Ilmenite disseminated grain size is relatively fine, and it must be finely ground to fully separate ilmenite from gangue then produce fine-grained minerals, which deteriorates flotation. A novel method using buoyant carriers improve the recovery of fine in froth flotation was introduced this study. Hydrophobized glass bubbles (HGB) as carrier materials were obtained by an efficient, simple modi...

New high-pressure ordered-ilmenite and double-perovskite polymorphs of Mn 2 LiReO 6 are unprecedented A-site manganites with B/B? +/7+ oxidation states. They show cluster spin-cluster-glass behaviour giant coercivity without spin–orbit-coupling.

Benthic foraminifera are single-celled eukaryotes that make a protective organic, agglutinated or calcareous test. Some agglutinated, single-chambered taxa, including Psammophaga Arnold, 1982, retain mineral particles in their cytoplasm, but the selective mechanism of accumulation is not clear. Here, we report the ability of a foraminiferal species to select and accumulate zircons and other hea...

Ilmenite-group titanates are relatively common accessory minerals in agpaitic nepheline syenite (lujavrite) in the Pilansberg alkaline complex, South Africa. They crystallized in three generations and form a continuous ecandrewsite – pyrophanite solidsolution extending from (Zn0.81Mn0.12Fe0.07)TiO3 to (Mn0.93Fe0.7)TiO3. The earliest generation of ferroan manganoan ecandrewsite of widely varying...

0019-1035/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Fax: +1 434 924 1353. E-mail address: [email protected] (R.A. Baragiola). Remote infrared spectroscopic measurements have recently re-opened the possibility that water is present on the surface of the Moon. Analyses of infrared absorption spectra obtained by three independent space instrum...

One characteristic of many subduction zone garnet peridotites is that they contain titanium-bearing phases not otherwise Ž . found in mantle rocks. In particular, titanoclinohumite TiCH andror its breakdown assemblage consisting of symplectic intergrowths of olivine and ilmenite is common in many of these bodies. The Alpe Arami garnet lherzolite of the Lepontine Alps, while lacking TiCH, displa...

The performance of complex oxide heterostructures depends primarily on the interfacial coupling of the two component structures. This interface character inherently varies with the synthesis method and conditions used since even small composition variations can alter the electronic, ferroelectric, or magnetic functional properties of the system. The focus of this article is placed on the interf...

This paper reports the detailed examination of three basalt clasts from Apollo 16 breccia 60639 that represent a new variant of high-Ti basalt returned from the Moon by the Apollo 16 mission. Mineral chemistry and whole-rock analyses were conducted on aliquots from three clasts (breccia matrix, basalt, and basalt + breccia matrix). The basalt clasts, which are not overtly porphyritic, contain c...

Chemical looping combustion of wood pellets (WP), char (WC), and straw (SP) was conducted in a 60 kW CLC pilot with ilmenite braunite oxygen carriers (OCs). Alkali emissions were investigated impactor-based surface ionization detector (SID) measurements. Particle size distributions for WP WC fuels dominated by coarse particles formed refractory species. For SP fuel, the distribution bimodal dis...