Selenium, Tellurium and Precious Metal Mineralogy
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 1676
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gold deposit; barium deposit; scattered element deposit; ore deposit geochemistry; ore genesis; mineralogy of selenium and tellurium
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Selenium- and tellurium-bearing precious metal minerals are significant producers of Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, and potentially strategic elements if mineral processing methods are optimized for recovery. These minerals include many phases (e.g., Au-Ag-Te and Au-Ag-Se) and occur in many types of ore deposits from different backgrounds, such as epithermal, Carlin-type, orogenic, and intrusion-related gold deposits as well as magmatic Cu–Ni–PGE sulfide, IOCG, VMS, porphyry, and skarn deposits. In recent years, high-precision analysis (e.g., in situ technology and high-resolution mass spectrum) on minerals has provided an opportunity to investigate mineral genesis, metal sources, and enrichment mechanisms, as well as metal recovery in ore deposits. This Special Issue is focused on Se- and Te-bearing precious metal minerals from different deposit types, including, but not limited to (1) mineral genesis in ore deposits; (2) high-resolution chemistry and isotope analyses of minerals; (3) hydrothermal experiments (e.g., nucleation and growth); (4) numerical modeling; and (5) environmentally friendly recovery approaches.
Prof. Dr. Jiajun Liu
Dr. Shen Gao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Se- and Te-bearing mineralogy
- precious metals
- ore genesis
- mineral chemistry
- isotopes
- fluid conditions
- enrichment mechanism