Tourmaline-bearing quartz veins and replacement deposits, commonly copperand gold-bearing, are found in unusual concentration in northwestern Nevada and adjacent northeastern California in Triassic and Jurassic arc rocks and in the Cretaceous plutons that intrude them. Mines and prospects that exploit the tourmaline-bearing deposits are found in a zone approximately 70 miles long and 50 miles w...

The effect of sulfide toxicity on kinetic parameters of anaerobic organic matter removal in a UASB (up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket) reactor is presented. Two lab-scale UASB reactors (10.5 L) were operated continuously during 12 months. The reactors were fed with synthetic wastes prepared daily using glucose, ammonium acetate, methanol and nutrient solution. One of the reactors also received i...

Although essential in critical care medicine, mechanical ventilation often results in ventilator-induced lung injury. Low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide have been proven to have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidative effects in the lung. The aim of this study was to analyze the kinetic effects of pre- and posttreatment with hydrogen sulfide in order to prevent lung injury as well as inflammat...

New occurrences of free gold were identified during fieldwork at outcrops located in the western part of the Castro Basin, state of Paraná. These are associated with silicified and sulfide-rich zones in hydrothermally-altered volcanic rocks. The aerogeophysical data indicate that the areas of the new targets show high K and eU relative to eTh, suggesting intense hydrothermal alteration. The str...

The salinity responses of cyanobacteria, anoxygenic phototrophs, sulfate reducers, and methanogens from the laminated endoevaporitic community in the solar salterns of Eilat, Israel, were studied in situ with oxygen microelectrodes and in the laboratory in slurries. The optimum salinity for the sulfate reduction rate in sediment slurries was between 100 and 120 per thousand, and sulfate reducti...

Monthly time-series data (1998–2009) of bottom water oxygen, nitrate and nitrite concentrations from the outer shelf (150m water depth) in the oxygen minimum zone offshore Peru were coupled to a layered biogeochemical sediment model to investigate benthic-pelagic coupling over multi-annual time scales. The model includes the mineralization of four reactive pools of particulate organic carbon (P...

Four distinct types of fluid inclusion are associated with brecciation, alteration and mineralization in the Ilkwang Cu–W breccia-pipe deposit in the southeastern Kyongsang Basin, South Korea. The earliest fluid inclusions in igneous quartz have salinities of 35–49 wt% NaCl equiv. and homogenize by halite dissolution. This fluid exsolved directly from the melt. A CO2-bearing fluid (2–4 wt% NaCl...

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, ...

BACKGROUND Enhanced atrazine degradation has been observed in agricultural soils from around the globe. Soils exhibiting enhanced atrazine degradation may be cross-adapted with other s-triazine herbicides, thereby reducing their control of sensitive weed species. The aims of this study were (1) to determine the field persistence of simazine in atrazine-adapted and non-adapted soils, (2) to comp...