Previous studies have demonstrated the influence of calcium phosphate (CaP) mineral coating characteristics on cell attachment, proliferation, and differentiation. However, the wide range of mineral properties that can potentially influence cell behavior calls for an efficient platform to screen for the effects of specific mineral properties. To address this need, we have developed an efficient...

chelating is the chemical process by which a mineral (iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, and manganese) is combined with a mixture of amino acids and peptides. the resulting substances are known as chelates. another descriptive term, proteinates, refers to the amino acid bond. these chelated minerals are thought to be more digestible than nonchelated forms. in other words, chelation makes the minerals...

Abstract Clastic-dominated lead–zinc (CD Pb–Zn) deposits are an important source of the world’s Pb and Zn supply. Their genesis is contentious due to uncertainties regarding time ore formation relative deposition fine-grained carbonaceous strata that host CD Pb–Zn mineralization. Sulfur-isotopic studies playing role in determining if minerals precipitated when hydrothermal fluids exhaled into w...

Automatic mineral identification using evolutionary computation technology is discussed. Thin sections of mineral samples are digitally photographed using a computercontrolled rotating polarizer stage on a petrographic microscope. A suite of image processing functions is applied to the images. Filtered image data for identified mineral grains is then selected for use as training data for a gene...

Mineral supplementation programs are a point of confusion for many ranchers. Sales representatives, university researchers, and cattle buyers bark at ranchers about how important it is to keep their cattle on a mineral program. Ranchers, however, are often at a loss as to how to assess mineral deficiencies, which mineral packages they need to purchase, whether they should have a custom mineral ...

Adopting a policy and deciding on long-term investment in the mining industry by a government orprivate sector actors depends strongly on the ability to predict the scarcity of mineral reserves. Changein scarcity of mineral reserves is a function of several technological and non-technological factors.Among them, change in technology is the most significant factor affecting scarcity. This paper ...

It is recognized that magmatic activities have occurred along the Izmir Erzincan suture due to closure of Tethyan ocean. In western part Almus (Tokat), which situated around this zone, quartz veins fracture lines are observed in volcanics owing magmatism. There copper enrichments with an average thickness 70 cm volcanic rocks. Mineralization as vein type and epigenetic formation. Paragenesis co...