleation of Minerals: Precursors, Intermediates and Their Use in Materials Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,933 Views
10 Pages

Control of Acid Generation from Pyrite Oxidation in a Highly Reactive Natural Waste: A Laboratory Case Study

  • Yan Zhou,
  • Michael D. Short,
  • Jun Li,
  • Russell C. Schumann,
  • Roger St. C. Smart,
  • Andrea R. Gerson and
  • Gujie Qian

30 May 2017

Laboratory kinetic leach column (KLC) tests were carried out to define the conditions required to control acid generation from a highly reactive, potentially acid-forming (PAF) iron ore waste rock. It was found that lime addition (0.1 wt % blended) p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biogeochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
14,806 Views
26 Pages

30 May 2017

Diagenesis is one of the most important factors that affects reservoir rock property. Despite the fact that published data gives a vast amount of information on the geology, sedimentology, and lithostratigraphy of the Ecca Group in the Karoo Basin of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,122 Views
8 Pages

Synergetic Effect of the Mixed Anionic/Non-Ionic Collectors in Low Temperature Flotation of Scheelite

  • Chen Chen,
  • Hailing Zhu,
  • Wei Sun,
  • Yuehua Hu,
  • Wenqing Qin and
  • Runqing Liu

26 May 2017

The synergetic effect of four octaphenyl polyoxyethyienes (TX) on low temperature flotation of scheelite at 9–11 °C was investigated through flotation experiments, and the adsorption mechanism was studied by way of surface tension, zeta potential, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,818 Views
14 Pages

23 May 2017

Coal-based reduction and magnetic separation behavior of low-grade vanadium-titanium magnetite pellets were studied in this paper. It is found that the metallization degree increased obviously with an increase in the temperature from 1100 °C to 1400...

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