2022 March - 114 articles
The study of a large amount of factual material about the formation conditions of gibbsite or boehmite and their mutual transformations in lateritic bauxites allowed us to solve the problem of boehmite formation and its spatial and genetic relationsh...
The Sanjiang Indosinian orogen, located in the eastern part of the Paleo-Tethys tectonic domain, is a critical region to study the Paleo-Tethyan Ocean evolution. Middle Permian–Late Triassic magmatic rocks are widespread in the Deqin–Weix...
Adsorption mineralization of gold is an important mineralization mechanism under epigenetic and low temperature conditions. In this paper, a plane-wave pseudopotential method based on density functional theory (DFT) is used to explore the adsorption...
The upgradation of the ilmenite ore, using a pyrometallurgy method, is performed using a carbothermic reduction of the ilmenite. A high titania slag is obtained which is used as a feedstock for the TiO2 pigment production. The slag is cooled after ta...
With the rapid development of the economy, urbanization and industrialization gradually become an important driving force of groundwater chemical evolution. In this study, Lanzhou City, which is one of the biggest industrial cities in northwest China...
A comprehensive recovery process for the selective separation and enrichment of copper, zinc and iron minerals from a polymetallic ore was developed, which consisted of copper flotation, zinc flotation, and iron magnetic separation, and the adsorptio...
The Tianshui-Sunjiaxia area is located in the connection zone of West Qinling Orogen and North Qilian Orogen, which could provide great insights into the amalgamation processes between the northern and southern blocks of China. Three subduction- and...
Iron ore tailings are mainly composed of SiO2 and iron, whose content determines the potential reuse strategy of the tailings. Compared with the traditional wet chemistry approach, spectroscopy has proven its superior effectiveness in characterizing...
The so-called iron boomerang is constructed by using a combination of spectral metrics derived from the 900 nm 6A1→4T1 Fe3+ crystal field absorption. Previous work showed the iron boomerang provides qualitative information about the mineralogica...
In large coal preparation plants with a capacity of 30 million tons/year, the belt speed can reach 7 m/s and the thickness of the material layer can reach 500 mm. Therefore, in high-throughput and complex environments, the problem exists that harmful...
The giant Husab uranium deposit is located in the Paleoproterozoic Abbabis Metamorphic Complex, which was highly partially melted and metamorphosed during the Damara Orogenic Event. The timing of magma emplacement has been investigated; however, the...
The present study proposes a characterization of textural and mineralogical features of branching selenite gypsum lithofacies from the Monferrato area (NW Italy). This facies is considered to have appeared during the sequence of the primary lower gyp...
The mineralogical studies of rare-element (REL) pegmatites are important for unraveling the ore-forming process and evaluating REL mineralization potential. The Chinese Altai orogenic belt hosting more than 100,000 pegmatite dykes is famous for rare-...
Wastelands of the mining industry are among the largest of disturbed areas that demand revitalization. To reduce environmental impact and to better manage these geo-resources, the formation of sustainable plant and soil complexes and the restoration...
Aiming to better understand the fracture evolution characteristics of thin bedrock affected by mining, a program was developed to establish a numerical calculation model for the fracture evolution of the overlying rock in the stope under the coupled...
Cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology is widely used for environmental protection and underground goaf treatment. The influences of solid concentration, coarse aggregates dosage, and cement dosage on the rheological properties and compressive stre...
The application of geochemical analysis in archaeology provides a better understanding of ancient human activities. This paper presents the results of geochemical multi-element, LOI, MS, and geochronological analyses of a cultural layer at the Voorth...
Underground excavation is a necessary process for constructing mines, tunnels and depots in granite rock mass. In this study, the numerical granite specimens were established by the discrete element method and confirmed by laboratory experiments in o...
The calcium aluminate hydrate AFm and AFt phases formed upon hydration of Portland cement have an important role in the stabilization and solidification of hazardous chromate ions in hardened cement. AFm monochromate (Ca4[Al(OH)6]2(CrO4)·12H2O...
In-situ recovery (ISR) has been the only technique used to extract uranium from sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in the Pliocene Goliad Sand in the Texas Coastal Plain. Water plays a crucial role throughout the ISR lifecycle of production and ground...
Copper and associated gold mineralization in the Mundiyawas-Khera area of western India is hosted by the Proterozoic felsic volcanic rocks of rhyo-dacite composition. Signatures of hydrothermal alteration represented by sericite, epidote, scapolite a...
In the Neolithic Gavà mines, variscite and turquoise were exploited for ornaments manufacturing, although some prospective pits and tunnels were dug on other similar greenish minerals such as smectite or kandite. A 3D study of the distribution...
Precious metals can be mobilized during supergene processes, which are important for the formation of high-grade or high-purity ores. The world-class Linglong gold deposit has high-grade ores that have undergone supergene processes in the near-surfac...
Blasting and fracking of rock in mines exposes fresh rock surfaces to the local water and microbial communities. This may lead to leaching of metals from the rock by chemical or biological means and can cause acidification of the water system in the...
