This review has as its underlying premise the need to become proficient in delivering a suite of element or metal products from polymetallic ores to avoid the predicted exhaustion of key metals in demand in technological societies. Many technologies, proven or still to be developed, will assist in meeting the demands of the next generation for trace and rare metals, potentially including the br...

Introduction: The Saibagou gold deposit, located in the eastern part of tectonic belt northern Qaidam Basin western China, has its ore bodies strictly controlled by regional fault system. Despite this understanding, there remain controversies surrounding deposit’s metallogenic epochs, sources ore-forming materials, and properties fluids. To address these controversy, process deposit can be furt...

The medium-sized Songjianghe Au deposit is located in the southeastern part of Jiapigou-Haigou gold belt (JHGB) central eastern Jilin Province, NE China. mineralization primarily characterized by disseminated-style ores and hosted low-/medium-grade metamorphic rocks Seluohe Group. ore bodies are governed NNW-striking brittle-ductile structures spatially correlated with silicic sericitic alterat...

Jiama is a super-large porphyry copper–polymetallic deposit located in the Gangdese metallogenic belt of southern Tibet. The consists combination polymetallic skarn, Cu–Mo mineralization at contact between Porphyry and hornfels, distal Au fault. current metal reserves are 7.4 Mt Cu, 0.6 Mo, 1.8 Pb–Zn, 6.65 Moz Au, 360.32 Ag, with skarn to porphyry–hornfels host-rock ratio ~3:1. Based on detaile...

Coal-bearing strata that host rare metal deposits are currently a hot issue in the field of coal geology. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the mineralogy, geochemistry, and potential economic significance of rare metals in the late Permian tuff in Zhongliangshan mine, Chongqing, southwestern China. The methods applied in this study are X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF), inductivel...

Gold deposits in the Jiaodong Peninsula represent a primary gold resource China and mostly exhibit similar ore-forming features related to sericite-quartz-pyrite alteration other controls from (micro-)structural deformation. This study investigates pyrite textures trace elements Sizhuang deposit (>100 t Au) document key factors impacting on genesis of Jiaodong-type orogenic deposits. Three m...

In the magmatic-hydrothermal environment, fluids with similar metal concentrations and sources may yield contrasting mineral assemblages in successive stages of sulphide mineralization. These differences are linked to physico-chemical conditions mineralizing (e.g., T, pH, fS2, fO2) acquired during their interaction country rocks and/or by mixing groundwater. Here, we integrate petrography osmiu...

Semi-massive to massive sulfides with abundant late native sulfur were drilled in a shallowwater hydrothermal system in an island arc volcanic setting at the Palinuro volcanic complex in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy. Overall, 12.7 m of sulfide mineralisation were drilled in a sediment-filled depression at a water depth of 630 650 m using the lander-type Rockdrill I drill rig of the British Geologi...

Two different methods for predicting the quality of the water draining from a pyritic tailing are compared; for this, a static test (ABA test) and a kinetic test in large columns were chosen. The different results obtained in the two experimental set-ups show the necessity of being careful in selecting both the adequate predictive method and the conclusions and extrapolations derived from them....

The dissolution of chalcopyrite in association with pyrite in mine waste results in the severe environmental issue of acid and metalliferous drainage (AMD). To better understand chalcopyrite dissolution, and the impact of chalcopyrite’s galvanic interaction with pyrite, chalcopyrite dissolution has been examined at 75 °C, pH 1.0, in the presence of quartz (as an inert mineral) and pyrite. The p...