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Minerals, Volume 8, Issue 7

July 2018 - 48 articles

Cover Story: We have established that spatial distribution of content, morphology, grain size, composition, crystal structure and alteration in rock formation and most accessory minerals within the Kovdor phoscorite–carbonatite pipes, reflect the gradual decrease of crystallization temperature and oxygen fugacity from the pipe margin toward its axis. We believe that 3D mineralogical mapping is the best way to reconstruct genesis of any geological complex and to construct its geometallulgical model. Further, this approach helped predict localities of rare secondary minerals and discover some new minerals. View this paper
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Articles (48)

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,775 Views
23 Pages

13 July 2018

Quantitative 3D spatial association of geological factors and geophysical fields with orebodies is critical for ore prediction. The Anqing orefield, a principal Cu–Fe orefield in China, is closely associated with the Yueshan intrusion. By compi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
9,602 Views
24 Pages

Geochemical Characterization of Bauxite Deposits from the Abruzzi Mining District (Italy)

  • Francesco Putzolu,
  • Armando Piccolo Papa,
  • Nicola Mondillo,
  • Maria Boni,
  • Giuseppina Balassone and
  • Angela Mormone

12 July 2018

The Abruzzi bauxite district includes the deposits located on the Campo Felice plateau and those of the Monti d’Ocre, which had been mined in the first part of the 20th century. Bauxite is of the karst type, with textures ranging between ooliti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
209 Citations
34,437 Views
21 Pages

12 July 2018

A large amount of waste coming out from industries has posed a great challenge in its disposal and effect on the environment. Particularly fly ash, coming out from thermal power plants, which contains aluminosilicate minerals and creates a lot of env...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,204 Views
18 Pages

Reprocessing of a Southern Chilean Zn Tailing by Flotation—A Case Study

  • Bent Babel,
  • Maike Penz,
  • Edgar Schach,
  • Stefanie Boehme and
  • Martin Rudolph

11 July 2018

The reprocessing of tailings can have economic and environmental benefits compared to the processing of primary ore deposits. In this paper we present the characterization of a tailings dam in southern Chile by means of mineralogical and geochemical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,944 Views
18 Pages

11 July 2018

The effects of sodium ions, phosphorus, and silicon on the eco-friendly process of vanadium precipitation by hydrothermal hydrogen reduction were investigated to establish the suitable concentrated solution system for this eco-friendly process. The r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,671 Views
13 Pages

Selective Fabrication of Barium Carbonate Nanoparticles in the Lumen of Halloysite Nanotubes

  • Jing Ouyang,
  • Dawei Mu,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Huaming Yang and
  • Steven L. Suib

11 July 2018

Barium carbonate (BaCO3) materials with the controllable morphology of nanoparticles were selectively loaded into the lumen halloysite nanotubes (abbreviated as Hal) by a urease assisted catalytic implementation strategy. The Hal mineral was pre-trea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,857 Views
22 Pages

11 July 2018

Fifteen samples of No. 4 coal from the Yongdingzhuang Mine in Datong Coalfield were tested for their elemental compositions, modes of occurrence, and mineralogical compositions, using X-ray powder diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, inducti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,065 Views
20 Pages

10 July 2018

The Leimengou Mo deposit is one of the typical porphyry deposits in the East Qinling molybdenum ore belt. The Mo mineralization mainly hosts in the Leimengou intrusion, with minor by the gneiss of Archean Taihua Group. The Leimengou intrusion is comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,386 Views
24 Pages

Geochemistry and Biomarker Analysis of the Bentonites from Esquivias (Toledo, Spain)

  • Javier García-Rivas,
  • Mercedes Suárez,
  • Trinidad Torres,
  • Yolanda Sánchez-Palencia,
  • Emilia García-Romero and
  • José E. Ortiz

9 July 2018

The Tajo Basin is one of the richest in Mg-clays known around the world. Mg-bentonites, kwon as pink clays and green clays, alter in the Intermediate Unit of the Miocene sediments. In this work, a new approach to the genesis of these bentonites is pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,005 Views
30 Pages

Three-D Mineralogical Mapping of the Kovdor Phoscorite-Carbonatite Complex, NW Russia: II. Sulfides

  • Gregory Yu. Ivanyuk,
  • Yakov A. Pakhomovsky,
  • Taras L. Panikorovskii,
  • Julia A. Mikhailova,
  • Andrei O. Kalashnikov,
  • Ayya V. Bazai,
  • Victor N. Yakovenchuk,
  • Nataly G. Konopleva and
  • Pavel M. Goryainov

9 July 2018

The world largest phoscorite-carbonatite complexes of the Kovdor (Russia) and Palabora (South Africa) alkaline-ultrabasic massifs have comparable composition, structure and metallogenic specialization, and can be considered close relatives. Distribut...

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Minerals - ISSN 2075-163X