Indium is a typical chalcophile element of the Earth’s crust, with a very low average content that seldom forms specific minerals, occurring mainly as dispersed in polymetallic sulphides. Indium recovery is based primarily on zinc extraction from sphalerite, the prototype of so-called tetrahedral sulphides, wherein metal ions fill half of the available tetrahedral sites within the cubic closest...

Heterogeneous pyritaceous-polymetallic and copper-zinc-pyrrhotine deposits on the South slope of the Greater Caucasus are located in the Lower-Middle Jurassic terrigenous sediments. They were formed under a wide variation of physico-chemical parameters of mineral formation and are characterized by specific mineralogical-geochemical peculiarities. Ore-formation occurred in three stages. In the f...

the iranian east magmatic assemblage (iema) in the central lut region, hosted porphyry and vein-type polymetallic mineralization. the galechah-shurab mining district is located in nw of the iema. volcanic and subvolcanic bodies in the area are composed of calc-alkaline porphyry quartz-latite, porphyry dacite and rhyodacite and hornblende-biotite andesite, equivalent to i-type granite. they empl...

The massive sulfide deposits (VMS) from Mănăilă are associated with the metamorphic formations of Tulgheș Lithogroup Bucovinian Nappes Crystalline-Mesozoic Zone in Eastern Carpathians, Romania. following types ore were identified: pyrite-polymetallic, pyrite copper, compact and precompact quartz-precompact copper. polymetallic mineralization consists pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, su...

The Kholodninskoe pyrite-polymetallic deposit (Baikal-Patom plateau, Russia) was discovered in 1968, but the questions of its genesis still remain controversial. It is assumed that explosive activity volcanic apparatuses southern part Baikal-Muya zone as well underwater exhalations scattered spreading back-arc basin could have most likely influenced geochemical features amagmatic deposits Bodai...

• Pyrites from VMS deposits of the Iberian belt host NPs. Colloform pyrite contains mainly As–Fe–Pb–Cu Euhedral stockwork hosts Au Transport and precipitation metallic NPs by polymetallic melts. This paper reports first-ever study on nanoscale mineralogy in volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) Pyrite Belt, southwestern Peninsula. It targeted colloform-textured grains formed at low temperature dis...

Jarosite, KFe(3)(SO(4))(2)(OH)(6), is a secondary iron sulphate often found in acid mine drainage (AMD) environments, particularly in mining wastes from polymetallic sulphide ore deposits. Despite the negative environmental connotation usually ascribed to secondary sulphate minerals due to the release of hazardous elements to aquifers and soils, jarosite acts as an efficient remover and immobil...

A strain of Leptospirillum sp. CC previously isolated from Akhtala polymetallic ore (Armenia) was studied. The main morphological and physiological characteristics were revealed. optimal growth temperature 40 °C pH 1.5. phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences (GenBank ID OM272948) showed that isolate clustered with L. ferriphilum possessed 99.8% sequence similarity the OL12-2 (KF...

introduction pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral in low sulfidation ore deposits. experimental studies have shown that low-temperature ( 200°c) from hydrothermal or metamorphic fluids (butler and rickard, 2000). framboidal pyrite mostly occurs in sedimentary environments, though it could also form during metamorphism and hydrothermal alteration (scott et al., 2009). the pyrite formed te...