This paper analyzed the activity of coal-based metakaolin and non-coal-based metakaolin (ordinary metakaolin) commonly used in the Chinese market. The content of kaolin was detected by XPF. The phases of kaolin, metakaolin and corresponding alkali-ex...
In this study, monoammonium glycyrrhizinate (MAG) was introduced into cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB)-modified ZnO/attapulgite (APT) via a mechanical process to form performance-enhanced antibacterial nanocomposites (MAG/C–ZnO/APT). The...
A complex structural geology generally leads to significant consequences for hydrocarbon reservoir exploration. Despite many existing wells in the Kadanwari field, Middle Indus Basin (MIB), Pakistan, the depositional environment of the early Cretaceo...
Crystalline calcium carbonate (CaCO3, such as calcite) could scavenge aqueous metals via adsorption and coprecipitation. As a precursor to crystalline CaCO3, amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) is poorly understood on metals removal. Herein, we synthes...
Platinum group metals (PGMs) play a key role in modern society as they find application in clean technologies and other high-tech equipment. Spent catalytic converters as a secondary resource contain higher PGM concentrations and the recovery of thes...
Co-treatment for two kinds of hazardous solid waste is an effective method to reduce cost and increase recycle efficiency of value resource. This work developed an integrated process based on capture of red mud (RM) and a one-step heat-treatment proc...
Biogenic manganese oxides (BMOs) have attractive environmental applications owing to their metal sequestration and oxidizing abilities. Although Co readily accumulates into Mn oxide phases in natural environments, the Co2+ sequestration process that...
Isotopes of meteoric 10Be, 137Cs, 239+240Pu have been proposed as a soil redistribution tracer and applied worldwide as an alternative method to classical field-related techniques (e.g., sediment traps). Meteoric 10Be provides information about long-...
The carbothermic co-reduction of nickel laterite ore and red mud realized the simultaneous reduction of nickel, iron in laterite ore, and iron in red mud at high efficiency. Nickel and iron in nickel laterite ore and iron in red mud were recovered in...
Chalk is a very fine-grained carbonate and can accommodate high porosity which is a key characteristic for high-quality hydrocarbon reservoirs. A standard procedure within Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) is seawater-injection which repressurizes the rese...
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To realize the efficient and comprehensive utilization of specularite resources, combined with the cement clinker production technology of rotary kilns, the coupling process of the direct reduction of specularite by lignite and the preparation of cem...
Arranged from oldest to youngest, the main granitic rock units exposed in Khour Abalea are metagabbros, cataclastic rocks, ophiolitic melange, granitic rocks, pegmatite and lamprophyre dykes. The presence of radioactivity associated with the heavy be...
The Lala copper area in Huili County, Sichuan Province, China, is favored by superior regional metallogenic geological conditions due to its location in an extremely important copper–iron metallogenic belt in southwest China, and it has witness...
Carbon capture is among the most sustainable strategies to limit carbon dioxide emissions, which account for a large share of human impact on climate change and ecosystem destruction. This growing threat calls for novel solutions to reduce emissions...
The products of mining are key to the technology development of the future [...]
The halloysite has been subjected to modification through ultrasound (HU), sulfuric acid (HU-SA), and oligocyclopentadiene resin (HU-OCPD). The modified materials were characterized by scanning electron microscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray spectros...
Karst water quality degradation has been a challenge for domestic and industrial water supplies worldwide. To reveal the possible factors response for karst water quality degradation, Baotu karst spring system is studied as an representative example....
The European green deal and energy transition policies and the competition primarily shaped by the high price of carbon dioxide emission allowances and the consistently reduced cost of renewable energy technologies directly affect the coal and lignit...
In a period spanning from the 7th to the 1st century BC, the exterior surfaces of civil and sacred buildings in Italy were mainly decorated with terracottas. The aim of this study is to determine the skills and technological level reached by ancient...
Extensive bedding planes have a great influence on the mechanical properties of coal. In order to study the mechanism of the effects of bedding angles on the mechanical properties and failure characteristics of coal in the Shanxi Baode coal mine, uni...
Apatite is a nearly ubiquitous accessory phase in igneous rocks that crystallizes during the entire magma evolution process and has great implications for geochronology and petrogenesis. Previous studies suggested that Nb-Ta mineralization in the gia...
In the Pilauco site (40°34′11″ S, 73°06′17″ W; 13,570 ± 70–12,540 ± 90 14C year BP), a previous geochemical trace analysis suggested that the Puyehue-Cordón Caulle Volcanic Complex is the mos...
This paper presents the design calculations, implementations, and multi-engineering based computational constructions of an unmanned amphibious vehicle (UAmV) which efficiently travels underwater to detect and collect deep-sea minerals for investigat...
The relative motion and collision between grinding media in a wet-stirred accelerator mill are modelled using the discrete element method (DEM) coupled with computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The local average normalized grinding media velocity prof...
The aim of the present work was to perform copper, nickel, and platinum group metals (PGMs) recovery from low-grade copper–nickel concentrate containing pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite by bioleaching in stirred tank reactors in batch...
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