The processing mineralogy characteristics of an oxidized lead-zinc ore from Sichuan were studied systematically using numerous modern instruments. Results showed that lead and zinc oxide content in the ore exceeded the minimum industrial grade, and also included a relatively high concentration of silver and iron. This ore is composed of many different minerals. Major zinc-containing minerals in...

Nine rock types including Sandstone, Limestone, Siltstone, Dolomite and Marl collected from six different rock formations of the Salt Range area of Pakistan were tested to evaluate the correlations between the uniaxial compressive strength and the corresponding values of the point load index. Two hundred rock cores were drilled and used for the uniaxial compressive strength and point load index...

We demonstrate a correlation between how an IR-active vibrational mode responds to temperature changes and how it responds to crystallinity differences. Infrared (IR) spectroscopy was used to track changes in carbonate-related vibrational modes in three different CaCO3 polymorphs (calcite, aragonite, and vaterite) and CaMg(CO3)2 (dolomite) during heating. Of the three characteristic IR-active c...

The following topics related to radionuclide transport in the vicinity of the repository in the 1996 performance assessmentfor the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant are presented (i) mathematical description of models, (ii) uncertainty and sensitivity analysis results arising from subjective (i.e., epistemic) uncertainty for individual releases, (iii) construction of complementary cumulative distribu...

The structure of the naturally occurring, iron-rich mineral Ca1.08(6)Mg0.24(2)Fe0.64(4)Mn0.04(1)(CO3)2 ankerite was studied in a joint experimental and computational study. Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction measurements up to 20 GPa were complemented by density functional theory calculations. rhombohedral is stable under compression 12 GPa. A third-order Birch–Murnaghan equation state yields...

Wyllie , P. J . 1984 T he effect of carbon dioxide on phase relationships for synthetic lhe rzo lite and harzburgite. In : FL J. Zwart , P. Hartma n & A. C. Tobi (eds): Ophioli tes a nd ultramafic rocks a tribute to Emile den Tex Geol. Mijnbouw 63:213-2 19. T he system Ca0-Mg0-Si0 2 -C02 includes mineral assemblages corresponding to model lhe rzolite: fors te rite(Fo) + orthopyroxene(Opx) + cli...

a total of 40 samples from carbonates and 8 samples from silicate rocks were analyzed from the sangan iron skarn deposit to examine behavior of the oxygen and carbon isotopes. the higher values of ?18o are from metamorphic calcite and dolomite and lower ones are from granitic rocks. although the ?18o and ?13c values of calcite and dolomite in marble yield the highest values in the sangan deposi...