Organic minerals have been subject of an increasing number of investigations recently. These compounds can be considered the most significant event regarding commercial forms of minerals targeting animal supplementation in the last decades. Minerals, especially metals, are usually supplemented in poultry feeds using cheap saline sources and have never required a lot of attention in terms of qua...

The thermodynamic properties of clay minerals, which control the stability of these minerals in solution, are still a matter of debate in spite of recent advances (Gailhanou et al., submitted). This is especially the case for the minerals that may structurally include trace elements and potential radionuclides such like Ni, Cd, Co, Cr, Mn, Pb, ... The usual methods developed in order to predict...

Introduction: The Mars Express OMEGA imaging spectrometer recently identified clay minerals (nontronite and montmorillonite) in several outcrops of Noachian age [1]. Clay minerals usually result from long term alteration of primary minerals by liquid water and on Earth are usually the products of weathering processes. The presence of clay minerals suggests a primary environment completely diffe...

Many of the minerals observed or inferred to occur in the sediments and sedimentary rocks of Mars, from a variety of Mars-mission spacecraft data, also occur in Martian meteorites. Even Martian meteorites recovered after some exposure to terrestrial weathering can preserve preterrestrial evaporite minerals and useful information about aqueous alteration on Mars, but the textures and textural co...

at the present time, flotation is the primary method for copper minerals separation from copper ores. the main copper ores that is extracted in the world is sulphide ore. the sulphide minerals are floated readily by using sulphydryl collectors. in the case of using xanthates , which are among the sulphydryl collectors, used more in the flotation of sulphide minerals of copper, the flotation of ...

Blood selenium and trace minerals play an important role in animal's health and production. The aims of this study were to determine selenium effect on blood glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity, trace minerals and weight gain in lambs. Twelve female Makuei breed were studied for 63 days in groups of control, nanoselenium (NanoSe) and sodium selenite (NaSe). Mean concentrations of GPX, Cu and ...