The abundant iron sulfide mineral pyrite has been shown to catalytically produce hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and hydroxyl radical (.OH) in slurries of oxygenated water. Understanding the formation and fate of these reactive oxygen species is important to biological and ecological systems as exposure can lead to deleterious health effects, but also environmental engineering during the optimization ...

Located at the intersection of Tethys and Pacific Rim metallogenic belts, Laojunshan polymetallic province in SE Yunnan Province hosts many large-scale W–Sn Sn–Zn deposits. The newly discovered Caiyuanzi medium-sized Pb–Zn deposit is located northern part this has eight sulfide ore bodies. All bodies occur siliceous rocks Lower Devonian Pojiao Formation (D1p). are conformable with stratigraphy ...

Acid bioleaching of a low-grade and polymetallic sulfide concentrate was studied, in order to determine suitable feed material particle size pH for efficient leaching valuable metals. The consisted pyrite (50 wt %), pyrrhotite (31 quartz (10 %) lower amounts cobalt, nickel, zinc copper (each <1 %). After adaptation microorganisms shake flasks, stirred tank tests were conducted at different l...

in this research work, the zinc extraction was investigated, using bioleaching process from a low grade zinc concentrate which was produced from the accumulated flotation tailings. zinc content was initially upgraded to 11.97% by flotation process. bioleaching experiments were designed and carried out by a mixed culture of acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, acidithiobacillus thiooxidans, leptospir...

Iron pyrite (FeS(2)) is a naturally abundant and nontoxic photovoltaic material that can potentially make devices as efficient as silicon-based ones; however existing iron pyrite photovoltaic devices contain thermodynamically unstable FeS(2) film surfaces that lead to low open circuit voltages. We report the rational synthesis of phase pure, highly crystalline cubic FeS(2) nanocrystals (NCs) us...

Earth-abundant iron pyrite (FeS2) shows great potential as a light absorber for solar cells and photodetectors due to their high absorption coefficient (>10(5) cm(-1)). In this paper, high-quality phase-pure and single crystalline pyrite nanocrystals were synthesized via facile, low-cost, and environment friendly hydrothermal method. The molar ratio of sulphur to iron and the reaction time play...

The thermodynamics of electrochemical and complexation reactions involving the heterobimetallic triple-stranded helicates [MA(L5)3]n+ (M=Ru(II), Cr(III) and A=Ca(II), Lu(III)) reveal that solvation processes mask intramolecular intermetallic repulsions in solution, a phenomenon at the origin of the surprising stabilities of highly charged self-assembled polymetallic complexes in solution. A jud...

This article reports fibre-optic oxygen measurements on a reactive mine waste heap located in the polymetallic sulphide mine district of Freiberg in south-eastern Germany. The heaped material consists of sulphide-bearing tailings from a processing plant of a lead-zinc mine. Mine waste material was deposited in the water phase after separation of mining ores in a flotation process. The tailing i...

The Western Qinling orogenic belt (WQOB) is one of the most important prospective gold districts in China, with widely distributed Indosinian intermediate–acidic intrusions. Liziyuan Au deposit a representative northern WQOB, hosting several sections spatially associated igneous rocks. hosted by meta-sedimentary volcanic rocks Cambrian–Ordovician Group and Tianzishan monzogranite. Two periods, ...

The Hongqiling is a vein-type Sn-W polymetallic deposit in southern Hunan (South China). It geologically located on the northern margin of Nanling metallogenic belt. Based mineral assemblage and vein crosscutting relationship, three mineralization stages were identified: (S1: cassiterite, wolframite, scheelite, arsenopyrite, molybdenite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, quartz), Pb-Zn (S2: pyrrhotite, gal...