The present study was focused to characterize the raw materials, wastes and several co-products from titanium dioxide industry, in particular their elemental composition (major, minor and trace elements), mineralogy, and radioactive contents, with the objective to apply this knowledge to valorize these materials in fields such as construction, civil engineering, fertilizers manufacturing, etc.

Kobayashi, K. Nagashima, N. Sakamoto, S. S. Russell, S. Itoh and H. Yurimoto. Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan ([email protected]); Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA; Department of Mineralogy, The Natura...

Thermodynamic (Anderson 2005) and elastic properties (Musgrave 1970) of minerals provide the fundamental information needed to analyze seismic observations and to model Earth’s dynamic state. The connection between pressure, temperature, chemical composition, and mineralogy that produce seismic velocity gradients, heterogeneities, and discontinuities, can be established with knowledge of thermo...

The extractive metallurgy of gold is largely driven by mineralogical factors such as gold particle size; association with other minerals; coatings; presence of cyanicides, oxygen consumers, and preg-robbers; presence of refractory gold minerals; locking of submicroscopic gold in sulfide and sulfarsenide mineral structures. Gold process mineralogy address all issues related to gold ore processin...