0019-1035/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2010.06.004 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 401 863 3978. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P Brown.edu (C.M. Pieters). Lunar olivines typically contain inclusions of Cr–spinel (chromite) that influence their measured optical properties. These altered optical properties complicate modeled predictions of olivine com...

South Africa holds approximately threequarters of the world’s viable chromite ore resources1,2,3 and dominates the global production of ferrochrome(FeCr)4. FeCr is a relatively crude alloy of predominantly iron and chromium, used mainly in the production of stainless steel. There are currently fourteen separate FeCr smelters in South Africa, with a combined production capacity5 in excess of 4.7...

Based on existence of the chromite deposits in the Sistan and Baluchestan province in Iran, and also various applications of chromite in different industries, it is expected that the establishment of chromite processing plant is required in the erelong. The geographical location of a processing plant can have a strong influence on the success of an industrial venture. The processing plant site ...

Ferrochrome (FeCr) is the main source of virgin chromium (Cr) units used in modern-day containing alloys. The vast majority produced Cr during production stainless steel, which owes its corrosion resistance mainly to presence Cr. In turn, steel from Cr-containing scrap metal and FeCr, a relatively crude alloy between iron (Fe) FeCr an energy material-intensive process, wide variety by-products,...

Chromium, named for its many-colored compounds, exists in the oxidation states of -2 to +6 inclusively. The compounds exhibit a wide range of geometries including square planar, tetrahedral, octahedral, and various distorted geometries. Chromium is found in nature principally as the chromite ore FeCr2O4 in which chromium is in the +3 state. The existence of a particular oxidation state is depen...

Undoubtedly, involving more tools, datasets, and techniques for detecting the mineralized areas sharply narrow zones to be investigated delivered, in most cases highly potential zones. Consequently, this study is an attempt apply remote sensing data including Sentinel 2 ASTER, field observations, petrography of hydrothermal alteration processes, ore microscopic investigations, X-ray examination...

Single Cr(VI) reduction and coupled reduction/stabilization (R/S) processes were evaluated at pilot scale to determine their effectiveness to treat chromite ore processing residue (COPR). Sodium sulfide was used as the reducing agent and cement, gypsum and lime were tested as the stabilizing agents. The pilot experiments were performed in a helical ribbon blender mixer with batches of 250 kg of...

Aqueous redox flow batteries (RFBs) have attracted significant attention as energy storage systems by virtue of their inexpensive nature and long-lasting features. Although all-vanadium RFBs exhibit long lifetimes, the cost vanadium resources fluctuates considerably, is generally expensive. Iron–chromium take advantage utilizing a low-cost large abundance iron chromite ore; however, chemistry C...

Naturally occurring Cr(VI) has recently been reported in ground and surface waters. Rock strata rich in Cr(III)-bearing minerals, in particular chromite, are universally found in these areas that occur near convergent plate margins. Here we report experiments demonstrating accelerated dissolution of chromite and subsequent oxidation of Cr(III) to aqueous Cr(VI) in the presence of birnessite, a ...