This report presents some strategies to predict metal mobility at mining sites. These strategies are based on chemical, physical, and geochemical information about metals and their interactions with the environment. An overview of conceptual models, metal sources, and relative mobility of metals under different geochemical conditions is presented, followed by a discussion of some important phys...

Radon is one of many geophysical and geochemical phenomena that can be considered to be an earthquake precursor. Due to the non-linear dependence of earthquakes’ initial conditions, the question about the predictability of earthquakes often arises (Geller, 1997). The successful prediction of earthquakes is yet to be accomplished, in terms of their magnitude, location and time, and much effort h...

Editorial Geochemical Transactions, the first online-only journal in geochemistry and environmental chemistry, is now the first major open access journal in this subject area. All issues of Geochemical Transactions, including the back content, will be fully and permanently available online to all, without a subscription charge. Copyright of all future articles will be retained by the authors. G...

In this paper new geochemical, geochronological and isotopic Lu–Hf data from the Siempre Amigos Hills (SA), western Tandilia, Argentina, is presented. Outcrops in small area include representative lithologies of basement Río de la Plata craton (RPC) known as Tandilia Terrane. The geochemical characterize a heterogeneous Paleoproterozoic crust with similar U–Pb SIMS magmatic age (~2.1 Ga) repres...

Most geochemical and geostatistical analysis in mining exploration requires removing regional trends order to obtain local anomalies. In this paper, stream sediment samples, which collected from Khusf area (NE Iran), was studied based on Concentration-Area (C-A) fractal model as well correspondence methods find high-potential areas elements. Correspondence with 170 samples through 20 elements c...

Lithium isotopes have many advantageous characteristics as geochemical tracers for a wide range of geological processes, covering fluid/melt-mineral interactions from the Earth’s surface to the mantle. The latest developments in Li isotope geochemistry, in terms of measuring techniques, major geochemical reservoirs, the contrasting behaviors during near-surface weathering, and crust/ mantle cyc...

Oligo-Miocene Bagh-e-Khoshk granitoid stock is intruded into the Eocene volcanic rocks in the southeastern part of the Urumieh-Dukhtar Magmatic assemblage in Iran. The granitoids are mainly consisting of diorite, quartz diorite and granodioritic rock types. They are metaluminous to slightly peraluminous, medium to high K calc-alkaline, with SiO2 ranging from 50.2 to 66 wt.%. The majo...