Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Polymetallic Ore Deposits
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Deposits".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 4192
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ore deposits; stable isotopes; geochemistry; quantitative mineralogy; geometallurgy; environmental pollution; waste recycling; supplementary cemetitous materials; calcined clays
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Dear Colleagues,
Polymetallic ore deposits comprise most ore deposits, especially those of base metals. These deposits are also highly topical as they are the main source of many critical elements, such as In, Ge, Sb, and others. Consequently, many of these deposits are of great economic and strategic importance. Studying their mineralogy and geochemistry is essential to establish their genesis, exploration, and mineral processing. Therefore, their knowledge will be necessary to address the extraction of mineral resources in an optimal way, and, therefore, in accordance with the premises of sustainability. Although there is much literature on them, improvements in current analytical techniques and the knowledge of mineral processes make it necessary to review their characterization with the introduction of details that allow them to be better understood and their resources to be managed more efficiently.
In this Special Issue, we will address the latest achievements in the mineralogy and geochemistry of polymetallic deposits, as tools to obtain information that will advance our understanding of the deposits, and, therefore, increase the availability of our mineral resources. Studies using the wide range of characterization techniques currently available (trace element chemistry, mineral chemistry, micro thermometry of fluid inclusions, stable isotopes, among others) are welcome.
Dr. Pura Alfonso
Dr. Abdorrahman Rajabi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polymetallic deposits
- ore mineralogy
- geochemistry
- ore-forming process
- process mineralogy
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