Camborne School of Mines
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A Process Mineralogy Approach to Gravity Concentration of Tantalum Bearing Minerals
(MDPI AG, 2017-10-13)The historic Penouta mine in northwest Spain is the focus of efforts to extract tantalum from tin mining waste. This paper describes the characterisation of the tantalum mineralogy of waste material from the deposit. ... -
Speciation and potential long-term behaviour of chromium in urban sediment particulates
(Springer Verlag, 2016-09-26)Purpose: Chromium, a potentially harmful element, occurs commonly within the urban sediment cascade as a result of abundant industrial and transport-related sources. The risks that Cr-bearing particles pose to ecosystems ... -
Community exposure and vulnerability to water quality and availability: a case study in the mining-affected Pazña Municipality, Lake Poopó Basin, Bolivian Altiplano
(Springer Verlag, 2017-06-08)Assessing water sources for drinking and irrigation along with community vulnerability, especially in developing and rural regions, is important for reducing risk posed by poor water quality and limited water availability ... -
Effect of desferrioxamine B and Suwannee River fulvic acid on Fe(III) release and Cr(III) desorption from goethite
(Elsevier, 2016-02-03)Siderophores are biogenic chelating ligands that facilitate the solubilisation of Fe(III) and form stable complexes with a range of contaminant metals and therefore may significantly affect their biogeochemical cycling. ... -
Partitioning of Co2+ and Mn2+ into meridianiite (MgSO4·11H2O): Ternary solubility diagrams at 270 K; cation site distribution determined by single-crystal time-of-flight neutron diffraction and density functional theory
(Elsevier, 2017-01-09)We have grown single crystals of M 2+ SO 4 hydrates at 270 K from aqueous solutions in the ternary systems CoSO 4 –MgSO 4 –H 2 O and MnSO 4 –MgSO 4 –H 2 O. These systems exhibit broad stability fields for a triclinic ... -
In situ arsenic oxidation and sorption by a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste in soil
(Elsevier, 2017-08-30)The ability of a Fe-Mn binary oxide waste to adsorb arsenic (As) in a historically contaminated soil was investigated. Initial laboratory sorption experiments indicated that arsenite [As(III)] was oxidized to arsenate ... -
Assessing riverine threats to heritage assets posed by future climate change through a geomorphological approach and predictive modelling in the Derwent Valley Mills WHS, UK
(Elsevier, 2015-12-21)Future climate change is likely to pose significant challenges for heritage management, especially in landscape settings, such as river valleys as the magnitude, intensity and nature of geomorphological processes alter in ... -
Weathering of Zinc-(Zn)-bearing Mine Wastes in a Neutral Mine Drainage Setting, Gunnerside Gill, Yorkshire
(Elsevier, 2017-01-18)Numerous areas throughout the world are affected by circum-neutral pH, low iron (Fe) drainage with high concentrations of zinc (Zn) arising from discharges from, and weathering of, mine wastes. Gunnerside Gill, a small ... -
Industrial mining heritage and the legacy of environmental pollution in the Derbyshire Derwent catchment: Quantifying contamination at a regional scale and developing integrated strategies for management of the wider historic environment
(Elsevier / Association for Environmental Archaeology, 2016-02-16)The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site (DVMWHS) exemplifies and records the 18th century birth of the factory or mill technology for the industrial spinning of cotton. The site is therefore a key global heritage ... -
Age and petrogenesis of the Lundy granite: Paleocene intraplate peraluminous magmatism in the Bristol Channel, UK
(Geological Society, 2017-09-29)The Lundy granite forms part of the Lundy Igneous Complex, which is the southernmost substantive expression of magmatism within both the British Cenozoic Igneous Province and the wider North Atlantic Igneous Province. Its ... -
Responsible sourcing of critical metals
(Mineralogical Society of America, 2017)Most critical raw materials, such as the rare earth elements (REE), are starting products in long manufacturing supply chains. It is difficult for consumers, buying cars or smartphones for example, to engage with the ... -
The development of the wide-range 4D appearance function for breakage characterisation in grinding mills
(Elsevier, 2017-08-15)The Appearance function, also known as breakage distribution function, is used to describe the breakage characteristics of an ore impacted with a certain energy. It is the bedrock of comminution modelling. The range of ... -
Modelling microbial transport in simulated low-grade heap bioleaching systems: The hydrodynamic dispersion model
(Elsevier for Pergamon, 2017-07-08)The hydrodynamic model was developed to describe microbial growth kinetics within heap bioleaching systems. Microbial partitioning between the bulk flowing pregnant leach solution (PLS) and ore-associated phases that exist ... -
Granitoid zircon forms the nucleus for minerals precipitated by carbonatite-derived metasomatic fluids at Chilwa Island, Malawi
(Elsevier, 2017-07-27)Mineralogical assemblages are fundamental to the interpretation of geological processes. Zircon is an integral petrographic component of the mineral assemblages present in fenites (rocks formed by alkaline metasomatism) ... -
Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes
(Elsevier, 2017-07-27)It is well established that greenhouse conditions prevailed during the Cretaceous Period (~ 145–66 Ma). Determining the exact nature of the greenhouse-gas forcing, climatic warming and climate sensitivity remains, however, ... -
Oligocene Deep-Water Agglutinated Foraminifera from the Congo Fan, Offshore Angola: Palaeoenvironments and Assemblage Distributions
(Grzybowski Foundation, 2008)Agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages from the Oligocene section of an exploration well drilled in the distal part of the Congo Fan are fully documented and interpreted for palaeoenvironment. A total of 65 ditch cutting ... -
Foraminifera from the Eocene variegated shales near Barwinek (Magura unit, Outer Carpathians), the type locality of Noth (1912) revisited
(Polish Geological Society, 2005)A rich deep-water agglutinated foraminifera (DWAF) fauna (approximately 50 taxa) is documented from the lower to middle Eocene Variegated Shales of the Magura Unit, Outer Carpathians. Four localities have been sampled from ... -
Do volcanoes trigger climate change?
(NERC, 2009-12-01)Huge volcanic eruptions may have pushed the climate from global warming to global cooling 16 million years ago. The theory could have big implications for efforts to slow climate change by fertilising plankton in the ocean. ... -
Palaeoclimatic implications of high-resolution clay mineral assemblages preceding and across the onset of the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, North Sea Basin
(Mineralogical Society, 2017-01-04)Understanding the composition of clay-rich sediments and their transportation into proximal marine basins allows us to better decipher hydroclimatic changes before and within the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). ... -
Modern deep-water agglutinated foraminifera from IODP Expedition 323, Bering Sea: ecological and taxonomic implications
(Geological Society / Micropalaeontology Society, 2017-04-05)Despite the importance of the Bering Sea for subarctic oceanography and climate, relatively little is known of the foraminifera from the extensive Aleutian Basin. We report the occurrence of modern deep-water agglutinated ...