Selenium, Tellurium and Precious Metal Mineralogy
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Deposits".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2024 | Viewed by 7269
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
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
1. Jing Xu, Cristiana L. Ciobanu, Nigel J. Cook, Shen Gao, and Jichen Jiang. Constraints on ore genesis from trace ore mineralogy: a case study from Zhibula Cu skarn, southern Tibet.
2. Jiajun Liu and Guoming Weng. Mineral assemblages and ore-forming physicochemical conditions of the La'erma deposit in the western Qinling, central China.
3. Guoming Weng and Jiajun Liu. Mineral assemblage characteristics and physicochemical conditions from Au-Te deposits in the Xiaoqinling region, central China.
4. Mengmeng Zhang and Junfeng Shen. Genesis of the Sanhetun tellurium-gold deposit, northeast China: Constraints from telluride mineralogy, in situ elemental and sulfur isotopic compositions of pyrite.
5. Xiaoxuan Zhang, Da Wang, Saina Dong. Application of Machine Learning in the Research of Trace Element Characteristics of Metal Sulfides in Se-Te-bearing Deposits.
6. Yongwei Lu, Xiaobo Zhao, Chunji Xue, Yiwei Shi. Telluride mineralogy of the Kockbulak epithermal gold deposit, Almalyk district, Uzbekistan.
7. Yang Li and Jiajun Liu. Palaeo-environment of selenium enrichment in the Baiguoyuan Ag-V-Se ore deposit, Western Hubei, China: Restrictions from organic geochemistry and element geochemistry.
8. Caixia Feng. Mineralogy,geochemistry and selenium speciation composition of early Cambrian Se-rich black shale in southern Shaanxi province, China.
9. Yuhang Liu and Dazhao Wang. Distribution and occurrence mechanisms of selenium in stibnite at the Xujiashan Sb deposit, Hubei, China.
10. Liang-Yi Xu and Jian-Zhong Liu. Selenium, one of the indicator elements for prospecting the Carlin-type gold deposits in Guizhou province.
11. Weifang Song Genesis and metallogenic model of Baiyun gold deposit in Northeast Hubei Province, China.
12. Bing-Qiang Zhang. Ore fluid origin recorded by apatite chemistry: A case study from the Jiadi Carlin-type gold deposit, NanPanjiang-Youjiang metallogenic area, SW China.
13. Yuhong Yang and Jian-Zhong Liu. Mineral research and indicative significance of the basalt-containing Carlin-type gold deposits. southwestern Guizhou Province, China.
14. Zhang hao, Zhang fangfang, Liu jiajun, Wang yinhong, Zhang wei. Textures and trace element signatures of arsenopyrite from the Xiaorequanzi VMS deposit, NW China: implications for selenium and gold enrichment.