whose suggestions got this paper off the ground and gave it direction. The paper has also benefitted from comments from The contributions of innovations, factor endowments and institutions to American industrialisation are examined through analysing the rise of the American portland cement industry. Minerals abundance contributed in multiple ways to the spectacular rise during the 1890s. Howeve...

a State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China b Department of Earth Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China c Department of Geodynamics and Sedimentology, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Austria d University of Tulsa, 149 West Ridge Road, Cleveland, OK 74020, USA e Department of Geological Sciences, ...

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...

Injection of CO2 in geological reservoirs or deep aquifers is nowadays studied to regulate the global warming by limiting the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by human activity into the atmosphere. CO2 is captured from exhaust gas in power plants or industrial units and then stored in underground geological reservoirs. The experience available in the oil industry concerning CO2 injection clea...

Introd,uction During the 1955 field season the writer was engaged in mapping radioactive deposits in the Province of Quebec for the Quebec Department of Mines. Several hand specimens collected in the vicinity of St.Sim€oq' Charlevoix County, were found to show up to 20X normal radioactive background. The source of the radioactivity appeared to be a yellov/ translucent mineral present in small g...

Introduction: Rio Tinto area is considered a referent as an extremophilic scenery of iron rich and acidic water conditions for life [1]. Physic-chemical equilibriums taking place along of its watercourse during a year produce a repertory of mineral species related with the main chemical species in solution (sulphates and iron). Raman spectroscopy is a powerful technique that allows studying the...

One of the rare consensus among the different resources-base economic analytical approaches concerns to the strategic role of the mineral rent, as a decisive tool to assure that the temporary wealth generated in the present can turn into permanent income in the future. For this reason, the evaluation, distribution and use of the mining rent plays a central part in the mining city’s development ...