Little is known in the literature about thallium (Tl) exposure from naturally occurring Tl contamination. This paper draws attention to the potential health risk posed by high concentrations of naturally occurring Tl in the environment. The inhabitants of a rural area of southwest Guizhou Province, China, reside within a natural Tl accumulated environment resulting from the Tl-rich sulfide mine...

Sm-Nd isochrone, drawn for rock-forming and sulfide minerals from the Ozernoe ore occurrence, indicates albitite age of 1,759 ± 11 Ma. It shows synchronous formation mineralization, fully corresponds to earlier defined rutile in (1,757 7 Ma U-Pb, n = 3, MSWD 0.2), Rb-Sr isochrone 1,754 39 biotite, apatite, albite, WR. Recently published Re-Os ages molybdenite 1,872 23 chalcopyrite 1,891 230 ind...

sorkheh-dizaj apatite-iron oxide deposit is located 32 km southeast of zanjan. the area is situated within the tarom subzone of western alborz-azarbaijan structural zone. the oldest units at the sorkheh-dizaj area are eocene trachyte, trachyandesite, olivine basalt and volcanoclastic brecciate tuff and lapilli tuff which intruded by a quartz-monzonite, monzonite and granite subvolcanic pluton o...

The Ocean Drilling Program Leg 158 drill holes from the Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse hydrothermal field are investigated to understand rock magnetic signatures of mineralization. A composite columnar section has been constructed through hole correlation stratigraphic variation magnetomineralogy within stockwork. Isothermal remanent magnetization components unmixing, first-order reversal curve dia...

There is a considerable variation in the mineralization of bone; normal, non-pathological compact bone has ash masses ranging from 45 to 85% by mass. This range of mineralization results in an even greater range of mechanical properties. The Young modulus of elasticity can range from 4 to 32 GPa, bending strength from 50 to 300 MPa, and the work of fracture from 200 to 7000 Jm-2. It is not poss...

Matrix extracellular phosphoglycoprotein (MEPE) belongs to the SIBLING protein family which play key roles in biomineralization. Although the growth plates of MEPE-overexpressing mice display severe morphological disruption, the expression and function of MEPE in growth plate matrix mineralization remains largely undefined. Here we show MEPE and its cleavage product, the acidic serine aspartate...

Metallic mineral deposits represent natural geochemical anomalies of economically valuable commodities but, at the same time, their weathering may have negative environmental implications. Cu-sulfide been recognized as with a particularly large footprint. However, different Cu result in significantly impacts, mostly depending on conditions, but also geological characteristics (mineralogy, geoch...