The reaction between aqueous Fe(II) and Fe(III) oxides is extremely complex, and can catalyze Fe(II)-Fe(III) electron transfer, exchange of Fe atoms between the aqueous and solid phases, mineral transformation, and contaminant reduction. Together, these processes represent a phenomenon referred to as Fe(II)-catalyzed Fe oxide recrystallization, which has been observed under controlled condition...

The effect of dispersed particles lamellar molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium oxides on the lubrication properties mineral oil was investigated. It is shown that in presence hexagonal molybdenum oxide coefficient friction falls two-fold (from 0.08 to 0.04) exhibiting further decrease under high mechanical load, i. e. behaves as an adaptive lubricant. intercalation benzotriazole into ensures addi...

Motivated by the recent successful results of using GIS modeling in a variety of problems related to the geosciences, some knowledge-based methods were applied to a regional scale mapping of the mineral potential, special for Cu-Au mineralization in the Feyz-Abad area located in the NE of Iran. Mineral Prospectivity Mapping (MPM) is a multi-step process that ranks a promising target area for mo...

Selective flocculation has long been suggested as a method for the treatment of ultra-fine particles typical of which are those produced in a de-sliming process ahead of flotation. In this paper the results of the coal de-mineralization, using synthetic polyacrylamide polymers, are presented. A prescreening test on the suitability of the polymers using Run-Of-Mine (R.O.M.) coal and artificial m...

BACKGROUND Goethite is a common and reactive mineral in the environment. The transport of contaminants and anaerobic respiration of microbes are significantly affected by adsorption and reduction reactions involving goethite. An understanding of the mineral-water interface of goethite is critical for determining the molecular-scale mechanisms of adsorption and reduction reactions. In this study...

Sorption of hydrophobic organic compounds (HOCs) to hydrophilic inorganic surfaces in aqueous systems is an important process, because HOCs are common contaminants and the sorption controls their concentration and rate of transport in the environment. Furthermore, in environmental chemistry and analysis, sorption of HOCs to inorganic surfaces, in particular to untreated (uncoated) glass surface...

The biomineralization of several magnetic iron minerals, including the iron oxide magnetite (Fe30 4 ; Fe 2I Fe/+04 ) and the iron sulfides greigite (Fe3S4 ) and pyrrhotite (Fe7SS)' can be mediated by bacteria as well as by other organisms. These minerals are known to be synthesized by procaryotes in one of two fundamentally different modes of biomineralization. The first is uncontrolled mineral...

Magnetotelluric (MT) imaging results from mineral provinces in Australia and the United States show an apparent spatial relationship between crustal-scale electrical conductivity anomalies major magmatic-hydrothermal iron oxide-apatite/iron oxide-copper-gold (IOA-IOCG) deposits. Although these observations have driven substantial interest use of MT data to image ancient fluid pathways, exact ca...

Organic matter (OM)-mineral complexation plays a critical role in soil carbon (C) stabilization. However, direct investigations of organo-mineral associations have been hampered by a lack of methods that can simultaneously characterize soil organic matter and soil minerals. We have applied scanning transmission X-ray microscopy (STXM), combined with near edge X-ray absorption fine structure (NE...